VP, Customer Experience

Exa

$210K — $250K *
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years in the technology sector, focusing on post-sales or customer success leadership.
  • VP-level experience in a B2B software or API company managing post-sales organizations.
  • Proven ability to drive Net Dollar Retention (NDR) or similar retention metrics at scale.
  • Experience creating health-scoring and usage-based systems for predicting churn or expansion.
  • Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment, building processes rather than following existing ones.
  • Strong collaborative skills with executive presence across Sales, Product, and Engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement effective customer onboarding processes for quick value realization.
  • Develop a predictive health scoring system based on customer usage and engagement data.
  • Manage the end-to-end renewal process and forecast, aligning with Sales on upsell strategies.
  • Oversee technical and customer support operations, ensuring high standards of service as demand grows.
  • Take full ownership of Net Dollar Retention metrics, regularly reporting to executive leadership.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to build and shape the post-sales function from its inception.
  • High degree of influence in a fast-growing, innovative technology company.
  • Collaboration with senior leadership, including direct reporting to the CRO.
  • Flexibility in remote work arrangements for exceptional candidates.
Full Job Description
Location: San Francisco Bay Area preferred; open to exceptional remote candidates (US)

Reports to: CRO

The role:
We're hiring our first VP of Post-Sales to build and own everything that happens after a deal closes. You'll be responsible for turning new logos into durable, expanding accounts - designing how we onboard customers, instrumenting the signals that predict expansion or churn before they happen, running renewals, and overseeing support. You will own Net Dollar Retention (NDR) as your headline metric and build the team and systems required to move it in the right direction as we scale.

This is a build role, not a maintain role: you'll be establishing the post-sales function's structure, tooling, and metrics from a relatively early stage, in a business with consumption-based revenue dynamics where usage - not just seat count - drives expansion.

What you'll own
  • Onboarding: Design and run a customer onboarding motion that gets new accounts to first value fast, with clear milestones and handoff from Sales.
  • Health score & early-warning instrumentation: Build a usage- and engagement-based health scoring system that reliably flags expansion opportunities and contraction risk before renewal conversations happen - not after.
  • Renewals: Own the renewal process and forecast, partnering with Sales on commercial structure for upsell, cross-sell, and consumption growth.
  • Support: Oversee technical/customer support, setting the standards, tooling, and staffing model that keep response times and resolution quality high as volume grows.
  • Net Dollar Retention: Be the single owner and accountable executive for NDR - the metric that ties all of the above together - reporting on it regularly to the executive team and board.


What we're looking for
  • 15+ years of industry experience in the technology sector, with meaningful time in post-sales, customer success, or account management leadership.
  • Prior VP-level (or equivalent) experience owning a post-sales or customer success organization at a B2B software or API company.
  • A demonstrated track record of owning and moving NDR, GRR, or net revenue retention at a company of relevant scale.
  • Experience building health-scoring, usage-instrumentation, or early-warning systems for churn/expansion - not just running renewal calls off a spreadsheet.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving, still-being-defined environment; you'll be building the playbook, not inheriting one.
  • Strong executive presence and cross-functional fluency - you'll partner closely with Sales, Product, and Engineering, and report directly to the CRO.

Nice to have
  • Experience at an AI/ML company or with AI-native customers.
  • Experience with consumption- or usage-based pricing models (API, infrastructure, or similar metered products), as opposed to purely seat-based SaaS.


Location & compensation
Based in the Bay Area is preferred - we value in-person collaboration with the leadership team - but we're open to exceptional candidates working remotely within the US.

Compensation includes a competitive base salary, meaningful equity, and benefits, commensurate with experience

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