Join Braze as a Director of Customer Success to lead multiple teams and drive customer engagement in a hybrid work environment.
Posted by employer 2 months ago
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Benefits
Employee Resource Groups that provide supportive communities within Braze
Opportunities to give back to your community, including an annual company-wide Volunteer Week and donation matching
Flexible Paid Time Off
Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability
Competitive compensation that may include equity
Professional development supported by formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend
Family services that include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave
Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans
Joblaze summary
In the role of Director of Customer Success at Braze, the individual will oversee multiple teams, focusing on their development and performance while ensuring customer satisfaction and business growth. Key skills include strong project management and technical knowledge in areas like mobile development and marketing automation. This position is suited for experienced leaders with a background in customer success or account management, particularly those who excel in relationship-building and team collaboration. The role is part of a senior leadership team that emphasizes high standards and a culture of continuous improvement.
Quick facts
- Is the Director, Customer Success, Enterprise role remote?
- It's hybrid — Braze expects some on-site time in Austin.
- What's the salary range?
- Braze lists $163,000–$256,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Director, Customer Success, Enterprise role.
- Where is the role based?
- Braze is hiring for this position in Austin.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Braze targets director candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Director, Customer Success, Enterprise role at Braze.
From the original posting
At Braze, we have found our people. We’re a genuinely approachable, exceptionally kind, and intensely passionate crew.
As a Customer Success Director you will join our department’s senior leadership team to own our entire [Classification] book of business within [Braze geography]. You will manage multiple teams, taking ownership of their growth, development and achievement. You will take ultimate responsibility for your team’s book of business, building strong relationships with customers, minimizing and mitigating risks, along with successfully supporting growth opportunities to ensure your teams hit their KPIs.
What you’ll do
- Be a core member of the Customer Success Department’s Senior Leadership Team helping guide and shape the future of the department and contributing to the future of the wider business
- Manage multiple Customer Success teams - likely in more than one location - hiring, nurturing, performance managing, and supporting the development and satisfaction of your staff
- Hire and nurture new talent into our world-class Customer Success organization by building a pipeline of candidates, setting clear expectations, and managing performance
- Develop a cost efficient organisation that maintains our high standard of excellence when providing support to customers
- Create a culture of customer delight, partnering closely with Senior Sales and Services Leadership to foster alignment, delivering excellent customer experience and positive commercial outcomes
- You will be a public presence for Braze building executive relationships with customers, acting as a point of escalation across your book of business and representing Braze during public activities.
- Working with your managers and individual contributors you will be responsible for your teams achieving their KPIs against platform adoption, customer renewal, customer expansion and advocacy.
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement including evolving process, reporting, and materials
- Guide your team in managing their clients throughout their lifecycle, work with your team to understand customer's evolving business and technical goals for using Braze and continuously demonstrate value.
- Drive ongoing adoption, setting KPIs and success metrics for ROI
- Advocate customer business use-cases to product development
- Be a point of escalation for clients in your team’s portfolio
- Work closely with internal stakeholders at Braze to design and develop efficient processes and working practices
Please note this job description cannot possibly cover every duty you may need to undertake, you may be asked by your line manager to handle other reasonable responsibilities commensurate with the role.
Qualifications
- 5+ years relevant experience in a related area for example, Customer Success, Consultancy, Account Management or Mobile Marketing
- 3+ years experience managing people managers
- Significant project management experience and/or formal certifications (PMP, PMgP, Agile, Prince2 etc).
- You have exemplary written and verbal communication skills coupled with unparalleled follow up skills.
- You build strong positive relationships with clients and colleagues.
- You are known for being a team player.
- You have a high level of intellectual curiosity.
- You see opportunity and growth in learning more and continuously improving both processes and yourself.
- You have strong technical domain knowledge of two or more of the following: Mobile Development, APIs, Marketing Automation, Direct Marketing, Analytics or Programming (HTML etc).
For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $163,000 and $256,000/year, with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $198,000 and $284,000/year (including bonus or commission).Your exact offer may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to cash compensation, this role qualifies for a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants of restricted stock (RSUs) so that you will own a piece of our company.
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