Manager, Customer Success - Commonwealth
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About the Role
Axon seeks a Manager, Customer Success to lead a team serving public-safety agencies across the UK, Canada, and Australia. You will drive customer retention, adoption, and growth through strategic coaching, QBRs, and cross-functional partnership.
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Responsibilities
- Manage, mentor, and develop a team of CSMs across Commonwealth territories
- Set clear goals aligned to retention, adoption, NPS, and product utilisation
- Ensure the team acts as a strategic partner to customers, building value roadmaps and leading executive business reviews
- Own QBR excellence at scale, including standards, preparation, executive readiness, and follow through
- Support major account strategy and step in on complex customer escalations
- Partner with Sales, Professional Services, Support, Product, and Marketing to deliver outcomes
- Lead a distributed team spanning UK, Canada and Australia
- Travel regularly to customer sites and regional hubs (~40 50%)
Requirements
- 8+ years in customer facing roles
- 3+ years managing people in Customer Success or equivalent
- Proven success leading teams serving enterprise and public sector customers
- Track record driving retention, adoption, and satisfaction through a team
- Experience with QBRs, success planning, and executive stakeholder management at scale
- Familiarity with Salesforce, Gainsight, and customer success tooling
- Understanding of SaaS, cloud, and connected device / hardware ecosystems
- Willingness to travel extensively (up to 40 50%) and work across global time zones
- Degree or equivalent experience
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Your impact
- Axon's Commonwealth Customer Success team serves public safety agencies across the UK, Canada, and Australia.
- As Manager, Customer Success, you will lead a team of Customer Success Managers and Executives who help our largest customers maximise value from the full Axon ecosystem.
- You are a people leader and strategic operator, coaching your team to be trusted advisors and ensuring QBRs, success plans, and executive relationships drive measurable adoption, retention, and growth.
What you'll do
- Manage, mentor, and develop a team of CSMs across Commonwealth territories.
- Set clear goals aligned to retention, adoption, NPS, and product utilisation.
- Run hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development for your team.
- Foster a culture of proactive customer engagement, disciplined execution, and cross functional collaboration.
- Ensure the team acts as a strategic partner to customers building value roadmaps, leading executive business reviews, and connecting product usage to agency goals.
- Own QBR excellence at scale standards, preparation, executive readiness, and follow through.
- Support major account strategy and step in on the most complex customer escalations.
- Ensure every priority account has a clear success plan with goals, risks, owners, and dates.
- Partner with Sales, Professional Services, Support, Product, Product Success, Marketing, and CS Operations.
- Lead a distributed team spanning UK, Canada and Australia.
- Travel regularly to customer sites and regional hubs (~40–50%).
- Adapt playbooks for public sector customers with varied procurement, language, and operational contexts.
What you'll bring
- 8+ years in customer facing roles; 3+ years managing people in Customer Success or equivalent.
- Proven success leading teams serving enterprise and public sector customers.
- Track record driving retention, adoption, and satisfaction through a team.
- Experience with QBRs, success planning, and executive stakeholder management at scale.
- Ability to coach others on the full range of CS activities: onboarding, adoption, escalation coordination, renewal readiness, and expansion signal identification.
- Strong partnership skills across Sales, Professional Services, Support, and Product.
- Familiarity with Salesforce, Gainsight, and customer success tooling.
- Understanding of SaaS, cloud, and connected device / hardware ecosystems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; executive presence.
- Willingness to travel extensively and work across global time zones.
- Degree or equivalent experience.
Bonus
- Public safety, justice, or corrections sector experience.
- Experience with Axon or comparable technology.
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