Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Versaterm is a global public safety solutions company focused on enhancing community safety through innovative technology. The Director of Customer Success leads the post-sale customer lifecycle, ensuring customers realize value and promoting customer retention and expansion through effective engagement strategies.
Responsibilities
- Execute Customer Success strategies across all customer segments, ensuring alignment to company growth and retention objectives
- Establish standardized customer lifecycle motions, including success planning, business reviews, adoption programs, and renewal readiness
- Ensure a proactive, outcome-driven approach to customer engagement focused on value realization and measurable impact
- Build scalable processes and playbooks that reduce duplication and ensure consistency across Customer Success teams
- Lead a multi-tier engagement model across Strategic, State, Enterprise, and Transactional accounts
- Operationalize a hub-and-spoke model, where Customer Success Managers own relationships and provide general project knowledge and engage specialists for additional targeted support
- Ensure role clarity across Customer Success and adjacent teams, reinforcing boundaries around support, project delivery/onboarding, and sales ownership
- Continuously refine segmentation and coverage models to balance engagement with scalable programs
- Own end-to-end retention and renewals strategy, by executing a proactive renewal motion (initiating 180–90 days pre-expiry), enforcing disciplined commercial rigor across procurement cycles, and operationalizing cross-functional support to drive on-time renewals, maximize ARR retention and price increases, mitigate churn risk, and ensure consistent value realization for customers
- Partner with Sales, Project Delivery/Onboarding, Support, Product, and Marketing to deliver a cohesive customer experience
- Establish clear handoffs and accountability across onboarding, Customer Success, and renewals
- Serve as an escalation point for high-risk or high-impact customer situations to ensure satisfactory customer resolution and support
- Provide Voice of Customer insights to influence product roadmap and go-to-market strategy
- Own and drive gross and net revenue retention across the customer portfolio, aligning performance to company financial targets
- Define and operationalize success metrics across Customer Success and Renewals, including retention, on-time renewals, customer health, business review quality, and expansion pipeline influence
- Design and execute structured renewal motions, incorporating early engagement, procurement tracking, and risk mitigation to ensure predictable, on-time renewals
- Leading the Renewals team and partnering with sales teams to drive expansion opportunities and maximize lifetime value
- Proactively identify churn risks through health, adoption, and engagement signals; implement targeted save plans to mitigate attrition
- Establish and maintain customer health scoring models to guide segmentation, prioritization, and intervention strategies
- Drive a consistent operating cadence (e.g., pipeline reviews, business reviews) to assess customer health, renewal forecasts, and team performance; coach proactively and enforce accountability
- Ensure CRM hygiene and data integrity (e.g., Salesforce), enabling accurate forecasting, renewal visibility, and revenue reporting
- Analyze systemic risks and performance trends, translating insights into process improvements, playbook enhancements, and program investments
- Oversee automated customer engagement programs (e.g., campaigns, webinars, lifecycle education, newsletters) to scale impact and drive adoption
- Communicate performance, risks, and strategic recommendations clearly to GTM and Executive Leadership, ensuring alignment and informed decision-making
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Communications, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, or related SaaS roles
- 5+ years of experience leading teams and developing people leaders
- Proven experience owning retention, renewals, and customer growth metrics at scale
- Strong understanding of Customer Success operating models, including segmentation and scaled engagement strategies
- Experience building and standardizing processes, playbooks, and performance frameworks
- Strong data orientation, with the ability to translate insights into action and measurable outcomes
- Exceptional collaboration and leadership skills, with the ability to align cross-functional teams
- Excellent communication and executive presence, with experience engaging senior stakeholders
- Ability to operate effectively in complex, high-accountability environments
- This position requires a security clearance from the Government of Canada
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada and must successfully obtain and maintain a Reliability security clearance
- Specific customer contracts may impose additional security verification requirements
- Obtaining and maintaining all required security clearances is a condition of employment
- Experience in public sector, GovTech, or public safety SaaS environments
Benefits
- Base salary
- Our comprehensive benefits offering
- Some roles may also be eligible for variable compensation such as incentive plans or discretionary performance bonuses
Company Overview
Versaterm’s ecosystem of innovative solutions is for public safety agencies, forensic scientists, court systems and school systems. It was founded in 1977, and is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, CAN, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.versaterm.com/.