Senior Customer Success Manager
OneTrust
Sales & Business Development, Customer Service
Chicago, IL, USA
USD 104,325-156,487.5 / year + Equity
Posted on Mar 24, 2026
Strength in Trust
OneTrust’s mission is to enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI. We believe that ensuring data is trusted shouldn’t slow teams down—it should accelerate what’s possible. This led us to develop the first technology platform for responsible data use in 2016. Today, with AI representing the latest and most impactful expansion of data yet, OneTrust is once again redefining what responsible innovation looks like. OneTrust, the AI‑Ready Governance Platform™, unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows so businesses can continue to move at the speed of AI while ensuring good governance to prevent data misuse at scale. Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, OneTrust is shaping the future where trusted data becomes a transformative force for business and society.The Challenge
We are looking for a Senior Customer Success Manager to join our Customer Experience team. In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor for our strategic customers from the start of their journey to renewal in a high-to-medium touch role. As a Senior CSM, you will be assigned to a portfolio of customers and be tasked with the success of those accounts. Your main goal will be to ensure our key customers are happy and satisfied with the products they have purchased. Our Senior CSMs are hyper-focused on delivering revenue retention and growth through alignment, adoption, and world-class customer commitment. You will be in charge of managing the customer relationship, ensuring they are getting full value out the platform, partnering with our Sales, Product, Engineering, and Consulting teams to provide the highest level of support, and working to ensure adoption and growth within your accounts. As the customers you support grow with OneTrust, the scope of work will expand as well as you will be tasked with supporting all live products. You will be on the forefront of evangelizing Trust in the workplace.Location: Chicago, ILYour Mission
- Establish relationships with customer stakeholders and executive sponsors to become a strategic and trusted advisor throughout the customer lifecycle
- Act as the primary contact and sherpa to help your customers navigate OneTrust Collaborate cross-departmentally to provide product expertise
- Accelerate customer solutions through knowledge of their business and best practice guidance
- Deliver forward-thinking communication and manage mission-critical escalations
- Align customer’s roadmap with our product roadmap
- Advocate for your customer by sharing their key business requirements internally with our Product and Engineering teams and managing their product feature requests.
- Understand each customer's industry and Trust management strategy to help customer utilize the OneTrust platform to derive maximum business value
- Deliver business reviews to communicate strategically with your customers and their executive teams to ensure we are delivering on their business objectives
- Utilize adoption metrics to share best practices, nurture value added activities, proactively identify risk and identify growth opportunities.
- Manage an account portfolio to a Net ARR outcome: balance retention and growth in a way that aligns with OneTrust’s revenue strategy
- Utilize adoption stats to gauge customer interaction, identifying opportunities for further training and adoption, or possible expansion opportunities.
- Deliver and communicate ROI for your customers, throughout their lifecycle, ensuring your customers derive maximum value from their investment OneTrust and fully leverage their subscription.
You Are
- A Impressive communicator, you understand how messaging resonates with different stakeholders and how to tailor your style to meet the audience
- Motivated to drive outcomes for your customers, you view Customer success as your own
- Comfortable holding other stakeholders accountable and unafraid to get loud when needed
- Lover of technology and someone who wants to learn how your customers use our products
- Empathetic to your customers, able to drill down into their pain points and find solutions that meet their needs
- Steady in the face of business-critical issues and capable of handling customer escalations
- Thrive in a dynamic start up environment, and skilled at prioritizing incoming requests
- Strategic thinker, at your happiest when problem-solving, and comfortable making decisions
- Independent, but also a team player
- Willing to travel, job requires (Estimated 10-20%)
Your Experience Includes
- BA/BS in a relevant subject is required
- 5-6+ years in a client-facing role within a CSM, professional services, or technical consulting role
- Effective customer-facing communication skills. Proven success in and genuine excitement for working directly with customer
- Track record of successful collaboration across corporate functions (Professional Services, Engineering, Sales, and Product Management)
- Management of Enterprise, Strategic customers
- Impressive verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to chair meetings or host webinars
- Ability to build relationships with key customer stakeholders at all levels, including C-suite level
- Proficient entrepreneurial skills to thrive in a complex and rapidly evolving environment
- Experience implementing SaaS solutions with a interest for technology and demonstrated technical aptitude.
- Experience using SFDC, Gainsight and other CS Technology applications
- An ambitious person who takes the action to get things done – be able to thrive in the dynamic environment that comes with a high-growth company
For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington-based candidates: the annual base pay range for this role is listed below. Within this range, individual pay is determined by several factors, including location, job-related skills, work experience, and relevant education and/or training. This role may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, equity, and/or commissions, as well as benefits.
Salary Range
$104,325—$156,487.50 USD