Sophos18d ago

Customer Success Manager

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About Us Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025,

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About Us

Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos’ complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform. Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next-gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other every day and state-sponsored cybercrimes. The solutions are powered by historical and real-time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

Role Summary

The Customer Success Organization focuses on our most strategic customers, primarily covering our Cybersecurity as a service offering. The Customer Success Manager (CSM) will have a portfolio of accounts as well as serving as an “on-demand” CSM and leading the engagement throughout the customer lifecycle from deployment and adoption through renewal ensuring satisfaction and maximizing customer value. With customers, you will create and implement success plans focused on attaining desired customer outcomes and identifying opportunities for additional Sophos product and services.

Manage named accounts accountable for engagement and satisfaction over the lifetime of the customer.

Establish key relationships within the customer, ensuring regular check-ins to understand, and address promptly, client needs and concerns.

Develop strong relationships with key buyers and influencers in customer accounts and leverage these during the lifetime of the customer.

Partner with the customer to build a joint plan for success, maintaining a detailed understanding of customer’s business to achieve high levels of customer satisfaction, engagement, adoption of Sophos technology.

Deliver an outstanding customer experience to support our brand promise of delivering superior cybersecurity outcomes and to facilitate the cross sell and upsell of services and products

Monitor customer analytics and KPIs to reinforce the value of the customer solution and identify areas to improve customer experience and optimize the solution.

Conduct regular business reviews, clearly articulating the specific value Sophos’ services are delivering to the customer and progress on specific customer milestones and goals.

Coordinate activities of associated roles across onboarding, sales, product operations, services, and renewals to ensure smooth handoffs and optimal customer experience.

Sustain business growth and profitability by maximizing value, driving usage, adoption, upselling services, and reducing churn.

Act as an escalation point for high-impact customer issues when necessary, ensuring appropriate teams within Sophos are engaged for quick resolution

Work within the wider CSM team to implement scalable programs and process improvements to drive efficiency of internal customer success processes and improve customer experience.

Must be willing to travel

3+ years’ experience in customer success roles, additional experience in customer support, sales, or business development is a plus.

Experience dealing with account spends of $80k USD and above.

Conduct regular business reviews, clearly articulating the specific value Sophos’ services are delivering to the customer and progress on specific customer milestones and goals.

Exceptional ability to communicate and foster positive business relationships, and comfortable being accountable for driving success with customers

Experience of translating customer issues and needs into business or solution requirements.

Ability to be seen as a trusted advisor to senior executives in large organizations and able to build strategic account plans.

Excellent organizational skills and ability to establish milestones and keep project plans on task.

Understanding how organization measure value, drive revenue with experience of recurring revenue sales models and renewal processes an advantage.

Solid technical acumen able to explain the benefits of different technologies, strong cybersecurity knowledge an advantage

Fluent to Native Japanese speaking ability to cater to Japan market.