Lead and scale Customer Success at a market leading Alumni engagement platform in the financial sector. Responsible for retention, expansion, and customer value with teams across Europe and the US.
Responsibilities
Own growth through customers
Lead global strategy for retention, renewals, expansion, and adoption
Own key metrics including NRR, churn, expansion revenue, onboarding time, and customer health
Partner with Sales on forecasting, renewals, and account expansion
Build and scale a world-class CS organisation
Hire, develop, and lead high-performing teams across time zones
Build strong management layers, playbooks, and operating rhythms
Create clear career paths and performance standards as we scale
Be the executive voice of the customer
Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders at financial institutions and alumni networks
Personally sponsor strategic and at-risk enterprise accounts
Represent customer insights at exec, board, and investor level
Influence product and company direction
Partner closely with Product and Engineering to shape roadmap priorities
Translate customer feedback into scalable product and process improvements
Ensure customer experience aligns with financial-sector expectations around data, security, and compliance
Design for scale
Implement systems, tooling, and data to support a fast-growing SaaS business
Create repeatable, global CS models while allowing for regional nuance
Balance speed, quality, and consistency in a high-growth environment
Requirements
12+ years in Customer Success, Account Management, or Client Services
5+ years in a senior leadership role within B2B SaaS
Proven experience owning retention, renewals, and expansion revenue
Experience scaling teams in a VC-backed or high-growth environment
Track record managing distributed teams
Comfortable working with enterprise customers and regulated industries
Experience in financial services, professional networks, or alumni platforms (Nice-to-have)
Familiarity with GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar standards (Nice-to-have)
Experience partnering with Product in a product-led growth environment (Nice-to-have)
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