ABOUT THE COMPANY
The best of all worlds: join Avolution, a highly regarded, worldwide, financially sound and growing 20-year-old Enterprise Architecture Software company. With offices in Northern Virginia, Sydney, Singapore, London, and the Middle East, Avolution is established as an industry leader in its Gartner Magic Quadrant and other industry reports. Be part of a smart, friendly team, and use your skills and initiative to drive growth. Benefit from our culture which is described by employees as collegial, collaborative, flexible, and supportive.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a high-performing Customer Success Lead with deep experience in SaaS customer success to join our Americas (AMER) team. This is a unique opportunity to shape and elevate an existing customer success function. You’ll lead a team of Customer Success Managers (CSMs), drive strategic expansion initiatives, and ensure our customers achieve measurable value and long-term success.
This role is ideal for a self-motivated, proactive leader who thrives in dynamic environments and is comfortable navigating ambiguity and change. You’ll be empowered to take ownership, implement scalable processes, and build a high-performing team culture.
Responsibilities
1. Team Leadership & Development
- Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing Customer Success team.
- Set clear goals, monitor performance, and foster a collaborative, results-driven culture.
- Recruit, onboard, and continuously develop team members.
2. Customer Success Strategy & Execution
- Define and implement customer success strategies aligned with company goals.
- Track key metrics (e.g., churn, satisfaction, adoption) and use insights to drive improvements.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to enhance onboarding, engagement, and retention processes.
3. Expansion & Renewal Management
- Own the renewal and expansion pipeline, ensuring timely contract renewals and identifying growth opportunities.
- Develop tailored proposals based on customer needs and usage data.
- Consistently meet or exceed expansion and renewal targets.
4. Customer Engagement & Advocacy
- Build trusted relationships with enterprise customers and executives.
- Guide customers through their post-sales journey, helping them achieve key outcomes.
- Act as the voice of the customer internally, escalating issues and influencing product development.
Requirements
- SaaS-native: You bring proven experience in SaaS customer success, with a strong understanding of customer lifecycle management, product adoption, and value realization.
- Expansion-focused: You’ve successfully driven account growth through upsell, cross-sell, and expansion strategies.
- Team builder: You’ve led and developed high-performing teams, and know how to inspire, coach, and hold others accountable.
- Change agent: You’re energized by ambiguity and change and excel at creating clarity and momentum in evolving environments.
- Strategic and hands-on: You can zoom out to define strategy and zoom in to execute with precision.
- Customer advocate: You build trusted relationships with enterprise customers and executives, and know how to translate their needs into action.
- Data-driven: You use metrics and insights to inform decisions, identify risks, and uncover opportunities.
- Bias for action: You’re not afraid to take the bull by the horns—you get things done and drive outcomes.
Benefits
- Ability to work from anywhere within the US
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage that includes health, dental and eye insurance
- 401K with company matching (after the first 6 months)
- Life Insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- 20 annual PTO days that you are encouraged to use
- 1 day of birthday leave per year
- 10 annual sick days
- Paid parental leave
All applicants must have the right to work in the United States. Avolution is an equal opportunities employer.
Top Skills
What We Do
Avolution produces the ABACUS toolset, used by thousands of companies worldwide to manage enterprise architecture, IT and business strategy and digital transformation. ABACUS users deliver insights and value quickly. Find out more or try ABACUS for yourself with a free 30-day trial - www.avolutionsoftware.com
• Import data in minutes from SharePoint, Excel, Visio, ServiceNow, Technopedia, CMDBs and other sources
• Choose an off-the-shelf framework or metamodel or configure an enterprise-specific metamodel yourself
• Analyze using KPIs and metrics and create future state architectures and roadmaps
• Report with rich visuals including heat maps, treemaps, diagrams, charts and dashboards
ABACUS comes with standard industry frameworks as well as advanced analytic tools and best-in-class roadmapping and reporting functionality.
It supports Enterprise Architecture (EA), Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM), Business Process Management (BPM), Customer Experience (CX), Solution Architecture (SA), IT Service Management (ITSM), Business Intelligence (BI), and Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC). It is available either on premise or as a Windows-free SaaS tool.
Avolution has operations in America, Asia-Pacific and Europe and together with their global partner network they service thousands of users in over 90 countries.