Head of Customer Success

ComplyAdvantage has an opening for our next Customer Success leader. The ideal candidate for the position will sit in the New York City metro area.

In this role, you will own the health, growth, and capability of the Americas Customer Success team, and the success of our Americas customers. Customer Success is central to our next phase of growth: protecting the base, expanding it, and making every customer demonstrably more successful for having chosen us.

This is a builder's role. You will invest in the team, develop its people, and create an environment where they grow faster than they expected to, and you will turn that team into a value engine for our customers.

What you will own

Outcomes for customers: Define and drive positive business outcomes for every account. Move the team from activity and check-ins to measurable value: adoption, utilisation, risk reduction, and demonstrable ROI that customers can take to their own boards.

Retention and expansion: Own gross and net revenue retention for the region. Minimise churn and contraction, drive renewals, and partner with Sales and Account Management to expand contract value through cross-sell and upsell.

A team that compounds: Recruit, coach, and retain a high-bar Customer Success team. Build the capability framework, the development paths, and the feedback culture that make this the team people want to join and refuse to leave. Talent development is a primary measure of success in this role, not a side effect.

Senior customer relationships: Build and hold trusted relationships with senior stakeholders at our customers, including banks, FinTechs, and insurers. Be credible in the room with compliance, risk, and technology leaders.

Onboarding and time to value: Ensure every new customer has a clear implementation and onboarding plan, and that time to first value is short and predictable. Coordinate across customer technology, compliance, and risk teams.

Voice of the customer: Identify patterns in what customers need and make sure that feedback reaches our product and engineering teams. Support the rollout, training, and communication of new capabilities.

What we are looking for

A builder and a coach: You have built and scaled Customer Success teams in high-growth SaaS, and you have a track record of raising the bar on talent. You develop people deliberately. You have moved individuals and teams up several levels, and you can point to the careers you have grown. You lead in the spirit of a great operating coach: high standards, high support, and unflinching about performance.

Outcome and value oriented: You think in customer business outcomes first. You are fluent and confident customer-facing, you can run a value conversation with a CRO or a Chief Compliance Officer, and you hold your team to the same standard.

AI-fluent: You use modern foundation models in your own work and you know how to deploy them across a Customer Success organisation. You are fluent with tools such as Claude, you understand what current AI can and cannot do, and you will make this team materially more effective by putting AI to work.

A strong operator: You manage process without dropping balls, you build consensus across teams, and you execute independently. You are comfortable in the ambiguity of a fast-scaling business and you turn it into structure.

Basic qualifications

• Minimum of eight (8) years in customer success, account management, or related customer-facing leadership
• Minimum of five (5) years of direct people management, including managing managers
• Demonstrable record of building, scaling, and developing high-performing teams
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in SaaS, data, or compliance / RegTech
• Familiarity with APIs, cloud delivery, and technical product concepts
• Experience owning a net revenue retention number
• A genuine passion for customers and for the people you lead

How we work

Our values describe how we operate, and they map closely to this role:

• Make a safer world: Every role here contributes to financial systems that are harder for criminals to exploit. You will keep the customer and the real-world outcome of our work visible in everything the team does.
• Raise the bar: We set ambitious standards and pursue them with discipline, never settling for good enough. You will raise the bar on the team's capability and craft, and balance that ambition with care for the people behind it.
• See it, own it, drive it forward: We notice what needs to change, take personal responsibility, and move with purpose. You will lead with a bias for action and see things through.
• Win as one team: Financial crime is complex and global, and no function solves it alone. You will build trust and shared goals across Customer Success, Sales, Product, and Engineering.

Benefits:

• Equity as we want you to have a part of what we are building
• Unlimited Time Off Policy- A work-life balance and focus on our well-being are critical to keeping us performing at our best
• Annual learning budget to drive your performance and career development
• Budget to set up your home office upon joining
• Parental leave and childcare benefits
• Life Insurance to protect your loved ones
• Medical (100%), Dental (90%), and Vision (80%) contribution
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) to allow you to use tax free dollars for healthcare or day care related expenses
• 401k Contribution
• Financial Perks (Support with student loan, PerkSpot discounts, Pet Insurance discounts, Travel assistance 
• Pre-Tax transit benefits