Mid-Market Customer Success Manager
Handshake
Sales & Business Development, Customer Service
New York, NY, USA
USD 140k-145k / year + Equity
Posted on Apr 25, 2026
About Handshake
Handshake is the career network for the AI economy. 20 million knowledge workers, 1,600 educational institutions, 1 million employers (including 100% of the Fortune 50), and every foundational AI lab trust Handshake to power career discovery, hiring, and upskilling, from freelance AI training gigs to first internships to full-time careers and beyond. This unique value is leading to unparalleled growth; in 2025, we tripled our ARR at scale.
Why Join Handshake Now
As a Mid-Market CSM, you are a strategic value driver focused on maximizing product adoption, mitigating risk, and delivering measurable ROI. In this role, you will manage a portfolio of up to 125 customers by applying a high-impact prioritization framework. You will partner closely with Mid-Market Account Managers in a “divide and conquer” model, using data to identify where your expertise can most effectively de-risk a renewal or unlock new value.
Beyond high-touch strategic guidance for priority accounts, you will be a key contributor to building a more efficient and scalable approach to supporting our customers. You will design and execute repeatable playbooks and experiment with one:many approaches including webinars for your book of business and office hours. All designed to ensure that every partner in your portfolio has a clear path to hiring success.
Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported and thrive at work and in life.
The below benefits are for full-time US employees.
🎯 Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company
💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
🍼 Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching
💝 Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend
📚 Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development
💻 Remote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office
🏝 Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days
🤝 Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses
Explore our mission, values, and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers.
Compensation Range: $140K - $145K
Handshake is the career network for the AI economy. 20 million knowledge workers, 1,600 educational institutions, 1 million employers (including 100% of the Fortune 50), and every foundational AI lab trust Handshake to power career discovery, hiring, and upskilling, from freelance AI training gigs to first internships to full-time careers and beyond. This unique value is leading to unparalleled growth; in 2025, we tripled our ARR at scale.
Why Join Handshake Now
- Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel
- Work hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions
- Join a team with leadership from Scale AI, Meta, xAI, Notion, Coinbase, and Palantir, among others
- Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue
As a Mid-Market CSM, you are a strategic value driver focused on maximizing product adoption, mitigating risk, and delivering measurable ROI. In this role, you will manage a portfolio of up to 125 customers by applying a high-impact prioritization framework. You will partner closely with Mid-Market Account Managers in a “divide and conquer” model, using data to identify where your expertise can most effectively de-risk a renewal or unlock new value.
Beyond high-touch strategic guidance for priority accounts, you will be a key contributor to building a more efficient and scalable approach to supporting our customers. You will design and execute repeatable playbooks and experiment with one:many approaches including webinars for your book of business and office hours. All designed to ensure that every partner in your portfolio has a clear path to hiring success.
- Data-driven prioritization: Use data (Gainsight) and prioritization model to ensure your time is spent where it can move the needle most
- High-impact engagement: Conduct short-term, intensive consulting engagements for accounts with low adoption or high risk, focusing on specific outcomes like job posting quality or recruiter engagement
- Scale the success journey: Facilitate twice-weekly Office Hours and contribute to webinar program
- Partner on Value Reviews: Collaborate with AMs on strategy sessions for select accounts, acting as the product and adoption expert while the AM leads the commercial relationship.
- Voice of the Customer: Synthesize feedback from your high-volume portfolio to help the Product team prioritize features that solve common mid-market employer pain points.
- 2+ years in SaaS Customer Success
- Proven ability to manage a large book of business by deciding where to go "deep" vs. where to use "one-to-many" tactics
- Comfortable leading webinars, group trainings, or virtual office hours for a diverse audience of recruiters and hiring managers
- Able to look at a usage dashboard, identify a "Low Adoption" trend, and proactively reach out with a prescriptive plan to fix it
- You enjoy working in an evolving environment and are excited to help build the playbooks that will define the future of the MM team
- Experience working in a collaborative model with Account Managers or Sales counterparts
Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported and thrive at work and in life.
The below benefits are for full-time US employees.
🎯 Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company
💰 Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
🍼 Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching
💝 Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend
📚 Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development
💻 Remote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office
🏝 Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days
🤝 Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses
Explore our mission, values, and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers.
Compensation Range: $140K - $145K