Synthesia

Director, Customer Success Strategy and Operations

Synthesia$150K — $180K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in Customer Success, Post-Sales, or Revenue Operations with people management experience.
  • Expertise in B2B SaaS, with diverse experience in both small and large firms.
  • Proven ability to own and manage renewal forecasts and health-scoring models.
  • Hands-on experience with Gainsight or Planhat and Salesforce.
  • Experience implementing AI or automation in CS support workflows for measurable results.
  • Established credibility with senior CS leaders and stakeholders.
  • Experience in Support or Professional Services with multi-region management is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end renewal forecasting process, ensuring accuracy and variance analyses.
  • Develop a comprehensive 12-month retention model to proactively manage customer risk.
  • Architect customer lifecycle processes encompassing onboarding, health scoring, and escalation protocols.
  • Manage capacity deployment across Customer Success, Professional Services, and Support in coordination with Finance.
  • Set and uphold data quality standards for CRM and CS platforms, moving beyond ad-hoc clean-ups.
  • Act as a trusted operational partner to post-sales leaders during renewal and QBR reviews.
  • Design post-sales operations leveraging AI to automate manual tasks, enhancing workflow efficiency.
  • Lead and develop a small team of senior operators across US and European time zones.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working environment.
  • 100% coverage for Medical, Dental & Vision.
  • 401k Plan available.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays and sick leave.
  • Engaging company culture with regular social events.
  • Generous employee referral program.
  • Provision of a new computer and monitor.
Full Job Description
Aboutthe role...

We are hiring a Director of CS Operations to own the operating rhythm of our post-sales organization globally: Customer Success, Professional Services, Support & Moderation. This is a player/coach role, our first Post-Sales Operations leadership seat in North America, alongside existing EMEA coverage. This role reports to the VP of Revenue Operations.

What you'll be doing...
  • Renewal forecasting and health-score inspection. Own renewal forecast methodology, accuracy, and variance analysis end to end; run the health-score and renewal-risk inspection cadence; build leading indicators (usage/adoption signals, engagement decay, ticket volume, time-to-value, save rate) that make the forecast defensible before the quarter ends.
  • Predictive retention modeling. Build and own a rolling 12-month GRR/NRR retention model that surfaces cohort-level risk before it reaches the escalation point, not after.
  • Post-sales process and policy. Own the customer lifecycle process architecture: onboarding stages and exit criteria, health-score methodology, QBR and renewal-prep cadence, escalation and save-play processes, and Sales-to-PS, PS-to-CS handoffs, including how expansion and renewal conflicts get resolved.
  • Capacity and resource planning. Run book-of-business and capacity deployment across CSM, Professional Services, and Support; partner directly with Finance on headcount planning, budget visibility, and investment prioritization for the post-sales org.
  • Systems and data. Set and hold a measurable CRM and CS-platform data quality standard, rather than running periodic clean-up projects.
  • Partnership with the field. Be the trusted operational partner to CS, Professional Services, and Support leaders in their renewal and QBR reviews, not adjacent to them; represent post-sales' requirements into GTM Engineering and Data teams.
  • AI-native operations. Design the post-sales motion on the assumption AI does the manual work: health-score generation, renewal-risk flagging, support-ticket triage and summarization, and QBR/renewal-doc prep should be agent-assisted by default.
  • Leadership. Lead, develop, and coach a small team of experienced senior operators; manage across US and European time zones, partnering with existing EMEA post-sales ops coverage.

We'd love to hear from you if you have...
  • 8+ years in Customer Success Operations, Post-Sales Operations, or Revenue Operations in B2B SaaS, including people management.
  • B2B SaaS domain expertise, with experience at both small and large B2B SaaS companies.
  • You have owned a renewal forecast or health-scoring model, not just supported one.
  • Deep, hands-on experience with a CS platform (Gainsight or Planhat) and Salesforce.
  • You have put AI or automation into a live CS or support workflow and can describe the result.
  • Credible with senior CS Leaders & CROs, and senior stakeholders.
  • Nice to have: experience spanning Support or Professional Services delivery in addition to core Customer Success, multi-region team management, exposure to a company operating at public-company rigor in post-sales process.

Benefits
  • A competitive salary + stock options in our fast-growing Series D startup
  • Hybrid working environment
  • 100% Medical, Dental & Vision
  • 401k Plan
  • Paid parental leave
  • 25 days of annual leave + Public holidays + paid sick leave
  • Fun culture with regular socials
  • A generous referral scheme
  • A brand new computer + monitor

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