Head of Customer Success

Ivo

$250K — $300K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in customer success or account management within B2B SaaS, including 3 years of leadership experience
  • Proven capability in building or expanding a customer success function
  • Experience with enterprise customers (10,000+ employees) and navigating complex organizational structures
  • Ability to create scalable processes from a blank slate
  • Strong data-driven decision-making skills, informed by metrics and performance indicators
  • Excellent communication skills to engage with users and executives alike
  • Resourceful with a sense of urgency and resilience in problem-solving
  • Familiarity with AI/ML products and technical communication is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead a high-performing team of Customer Success Managers
  • Design processes and systems that ensure scalable customer outcomes
  • Drive user adoption strategies to maximize product engagement
  • Own customer retention and work closely with account management
  • Serve as the voice of the customer and collaborate with product teams
  • Establish analytics to measure customer health and team performance
  • Continuously iterate on processes to enhance customer success results

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Unlimited PTO for work-life balance
  • Relocation assistance for candidates moving to San Francisco
  • Support for visa and green card applications
  • Generous office space with snacks and team activities
Full Job Description
Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Head of Customer Success to build and lead our customer success function. This role represents a critical investment in ensuring our customers achieve extraordinary outcomes with Ivo.

This is a leadership role for a builder. You will design and scale the systems, processes, and team that drive user adoption of Ivo, ensuring that users are as obsessed with Ivo as we are. You'll own the full customer success motion across our enterprise and mid-market segments, leading a team of world-class CSMs dedicated to making every user successful.

What You'll Do
  • Build and Lead the Team
    You will recruit, develop, and lead a high-performing team of Customer Success Managers. You'll establish the culture, standards, and expectations that define what world-class customer success looks like at Ivo, creating an environment where CSMs can do their best work while growing their careers.
  • Design the Customer Success Machine
    You will build the processes, playbooks, and systems that drive consistent, scalable customer outcomes. This includes onboarding frameworks, health scoring methodologies, business review cadences, and escalation protocols-creating repeatable motions that work across both enterprise and mid-market segments.
  • Drive User Adoption
    User adoption is the north star for customer success at Ivo. You will own the strategies, playbooks, and metrics that drive deep, sustained product usage across customer organizations. This means understanding what drives individual users to adopt Ivo and create programs that turn occasional users into power users. You'll measure success through active usage rates, feature adoption, and time-to-value. You'll design a customer experience that ensures that every customer, no matter the size, realizes the full potential of our platform through widespread adoption across their teams, departments, and regions.
  • Own Retention
    You will be accountable for logo retention and ensuring customers renew. You'll partner closely with the account management team to support renewals and ensure customers see Ivo as an indispensable part of their operations.
  • Be the Voice of the Customer
    This is a cross-functional role and you will work closely with the product team in particular. You will serve as the primary advocate for customer needs within Ivo. Working hand-in-hand with Product, Marketing, and Engineering, you'll translate customer feedback and patterns into product improvements, content, and go-to-market strategies that strengthen our market position.
  • Establish Operational Excellence
    You will build the analytics and reporting infrastructure to measure customer health, predict risk, and demonstrate the impact of customer success investments. You'll create visibility into your team's performance and continuously iterate to improve outcomes.


What You'll Bring
  • 7+ years of experience in customer success, account management, or related roles within B2B SaaS, with at least 3 years leading and scaling customer success teams.
  • Experience building or significantly growing a CS function and can demonstrate a deep experience what it takes to go from good to great.
  • You have a demonstrated track record of success with enterprise customers (companies with 10,000+ employees). You understand the complexity of navigating and delivering success to large organizations and you know how to drive adoption and value across sprawling customer environments.
  • You're energized by the chance to shape something from the ground up.
  • You can work with a blank slate and turn learnings into repeatable, scalable processes.
  • Demonstrated data-driven approach to your work, using metrics to inform decisions and demonstrate impact.
  • You're a skilled communicator who can build relationships at every level-from frontline users to C-suite executives, both with customers and internally.
  • You would describe yourself asrelentlessly resourceful. You have a bias toward action, a strong internal sense of urgency, and the resilience to navigate complexity while maintaining momentum.
  • The ideal candidate will have experience in Customer Success positions at large, SaaS B2B companies. Experience working with legal tech or working with legal professionals is a bonus.
  • Familiarity with AI/ML products and the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences is highly valuable.


Compensation and Benefits
  • Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive salary and equity packages. The USD OTE range for this role is $250,000-$300,000 (excluding equity). Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including experience and expertise.
  • Relocation and Visa Support: We offer relocation assistance for successful applicants moving to SF, as well as support for visa and green card applications where applicable.
  • Medical Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans to suit the needs of you and your family.
  • Unlimited PTO: So you can take the time you need to recharge, stay healthy, and bring your best self to work.
  • Office Extras: Generous office space in Downtown San Francisco, with snacks, coffee, and regular team building events and activities.

FAQ
  • What stage of growth is Ivo at? We launched mid-2023. Since then, we've had an incredible response from the market and are growing rapidly. We successfully raised our Series B, with total funding of over $50 million from leading investors including Costanoa Ventures, Fika Ventures, Uncork Capital, and others. We're happy to share more details with candidates who go through our interview process.
  • Can I work remotely? We require candidates to work with us in-person 5 days a week in our San Francisco office.
  • What does the team look like today? We have a small but might team of Customer Success Managers. You would be joining as the first dedicated leader of the customer success team, with the opportunity to shape the function and build your team. We currently have CSMs in place who would report to you, with plans to expand the team as we grow.

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