Client Success Director

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Chicago, IL, USA
Hybrid
100K-110K Annually
Senior level
AdTech • Marketing Tech • Software
The Role
Own strategic relationships with enterprise advertisers and agencies, serving as an executive advisor across business strategy, value realization, retention, and growth. Lead success plans, QBRs, account health, escalations, executive communications, and cross-functional initiatives. Advise clients on retail media, paid search, and paid social performance, while coordinating Client Success, Product, Sales, Onboarding, Technical Account Management, and Services teams. Manage multiple strategic accounts, use AI tools for preparation and insights, and travel up to 20%.
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Ready to take your career to the next level?

Skai is looking for the best and the brightest to join our rapidly growing team. We're proud of our industry-leading digital marketing software but we're even prouder of the people behind it. That's where you come in!



 A strategic Client Success Director owns and grows relationships with our largest advertisers/agencies. You will serve as the senior partner to executive-level client stakeholders, owning the customer journey end to end: business strategy, value narrative, value realization, and risk management.

In this role, you own account strategy and performance with a primary focus on Retail Media, while also supporting Paid Search and Paid Social. You partner closely with the Client Success Managers aligned to your accounts to translate strategy into execution, align client objectives with Skai's capabilities, and drive retention and growth. This is an individual contributor role built around ownership and relationship management.

The ideal candidate is a results-driven, consultative leader with strong executive relationship management skills, real commercial acumen, experience in digital marketing strategy and execution, and a deep understanding of the performance media landscape.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Own the customer journey end-to-end for your book, business strategy, executive relationships, and risk, leading as the strategic advisor who sets the agenda and drives the account forward rather than reacting to the next event.
  • Maintain commercial understanding of every account in your book, using it to drive adoption and engagement, coordinate commercial moments, and seed opportunities for Growth.
  • Own the customer's value story from discovery through executive communication: push past surface-level goals, translate business priorities into concrete outcomes, and communicate impact in the customer's own language.
  • Lead customer meetings with structure, executive presence, and follow-through.
  • Own the living success plan that translates account goals into measurable milestones, owners, and timelines, kept current and reviewed quarterly for your largest accounts.
  • Lead Quarterly Business Reviews that quantify impact in real numbers, dollars saved, risk reduced, revenue created, and end forward-looking.
  • Maintain a multi-threaded relationship map for every account, tracking power, influence, and sentiment, anchored by a documented, activated executive sponsor.
  • Own CRM hygiene and account health accuracy for your full book, and own save plans the moment an account goes at risk: activate the executive sponsor, coordinate internal stakeholders, and drive recovery tactics to catch yellow before red.
  • Partner closely with Product, Sales, Onboarding, Technical Account Management, and Services to capture market opportunity, acting as the de facto project manager coordinating those teams on larger initiatives.
  • Drive joint account planning with Growth Directors on top accounts, and own the talk track for introducing Growth into the relationship.
  • Advise on publisher and vertical best practices so advertisers maximize results for their business and agencies for their end clients.
  • Ensure in-person visits have a clear purpose, including QBRs, success-plan setting, and executive alignment, and produce a documented outcome or next step every time.
  • Act as an escalation point for complex or cross-product issues, driving proactive problem-solving, so issues don't stall on ownership gaps.
  • Adopt and lead agentic workflow fluency internally and externally: use AI to accelerate preparation, planning, account insight, and client-facing output, applying judgment before anything goes to a customer.
Requirements

Skai Requirements:

  • Passion and dedication
  • Desire to be the best
  • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
  • Strong interpersonal communication skills - in writing and verbally
  • Proven track-record of problem-solving
  • Results oriented
  • Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment with tight deadlines

Position Requirements:

  • B.A. or B.S.; MBA preferred
  • 5+ years of experience in enterprise client services, account management, and/or client-facing technical project management
  • Hybrid work model - 3 days per week required in office 
  • Proven record of owning and growing strategic advertiser or agency relationships, including direct revenue ownership
  • Strong understanding of performance marketing across ecommerce, search, and social, with hands-on experience implementing and managing digital campaigns
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate, present, and influence credibly at all levels, including executive and C-suite, with strong listening and storytelling skills
  • Demonstrated success delivering client-focused, strategic solutions and leading business reviews that generate quantified outcomes and expansion conversations, not status updates
  • Comfort using AI tools to accelerate research, prep, and documentation as a core part of how the role operates, not a side skill
  • Ability to manage multiple strategic accounts at once while maintaining strong attention to relationship and CRM detail
  • Experience with Skai or comparable performance marketing platforms preferred
  • Willingness to travel up to 20%
  • Amazon, Google, and/or Meta certifications a major plus

The salary range for this position is $100,000 - $110,000. The actual salary amount will vary depending on the applicants experience, skills and abilities as well as internal equity and market data. This position is eligible for additional bonus compensation, full details will be provided during the recruitment process.

We are hybrid for the long term - with a great home/ office work mix​ (three days in office per week), passionate and diverse team members, and a vibrant company culture.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Skai, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. At Skai, we believe ensuring a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace is not just an ideal to strive for; it is right, necessary, and our responsibility as humans. Our full DE&I commitment and global framework can be viewed on our company website and are aligned to our core values. We strongly encourage and seek applications from women, people of color, and bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, marital status, medical condition including acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related conditions, or any other protected status. Also pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we encourage and will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Applicants with Disabilities

Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process. Please advise in writing of special needs at the time of application.

Skai is an E-Verify employer

Skills Required

  • Bachelor’s degree (B.A. or B.S.)
  • 5+ years of experience in enterprise client services, account management, and/or client-facing technical project management
  • Ability to work in a hybrid model with three days per week in the office
  • Proven experience owning and growing strategic advertiser or agency relationships, including direct revenue ownership
  • Strong understanding of performance marketing across ecommerce, search, and social
  • Hands-on experience implementing and managing digital campaigns
  • Ability to communicate, present, and influence credibly with executive and C-suite stakeholders
  • Strong listening, storytelling, interpersonal communication, and problem-solving skills
  • Demonstrated success delivering strategic client solutions and leading business reviews with quantified outcomes
  • Comfort using AI tools for research, preparation, planning, and documentation
  • Ability to manage multiple strategic accounts while maintaining accurate relationship and CRM details
  • Passion, dedication, results orientation, independence, teamwork, and ability to thrive under tight deadlines
  • MBA
  • Experience with Skai or comparable performance marketing platforms
  • Amazon, Google, and/or Meta certifications
  • Willingness to travel up to 20%
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The Company
HQ: Tel Aviv-Yafo
71 Employees

What We Do

Skai is the leading omnichannel advertising platform specializing in walled garden media. Backed by nearly two decades of innovation, we support marketers with insights they can use, data they can trust, and impact they can measure on the media that matters. Our marketing platform includes solutions for retail media, paid search, paid social, and app marketing. We work alongside the largest brands and publishers to solve the industry’s biggest challenges. Founded on our core values of innovation, integrity, passion, and humility, we are a global team of professionals passionate about doing good work and doing the right thing. Skai is the combined entity of former companies Kenshoo and Signals Analytics, each with a long history of first-to-market innovation. Skai uses the brand name Kenshoo Skai in Europe.

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