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Strategic Customer Success Manager, Federal

Handshake · New York, NY · Remote

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About Handshake

Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.

About the role

As a Strategic CSM on the Federal Accounts team, you are Handshake's most senior customer-facing partner, responsible for owning the full success lifecycle of our most complex government agency relationships. You will drive value realization, strategic alignment, and deep adoption across a focused book of high-stakes accounts, while navigating the unique procurement cycles, compliance requirements, and stakeholder hierarchies that define the federal space.

More about this role

Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career, regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions.

In 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data. We’ve grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month.

Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel

Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions

Work together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders

Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue

As a Strategic CSM on the Federal Accounts team, you are Handshake's most senior customer-facing partner, responsible for owning the full success lifecycle of our most complex government agency relationships. You will drive value...

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