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Director, Customer Success
Location
United States
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
Not specified
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Role Description
The Director of Customer Success leads a high-performing organization that drives value realization, retention, and expansion across customers. This executive owns the end-to-end post-sales customer lifecycle—from onboarding through to renewal—ensuring operational excellence and measurable ROI aligned to vertical specific priorities (e.g., risk & compliance, operational efficiency, customer experience, and data security).
You will build the vertical strategy for a portfolio of complex enterprise accounts, partnering cross-functionally with Sales, Operations, Product, Customer Care, and Marketing to deliver exceptional customer outcomes and sustainable revenue growth.
While the role is 100% remote there will be up to 25% travel as needed for client needs. Individual must be located in the United States.
Responsibilities:
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Strategy & Leadership
- Define and execute the vertical CS strategy, segmented by sub-vertical and customer tier
- Build, scale, and mentor a diverse team of Customer Success Managers and Directors
- Establish a value framework with finance-relevant KPIs, outcome maps, and executive communications (QBRs)
- Own the renewal and net retention for your customer base (clear rules of engagement and forecast accountability)
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Customer Outcomes & Advocacy
- Ensure successful onboarding and time-to-value with robust project governance for complex, multi-stakeholder programs
- Drive QBR cadence with key stakeholders; communicate value tied to business cases and regulatory imperatives
- Drive adoption, maturity, and expansion through structured success plans, territory maps and executive sponsorship programs
- Build customer advocacy (references, case studies, advisory boards) aligned to the finance ecosystem
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Cross-Functional Partnerships
- Partner with Product on voice-of-customer, roadmap validation, beta programs, and finance-grade features (security, reporting, controls)
- Partner with Implementation teams for onboarding, reduce time-to-value, and ensure high-quality project delivery
- Align with Sales teams on expansion strategies, whitespace analysis, commercial alignment, and account plans
- Collaborate with Support and Engineering on incident management, major incident communications, and reliability narratives
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Operational Excellence
- Design and operationalize a CS operating model: segmentation, coverage, health scoring, success planning, QBR templates, renewals forecast, and escalation paths
- Own CS budget, capacity planning, hiring plan, and productivity benchmarks
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent (MBA optional but preferred)
- 3+ years of related experience in Account Management
- 2+ Years of organizational leadership experience
- 5+ years of experience managing accounts valued at over $500k (significant company experience managing complex, high-value accounts)
- Ability to manage and lead during times of change and organizational transformation
- Understanding how to work growth businesses in a competitive environment
- Excellent tactical execution skills
- Strong sense of process and the ability to innovate on process tools and conventions
- Ability to craft detailed, well-written communications and proposals
- Maintain a high emphasis on teamwork, collaboration, and process innovation
- Ability to influence others through strong verbal and written communication
- Strategic mindset: self-directed, organized, analytical, and have excellent problem analysis/problem-solving skills
- Ability to build relationships, communicate effectively throughout an organization, influence, negotiate, and establish mutually agreeable expectations
- Diligent, resourceful, versatile, and able to multitask
Benefits
- Ability to work remotely with occasional business travel
- Medical, Vision, Dental, and supplementary benefit plans
- 401k with an employer match, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Competitive and flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) and 9 paid company holidays
- Access to tech and growth opportunities, and leaders who want you to succeed!
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent (MBA optional but preferred)
- 3+ years of related experience in Account Management
- 2+ Years of organizational leadership experience
- 5+ years of experience managing accounts valued at over $500k (significant company experience managing complex, high-value accounts)
- Ability to manage and lead during times of change and organizational transformation
- Understanding how to work growth businesses in a competitive environment
- Excellent tactical execution skills
- Strong sense of process and the ability to innovate on process tools and conventions
- Ability to craft detailed, well-written communications and proposals
- Maintain a high emphasis on teamwork, collaboration, and process innovation
- Ability to influence others through strong verbal and written communication
- Strategic mindset: self-directed, organized, analytical, and have excellent problem analysis/problem-solving skills
- Ability to build relationships, communicate effectively throughout an organization, influence, negotiate, and establish mutually agreeable expectations
- Diligent, resourceful, versatile, and able to multitask
Benefits
- Ability to work remotely with occasional business travel
- Medical, Vision, Dental, and supplementary benefit plans
- 401k with an employer match, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Competitive and flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) and 9 paid company holidays
- Access to tech and growth opportunities, and leaders who want you to succeed!