Head of Customer Success, Emea

Notion Notion · Enterprise · Dublin, Ireland · Customer Success

This role leads Customer Success for EMEA at Notion, focusing on adoption, retention, and expansion of Notion's AI-enhanced workspace product. The leader will develop strategies, manage teams, collaborate cross-functionally, drive customer engagement, and optimize operational processes to ensure business impact.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and implement strategies to align the EMEA Customer Success organization with broader company goals, especially around adoption, retention, and expansion
  2. Lead and develop a team of CSMs across Scaled and Dedicated motions in the EMEA region
  3. Partner with Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Professional Services to ensure seamless customer onboarding and high-value delivery while continuously improving the customer journey for long-term success
  4. Drive executive relationships with key customers. Gather customer feedback to inform product improvements and advocate for EMEA customers within the company
  5. Build and refine a consistent KPI/OKR system to enable data-driven decisions. Monitor customer health metrics to identify risks and opportunities for proactive intervention.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience leading Customer Success or GTM functions within a fast-growing SaaS environment, with a focus on post-sales motions
  • experience managing diverse customer segments—from Commercial to Enterprise—and collaborating cross-functionally across many internal stakeholders
  • powerhouse leader who attracts, inspires, develops, and retains top talent
  • customer-centric at your core and champion for customers; passionate about understanding their organisations, business priorities, and sources of value
  • data-driven and can set the right performance indicators for your organisation
  • operational rigour and systems thinking across the customer lifecycle
  • ready to drive adoption and usage to maximise net dollar retention across EMEA

Nice to have

  • growth mindset and view setbacks as learning opportunities
  • highly adaptable and thrive in a rapidly changing business environment
  • curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of experience leading Customer Success or GTM functions within a fast-growing SaaS environment, with a focus on post-sales motions