Director, Customer Success
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Accountabilities:
- Lead, manage, and develop the Account Management team, fostering a high-performance culture built around customer satisfaction, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Own customer retention, contract renewals, and expansion revenue across a portfolio of enterprise accounts, ensuring long-term customer value and sustainable business growth.
- Develop and maintain strong, trusted relationships with senior customer stakeholders, particularly within large enterprise and international retail organizations.
- Monitor customer health, engagement, and satisfaction indicators, proactively identifying potential risks and implementing strategies to improve retention and prevent churn.
- Identify opportunities for account growth, upselling, and cross-selling while aligning customer objectives with broader commercial priorities.
- Partner with the VP of Customer Success to evolve organizational structures, account coverage models, and operational processes as the business expands.
- Lead organizational transformation and operational improvements to increase team productivity, scalability, and consistency across the customer experience.
- Champion the adoption of AI-powered tools, automation, and emerging technologies to streamline workflows, improve team capacity, and strengthen customer outcomes.
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Product, Revenue Operations (RevOps), and other cross-functional teams to represent customer needs and ensure alignment on business priorities.
- Act as a senior decision-maker, independently navigating complex customer and operational challenges while identifying practical, commercially sound solutions.
- Support the development and optimization of global Customer Success operations, ensuring consistent service quality across different regions and time zones.
- Coach and mentor Account Management leaders and team members, supporting professional development, succession planning, and leadership growth.
- Lead teams through organizational changes, maintaining engagement, transparency, and alignment around strategic objectives.
- Establish clear performance expectations and accountability frameworks to ensure the team consistently delivers strong customer relationships, retention results, and expansion revenue.
- Travel when required, potentially up to 25% of working time.
Requirements
- Significant leadership experience in enterprise SaaS Customer Success, Account Management, or a related commercial function.
- Proven experience managing managers and developing high-performing teams within complex enterprise customer environments.
- Demonstrated success driving customer retention, contract renewals, customer satisfaction, and expansion revenue within a high-touch customer success model.
- Experience leading and scaling global or multi-region teams, including managing organizational transformations and evolving customer coverage strategies.
- Strong commercial and business acumen, with the ability to balance customer relationship management, strategic priorities, and revenue objectives.
- Excellent leadership, coaching, and mentoring capabilities, with a track record of developing talent and building accountable, collaborative teams.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior executives and collaborate effectively across multiple departments.
- Sound judgment, strategic thinking, and the ability to make independent decisions in a fast-paced and evolving business environment.
- Previous experience working in a scaling SaaS organization, ideally within a business generating between USD 30 million and USD 100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR).
- Ability to collaborate effectively across international time zones, particularly with teams and customers based in North America and Europe.
- Adaptability and resilience, with the ability to lead through change while maintaining team engagement and operational performance.
Additional qualifications considered an asset:
- Experience working alongside customer support or technical support teams.
How Jobgether works
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
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