Vice President, Customer Success

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VP of Customer Success leading an established, high-performing team in a retail solution company. Driving customer retention, growth, and advocacy across a complex enterprise retail portfolio.

Responsibilities:

  • Leadership and development of the Director of Customer Success and the full CSM organization
  • Portfolio-level gross revenue retention (GRR) and net revenue retention (NRR)
  • Commercial accountability: this is a revenue-generating CS function — the VP owns renewal execution strategy and directly supports expansion efforts in close partnership with Sales leaders
  • Executive sponsorship of the company’s most complex, high-value accounts — multi-banner, multi-region, multi-stakeholder retail relationships
  • Customer journey oversight — ensuring a consistent, high-quality experience from onboarding through renewal, with structured approaches to communicating and demonstrating value at each stage
  • CS playbooks: strategic account engagement, risk identification and management, escalation protocols, and expansion motions
  • Cross-functional partnership: collaborate with Sales on expansion pipeline, Product on customer feedback loops, Marketing on customer advocacy programs, and RevOps on forecasting and reporting
  • Long-term customer advocacy: developing customer champions, reference relationships, and advisory engagement that support broader go-to-market objectives
  • Organizational design: in partnership with the Director of CS and CCO, build toward a segmented or pod-based CS model aligned to customer complexity and growth stage
  • Talent development and succession planning within the CS organization
  • CS performance reporting to the CCO and executive leadership

Requirements:

  • 8+ years in Customer Success leadership in a B2B SaaS environment
  • Experience working directly with retail organizations
  • Demonstrated impact on GRR and NRR at portfolio scale
  • Experience managing managers and building CS organizational structure, process, and playbooks
  • Strong commercial acumen: experience in renewal strategy, pricing discussions, and executive-level customer engagement
  • Demonstrated ability to build long-term customer relationships and develop customer advocates at the executive level
  • Familiarity with CS platforms (Gainsight, Totango, or similar); Salesforce proficiency
  • Experience operating in a PE-backed, metrics-driven, high-accountability environment

Benefits:

  • Multiple medical plan options
  • Dental and vision coverage
  • Health savings and flexible spending accounts
  • Paid parental leave
  • Supplemental coverage for life’s unexpected moments
  • Generous paid time off
  • 401(k) with immediate vesting and company match
  • Short- and long-term disability
  • Free access to health and wellbeing resources such as Calm and Sworkit
  • Access to learning and development opportunities