Customer Success Director

Reporting directly to the CEO, this is a senior, hands-on Customer Success Director role owning the most strategic UK customer relationships end to end. The remit covers the full post-sale lifecycle: co-authoring digital workplace roadmaps with client SLTs, running a regular QBR cadence with C-suite stakeholders, driving feature adoption, and collaborating with the sales and consulting teams to identify expansion and renewal opportunities.

The successful candidate will be as comfortable demoing the product to a Head of Communications as co-authoring a digital workplace roadmap with a CIO, and will thrive in a methodical, ruthlessly organised team where 95% renewal YoY and 80% feature adoption across 80% of the customer's organisation are the bar.

Key responsibilities
  • Own and evolve a digital workplace roadmap with the senior leadership team of each named account
  • Run a quarterly QBR cadence with Head of Communications, Head of HR, Head of Marketing, Head of Operations, CIO and CEO contacts
  • Monitor product telemetry at a regular cadence and initiate work to optimise utilisation through paid work, the consulting team or the customer success agent
  • Identify expansion opportunities and loop in the sales team to close new scopes of work and product opportunities
  • Socialise product use and commercial value to senior stakeholders
  • Manage all customer activity diligently in Salesforce
  • Stay on top of Microsoft 365 and internal product roadmap, and translate new features into adoption opportunities for clients
  • Develop more junior client success professionals
Essential experience
  • In-depth understanding of the full capabilities of SharePoint Modern, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, Power Platform and Copilot
  • 8 to 15 years in a customer-facing role (Customer Success, Client Services, or post-sale Account Director scope)
  • Background at a Microsoft Systems Integrator or a third-party Microsoft 365 product vendor (direct Microsoft hires are not in scope for this search)
  • Experience with private sector and FTSE250 clients
  • Comfortable engaging C-suite stakeholders at decision-maker and influencer level
  • Commercial mindset with a demonstrable track record of identifying renewal and expansion opportunities
  • Comfortable demoing software and positioning solutions on business value rather than features
Key performance indicators
  • 80% feature utilisation across a minimum of 80% of the customer's organisation
  • At a minimum, quarterly conversation with Head of Communications, Head of HR, Head of Marketing, CIO, Head of Operations and CEO contacts
  • 100% QBR meeting execution
  • 95% contract renewal year on year
What is on offer
  • £120,000 base + £20,000 bonus on attainment of targets, plus package
  • Hybrid working: London / M25, with regular in-person customer meetings
  • Direct line into the CEO and real visibility at the top of the business
  • Significant scope to shape an established yet evolving CS function inside a profitable founder-led ISV at an inflection point

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Job Details

Company
Robert Walters
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / Remote Options
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£100,000 - £120,000 per annum
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