Build and lead Vanta's Professional Services function to drive customer success and services revenue.
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The Vice President of Professional Services at Vanta is tasked with establishing and leading a new function that enhances customer onboarding and implementation processes. This role requires a strong background in SaaS professional services, with a focus on building teams and driving revenue through effective service delivery. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in high-growth environments and a proven ability to navigate complex client relationships. Vanta's emphasis on continuous security and compliance makes this position critical for supporting diverse customer needs.
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As the Vice President, Customer Success, Professional Services & Support at Vanta, you will lead our existing Customer Success and Support organizations and build Vanta’s Professional Services function from the ground up. You will refine and define the delivery model, team, service offerings, and standards that accelerate customer time-to-value across every segment we serve.
Vanta's mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We help companies automate compliance, security, and risk management so they can move fast without sacrificing trust. Our GTM organization is at the center of that mission, bringing Vanta's agentic trust platform to companies at every stage of growth, from early stage startups to global enterprises.
Professional Services, Customer Success, and Support together form a strategic, high-leverage function within Vanta's GTM org. This VP will own the end-to-end delivery of implementation and consultative engagements that drive measurable outcomes for our customers, as well as ongoing account health, retention, and support across the customer lifecycle. This function will be a key driver of onboarding quality and long-term retention. You will own the combined Professional Services, Customer Success, and Support P&L, retention, support quality metrics, and services margin.
Working in close partnership with our Channel & Alliances team, you will also help equip and enable Vanta's partner ecosystem, acting as a bridge between Vanta's delivery standards and partner-led engagements to drive mutual customer success.
What you'll do as a Vice President, Professional Services, Customer Success & Support at Vanta:
Lead the Team
Take ownership of Vanta's existing Customer Success and Support organizations, assessing current state and driving continuous improvement in process, tooling, enablement, and team structure.
Customers
Serve as the executive escalation point for complex and strategic customer engagements and support escalations.
Own Delivery Execution
Own responsibility for net revenue retention and expansion targets for Customer Success and quality/efficiency metrics (SLAs, CSAT, resolution time) for Support.
Implement the tools, dashboards, and QA processes to track and continuously improve metrics across services, retention, and support.
Own delivery execution and quality for Professional Services engagements, scoping and staffing implementations to ensure on-time, high-quality delivery.
Cross Functional Partnership
Collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions, and Channel & Alliances on seamless presales-to-post-sales handoffs.
Build a partner enablement services program that helps Vanta's reseller, service partner, distributor, and auditor ecosystem grow their practices and deliver consistent outcomes at scale.
Establish the Services Practice
Define and build Vanta's Professional Services function from the ground up including the delivery methodology, service offerings, and team structure, with scalable packages differentiated for high-touch enterprise and mid-market segments.
Create a repeatable, measurable motion spanning onboarding, implementation, and enablement through ongoing adoption, renewal, and support, and design new service offerings tightly aligned with Vanta's product roadmap.
How to be successful in this role:
10+ years in SaaS Professional Services, Customer Success, and/or Support, with 5+ years in a senior leadership role at a high-growth software and/or AI company.
Proven builder: you've hired, structured, and developed a Professional Services or consulting organization from scratch and know what great looks like at every level.
Proven operator of established Customer Success and/or Support organizations: experience taking over an existing team and driving measurable improvements in retention, efficiency, or quality.
Track record of owning services revenue, with experience scoping, pricing, and selling professional services engagements including SOWs, change orders, and renewals.
AI-forward mindset: you actively use AI tools to drive team productivity and delivery quality, and you've experimented with (or built) AI-enabled workflows in a services or customer-facing context.
Strong operator: you build processes, implement tools, and use data to drive decisions.
Executive presence with the ability to navigate complex enterprise customer relationships and serve as a credible partner to C-suite stakeholders.
Familiarity with compliance and security frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, etc.) and the ability to translate them into customer-facing delivery strategies.
Familiarity with key platforms in the compliance and security ecosystem (AWS, Okta, Azure/EntraID, GCP, Jira, etc.).
What you can expect as a Vanta’n:
Industry-competitive salary and equity
Health & wellness stipend
Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
Family planning benefits
Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
11 company-paid holidays
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