VP, Customer Success

Key Data

$130K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in SaaS customer success roles, with proven experience in building functions from scratch.
  • Strong understanding of tech-touch success models in SaaS environments.
  • Experience leading consultative engagements, like quarterly business reviews, utilizing data to drive customer growth.
  • Ability to implement KPIs and performance management systems within customer success teams.
  • Experience managing distributed teams and familiarity with operational systems for efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Own and enhance the entire post-sale customer journey for onboarding, success, and support.
  • Establish processes and systems for customer success teams, ensuring clear roles and workflows.
  • Define and monitor retention metrics, diagnosing churn causes and improving customer value realization.
  • Launch a consultative engagement model for key accounts through quarterly business reviews.
  • Design a scalable tech-touch model for smaller accounts, including segmentation strategies.
  • Evaluate and optimize operational systems to enhance workflow efficiencies across teams.
  • Drive the development of repeatable processes and efficacy in supporting customer engagement tools.

Benefits

  • Company-paid individual health and dental insurance.
  • Long-term disability insurance under the company’s standard group plan.
  • $200 towards annual health benefit costs.
  • Flexible PTO policy and company-paid holidays.
  • Up to $1,000/year reimbursement for professional development.
  • Company-paid internet and mobile plan reimbursements.
  • Fully remote position with a preference for candidates in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.
  • Eligibility for a 401(k) plan with a 3.5% match, with no vesting period for the employer contribution.
Full Job Description
Role and Responsibilities

The VP, Customer Success ("VP") will own end-to-end accountability for the post-sale customer experience, including onboarding, success, and support, across KeyData's customer base. You will stand up a scalable, "tech-touch" motion for smaller accounts, and introduce a consultative, quarterly-business-review-driven engagement model for KeyData's largest customers.

Twelve Month Mandate

1. Build the Operating System for a Newly Structured CS Organization

Stand up processes for Onboarding, Success, and Support.

Establish clear ownership, workflows, and handoffs so each of the three teams operates as a well-run, independent unit.

By month 6, have all three teams set up with a system for internal accountability, KPIs, and performance expectations.

2. Improve Retention

Define and track retention and customer health as core performance metrics for the function, giving the team clear, data-driven visibility into progress.

Put in place a process to diagnose the root causes of churn, including how well customers are realizing platform value.

Partner closely with Product to strengthen the onboarding experience for KeyData's core product so customers realize value quickly and are set up to stay.

3. Build a Consultative Motion for Key Accounts

Launch quarterly business reviews (QBRs) with KeyData's largest customers, reviewing their data and market context together to reinforce value and identify potential growth opportunities.

Shift the success team's posture from reactive support to a proactive, consultative partner that helps customers grow their businesses on KeyData's platform.

4. Develop a Scalable Tech-Touch Motion

Design and build a tech-touch motion for smaller accounts, partnering with Product on the dependencies required to support it (expected roughly 6 months out).

Define the segmentation model determining which accounts receive high-touch, consultative coverage versus tech-touch coverage.

5. Establish Strong Systems and Improve Operational Rigor

Assess workflows and systems across Onboarding, Success, and Support to identify inefficiencies and manual processes; develop a roadmap for streamlined scalable operations.

Develop repeatable operating processes and enhance supporting systems - CRM/CS platform hygiene, customer health scoring, ticketing and case management, and product usage analytics.

Key Data Benefits include:
  • Company-paid individual health and dental insurance
  • Long-term disability insurance under the company's standard group plan
  • $50,000 life insurance policy
  • $200 towards an annual health benefit
  • $50/month Internet reimbursement
  • Up to $1,000/year professional development reimbursement
  • Company-paid holidays
  • Eligibility for 401(k) pension plan with 3.5% employer match. No vesting period for employer match.
  • $75/month mobile phone and voice/data plan reimbursement.
  • Flexible PTO policy
  • Fully remote position (Preference given to those in the Dallas/Ft.Worth area)


Requirements

Candidate Profile: Must Have Experience

1. Hands-On SaaS Customer Success Experience

Has built and scaled onboarding, success, and support functions from an early stage into a structured, process-driven organization.

Energized by the build, not just running an established customer success organization.

Determined, process-driven, and KPI-driven professional with the ability to identify, evaluate and prioritize growth opportunities.

2. Tech-Touch / Scaled Success Motion Experience

Has designed and run a tech-touch (no dedicated CSM) motion for a segment of customers, ideally within a SaaS business.

3. Consultative, Data-Informed Customer Engagement

Track record running a consultative success motion (e.g., quarterly business reviews) that helps customers understand and act on their data to grow their business.

Able to build the internal accountability systems (KPIs, targets, performance management) that translate a success strategy into day-to-day execution.

Candidate Profile: Nice to Have Experience

1. Adjacent Industry Background

Background in Short-Term Rental, hospitality, real estate tech, or another data/software-driven vertical is a plus, though not required.

2. Blended Onshore/Offshore Team Management

Experience managing a distributed team spanning onshore and offshore roles across implementation, support, and success.

3. Experience working in a PE-backed business is highly desired

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