Senior Director, Customer Success Management

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Dublin, IRL
In-Office
Senior level
Cloud • Software
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The Role
Lead and scale the Dublin-based Signature Success organization across EMEA to drive customer retention, renewals, expansion, and product adoption. Build high-performing teams, engage with C-suite stakeholders, partner with Sales and Renewals, standardize success methodologies, monitor KPIs, and leverage AI-driven agent workflows to improve delivery and operational excellence.
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Job Category

Customer Success

Job Details

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

At Salesforce, we help organizations connect with customers through AI, Data, and CRM. Guided by our core values of trust, customer success, innovation, equality, and sustainability, we support positive impact while creating opportunities for employees to grow world-class careers.

Customers seeking the highest level of partnership and expertise from Salesforce choose the Signature Success Plan. Signature Success provides proactive guidance, specialized expertise, and strategic support to help enterprise customers maximize value from their Salesforce investments.

We are seeking a Senior Director of Customer Success to lead our Dublin-based Signature Success organization. In this executive leadership role, you will be responsible for customer retention, success plan renewals, expansion opportunities, and overall customer outcomes across a portfolio of enterprise customers. You will scale a high-performing Customer Success organization while partnering closely with Sales, Renewals, and cross-functional stakeholders to drive operational excellence and regional growth.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Organizational Growth

  • Lead, develop, and scale a high-performing, multi-tiered Customer Success organization across the EMEA region.

  • Attract, onboard, and retain top talent, fostering a culture of continuous learning, psychological safety, and cross-functional collaboration.

  • Provide strategic coaching, mentorship, and leadership pathways for direct reports and the broader organization.

  • Drive workforce planning, organizational design, and talent allocation strategies to support regional scale.

Customer Success Strategy & Growth

  • Develop and execute comprehensive retention and growth strategies to secure renewals and maximize product adoption.

  • Partner with Renewals and Sales leadership to expand Net New Annual Contract Value (ACV) and improve customer health scores.

  • Standardize the execution of customer success methodologies to ensure consistent, repeatable value delivery across all customer accounts.

Executive Customer Engagement

  • Serve as the executive sponsor and senior escalation point for strategic enterprise accounts.

  • Build trusted, long-term relationships with C-suite stakeholders and technology leaders within client organizations.

  • Lead complex, value-driven business discussions centered on digital transformation, platform adoption, and business outcomes.

Operational Excellence

  • Collaborate with Customer Success Operations to define the customer lifecycle, optimization channels, and engagement touchpoints.

  • Manage organizational structures, compensation frameworks, and resource capacity planning effectively.

  • Establish, monitor, and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) to drive data-backed strategic decisions.

  • Architect and execute a human-led, agent-powered customer success ecosystem that leverages modern AI tools to improve delivery velocity.

Market & Technical Leadership

  • Ensure organization-wide technical readiness for new product introductions, platform capabilities, and emerging technologies.

  • Analyze market trends, client feedback, and competitive dynamics to mitigate churn risks and uncover growth opportunities.

  • Translate regional market insights into actionable feedback for global product and executive leadership teams.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 15+ years of professional experience in Customer Success, Account Management, Professional Services, or a related customer-facing function within the technology sector.

  • 7+ years of experience leading and scaling multi-layered enterprise SaaS or cloud-focused customer organizations (including experience managing people managers).

  • Proven track record of driving customer retention, contract renewals, net revenue retention (NRR), and strategic expansion.

  • Exceptional communication, diplomatic negotiation, and consensus-building skills with a history of advising C-suite stakeholders.

  • Demonstrated success leading large organizations through hyper-growth, structural evolution, or business transformation.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience operating within a consumption-based or usage-based cloud business model.

  • Deep familiarity with the Salesforce ecosystem, or complex enterprise architectures spanning CRM, Data, and AI platforms.

  • Strategic understanding of hyperscaler landscapes (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud).

  • Experience collaborating with Global Systems Integrators (GSIs) and enterprise technology partners.

  • A sophisticated conceptual understanding of AI capabilities, large language models, and agentic workflows, with the ability to translate technical features into enterprise business value.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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Posting Statement

Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 15+ years professional experience in Customer Success, Account Management, Professional Services, or related customer-facing technology roles
  • 7+ years leading and scaling multi-layered enterprise SaaS or cloud-focused customer organizations, including managing people managers
  • Proven track record driving customer retention, contract renewals, net revenue retention (NRR), and strategic expansion
  • Exceptional communication, diplomatic negotiation, and consensus-building skills; experience advising C-suite stakeholders
  • Demonstrated success leading large organizations through hyper-growth, structural evolution, or business transformation
  • Experience operating within a consumption-based or usage-based cloud business model
  • Familiarity with the Salesforce ecosystem or complex enterprise architectures spanning CRM, Data, and AI platforms
  • Strategic understanding of hyperscaler landscapes (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
  • Experience collaborating with Global Systems Integrators (GSIs) and enterprise technology partners
  • Conceptual understanding of AI capabilities, large language models, and agentic workflows, and ability to translate technical features to business value

Salesforce Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Salesforce and has not been reviewed or approved by Salesforce.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Pay is positioned as above-market in the U.S., with multiple peer-reported benchmarks converging around a similar median total compensation figure. Compensation is also framed as broadly viewed as fair in aggregate, even while acknowledging variation by role and group.
  • Parental & Family Support Parental leave is described as notably generous for U.S. caregivers, with additional supports like gradual return-to-work and doula reimbursement. Family-building programs are also emphasized through fertility/adoption/surrogacy support with sizeable reimbursement limits.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Mental-health and coaching offerings are highlighted as accessible supports alongside financial-wellbeing tools. Volunteer Time Off and donation matching are presented as distinctive lifestyle-aligned benefits that add value beyond cash compensation.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
72,000 Employees

What We Do

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where Humans with agents drive customer success together. Through Agentforce, our groundbreaking suite of customizable agents and tools, Salesforce brings autonomous AI agents, unified data from any source, and best-in-class Customer 360 apps together on one integrated platform to help companies connect with customers in a whole new way. Salesforce is democratizing AI agents for businesses of every size and industry so every company can embrace a workforce without limits. Our low code, open, and secure platform helps companies build and customize Salesforce fast so they can safely scale AI-powered work to every customer and employee experience and transform their business. Salesforce is proud to be the market leader, but we’re even more proud to lead in philanthropy, innovation and culture. Guided by core values of trust, customer success, innovation, equality, and sustainability, Salesforce is more than a business — we’re a platform for change.

Why Work With Us

There’s no typical day in the life of a Salesforce employee. You could be transforming our next AI innovation — or transforming your community. Closing deals — or closing your laptop for a day of Volunteer Time Off. Driving change for our customers — or driving change within one of our high-performing teams.

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