Manager, Customer Success

At Hive, we’re all about creating moments that matter and helping event marketers connect with their biggest fans. Live events bring people together, and our industry-leading platform makes it easier than ever for promoters to build strong, lasting connections with their audiences. Our mission is simple: to help live events grow.

The Role

Hive is seeking a Manager of Customer Success to lead and scale our Customer Success organization across North America. Reporting directly to the Vice President of Revenue, you’ll be responsible for driving retention, expansion, and operational excellence across our portfolio of key accounts.

You’ll coach and empower a team of CSMs to deliver measurable customer outcomes, build trusted partnerships with leading event organizations, and champion the use of automation and AI to deliver world-class efficiency at scale.

This is a high-impact role for a strategic leader who thrives on building strong teams, driving customer growth, and collaborating cross-functionally to shape the future of our customer experience.

What You’ll Do

Lead and Scale the Team

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Senior CSMs responsible for the success, retention, and growth of our top-tier customers.
• Foster a culture of ownership, curiosity, and accountability—ensuring every team member is equipped to deliver measurable customer and business outcomes.
• Build team capacity plans and guide hiring, promotions, salary setting, and professional development.
  
  

Drive Retention, Expansion, and Renewals

• Execute and refine our customer success strategy for our enterprise and strategic portfolio.
• Partner with Sales and Operations to forecast renewals, drive expansion opportunities, and maintain best-in-class GDR and NDR.
• Build scalable playbooks and frameworks that empower CSMs to consistently deliver results.
  
  

Champion Customer Efficiency through Automation and AI

• Support initiatives to integrate AI and automation into customer workflows, reducing manual touchpoints while increasing engagement and improving responsiveness.
• Identify areas where automation can enhance insight gathering, and renewals—helping Hive deliver proactive, data-driven support at scale.
  
  

Be the Voice of the Customer

• Act as an executive escalation point for complex customer situations—balancing empathy with commercial and operational priorities.
• Collaborate with Product, Support, Onboarding,Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to ensure a seamless customer journey and continuous improvement loop.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and advocate for our clients, representing their needs internally to inform roadmap and GTM decisions.
  
  

Elevate Hive’s Presence

• Represent Hive at conferences, panels, and industry events—positioning us as thought leaders in event marketing technology and customer success innovation.
• Build relationships with key customer executives to deepen trust and advocacy.
  
  

Requirements

What You Have

• 4+ years in Customer Success, Account Management, or Customer Experience roles in SaaS, with at least 2+ years in leadership (managing Sr. CSMs and CSMs).
• Proven success driving retention, expansion, and renewals at scale, ideally in a high-growth environment.
• Strong understanding of customer success frameworks, lifecycle management, and value-based customer engagement.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Sales, and Operations teams to deliver unified customer outcomes.
• Comfort using data and automation to drive decisions, optimize processes, and measure team performance.
• Background in marketing technology or the live events industry is a plus.
  
  

Who You Are

• A people-first leader who motivates through clarity, empathy, and accountability.
• Action-oriented and comfortable with ambiguity—you help build the plane as we fly it.
• Strategic and analytical, with a strong grasp of business metrics and customer health data.
• Calm under pressure; you bring focus and structure to complex customer situations.
• Curious and adaptable—you stay ahead of emerging technologies like AI and automation to drive smarter ways of working.
  
  

Comp/Benefits Package:

• Meaningful salary + equity: you’re rewarded based on impact
• Work fully remotely in Canada or the US: where you are most productive whether that be from your house, or elsewhere. We just ask that you have the legal work authorization in the country that you reside and work within.
• Flexible work hours: customize your schedule as long as it’s not disruptive to your role, team, and Hive
• Health + Insurance: Comprehensive health and dental coverage with a parental leave top-up program
• Unlimited vacation/PTO policy: so you can be happy and healthy!
  
  

About Hive

Hive is the industry-best marketing platform for event marketers. Our platform powers marketing for 1500+ of the most iconic event, festivals, venues, promoters, and event-centric brands across North America. We help our clients sell out their shows and make their events unforgettable - by helping them grow their customer base and personalizing and automating their email, SMS, and ad campaigns.

Hive integrates with 25+ partners like Ticketmaster and Shopify, ingesting rich customer data in real-time. With this data, event marketers can segment their audiences in powerful ways and send timely, customized messages to their customers. Hive was founded in a University of Waterloo computer lab and graduated from Y Combinator in 2014. Today, we’re a remote-first team spread across Canada and the US, building a product and a culture that values clarity, ownership, and real customer impact.

To learn more about our team, check out theAbout Us andCareers pages on our website.