Vp, Customer Success (emea)

Writer Writer · AI Frontier · London, United Kingdom · Delivery & customer success

VP, Customer Success for EMEA at an enterprise AI company. This role focuses on leading the customer success organization, partnering with C-suite executives to drive measurable transformation and operational change, owning retention and growth, and scaling a high-performing team. The role also involves shaping strategy and influencing product direction based on customer feedback.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive industry leading growth and retention by owning ambitious NRR and GRR goals, tying every expansion to quantifiable business outcomes
  2. Lead, scale, and develop a high-performing CSM team across Strategic, Enterprise, and Mid-market segments—hiring exceptional talent and building clear career paths. Have a dotted line to other post sales organizations
  3. Design and operationalize a regional success model that becomes the global blueprint - playbooks, metrics, and governance that scale
  4. Build trusted partnerships with CIOs, CMOs, and business leaders at companies like Goldman Sachs, Accenture, and Hilton, positioning WRITER as mission-critical infrastructure
  5. Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Marketing, and Solutions architecture to co-create account strategies that deliver measurable ROI

Skills

Required

  • Enterprise SaaS leadership
  • Customer Success management
  • EMEA operations
  • Team leadership and scaling
  • Strategic account management
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Forecasting and data-driven decision-making
  • Executive presence
  • Enterprise AI adoption
  • ROI frameworks

Nice to have

  • Experience leading Engagement managers, Customer architects, and Customer support
  • Experience in hypergrowth, global expansion, or IPO environments

What the JD emphasized

  • 15+ years in enterprise SaaS or transformation-driven technology with deep experience leading Fortune 500/Global 2000 relationships
  • 7+ years in senior CS or post-sales leadership, ideally across multi-country EMEA operations. In addition to CS management, ideally have also led Engagement managers, Customer architects, and Customer support either directly or indirectly
  • Proven record-building and scaling CS organizations through inflection points - hypergrowth, global expansion, or IPO
  • Fluent in enterprise AI adoption and governance, with a strong grasp of ROI frameworks and transformation programs