Manager, Customer Success – Strategic Consumer Tech

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

As Manager, Customer Success – Strategic Consumer Tech, you'll lead the Customer Success Managers who cover our strategic consumer technology accounts, fast-moving consumer technology companies building on Claude across API, Claude Code, Cowork and other surfaces. You'll directly coach and develop a team of 5-10 CSMs while keeping strategic oversight of the highest-impact engagements in the segment. This role demands exceptional people leadership combined with deep product knowledge and customer success acumen to guide your team in maximizing customer value, driving consumption, and expanding our footprint across enterprise accounts. You'll be instrumental in building scalable CS processes, methodologies, and playbooks that will define how we grow and mature as an organization.

Responsibilities:

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Directly manage and develop a team of 5-10 Customer Success Managers supporting strategic enterprise accounts across all Anthropic products (API, Claude.ai, Claude Code)

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Coach team members on customer success best practices, including change management and adoption strategies, value realization, and expansion methodologies across our product suite

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Drive team accountability to core CS metrics: expansion (consumption growth, cross-sell/upsell opportunity identification), customer health scores, retention (NRR), and customer satisfaction (CSAT)

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Join strategic customer engagements and escalations, demonstrating executive presence with C-level stakeholders at Fortune 500 companies

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Build and refine scalable CS processes including success planning frameworks, QBR templates, and expansion playbooks

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Partner closely with Sales and Applied AI to identify expansion opportunities, facilitate smooth handoffs, and ensure aligned account strategies

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Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to advocate for customer needs and drive product adoption

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Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and training initiatives as the Customer Success organization scales

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Establish and nurture an AI-first, innovation-focused team culture, improving team processes and deepening team hands-on expertise

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Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning for direct reports

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Own portfolio-level planning