Tokyo Canonical
The role of an Enterprise Customer Success Manager at Canonical

Customer success is a new and strategic department at Canonical, with the objective to reduce risk and churn, facilitate the adoption of new products or services and support expansion within existing accounts. Customer Success Managers (CSM) develop trust with their assigned customers and provide them with the best possible experience navigating Canonical's vast offering.

We are growing our Customer Success team to continue to offer thoughtful, smart, precise interactions across our product portfolio, from Ubuntu to open-source infrastructure and applications. CSMs are specialized in one of the following segments:
  • Mass - SMEs or large businesses starting their journey with Canonical
  • Focus - Large companies with established ARR
  • Step Growth - a selection of high-potential customers


All CSMs contribute to business support at the company level for all remaining, not-yet-assigned customers (Tech segment), including our Store customers.

What your day will look like

  • Onboard new customers and introduce them to our products and support processes
  • Coordinate complex projects in interaction with developers, IT managers and decision makers from various industries
  • Collaborate with Sales, Field Engineering and Support in developing and delivering engagement plans that fulfill the customer's objectives
  • Manage a portfolio of customers in a specific geographic region and identify growth opportunities or renewal risks in coordination with Sales
  • Experience running a disciplined, weekly customer and business review process with cross-functional teams, identifying and prioritizing blockers, and driving resolution through corporate product and engineering teams
  • Serve as a customer advocate internally and influence Canonical products roadmaps, Canonical websites, documentation, processes and people to improve customer satisfaction and retention
  • Supporting customers through reactive ticket requests
  • Create campaigns targeting multiple customers through digital touch-points and activities


What we are looking for in you

The ideal candidate would display impeccable customer facing skills with a passion for cloud and data centre infrastructure technologies. We are also looking for:
  • Minimum 5 years of work experience with a strong relation to IT and with exposure to projects related to at least one of these topics: Linux OS, data applications, storage, cloud computing, networking, security, migration, IoT
  • Excellent presentation skills with the ability to guide a conversation about complex softwares
  • Experience building and improving internal processes while maintaining timely delivery to customer-related projects
  • A true team player capable of interacting with all departments and at all levels both internally and externally
  • Knowledge of agile methodologies


Additional skills that you might also bring

  • Experience with Salesforce, Jira and CRMs is a big plus
  • We at the Customer Success team strongly appreciate various languages. If you possess proficiency (both written and spoken) in Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, or Italian, alongside an excellent command of English, please inform us


What we offer you

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

  • Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
  • Personal learning and development budget of USD 2000, per year
  • Annual compensation review
  • Recognition rewards
  • Annual holiday leave
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
  • Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events


  • Tokyo Box

    WHAT IS BOX? · Box は、クラウドコンテンツマネジメント市場におけるリーディングカンパニーです。私たちのミッションは「Powering how the world works together」です。私たちは、安全でユーザビリティの高いコンテンツ管理、コラボレーション、ワークフローなどを提供することにより、顧客のデジタルトランスフォーメーションを強力に推進しています。Box には、この急成長の途上にある市場のリーダーとして、さらに市場の拡大に寄与し、顧客のデジタルトランスフォーメーションや働き方改革などのパートナーとしての役割を得る機会が ...


  • Tokyo SAS

    (Senior Associate) Customer Success Manager · Job Locations JP-Tokyo Requisition ID 20061095 Job Category Customer Success Travel Requirements Up to 25% 勤務地: 東京 · ポジション: (Sr Associate) Customer Success Manager · 業務: SASソフトウェアとソリューションの利用促進を行い、SAS独自のカスタマーエクスペリエンスを提供します。SAS社内の関係部 ...


  • Tokyo LRN Corporation フルタイム

    ポジション: アカウントエグゼクティブ · 勤務地:東京 · LRNについて · LRNの使命は、原則に基づいたパフォーマンスを鼓舞させることです。毎年、LRNは2,500以上の多国籍企業に対し、リスク管理を超えて倫理とコンプライアンスを通じた組織の再構築を支援しております。バリューベースのE-ラーニング、豊富な洞察力、専門のアドバイザリーサービスを革新的かつ包括的なソリューションに組み合わせることで、LRNはパートナー企業の行動と収益を向上させるための支援を行っています。 · 倫理とコンプライアンスのグローバルリーダーであるLRNでは、優れた営業エグゼ ...


  • Tokyo Canonical

    The role of an Enterprise Customer Success Manager at Canonical · Customer success is a new and strategic department at Canonical, with the objective to reduce risk and churn, facilitate the adoption of new products or services and support expansion within existing accounts. Cus ...


  • Tokyo Datadog

    Enterprise Customer Success Manager · Tokyo, Japan · #LI-KO1 · As an Enterprise Customer Success Manager, you will proactively drive new product attachment and effective strong relationships across our largest and most strategic customers. You'll advocate for the customer intern ...


  • Tokyo Workato

    We are looking for an exceptional Customer Success Manager to join our growing team. In this role, you will work with Chief Product Officers and their teams to roll out integration and automation capabilities to their end customers. You will provide guidance on Go To Market strat ...


  • Tokyo OpenAI Full time

    About The Team · Our Customer Success team at OpenAI is dedicated to partnering with our customers and their people to embrace AI through the adoption of ChatGPT Enterprise. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to est ...


  • Tokyo Datadog

    Manager, Customer Success · Tokyo, Japan · Datadog is scaling our Customer Success team as our product gains more traction in the market. We're looking for a Manager of Customer Success to hire, coach, and manage a team of Customer Success Associates (CSA's). Your team is respon ...


  • Tokyo Aspen Technology Full time

    The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qua ...


  • Tokyo Datadog

    Customer Success Manager · Tokyo, Japan · #LI-KO1 · As a Customer Success Manager, you will proactively drive new product attachment and effective strong relationships across our existing customer base through on-boarding, up-selling and cross selling. You'll advocate for the cu ...


  • Tokyo Workiva Japan G.K. Full time

    Customer Success Manager, Japan · Our Customer Success Managers are the point of contact for customers, managing the entire customer lifecycle by focusing on business outcomes and identifying opportunities for growth within their named accounts post-sale. As a CSM, your primary ...


  • Tokyo Darktrace

    Founded by mathematicians and cyber defense experts in 2013, Darktrace is a global leader in cyber security AI, delivering complete AI-powered solutions in its mission to free the world of cyber disruption. We protect more than 9,000 customers from the world's most complex threat ...


  • Tokyo Firework

    Firework is the world's leading unified video commerce platform that empowers its global partners to personalize the customer experience and engagement at scale. Firework bridges the offline and online for a robust omnichannel immersive brand experience cultivating a deeper emoti ...


  • Tokyo Dennemeyer Full time

    ustomer Success Manager (JAPAN) · What you will do · Cultivate strong business relationships with customers and serve as their trusted advisor throughout their journey with Dennemeyer. · Enhance the overall customer service experience through customer support and care, fostering ...


  • Tokyo AppsFlyer

    Do you believe in personalized service? Do you understand the value of trust, accessibility and the personal touch when it comes to cultivating business relationships? Then you just might be the right candidate for one of our Customer Success Manager positions. This is an opportu ...


  • Tokyo Rakuten Full time

    Description · : About Rakuten · Rakuten Group, a global leader in internet services headquartered in Japan, empowers individuals, businesses, and society through innovative services and technologies. Our Technology division is at the forefront of developing and deploying cutti ...


  • Shibuya EF Education First Full time

    Job position: Customer Success Manager Office location: Tokyo (hybrid) Who are we? Hult EF Corporate Education (Hult EF)'s purpose is to release human power to change the world through learning. We help corporations and governments across the globe unlock the change-makers in the ...


  • Tokyo Qlik

    Description · What makes us Qlik? · AGartner Magic Quadrant Leader for 13 years in a row, Qliktransforms complex data landscapes into actionable insights, driving strategic business outcomes. Serving over 40,000 global customers, our portfolio leverages pervasive data quality an ...


  • Tokyo Denodo

    Job Description The Customer Success Manager will act as the main interface point with customers and partners to ensure customer's success using data virtualization in an enterprise environment. Responsible for supporting a group of customers from the business and technical side. ...


  • Tokyo Blackpanda Full time

    Our story: Blackpanda Group is Asia's leading local cyber incident response firm, dedicated to delivering world-class digital emergency response services to businesses in the region.We help businesses strengthen their cyber resilience and secure their digital operations by suppor ...


  • Tokyo BASF Japan Ltd. Permanent

    Objectives of the Position · Enable an effective and efficient customer acquisition as well as excellent customer experience to reach a high level of customer satisfaction with digital tools · Disseminate customer insights across the organization and drive the development and im ...