What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Customer Success position at Reco?
As Director, Customer Success, you will own the post-sale customer journey: onboarding, adoption, renewal, and expansion. You will build the function as an AI-native operation, using AI to give every customer more value from Reco without growing headcount in a straight line.
You will report to the SVP, Customer Success, and lead a team of Customer Success Managers. This is a player-coach leadership role for someone who wants to build, not just run, a function.
Responsibilities:
Lead and scale the team
You will report to the SVP, Customer Success, and lead a team of Customer Success Managers. This is a player-coach leadership role for someone who wants to build, not just run, a function.
Responsibilities:
Lead and scale the team
- Hire, coach, and develop Customer Success Managers, with clear goals, career paths, and a culture of ownership and technical curiosity.
- Design the coverage model, segmentation, and handoffs across Sales, Solutions Engineering, Support, and Product for enterprise and mid-market customers.
- Make AI fluency a core competency in how the team hires, onboards, and is evaluated.
- Own gross and net revenue retention, adoption, and expansion across the customer base.
- Build success plans tied to real security outcomes, such as reduced shadow SaaS and shadow AI, faster time to remediate, and broader policy coverage.
- Serve as executive sponsor and escalation point for strategic accounts, and lead business reviews with CISOs and security leaders.
- Partner with Sales on renewals, expansion, and customer references.
- Work closely with the Support organization on escalations, so customers with critical issues get a coordinated response and clear communication from Customer Success.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to carry customer feedback, integration needs, and feature requests into the roadmap.
- Track and improve customer satisfaction, product adoption, and time to value.
- Become fluent in Reco’s AI Agent Security, AI Governance, and Reco AI Agents capabilities, and coach the team to guide customers through agent discovery, governance policies, and response.
- Own team metrics, forecasting, and reporting to the SVP and executive team, and keep the Customer Success tech stack and processes sharp.
- 10 years in customer success or post-sale leadership at a B2B SaaS company, including 5 years leading customer success teams.
- A track record of owning retention and expansion (GRR and NRR) and of building and scaling a Customer Success team.
- Credibility with CISOs and security practitioners, and enough technical depth in SaaS, identity (SSO, IAM, OAuth), APIs, and integrations to lead technical conversations.
- Hands-on experience applying AI to customer success, such as LLM-based workflows, predictive health scoring, or automated customer engagement. You have built and measured it, not just bought a tool.
- A data-driven approach, with comfort in customer success platforms, CRM, and BI tools.
- Strong executive presence and communication skills, and experience leading a remote team.
- A builder’s mindset and comfort with the pace and ambiguity of a high-growth company.