Client Success Manager
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 16, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 9, 2026.
Description
Ready to take your career to the next level?
Skai is looking for the best and the brightest to join our growing team. We're proud of our industry-leading marketing software, but we're even prouder of the people behind it. That's where you come in!
The Client Success Manager (CSM) oversees all facets of client utilization of the Skai platform. The CSM is accountable for client satisfaction and for helping clients turn platform usage into measurable ROI. This role will have an immediate focus on Paid Search.
The ideal candidate brings strong project management skills, solid technical fluency, sharp interpersonal skills, working knowledge of media, and hands-on experience running campaigns across channels like Amazon, Google, Meta, and OpenAI (ChatGPT) - please specify which channels you have primary and secondary fluency in. Most important is a consultative approach: understanding a client's business goals and guiding them to the right solution.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Drive client retention and identify growth opportunities within the account
- Provide initial and ongoing training so clients can effectively use the Skai platform
- Provide technical support, best practices, and strategy across Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising
- Understand each client's business goals, anticipate future needs, and use product and engagement data to focus them on the Skai capabilities most tied to those outcomes
- Run a structured, proactive communication cadence, standing meetings and office hours alike, each with a clear purpose and agenda shared in advance, real room for client input, and a recap with documented owners and dates tied to their goals
- Partner across internal teams, including Client Success Directors, product, technical, and support specialists, knowing when an engagement calls for their expertise and handing off with enough context that they can act immediately
- Use AI to accelerate call prep, summarization, personalization, and documentation, applying judgment and review before anything reaches a client
- Solve problems proactively and hold a high bar for client satisfaction
Requirements
Skai Requirements:
- Passion and dedication
- Desire to be the best
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Strong interpersonal communication skills - in writing and verbally
- Proven track record of problem-solving
- Results-oriented
Position Requirements:
- B.A. or B.S.
- Hands-on paid search marketing campaign implementation and management experience, including responsive ad formats, shopping, automated cross- channel formats (like AIMax and PMax) and ad extensions
- Extra points for hands-on experience with Retail Media Networks (including Amazon, Walmart Connect, Target Roundel, etc)
- You’ll stand out from other candidates if Paid Search is your specialty and you have complementary experience in Retail Media or Paid Social
- 2+ years of experience in client services and/or technical project management, with strong organizational and time management skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
- Ability to perform detailed client audits and use client feedback to identify needs, workflow gaps, and opportunities for continuous improvement
- Comfort using AI tools to support client prep, communication, and documentation
- Extra points if you have AI builder capabilities. Be prepared to share if this is you!
- Experience collaborating across local and virtual teams
- Media Agency and/or Skai or other ad platform experience preferred
- Ability to travel occasionally
- Microsoft Excel and other basic technical experience with code such as basic JavaScript and HTML is a plus
- Comfortable presenting to internal and external stakeholders, with strong written and verbal communication skills, and demonstrated ability to read the room and adapt messages to different audiences.
We are hybrid for the long term - with a great home/ office work mix (three days in office per week), passionate and diverse team members, and a vibrant company culture.
The salary range for this position is $85,000-100,000. The actual salary amount will vary depending on the applicants experience, skills and abilities as well as internal equity and market data. This position is eligible for additional bonus compensation, full details will be provided during the recruitment process.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Skai, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. At Skai, we believe ensuring a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace is not just an ideal to strive for; it is right, necessary, and our responsibility as humans. Our full DE&I commitment and global framework can be viewed on our company website and are aligned to our core values. We strongly encourage and seek applications from women, people of color, and bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, marital status, medical condition including acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related conditions, or any other protected status. Also pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we encourage and will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Applicants with Disabilities
Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process. Please advise in writing of special needs at the time of application.
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