Director of Customer Operations

Crusoe · Data AI · San Francisco, CA - US · Cloud Go-To-Market (GTM)

Director of Customer Operations responsible for driving operational excellence, efficiency, and scale across the customer journey, managing systems, data, processes, and programs to enable Customer Success Managers. This role involves content strategy, training programs, reporting, tooling, data integrity, and advocacy systems, with a focus on improving CSM efficiency and customer value.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the strategy and execution across four critical operational verticals: Customer Enablement and Adoption, Reporting, Tooling, and Data Focus.
  2. Partner with Product and Marketing teams to define the enablement roadmap, ensuring customers have timely access to the resources needed for maximum adoption and usage.
  3. Implement and track customer-facing training and enablement adoptions (e.g., certifications, knowledge base usage).
  4. Develop metrics (e.g., content usage, time-to-value, decreased support tickets) to prove the ROI of customer enablement initiatives.
  5. Act as the lead Business Analyst for Customer Success, deeply evaluating the current tool stack (e.g., Salesforce, Gainsight, BI tools) and recommending tooling and automation solutions to improve CSM efficiency.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of experience in Customer Experience, Cloud Operations, or Support leadership
  • Proven track record building or scaling Customer Operations in a fast-growth technical setting
  • Strong technical fluency in cloud platforms (GPU, compute, networking, storage)
  • Excellent communication and storytelling skills
  • Gainsight expert
  • Hands-on data analyst

Nice to have

  • experience in IaaS, AI infrastructure, or enterprise cloud environments

What the JD emphasized

  • training and enablement adoptions
  • tooling and automation
  • tooling for the customer to drive advocacy
  • Build and scale the global Customer Operations organization, Education, and Analytics.
  • Define the customer journey from onboarding through renewal; create playbooks, CTAs, and lifecycle automation to ensure proactive engagement.
  • Oversee data pipelines and dashboards (Zendesk, Gainsight, BigQuery,, etc.) to provide visibility into customer health, incidents, and sentiment.