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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Role OpenAI is seeking a senior individual contributor to help shape and execute some of our most complex and high-impact commercial opportunities. As AI becomes increasingly important to how organizations operate, the ability to translate sophisticated products and commercial structures into clear, compelling customer narratives is a strategic advantage. In this role, you will serve as an embedded strategic partner to AMER account teams, with a particular focus on high-value, complex, and first-of-kind deals. You will work directly with sellers and cross-functional partners to lead the overall deal strategy, structuring, value narrative, negotiations, and business cases that bring business terms to contractual closure. You will also translate insights and patterns from individual deals into practical frameworks, tools, and resources that improve the quality and consistency of deal execution across the field. This role partners closely with Sales, Pricing, Deal Desk, Strategy, Revenue Operations, Finance, Product, and Legal to help OpenAI move quickly, strengthen proposal quality, and navigate complex commercial opportunities effectively. This role will report to the Americas Deal Strategy Leader. In this role, you will: Partner directly with AMER account teams on complex, high-value, and strategic opportunities, from initial deal strategy through customer proposal, negotiation, and deal closure. Develop deal strategies that bring together customer priorities, commercial considerations, competitive positioning, and OpenAI’s broader business objectives. Create executive- and CFO-ready proposals, ROI analyses, value narratives, and business cases for highly complex and/or first-of-kind deals. Support critical customer and executive conversations by presenting recommendations, business cases, and the rationale behind proposed commercial approaches. Build and maintain practical ROI frameworks, calculators, proposal templates, and value narratives that account

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📍 San Francisco, CA, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -91.7%
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For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. Smartsheet is seeking an experienced sales leader to lead a team of Account Executives as a Regional Director, Enterprise-West. The ideal candidate will have a history of building and leading teams to overperform in quota attainment, close transformational transactions, and align strategically with large customers. This role is part of the Enterprise Sales organization and is West Coast based in your own remote home office. You Will: Build and lead a Sales team to exceed quarterly and annual sales quotas Effectively predict and deliver sales results through accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual sales forecasting Serve as player/coach in the execution of a complex, solution­-based sales process encompassing multiple groups within Large Enterprise accounts Play a leadership role in developing new business opportunities by coaching Account Executives to build and execute account-focused strategies Drive Smartsheet senior executive engagement in target accounts Successfully execute across all disciplines of sales management, including Account/Opportunity/Relationship planning and sales methodology execution Partner with Sales Engineering, Consulting, Customer Success and Marketing management to identify and close software and professional services solutions in Large Enterprise accounts Proactively identify and address issues that will increase growth velocity in the assigned sales region Other duties as assigned Travel as needed (30-50%) You Have: 10+ years of experience in the software industry with curr

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📍 Foster City, California, United States· Full-time
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Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation. About the Role As an Enterprise/Strategic Field Engineer (L5) , you'll be the technical cornerstone for Replit's largest and most strategic accounts. This is a hybrid role: high-impact pre-sales (closing complex technical evaluations) and post-sales (driving adoption, expansion, and retention). You'll own the end-to-end technical relationship—from pre-sales architecture discussions through multi-year expansion—ensuring our enterprise customers don't just use Replit, but become Replit-powered companies. You'll partner with Account Executives and Account Managers in a high-accountability Pod structure . This is not a reactive support role—this is a proactive, strategic technical leader who identifies blockers before they become problems, champions new use cases, and directly influences $5M+ in annual recurring revenue. In this role you will: Pre-Sales Strategic Technical Discovery: When you are pulled into complex deals, you join as the expert closer. You run deep discovery on their stack and constraints, then design the winning technical strategy. Proof of Value (POV) & Live Building: You build live, functional applications on the fly during executive meetings to prove immediate value and technical feasibility to VPs and C-suite stakeholders. Context & Connectivity (MCP): You write and deploy Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to securely connect Replit Agents to customer-specific data, making Replit the central hub for their internal development. Enterprise Governance: You own the "Guardrails" mission. You configure workspace policies and AI governance templates that solve for data safety, compliance, and CISO approval. Infrastructure Strategy: You lead deep-dive reviews for Single-Tenant/VPC deployments, ens

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📍 New York City, New York, United States· Full-time
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Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation. About the Role As an Enterprise/Strategic Field Engineer (L5) , you'll be the technical cornerstone for Replit's largest and most strategic accounts. This is a hybrid role: high-impact pre-sales (closing complex technical evaluations) and post-sales (driving adoption, expansion, and retention). You'll own the end-to-end technical relationship—from pre-sales architecture discussions through multi-year expansion—ensuring our enterprise customers don't just use Replit, but become Replit-powered companies. You'll partner with Account Executives and Account Managers in a high-accountability Pod structure . This is not a reactive support role—this is a proactive, strategic technical leader who identifies blockers before they become problems, champions new use cases, and directly influences $5M+ in annual recurring revenue. In this role you will: Pre-Sales Strategic Technical Discovery: When you are pulled into complex deals, you join as the expert closer. You run deep discovery on their stack and constraints, then design the winning technical strategy. Proof of Value (POV) & Live Building: You build live, functional applications on the fly during executive meetings to prove immediate value and technical feasibility to VPs and C-suite stakeholders. Context & Connectivity (MCP): You write and deploy Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to securely connect Replit Agents to customer-specific data, making Replit the central hub for their internal development. Enterprise Governance: You own the "Guardrails" mission. You configure workspace policies and AI governance templates that solve for data safety, compliance, and CISO approval. Infrastructure Strategy: You lead deep-dive reviews for Single-Tenant/VPC deployments, ens

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📍 Bellevue, WA, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -91.7%
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For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. Smartsheet is looking for a high-impact Client Services Director to join our Professional Services Sales team. This role owns the end-to-end sales cycle for Smartsheet’s Services Portfolio and drives customer value by positioning Smartsheet as a strategic partner. We are seeking candidates who operate by: leading complex, multi-solution pursuits, influencing executive stakeholders, and applying value based selling to measurable business outcomes. You will report to the Director, Customer Outcomes and this is a remote eligible role. You Will: Own the services sales cycle: Lead pursuits from early qualification through signed Statement of Work (SOW), with or without AE/SE support Elevate conversations: Uplevel customer and account team discussions across the Customer Outcomes lifecycle to influence platform adoption, multi solution expansion, and long term value creation Drive value-led selling: Apply value frameworks (e.g., Smartsheet Value Selling, MEDDIC, Challenger) to uncover priorities, link them to Smartsheet solutions, and advise the customer through opportunity closed-won Engage executives: Develop trusted relationships with executive sponsors, procurement, and key decision makers to accelerate deal velocity and eliminate last mile friction Generate and progress pipeline: Maintain ~3× coverage by identifying whitespace, creating new opportunities, and advancing stalled pursuits with clear next steps and mutual action plans Forecast with discipline: Use Salesforce and Clari for precise pipeline hygiene, risk surfac

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📍 Bellevue, WA, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -91.7%
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For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. Smartsheet is looking for a high-impact Professional Services Business Development Director to join our Professional Services Sales team. This role owns the end-to-end sales cycle for Smartsheet’s Services Portfolio and drives customer value by positioning Smartsheet as a strategic partner. We are seeking candidates who operate by: leading complex, multi-solution pursuits, influencing executive stakeholders, and applying value based selling to measurable business outcomes. You will report to the Director, Customer Outcomes and this is a remote eligible role. You Will: Own the services sales cycle: Lead pursuits from early qualification through signed Statement of Work (SOW), with or without AE/SE support Elevate conversations: Uplevel customer and account team discussions across the Customer Outcomes lifecycle to influence platform adoption, multi solution expansion, and long term value creation Drive value-led selling: Apply value frameworks (e.g., Smartsheet Value Selling, MEDDIC, Challenger) to uncover priorities, link them to Smartsheet solutions, and advise the customer through opportunity closed-won Engage executives: Develop trusted relationships with executive sponsors, procurement, and key decision makers to accelerate deal velocity and eliminate last mile friction Generate and progress pipeline: Maintain ~3× coverage by identifying whitespace, creating new opportunities, and advancing stalled pursuits with clear next steps and mutual action plans Forecast with discipline: Use Salesforce and Clari for precise pi

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📍 Armonk, NY, United States
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JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way . Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong. Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward. What this job involves - JLL is seeking a Director of Global Occupancy Planning & Management to lead strategic space planning initiatives across APAC, LATAM, and AMER regions. This role provides crucial global leadership in delivering JLL's best practices through Occupancy Planning & Management products, solutions, and tools while partnering closely with client real estate teams to drive tactical and strategic planning aligned with portfolio objectives. What is your day-to-day? Strategic Leadership & Accountability Provide strategic oversight of multiple regions while driving consistency, innovation, and excellence across global real estate portfolios Manage global OP account budget for occupancy planning across APAC, LATAM, and AMER, ensuring optimal resource allocation and cost efficiency Own and manage strategic multi-regional relationships, serving as executive-level point of contact for key client stakeholders Drive space planning and data management programs to help client achieve real estate and workplace objectives Team Leadership & People Management Lead and manage a global team of occupancy planners across three regions with full accountability for performance outcomes Structure, staff, and manage team with clarity of e

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📍 Field, United States
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$205.6K – $266.1K/yr

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We’re here for one reason and one reason only – to cure cancer. Every moment is dedicated to developing treatments and every action moves us one step closer to our goal. We’ve made incredible scientific breakthroughs and our pioneering personalized CAR T-cell therapies have changed the paradigm. But we're not finished yet. Join Kite, as we make even bigger advances in cancer therapies, and help shape where our business and medical science goes next. We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Kite and help create more tomorrows. Job Description The Marketplace Director reports to the Executive Director, West Cellular Therapy Team and is accountable for the overall business performance of a defined regional marketplace. This role serves as the single point of accountability for regional demand generation, account engagement, and execution of territory strategies, partnering closely with cross functional field and headquarters stakeholders to drive sustainable growth and patient access across the portfolio of Kite CAR-T cell therapies. The Marketplace Director operates with an ownership mindset, leads through influence in a matrix environment, and ensures teams are enabled, aligned, and accountable to deliver results. Preferred that candidates live in the metropolitan area of Denver, Phoenix, or Salt Lake City. Key Responsibilities: Marketplace & Strategy Leadership <li

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -82%
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About the Team The AI Architect team partners with organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with retail and consumer businesses to identify where AI can create value, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move from early exploration into sustained production adoption. The team brings together technical strategy, customer partnership, and practical deployment expertise, working closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and specialist delivery teams. About the Role As an AI Architect, you will be the senior technical owner for a named portfolio of Retail customers and the primary technical counterpart to their leadership teams. You will act as the “CTO of your book of business”, shaping each customer's AI strategy and guiding their journey from pre-sales discovery and solution evaluation through deployment, adoption, and measurable business impact. You will own the technical account plan across ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions. In partnership with the Account Director, you will translate business priorities into a focused use-case portfolio, an actionable adoption roadmap, and a clear path to durable customer value and growth. The Account Director owns commercial strategy; you own the technical strategy, customer journey, and path to production value. You will remain accountable for the technical outcome while bringing in the right specialists across deployment, implementation, enablement, security, product, and partners to provide deeper expertise and execute work where needed. This role calls for strong industry fluency, sound architectural judgment, and the ability to move confidently between executive strategy and hands-on technical conversations. In this role, you will: Serve as the primary technical advisor and long-term technical relationship owner for a named portfolio of existing customers and pre-sales prospects. Partner with Acco

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -82%
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About the Team The AI Architect team partners with organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with Healthcare & Life Sciences organizations to identify where AI can create value, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move from early exploration into sustained production adoption. The team brings together technical strategy, customer partnership, and practical deployment expertise, working closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and specialist delivery teams. About the Role As an AI Architect, you will be the senior technical owner for a named portfolio of Healthcare & Life Sciences customers and the primary technical counterpart to their leadership teams. You will act as the “CTO of your book of business”, shaping each customer's AI strategy and guiding their journey from pre-sales discovery and solution evaluation through deployment, adoption, and measurable business impact. You will own the technical account plan across ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions. In partnership with the Account Director, you will translate business priorities into a focused use-case portfolio, an actionable adoption roadmap, and a clear path to durable customer value and growth. The Account Director owns commercial strategy; you own the technical strategy, customer journey, and path to production value. You will remain accountable for the technical outcome while bringing in the right specialists across deployment, implementation, enablement, security, product, and partners to provide deeper expertise and execute work where needed. This role calls for strong industry fluency, sound architectural judgment, and the ability to move confidently between executive strategy and hands-on technical conversations. In this role, you will: Serve as the primary technical advisor and long-term technical relationship owner for a named portfolio of existing customers and

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📍 New York, New York, United States· Full-time
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology and careers to the next level. Position Overview Snowflake Inc. is seeking a dynamic, strategic, and results-oriented Manager, Field Marketing - US Majors Financial Services to lead field marketing strategy and execution across our highest-value US Financial Services enterprise accounts (Banking, Asset Management, Capital Markets, and Insurance). In this dual-impact role, you will balance high-level strategic planning with hands-on execution. You will directly manage a team of two field marketing individual contributors, driving targeted field marketing programs and executive engagements that accelerate adoption of Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud within the financial services sector. Success requires strong cross-functional leadership, deep alignment with Enterprise Sales leadership, and a data-driven approach to pipeline creation, account expansion, and ROI. Key Responsibilities Strategy & Account Planning: Own and execute the end-to-end field marketing strategy for the US Majors Financial Services vertical, tailoring programs to address

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role Startups are creating many of the most disruptive and category-defining AI applications. The Startup Go To Market team’s mission is to help startups harness the power of AI models to drive these advances. You will lead a team that supports startups building effectively with OpenAI’s APIs, providing access to OpenAI teams and expertise to support their growth. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and strategy. This leadership role will be responsible for driving and implementing the sales strategy within our startups segment, recruiting and leading a team of technical sales professionals, and achieving successful deployments with startup customers. The ideal candidate will possess significant sales leadership experience and a comprehensive understanding of AI technologies. This leader will have the capability to adapt to a complex and fast-changing technology environment. Responsibilities will include customer acquisition, account management, owning executive relationships, and more. This individual will need to be a proven leader who can effectively collaborate cross-functionally with product, marketing, developer relations, operations, and core GTM teams, while guiding and mentoring a sales team towards achieving business objectives. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work m

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📍 Washington, District of Columbia, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the Team The OpenAI for Government AI Architect team partners with public sector organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with government agencies, public institutions, and partner organizations serving the government to identify where AI can advance critical missions, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move from early exploration into sustained production adoption. The team brings together technical strategy, customer partnership, and practical deployment expertise, working closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, Security, Global Affairs, and specialist delivery teams to help public sector customers adopt advanced AI responsibly and effectively. About the Role As an AI Architect, you will be the senior technical owner for a named portfolio of customers and the primary technical counterpart to their leadership teams. You will shape each customer's AI strategy and guide their journey from pre-sales discovery and solution evaluation through deployment, adoption, and measurable mission impact. You will own the technical account plan across ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions. In partnership with the Account Director, you will translate mission priorities into a focused use-case portfolio, an actionable adoption roadmap, and a clear path to durable customer value. The Account Director leads the overall account strategy and relationship, while you lead the technical strategy, customer journey, and path to production impact. You will remain accountable for the technical outcome while bringing in the right specialists across deployment, implementation, enablement, security, product, and partners to provide deeper expertise and execute work where needed. This role calls for strong public sector fluency, sound architectural judgment, and the ability to move confidently between executive strategy and hands-on technical conversations. This r

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📍 United States· Full-time
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At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As Vanta's Customer Success Manager, Strategic, you will serve as a trusted advisor to Vanta's largest and most complex customers—organizations with 10,000+ employees navigating sophisticated security and compliance landscapes. Unlike traditional CSM roles managing 20-30 accounts, you'll own a focused book of 5-10 strategic accounts, driving deep customer relationships, multi-quarter projects, and high-impact business outcomes. The Strategic CS team plays a defining role in proving Vanta can serve the enterprise at scale. You'll partner closely with Strategic Account Executives and Account Managers to execute land and expand strategies, manage complex implementations, and guide executive stakeholders through their GRC program maturity journeys. Your work will directly influence Vanta's upmarket growth, product roadmap, and strategic positioning in the market. What you’ll do as a Customer Success Manager, Strategic at Vanta: Serve as the primary trusted advisor for 5-10 of Vanta's most strategic customers, each with 10,000+ employees and highly complex organizational structures Lead enterprise-scale implementations, configurations, and optimizations of Vanta's Trust Management Platform across multi-business-unit, multi-geography organizations Build and maintain deep, multi-threaded executive relationships with CISOs, CIOs, Chief Compliance Officers, and other C-level stakeholders Partner closely with Strategic Account Executives and Account Managers to identify expansion opportunities, develop account growth strategies, and execute on land and expand motions Manage complex, multi-quarter projects that require coordination across

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📍 United States· Full-time
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At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As a SLED Customer Success Manager (CSM), Public Sector at Vanta you will help manage our most complex, high-valued State Government, Local Government, and Education (SLED) accounts. You will act as a trusted advisor, driving value realization, retention, and growth through strategic planning, executive alignment, and cross-functional collaboration. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Vanta for Government is Vanta’s AI-powered platform that helps government agencies and vendors protect mission data, manage risk, streamline compliance, and build trust – faster and with less manual work. Vanta’s public sector efforts are growing quickly and this is an exciting opportunity to join a new team dedicated explicitly to public sector sales and customer success. We are looking for a passionate, results-oriented, and collaborative CSM who has a proven track-record of managing high-value public sector accounts, leading to customer satisfaction, renewals, and expansion. What you’ll do as SLED Customer Success Manager, Public Sector: Manage high-touch, SLED accounts serving as the primary client advocate and success owner. Drive cross-functional coordination across multiple teams – including Product, Engineering, Security, and Legal – to ensure the successful onboarding, delivery, and implementation of Vanta at key accounts. Serve as a trusted advisor to customers, aligning Vanta’s roadmap and security outcomes with mission needs, industry trends, and executive-level priorities. Partner with Public Sector Account Managers to co-build and execute mu

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