Strategic Customer Success Manager
- R11966
- Reading, United Kingdom
Join us as a Strategic Customer Success Manager and become a key partner to our customers on their cybersecurity journey. You’ll use your product expertise and domain knowledge to help organisations maximise value, accelerate platform adoption, and achieve their most critical security objectives.
About the Team
As a Strategic Customer Success Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in driving customer success, satisfaction, and long-term growth. Acting as a trusted partner to CISOs and key stakeholders, you’ll build strong relationships, understand each customer’s unique cybersecurity goals, and guide them in achieving meaningful outcomes with Rapid7 solutions.
Working cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Support, and Engineering, you’ll help move customers seamlessly through their lifecycle, from onboarding to long-term partnership.
Customer Success sits at the centre of our business, and in this role, you’ll act as the voice of the customer - advocating for their needs, influencing product direction, and delivering a high-impact customer experience.
This is a fast-paced, customer-centric environment where communication, accountability, and collaboration are key. Your work will directly contribute to retention, growth, and the continued success of Rapid7.
About the Role
As a Strategic Customer Success Manager your primary responsibility will be to guide customers in realising the full value of their Rapid7 products to support their cybersecurity objectives. Specifically, your focus will be to:
Build and maintain strong, strategic relationships with key customer stakeholders
Act as the primary point of contact to address inquiries, resolve issues, and drive customer satisfaction
Provide product and domain expertise to ensure customers effectively adopt and optimise Rapid7 solutions
Lead key customer engagements such as status reviews and Executive Business Reviews
Identify and mitigate risks within customer accounts to support retention and renewal
Advocate for customer needs internally to influence product and service improvements
The skills and qualities you’ll bring include:
5+ years in Customer Success, Account Management, or Consulting within SaaS or high-tech (cybersecurity preferred)
Industry-related certifications i.e. A+, Network+, Sec+, Cloud+, CCSP, etc and familiarity with customer success platforms and tools is a plus
Takes ownership of customer outcomes, follows through on commitments, and proactively addresses challenges to ensure long-term success
Collaborates closely with Sales, Product, Support, and Engineering, working cross-functionally to deliver a seamless customer experience and resolve issues efficiently.
Ability to develop customer strategies and drive product adoption for measurable ROI
Communicates complex ideas simply and effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, building trust and credibility
Solid understanding of technical concepts and security frameworks
Strong project management, prioritisation, and problem-solving abilities
Core Value Embodiment: Embody our core values to foster a culture of excellence that drives meaningful impact and collective success.
We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That’s because these teams reflect a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don’t be shy - apply today.
About Rapid7
At Rapid7, our vision is to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by harnessing our collective expertise and passion to challenge what’s possible and drive extraordinary impact. We’re building a dynamic and collaborative workplace where new ideas are welcome.
Protecting 11,000+ customers against bad actors and threats means we’re continuing to push the envelope just like we’ ve been doing for the past 20 years. If you ’re ready to solve some of the toughest challenges in cybersecurity, we’re ready to help you take command of your career. Join us.
Security and Compliance
Rapid7 is committed to keeping customers secure. As a first line of defense, all employees are expected to uphold the highest standards of security and privacy, ensuring the protection of sensitive information and compliance with relevant regulations.