The Customer Success Manager will enhance customer retention and growth by building relationships, guiding customers, and ensuring successful adoption of solutions across enterprise accounts.
We are seeking a driven and results-oriented Customer Success Manager (US East) to partner closely with our Sales team and guide customers through every stage of their journey with Bolster. In this role, you will focus on customer retention and growth by building trusted relationships, understanding customers’ security objectives, and driving successful renewals and expansions across mid-market and enterprise customers.
The ideal candidate is a proactive communicator with strong interpersonal skills and a solid technical foundation who can effectively manage complex enterprise relationships and collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams. You will thrive in a fast-paced environment that requires engaging stakeholders through phone, email, and in-person interactions.
Experience working with CISO, Fraud, and Security Operations teams, and the ability to communicate with both technical and business stakeholders, is preferred.
What You’ll Do
- Drive value realization by aligning Bolster’s solutions with customer outcomes — continuously uncovering use cases and opportunities to expand adoption.
- Own a portfolio of enterprise and mid-market customers, ensuring success across varied business needs and engagement styles.
- Serve as a trusted advisor — leading Executive Business Reviews, sharing best practices, and ensuring customers gain measurable value from Bolster.
- Act as a first line of support for key accounts, triaging issues, guiding troubleshooting, and collaborating with Engineering and Support to ensure rapid resolution.
- Communicate across channels (Slack, Zoom, email, ticketing, and community forums) while balancing multiple customer priorities with poise.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing to deliver a seamless customer experience.
- Identify patterns and insights across your customer base — surfacing common challenges, feature requests, and success stories to inform product development.
- Contribute to scalable success by crafting playbooks, templates, and customer-facing resources.
- Champion adoption, expansion, and renewal, driving customer satisfaction and growth across your book of business.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, or Strategic Consulting, ideally in enterprise SaaS or security technology.
- Demonstrated success managing enterprise and mid-market customers with complex technical use cases.
- Curious, proactive, and resourceful — you don’t wait for answers; you seek them out and share what you learn.
- Comfortable acting as a first responder to customer questions or issues; you know when to solve independently and when to escalate.
- Strong ability to multi-task and prioritize in an omnichannel, fast-moving environment.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills — able to translate technical concepts into business outcomes.
- Strong interpersonal skills and experience building trust-based, long-term customer relationships.
- Track record of operating with outcome-based thinking — focusing on measurable success for both the customer and the business.
Nice to Have
- Experience with tools like Salesforce, Gainsight, Zendesk, or other CS engagement platforms.
- Exposure to fraud prevention, phishing, or brand protection technologies.
- Experience engaging technical users through community or forum environments.
Why Bolster?
Bolster builds a next-generation AI-powered fraud prevention and brand protection platform designed to detect and eliminate phishing, impersonation, and online scams at internet scale. Our platform protects enterprises from external digital threats across websites, social media, mobile apps, messaging platforms, and the dark web—helping organizations safeguard their brands and customers from rapidly evolving cyberattacks.
Bolster is trusted by leading global enterprises and Fortune 500 companies that rely on our technology to detect and automatically take down phishing and impersonation attacks in real time.
Our team brings deep cybersecurity expertise with decades of combined experience across leading technology and security organizations. Bolster is backed by leading investors including M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund), Thomvest Ventures, and Crosslink Capital, helping accelerate innovation in AI-driven threat protection.
Our AI and machine learning technology uses deep learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and large-scale threat intelligence to detect malicious infrastructure and automate takedowns with high accuracy and speed.
We also extend our technology to the broader community through CheckPhish (https://checkphish.ai) — a free phishing and scam detection tool used by millions of security researchers, organizations, and consumers worldwide. The platform helps identify fraudulent websites and contributes valuable threat intelligence to strengthen Bolster’s detection models.
Learn more about our culture and values: https://bolster.ai/
What we offer:
-Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance
-Flexible time off + paid holidays.
-Equity + 401(k) plan
Bolster Los Altos, California, USA Office
4940 El Camino Real, Los Altos, CA, United States, 94022
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