Bottomline Technologies

Director, Customer Retention and Growth

Bottomline Technologies • $125K — $150K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in Customer Success, Retention, or Revenue Operations
  • Demonstrable success in scaling retention programs
  • Proficient in leveraging customer data and analytics
  • Experience with cross-functional leadership and collaboration
  • Familiarity with CRM platforms like Salesforce
  • Knowledge in AI-driven customer engagement strategies

Responsibilities

  • Develop enterprise-wide retention strategies to minimize churn
  • Create playbooks and intervention frameworks for at-risk customers
  • Collaborate with teams to align on retention initiatives
  • Define requirements for AI-driven retention programs
  • Measure and optimize retention program performance
  • Establish KPIs and dashboards for program effectiveness

Benefits

  • Opportunities for career growth and development
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Access to cutting-edge AI and automation tools
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Commitment to supporting diverse talent and additional needs
Full Job Description
The Role:

We're looking for a strategic and data-driven Director of Customer Retention & Growth to lead the design, execution, and optimization of enterprise retention programs that protect revenue, improve customer outcomes, and drive long-term customer value.

In this highly visible leadership role, you'll develop and scale retention strategies across our customer portfolio, leveraging customer insights, AI-powered risk intelligence, and cross-functional partnerships to reduce churn, improve customer health, and maximize recurring revenue.

You'll work closely with Customer Success, Sales, Marketing, Product, Strategy, and Digital teams to translate customer risk signals into proactive retention programs, scalable customer journeys, and measurable business impact.

What You'll Do:

Drive Retention Strategy
  • Develop and evolve enterprise-wide retention strategies designed to reduce customer churn and protect recurring revenue.
  • Build and maintain retention playbooks, customer save motions, and intervention frameworks for at-risk customer segments.
  • Create targeted action plans based on customer health, product adoption, engagement trends, financial exposure, and risk indicators.

Lead AI-Driven Customer Retention Initiatives
  • Define business requirements for AI-powered customer risk identification and retention programs.
  • Partner with Product and Digital teams to improve risk scoring models, recommended actions, and automated customer engagement strategies.
  • Continuously refine retention programs based on customer outcomes, field feedback, and performance analytics.

Partner Across the Business
  • Collaborate with Customer Success, Sales, Marketing, Product, and Finance teams to align on retention priorities and execution plans.
  • Support the development of customer education, adoption, lifecycle marketing, and win-back programs.
  • Enable customer-facing teams through playbooks, training, communication frameworks, and best practices.

Measure and Optimize Performance
  • Establish KPIs and performance dashboards to evaluate program effectiveness.
  • Monitor retention trends, customer health improvements, save rates, and ARR impact.
  • Identify opportunities to improve customer experiences and enhance retention outcomes through data-driven insights.


What Success Looks Like:
  • Increased gross and net revenue retention
  • Reduced customer churn and down-sell activity
  • Improved customer health and product adoption
  • Measurable ARR protection and recovery
  • Scalable retention programs with strong field adoption
  • Effective use of AI and automation to identify and mitigate customer risk
How you'll make an impact:
  • 8+ years of experience in Customer Success, Customer Retention, Revenue Operations, Customer Strategy, Lifecycle Marketing, or a related field within a recurring revenue business.
  • Proven success designing, launching, and scaling customer retention programs that deliver measurable business outcomes.
  • Experience leveraging customer health data, behavioral analytics, and business insights to identify risk and drive retention initiatives.
  • Strong cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management experience.
Preferred Experience:
  • Experience with Salesforce or similar CRM platforms.
  • Knowledge of customer health scoring models, retention analytics, marketing automation, and customer journey design.
  • Experience working with AI-enabled customer engagement, predictive analytics, or customer risk technologies.
  • Background in SaaS, fintech, payments, banking, or subscription-based business models.
Key Competencies:
  • Strategic thinking and customer-centric problem solving
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Program development and operational excellence
  • Cross-functional collaboration and influence
  • Executive communication and stakeholder management
  • AI and automation mindset
  • Continuous improvement and innovation


We welcome talent at all career stages and are dedicated to understanding and supporting additional needs.

About Bottomline Technologies

Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY) helps make complex business payments simple, smart, and secure. Corporations and banks rely on Bottomline for domestic and international payments, efficient cash management, automated workflows for payment processing and bill review, and state of the art fraud detection, behavioral analytics and regulatory compliance solutions. Thousands of corporations around the world benefit from Bottomline solutions. Headquartered in Portsmouth, NH, Bottomline delights customers through offices across the U.S., Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
Learn more about Bottomline Technologies
Size
2,344 employees
Market Cap
$2.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$14.7 million
Founded
1989
5 Year Trend
+6.5%
Revenue
$450.7 million
NASDAQ

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