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Director, Customer Success

220k – 280kNew York, NYOnsite8+ YOE
Summary

Lead and scale a team of Technical Account Managers to drive customer retention, expansion, and predictable renewals at a high-growth AI SaaS startup. Own CS strategy, processes, and a small book of accounts while partnering cross-functionally with Sales, Product, and Engineering.

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Hire, develop, and retain a group of Technical Account Managers and managers of CS
  • Create and identify strategies to proactively address risks and opportunities related to adoption, engagement, and retention
  • Set the bar for technical depth, ownership, and customer communication across the team
  • Define career paths, performance standards, and coaching rhythms that drive continuous improvement
  • Serve as the senior escalation point — step in decisively with clients when needed to reset expectations or drive to resolution
  • Design and refine the operating model: escalation paths, staffing plans, workload distribution, and processes
  • Instrument the function with metrics that give leadership clear visibility into customer health and expansion opportunities
  • Own and maintain the team's knowledge base — best practices, process/tooling training, configuration preferences, product enablement guides and playbooks
  • Own the interface between the TAMs, Support, Delivery, Operations, Sales, and Product-Engineering
  • Influence product and engineering priorities based on patterns in support data

What You'll Bring

  • 8-12+ years of experience in customer success, with 5+ years in a management role
  • Track record of building or leading CS teams in a high-growth B2B SaaS environments
  • Strong technical instincts: you can reason through complex production issues and teach others to do the same
  • Proven ability to hire well, coach directly, and hold a high bar without micromanaging
  • Process-builder by nature: you design systems that scale, not just solve the problem in front of you
  • Comfortable operating cross-functionally with Sales, Support, Product, and Engineering leadership
  • Comfortable balancing IC work with team leadership
  • Excellent communicator who can distill complexity into clarity for any audience

Who You Are

  • A builder and operator at heart — energized by standing up new functions, systematizing what works, and iterating relentlessly
  • A strategic leader who thrives in high-growth, high-ambiguity environments and is motivated by outsized impact
  • Deeply collaborative, with a natural instinct for forging alignment across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Support
  • In-office, engaged, and eager to lead from the front at our NYC location full-time

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Company-sponsored 401(k) through Vestwell
  • Flexible PTO plus U.S. federal holidays
  • Company-wide off-sites
  • Daily in-office lunch through Parkday
  • Dinner covered when working late
  • Commuter benefits and late-night rideshare
  • Standing desks and workspace accommodations available on request
  • All core tools and software provided
Skills
Customer SuccessTeam ManagementB2B SaaSTechnical Account ManagementRenewal ForecastingRisk ManagementCross-functional CollaborationProcess DesignMetrics & ReportingExecutive Relationship Management
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