CSM Manager at Chainguard - Remote UK Cybersecurity — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
This role is remote-first, which is genuinely good news for location-independent professionals — but there's a significant constraint: you must currently be located in the United Kingdom. This means digital nomads based outside the UK at time of application are not eligible, regardless of timezone or async capability.
For those already UK-based, the role offers meaningful nomad-friendly perks:
- Monthly coworking stipend — covers desk fees at spaces like WeWork or local coworking hubs wherever you roam within the UK.
- Bi-annual destination summits — company-sponsored travel for team meetups, which adds travel exposure to the role.
- Phone and internet cost reimbursement — reduces overhead for mobile workers.
The role involves managing Enterprise CSMs and stakeholder relationships, which typically implies some synchronous availability during UK/EU business hours (GMT/BST). Expect video calls with customers and internal teams, making fully async work unlikely for this management position.
With a salary up to £150,000, purchasing-power comparisons are strong: that figure goes exceptionally far in Lisbon (monthly costs ~£1,800–2,500 for a professional) or Medellín (~£900–1,400/month) — but you'd need to maintain UK residence to satisfy the location requirement. If you're a UK resident who travels periodically, this role accommodates that lifestyle well.
Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.
Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.
Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.
The role, in a nutshell:
The Manager of Customer Success Management (CSM) will report to the Director of Customer Success, working collaboratively to achieve company goals and advance customer success initiatives across the Enterprise segments.
As a leader within the Customer Success organization, this role will partner closely with cross-functional teams to support and scale the CSM function. The ideal candidate brings strong people management skills, experience operating in high-volume, scaled customer environments, and a focus on driving efficient, data-informed customer engagement, retention, and growth strategies.
What you'll do:
Leadership and People Management:
- Build, lead, and mentor a team of CSMs supporting Enterprise customers
- Foster a collaborative, high-performance, and customer-centric culture
- Provide coaching, performance management, and career development support
- Drive accountability through clear goals, metrics, and regular feedback
Segment Strategy and Execution:
- Partner with Customer Success and cross-functional leaders to define segment-specific strategies
- Execute programs tailored to Enterprise customer needs
- Design and operationalize engagement models
- Ensure consistency in customer journeys while adapting for segment nuances
Customer Management:
- Maintain visibility into adoption, health scores, and engagement metrics across the portfolio
- Guide the team in identifying churn risks and expansion opportunities
- Drive proactive outreach and intervention based on data insights
- Support account reviews and leverage segment-level insights to improve outcomes
Client Engagement and Advocacy:
- Ensure strong stakeholder relationships across Enterprise accounts
- Deliver consistent value through interactions
- Capture and synthesize customer feedback to inform internal teams
- Act as the voice of the customer to influence product and go-to-market strategy
Retention and Growth:
- Collaborate with Sales, Product, and Marketing to drive adoption and expansion
- Support renewal strategies and improve retention outcomes across segments
- Leverage data to contribute to accurate forecasting and pipeline visibility
- Identify and scale growth opportunities within the Enterprise base
Operational Excellence:
- Implement and refine processes that enable scale and efficiency
- Improve team productivity through tooling, automation, and best practices
- Standardize workflows and reporting for consistency and visibility
- Monitor industry trends and evolve engagement strategies accordingly
What we're looking for:
- 4+ years of experience in Customer Success, Technical Account Management, or related fields
- Prior people management experience with a track record of developing high-performing teams
- Experience supporting Enterprise or high-ARR customer segments
- Experience with high-touch customer success models
- Background in Cybersecurity, DevOps, or a related technical domain preferred
- Strong operational mindset with experience building or optimizing processes
- Proven ability to drive retention and growth in a metrics-driven environment
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills across diverse audiences
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; advanced degree preferred
- Currently located in the United Kingdom
Compensation: up to £150,000 base salary + bonus (depending on experience)
If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply. Chainguard is on a mission to build the best team. To achieve our goal, we are focused on hiring "Guardians" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
About Us
We live and breathe our company values:
- We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
- We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
- We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
- We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.
A few of the benefits we offer:
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
- Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
- 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
- Unlimited Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply. We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Chainguard will process your personal data in accordance with Chainguard's Global Candidate Privacy Notice.
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