Resume keywordsCustomer Success Manager

Customer Success Manager resume keywords

Retention, expansion and onboarding speed are the numbers that get a call back.

Skills to show

Use the exact phrase where it is true, inside a bullet and not only in a list.

  • customer onboarding
  • retention
  • account management
  • churn reduction
  • renewals
  • upselling
  • QBR
  • customer health score

Tools and software

  • Salesforce
  • Gainsight
  • HubSpot
  • Zendesk
  • Intercom
  • Slack

Verbs that fit customer success manager work

  • retained
  • onboarded
  • expanded
  • resolved
  • renewed
  • trained

Example bullets

The numbers are examples. Replace them with your own and round honestly.

  • Managed 55 accounts worth $2.1M in annual revenue and kept gross retention at 94%.
  • Cut onboarding time from 30 days to 18 with a standard checklist and weekly check-ins.
  • Expanded 11 accounts into a higher plan, adding $180,000 in annual revenue.

Mistakes to avoid

  • Describing friendliness instead of retention and expansion numbers.
  • Skipping book size, which tells the reader your scope.