Director, Customer Success

4 hours, 46 minutes ago
Full-time
Executive
Customer and Technical Support
People.ai

People.ai

People.ai offers a generative AI solution designed to enhance revenue operations and intelligence by automating manual tasks, analyzing account and deal health, and providing prescriptive coaching recommendations to optimize human productivity and driv...

IT Services
251-1K
Founded 2016
$200M raised

Description

  • Drive gross retention, expansion, credit consumption, and customer adoption of the Backstory platform.
  • Monitor renewal risk, provide weekly leadership visibility, and lead executive save motions.
  • Manage strategic, emerging, and scaled customer coverage models, including account alignment, capacity planning, and playbooks.
  • Own success plans, executive readouts, EBRs, and value realization frameworks for enterprise customers.
  • Hire, develop, retain, and performance-manage managers and CSMs while owning onboarding, ramp, and career paths.
  • Run weekly renewal reviews, account reviews, monthly business reviews, quarterly planning, and related metrics dashboards.
  • Use Backstory to manage CS workflows and turn customer usage insights into product feedback.
  • Lead Sales-to-CS alignment and coordinate with Professional Services, Support, Studio, Product, and Marketing.
  • Manage CS budget, staffing, processes, and operating standards.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, or post-sales leadership, including 5+ years leading teams and developing managers.
  • Proven experience owning retention and expansion outcomes in B2B SaaS.
  • Experience building customer segmentation, capacity models, playbooks, scalable metrics, and data-driven operations using Salesforce, Gainsight, or similar tools.
  • Hands-on experience designing enterprise success planning, EBR, and value frameworks.
  • Ability to identify the business problem behind feature requests and recommend appropriate solutions or scope.
  • Strong product intuition and ability to translate customer patterns into credible product demand.
  • Executive presence with C-level customers and senior internal leaders, including high-stakes negotiation and influence.
  • Proven cross-functional partnership with Sales, Services, Support, and Product.
  • Experience using Claude and other leading AI tools, with knowledge of agentic workflows and MCP-based integrations.
  • Experience with usage-based or consumption pricing and connecting consumption to delivered value is strongly preferred.

Benefits

  • Eligible employees may receive commissions or bonus programs included in OTE.
  • Equity eligibility.
  • Employee benefits package.
  • Hiring-process accommodations are available.

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