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shani forbes

@shaniforbes

I drive enterprise SaaS adoption, retention, expansion, and complex platform modernization for global customers.

Jamaica
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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to lead enterprise customer success for complex SaaS platforms, combining technical discovery, implementation, adoption, retention, and growth across global commercial or public-sector accounts.

At Lucidworks, I manage a $5.8M ARR portfolio of enterprise SaaS customers across commercial and public-sector organizations. I own strategic success planning, adoption, retention, technical initiatives, and stakeholder relationships throughout the customer lifecycle.

I lead complex platform implementations, upgrades, and modernization initiatives, assessing environments, technical requirements, connectors, integrations, and migration dependencies. I partner with customer technical teams, Solutions Engineering, and Professional Services to align APIs, platform configurations, and workarounds with customer needs.

I expanded an initial EMEA site-search deployment into North America and APAC while extending adoption into an additional e-commerce use case. I also identified growth opportunities that generated $286K in additional ARR and $180K in Professional Services revenue in Q2 2025.

Previously, I built onboarding and enablement programs, delivered customer webinars and office hours, analyzed customer trends in Tableau, and supported technical issue resolution across Product, QA, Support, and Customer Success teams. I hold CompTIA Security+ certification and am pursuing AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Lucidworks logoLU
Current

Enterprise Customer Success Manager

Jul 2023 - Present (3 years 2 months)

Manages a $5.8M ARR portfolio of enterprise SaaS customers, owning strategic success planning, adoption, retention, and technical initiatives. Leads complex platform implementations and upgrades, serving as a liaison between customer technical teams and internal Solutions Engineering and Professional Services.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of The West Indies logoUI

University of The West Indies

Bachelor of Laws, Law

Pursued a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree, developing strong analytical and critical thinking skills.

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

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