Head of Customer Success and Account Management
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Description
You will build and lead the post-sales function, owning the customer lifecycle from onboarding and adoption through renewals and expansion. You will manage strategic accounts, establish scalable operating models and AI-enabled workflows, oversee systems and forecasting, and coach the first Customer Success and Account Management hires.
Responsibilities
- Own gross and net revenue retention, renewal performance, expansion pipeline, targets, and forecasting.
- Build customer lifecycle processes for onboarding, adoption, value realization, success plans, health scoring, usage milestones, and executive business reviews.
- Manage strategic accounts and lead renewal, expansion, relationship, and escalation strategy.
- Define post-sales segmentation, coverage, service levels, responsibilities, and scalable playbooks.
- Own post-sales systems, CRM hygiene, customer health, usage reporting, and renewal and expansion forecasting.
- Use AI agents and automation for account research, meeting intelligence, risk detection, next-best actions, and customer engagement.
- Partner with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Support on handoffs, adoption blockers, escalations, and customer needs.
- Manage strategic accounts while recruiting, ramping, and coaching Customer Success and Account Management hires.
Requirements
- 7+ years of customer success, account management, or post-sales experience, including 3+ years leading and hiring teams.
- Track record of building or scaling a post-sales motion at a high-growth startup and delivering retention and expansion results.
- Experience owning renewal and expansion targets, forecasting, negotiating complex renewals, and creating account growth plans.
- Experience managing strategic enterprise customers and executive relationships.
- Experience with technical products, technical buyers, Product teams, Engineering teams, and senior business stakeholders.
- Hands-on command of CRM and customer success tooling, AI, automation, product usage, and customer signals.
- Ability to hire, ramp, and retain Customer Success and Account Management talent.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- Equity
- Benefits
