Customer Success Manager - Sana

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About the Team

Sana is an AI lab building superintelligence for work.

We believe organizations can accomplish their missions faster when humans can effortlessly access knowledge, automate repetitive work, and learn anything with the help of agentic AI.

As part of Workday, we are committed to building AI that augments humans.

If that’s a mission that excites you, you’re in the right place.

About the Role

We believe that everything starts with learning. And that by changing the way the world learns, we can change the world for the better. If that’s a mission that excites you, you’ll be in great company as part of the Sana team in Workday.

The Sana team is known for its adaptability, entrepreneurial spirit, and relentless pursuit of excellence, embodying our core belief that learning is the foundation of all meaningful change.

As a Customer Success Manager, you will work solely on partner engagement with leading organizations adopting Sana Learn, ensuring they achieve meaningful outcomes from their investment.

You will partner with customers from early stages through long-term success, owning adoption, value realization, portfolio health, and growth. You are accountable for ensuring customers realize measurable impact from Sana Learn.

This role combines customer success, strategic problem solving, and change leadership. Whether you bring deep experience in enterprise SaaS account management or a top-tier management consulting background, you will work alongside a highly driven, entrepreneurial team and play a key role in how customers succeed with Sana long-term.

What You’ll Do

Own Customer Outcomes

• Own a portfolio of customers using Sana Learn, accountable for adoption, engagement, and long-term value
• Define success plans, KPIs, and measurable outcomes aligned to customer goals
• Monitor customer health using product usage, stakeholder feedback, and renewal signals
•  Identify risks early and drive clear mitigation plans
  
  

Drive Adoption and Value Realization

• Lead conversations with customers to define what success looks like and how to achieve it
• Design adoption strategies that drive meaningful usage and sustained engagement
• Help customers move from initial usage to scaled, organization-wide impact
• Ensure customers realize value—not just use the product
  
  

Act as a Strategic Partner

• Work closely with HR, L&D, IT, and business leaders to connect Sana Learn to business priorities
• Help customers identify and prioritize high-impact use cases
• Bring structure to ambiguous challenges and drive them to outcomes
• Elevate conversations from product usage to measurable business impact

Maintain Visibility Across the Customer Journey

• Stay closely aligned to customer progress to ensure continuity into long-term success
• Maintain a clear view of risks, progress, and outcomes across each account
• Ensure customers are set up for sustained success over time
  
  

Drive Retention and Growth

• Identify expansion opportunities across teams, use cases, and geographies
• Partner with account teams to support renewals and long-term growth
• Bring customer stories to life to bring
  
  

What Will Help You Thrive

• You are naturally curious and always seeking to learn
• You are comfortable operating in ambiguity and solving open-ended problems
• You are impact-driven and focused on outcomes, not activity
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset and enjoy building and improving how things work
• You collaborate effectively and influence without authority
• You are energized by learning, AI, and driving change in organizations
  
  

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About You

We are looking for individuals who thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous environments and are motivated by building and improving how things work.

***This role requires working out of the Sana NYC office 3 days a week***

Strong candidates often come from one of the following backgrounds:

• Enterprise Customer Success: High-performing CSMs who have driven adoption, value, and expansion in complex B2B SaaS environments
• Consulting or Strategy: Experience solving ambiguous problems and working directly with senior stakeholders
• Implementation or Transformation Roles: Experience driving large-scale change, adoption, or system rollouts within enterprise organizations

Basic Qualifications (Customer Success Manager, P3)

• 4+ years of experience in customer success, consulting, or similar roles in a SaaS environment (prefer experience in L&D or HCM environments)
• Experience working with enterprise customers
• Experience working with senior stakeholders
  
  

Basic Qualifications (Senior Customer Success Manager, P4)

• 7+ years of experience in customer success, consulting, or similar roles in a SaaS environment (prefer experience in L&D or HCM environments)
• Experience working with enterprise customers
• Experience working with senior stakeholders
  
  

Other Qualifications:

• Implementation experience of a SaaS product
• Ability to thrive in an environment with limited playbooks
• Experience with incorporating AI into client workstreams
• Experience driving adoption with measurable customer outcomes
• Outcome focused
  

VISA Sponsorship is not available for this role
 

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Primary Location: USA.NY.New York City.SanaPrimary Location Base Pay Range: $128,200 USD - $192,200 USDAdditional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $90,300 USD - $160,400 USD

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