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Client Success Manager

🇺🇸 Remote - US

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $65K - $75K

💻 Customer Success

🗓️ January 4th, 2026

Salesforce SaaS

Edtech.com's Summary

Watermark Insights is hiring a Client Success Manager. The role involves collaborating with higher education clients to drive adoption of Watermark's assessment solutions, building trusted advisor relationships, supporting campus change initiatives, and partnering with sales to expand client accounts.

Highlights
  • Drive client adoption and achievement of goals with Watermark platforms
  • Build and maintain trusted relationships with key client stakeholders
  • Manage risks and align internal resources to meet client needs
  • Partner with sales to identify cross-sell and upsell opportunities
  • Utilize Salesforce to document client interactions and activities
  • Participate in implementation phases as a strategic consultant
  • Bachelor's degree in business or related field required
  • Preferred experience in sales or account management and knowledge of higher education culture
  • Strong communication skills and ability to manage multiple priorities
  • Compensation range: $65,000-$70,000 base salary plus $25,000-$30,000 commission

Client Success Manager Full Description

At Watermark, we partner with institutions of higher education to improve student learning and institutional quality with proven, reliable, and user-friendly assessment management and e-portfolio solutions and supporting services. Watermark is a recognized leader in student assessment, portfolio and accreditation. We serve over 1,700 institutions and close to a million students across the country.

About Us
We’ve spent the last 20 years helping thousands of colleges and universities spend less time collecting data and more time learning from it. Watermark is a global, high-growth SaaS provider of assessment software for higher education institutions worldwide including the majority of the top 200 U.S. News & World Report colleges. There is a reason we’ve won EdTech’s Overall Higher EdTech Solution of the Year! In 2024, we celebrated being named a winner for The Edtech Breakthrough, The TITAN Business, and the Stevie Award. We’re just getting started! Our phenomenal team of people is at the heart of everything we do and we’d love to see you join us!

About the Role
As a Client Success Manager, you will collaborate with clients to ensure they fully adopt and leverage our suite of solutions. This entails cultivating a trusted advisor relationship in order to drive campus leadership toward achievement of their goals. The individual filling this role will also leverage the relationships they've built to drive client development efforts that organically grow the partnership and drive advocacy amongst our community of users.
Key Responsibilities of the Role
• Collaborating with current clients to drive adoption and ensure achievement of the client’s goals and objectives with Watermark platforms.
• Action planning and aligning internal resources to ensure client needs are met
• Building trusted relationships with key client stakeholders
• Supporting clients in effectively driving change on their campuses
• Partnering with Sales to drive expansion through cross and upsell opportunities
• Partnering with Watermark executive team for top account management
• Identifying risks that manifest within your client portfolio and initiating playbooks
• Documenting client information, activities, and interactions within Salesforce
• Creating services opportunities by introducing Academy training and Services packages
• Participating in the implementation phase as needed as strategic consultant
• Meeting with manager regularly to discuss challenges, risks and opportunities
• Contributing to the growth and development of a world class CSM team

Key Requirements For the Role
• Bachelor’s degree in business or a related field
• Ability to flourish in a multi-tasking environment, comfortably re-adjusting priorities as needed
• Ability to work both independently and in collaborative and/or team settings, taking ownership of assigned tasks
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to communicate efficiently with individuals at all levels
• Ability to absorb knowledge quickly, work well under pressure, and thrive in an environment that is constantly changing
• Preference for those with experience in Sales or Account Management
• Preference for those who possess knowledge of higher education processes and culture
• Experience presenting to audiences of all sizes, both in-person and virtually
• Willing and able to travel periodically (3-4 trips, annually)
• 1-2 years prior experience managing a portfolio of clients
• A high level of competence in communication, critical thinking, reasoning, as well as computer skills
Watermark is committed to fair and equitable pay practices for all qualified candidates. The pay range for this role is $65K - 70K + $25-30K commission and varies based on several factors including geographical location, level of experience related to the role, education/ licensure/certificates of the individual filling the role and other business and operational considerations.

At Watermark we are continually strengthening the rich diversity in our workplace - the primary reason we succeed. We’re committed to equal opportunity employment and work together to provide an inclusive hiring experience where all qualified applicants receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, neurodiversity, disability, age, protected military/veteran status, or any other non-merit based or other legally protected grounds.

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.