Associate Director, Customer Success

Realtime Recruitment

Philadelphia

Description

Our client is looking to hire an Associate Director of Customer Success to lead strategic enterprise relationships while helping shape and scale their growing CS function. This is a senior-level role requiring strong executive presence, operational discipline, and the ability to partner cross-functionally to drive retention, adoption, and long-term client value.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead strategic relationships across a portfolio of enterprise clients as a senior trusted advisor
  • Develop and execute customer success strategies to improve retention, adoption, satisfaction, and growth
  • Coach and mentor Customer Success Managers to elevate team performance and consistency
  • Partner with Sales, Product, Support, Operations, and Leadership on priorities, escalations, renewals, and expansion
  • Oversee executive business reviews and high-impact customer meetings
  • Proactively identify account risks and drive mitigation plans
  • Build and refine scalable onboarding, adoption, and escalation management processes
  • Analyse customer health data and team performance metrics to drive operational improvement
  • Serve as the internal voice of the customer across cross-functional stakeholders

Requirements:

  • 8+ years in Customer Success, Account Management, Consulting, or a similar enterprise-facing role
  • 2+ years leading or mentoring customer-facing teams
  • Experience in SaaS, payments, or technology - payments background strongly preferred
  • Demonstrated success managing senior stakeholder and executive-level relationships
  • Strong analytical skills with experience using KPIs, health data, and reporting
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and cross-functional influencing skills
  • Willingness to travel 20% - 40%

If this sounds of interest, please apply here or send your resume to my email [email protected]