
Principal Customer Success Manager – CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote)
- Waltham, MA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Own the Customer Relationship: Serve as the strategic technical advisor and trusted partner for assigned CPQ accounts, accountable for overall relationship health and long-term value realization.
- Guide Customer Onboarding: Provide program-level guidance during onboarding, ensuring implementation partners and customer teams are aligned, expectations are managed, and best practices are embedded from day one.
- Advise Through Implementations: Support customers during deployments with consultative guidance on architecture, integrations, governance, and change management, helping them avoid pitfalls while delivery teams execute.
- Drive Technical Success: Deliver technical expertise across APIs, data flows, integrations, and scaling strategies, empowering customers to optimize their use of CPQ.
- Enable Customers with AI: Advise customers on how to leverage ServiceNow's AI and automation capabilities within CPQ and across their workflows, driving innovation, efficiency, and measurable business outcomes.
- Ensure Adoption & ROI: Track usage, identify opportunities for feature expansion (including AI features), and provide actionable recommendations to demonstrate
- measurable business value.
- Identify & Mitigate Risks: Anticipate program and technical risks, proactively advise on mitigation strategies, and support customers in navigating complexity.
- Partner with Product & R&D: Collaborate closely with ServiceNow Product Management and R&D teams, advocating for customer needs, surfacing enhancement requests, and influencing roadmap priorities-particularly around AI-driven innovations.
- Enable & Educate: Develop best practice frameworks, technical guides, and success playbooks that scale across the CPQ customer community.
- A consultative advisor who can influence executives while engaging deeply with technical teams.
- Skilled in APIs, integrations, middleware, and AI/automation technologies, with the ability to provide meaningful technical guidance.
- Experienced in customer onboarding and adoption strategies, with strong program-level influence to keep customers on track.
- A relationship builder who translates technical complexity into clear business value for executives.
- Proactive, organized, and comfortable guiding multiple enterprise accounts simultaneously.
- Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
- 12+ years in technical customer success, technical account management, or solution advisory roles with enterprise SaaS products (CPQ, CRM, eCommerce preferred).
- Proven ability to influence and guide executive sponsors and technical stakeholders.
- Technical expertise with APIs, integrations, SaaS architectures, and AI/automation capabilities.
- Experience supporting onboarding and enterprise-scale SaaS implementations, ensuring alignment with best practices and business goals.
- Ability to learn and consult on ServiceNow CPQ architecture, AI enablement, and technical best practices.
- Willingness to travel ~25% for customer engagements.