Opportunity

Senior Technical CSM at Amplitude - SaaS Career Growth in Columbus

Location Columbus
Company Amplitude
Source jobicy
Posted 2026-11-08 13:56:02

Career & Market Insight

This is a senior individual contributor role at a publicly traded, high-growth SaaS company ($AMPL) with strong brand recognition in the product analytics space. At 5+ years required experience and a 30–40 account portfolio, it sits firmly at the Sr. CSM / TAM level—a significant ownership tier.

Compensation context: Amplitude doesn't publish salary bands here, but Senior Technical CSM roles at comparable SaaS companies (Mixpanel, Heap, Pendo, Segment) typically range from $120,000–$160,000 OTE in US markets, often split ~70/30 base/variable. The ESPP and equity-adjacent benefits add meaningful upside for a public company.

Skills you'll build:

  • AI-augmented customer success workflows — a highly transferable, emerging skill set
  • Enterprise data governance and analytics instrumentation (SQL-adjacent, high demand)
  • Executive stakeholder management and renewal/expansion commercial skills
  • Cross-functional delivery orchestration across partners and internal teams

Green flags: Amplitude has held the G2 #1 spot for 23 consecutive quarters—strong product-market fit reduces churn headwinds. The "emerging enterprise" segment (30–40 accounts) gives breadth without the complexity of pure enterprise. The emphasis on AI tooling in workflows signals a forward-thinking culture.

Watch for: Managing 30–40 accounts simultaneously is a heavy load; clarify during interviews whether tooling and playbooks are mature enough to support this scale without burnout. The role requires self-sufficiency in ambiguous situations—less ideal for those who prefer heavily structured environments.

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 5,200 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2's Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com.

As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and put our customers at the center of everything we do.

*** This hire must be based in the Pacific Standard Time (PST) or Mountain Standard Time (MST) Zone ***

The Customer Success team is responsible for building relationships with and driving long-term value realization for Amplitude's customers.

The Senior Technical Success Manager owns customer deployment, adoption, and value realization across Amplitude's digital analytics platform. They bring strong product knowledge and fluency in customer technical ecosystems: data foundations, taxonomy, instrumentation patterns, and AI agent configuration. They are execution-first and outcome-driven from presales through implementation, adoption, renewal, and expansion.

As a Senior Technical Success Manager, Emerging Enterprise, you will:

  • Own customer deployment, adoption, and outcomes for a portfolio of 30–40 accounts, from presales through renewal
  • Lead deployment planning and implementation across your book, including scoping, deployment plan creation, kickoff meetings, use case alignment, coordination of delivery (managing internal and partner teams), and project reporting
  • Track and manage risks and issues across active deployments, driving resolution before they impact timelines or outcomes
  • Monitor portfolio health through AI-augmented signals, engaging proactively to accelerate adoption, drive renewals, and deepen stakeholder engagement
  • Drive product adoption by running live working sessions, identifying new use cases to expand value over time, and showcasing new platform capabilities with a point of view on how they enable customer growth
  • Develop and maintain success plans tied to customer goals, tracking milestones and risks from onboarding through renewal
  • Build and deliver executive business reviews that connect Amplitude usage to measurable business impact, turning adoption into a renewal and expansion story
  • Partner with Account Executives on renewals and expansion, building the value story, coaching champions, and identifying growth opportunities across your book
  • Serve as the voice of the customer internally, channeling product feedback, market needs, and customer priorities to shape how Amplitude builds and delivers
  • Continuously improve how you operate: develop repeatable playbooks, share best practices across the team, and find new ways to drive customer outcomes at scale

Critical Skills Profile

  • Business Acumen: Understands each customer's business model, growth levers, and priorities. Builds a path to value that connects Amplitude's platform to the outcomes that matter most to the customer.
  • Technical Fluency: Comfortable with Amplitude data architecture, instrumentation methods, taxonomy design, and AI agent workflows. Able to unlock use cases and guide internal and partner delivery teams.
  • Delivery Excellence: Drives deployment and implementation quality across a full book of business. Manages timelines, coordinates internal and partner delivery teams, and ensures every account progresses through milestones on time and to standard.
  • Ownership of Outcomes Across Portfolio: Responsible for retention across your territory. Ruthlessly prioritizes time, resources, and attention to focus on the accounts and actions that drive the most impact. Accountable for ensuring customers achieve measurable business results from Amplitude, and for connecting customer outcomes to commercial value.
  • Prescriptive Customer Guidance: Sets the standard for what good looks like at each stage of the customer journey. Drives accountability across deployment and ongoing success. Pushes back on bad implementation patterns, guides customers toward proven approaches, and holds them accountable to their own defined success criteria.
  • Diagnostic Thinking: Proactively recognizes adoption gaps and technical blockers early and drives creative solutions that get customers back on track.
  • Curiosity and Self-Sufficiency: Defaults to figuring things out independently. Explores edge cases on your own, and comes to conversations with a point of view. This role requires someone who runs toward ambiguity.
  • AI Innovation: Embeds AI in day-to-day workflow to improve efficiency and customer outcomes. Experiments, iterates, and shares best practices.

At a minimum, you need to have:

  • 5+ years of experience in Customer Success, Technical Account Management, or a similar customer-facing role in B2B SaaS
  • 2+ years of experience specifically leading enterprise software deployments where change management and foundational data governance were core priorities
  • 2+ years managing a portfolio of 20+ mid-market or emerging enterprise accounts
  • Experience co-owning renewals and contributing to expansion pipeline alongside a sales counterpart
  • Experience training or enabling non-technical teams to become data-sufficient
  • Excellent communication skills to influence everyone from a data engineer to a C-level executive
  • Expert-level project management skills and the ability to thrive in an independent and fast-paced environment

Nice to have:

  • Prior experience with digital analytics, product analytics, or adjacent data/experimentation platforms
  • Background in consulting, solutions delivery, or implementation
  • Experience using Amplitude as a practitioner

Our values:

At Amplitude, our values guide how we show up for one another and for our customers:

  • Humility: We operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.
  • Ownership: We take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared company success.
  • Growth Mindset: We're tenacious in the face of challenges and seek feedback in order to grow ourselves and others.
  • Customer Centricity: We put the customer at the center of everything we do and are deeply committed to their success.

We care about the well-being of our team. We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.

Some of our benefit programs include:

  • Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, and Vision on select plans
  • 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 1% of your eligible pay each pay period, up to $2,000 annually
  • Flexible time off, paid holidays, and more
  • Generous stipends for wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), new hire home office equipment, and much more
  • Excellent parental benefits including 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, and back-up child care support
  • Mental health and wellness benefits including no-cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy sessions
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Other fun facts about Amplitude:

  • Our customers have rated us the #1 product analytics solution for 23 quarters in a row on G2.
  • We care a lot about product innovation and have made significant investments in talent and infrastructure to build the most powerful AI analytics platform on the market.
  • We invest in our people through mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives.
  • We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.
  • We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and now trade under the ticker $AMPL.
  • We're a global and fast-growing team with offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.

By applying for this job, you acknowledge that Amplitude processes your personal data in accordance with the Amplitude Applicant Privacy Notice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this role require working from a specific location or office?
No specific office is required, but the role mandates that you be based in the Pacific Standard Time (PST) or Mountain Standard Time (MST) timezone. You can work remotely as long as you are within those time zones.
How many accounts will I be responsible for in this role?
You will own a portfolio of 30–40 emerging enterprise accounts, managing deployment, adoption, renewals, and expansion across all of them.
Is salary information available for this position?
Amplitude does not disclose specific salary ranges in this posting, but they state they offer competitive pay and benefits. The company is publicly traded ($AMPL), which also includes an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
What technical background is needed for this role?
You need fluency in data architecture, analytics instrumentation, and taxonomy design rather than deep coding skills. Experience with digital analytics or product analytics platforms is a plus, as is familiarity with AI agent workflows.
What benefits does Amplitude offer for this role?
Benefits include 100% employer-paid Medical/Dental/Vision on select plans, flexible PTO, 12 weeks paid parental leave, monthly wellness and commuter stipends, quarterly L&D stipends, a new hire home office equipment stipend, a 401(k) with match, and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
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