VP, customer success (EMEA)

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London, Greater London, England, GBR
Hybrid
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Software • Generative AI
The leading enterprise generative AI platform
The Role
Leads WRITER’s EMEA customer success organization, owning retention, growth, NRR, and GRR across strategic, enterprise, and mid-market customers. Builds and scales the regional CSM team, establishes success models and governance, partners with C-suite executives, and collaborates with Sales, Product, Marketing, and Solutions Architecture to deliver measurable AI transformation and ROI. Reports to the COO and contributes to global customer success strategy.
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🚀 About WRITER

WRITER is where the world’s leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work. Our vision is to expand human capacity through superintelligence. And we’re proving it’s possible – through powerful, trustworthy AI that unites IT and business teams together to unlock enterprise-wide transformation. With WRITER’s end-to-end platform, hundreds of companies like Mars, Marriott, Uber, and Vanguard are building and deploying AI agents that are grounded in their company’s data and fueled by WRITER’s enterprise-grade LLMs. Valued at $1.9B and backed by industry-leading investors including Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, and ICONIQ Growth, WRITER is rapidly cementing its position as the leader in enterprise generative AI.

Founded in 2020 with office hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, and London, our team thinks big and moves fast, and we’re looking for smart, hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work with AI.

 

📐 About the role

Shape how the world’s most sophisticated enterprises succeed with AI.

As vice president, customer success, EMEA, you’ll lead the region’s customer success organization and partner directly with C-suite executives at Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies to deliver measurable transformation—not proofs of concept, but lasting operational change. You’ll own retention and growth, scale a world-class team, and define how enterprises measure success in the agentic era. You’ll be a key member of WRITER’s EMEA leadership team and an active voice in the global CS leadership group, shaping strategy, structure, and culture across regions.

This is a builder’s role with global reach - reporting to our COO and working closely with the CEO and CRO to drive WRITER’s next stage of growth. This is a hybrid role based out of our London hub.

 

🦸🏻‍♀️ What you’ll do

  • Drive industry leading growth and retention by owning ambitious NRR and GRR goals, tying every expansion to quantifiable business outcomes

  • Lead, scale, and develop a high-performing CSM team across Strategic, Enterprise, and Mid-market segments—hiring exceptional talent and building clear career paths. Have a dotted line to other post sales organizations

  • Design and operationalize a regional success model that becomes the global blueprint - playbooks, metrics, and governance that scale

  • Build trusted partnerships with CIOs, CMOs, and business leaders at companies like Goldman Sachs, Accenture, and Hilton, positioning WRITER as mission-critical infrastructure

  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Marketing, and Solutions architecture to co-create account strategies that deliver measurable ROI

  • Champion operational excellence through disciplined forecasting, success planning, and data-driven decision-making

  • Represent the voice of the customer at the highest levels, influencing product direction and innovation

 

⭐️ What you need

  • 15+ years in enterprise SaaS or transformation-driven technology with deep experience leading Fortune 500/Global 2000 relationships

  • 7+ years in senior CS or post-sales leadership, ideally across multi-country EMEA operations. In addition to CS management, ideally have also led Engagement managers, Customer architects, and Customer support either directly or indirectly

  • Proven record-building and scaling CS organizations through inflection points - hypergrowth, global expansion, or IPO

  • Fluent in enterprise AI adoption and governance, with a strong grasp of ROI frameworks and transformation programs

  • A strategic and hands-on operator-able to alternate between vision and precision execution

  • Executive presence and credibility to influence at C-suite level and coach at every level

  • Enthusiasm to both drive strategy and prop leadership and “get in to the details” at the customer level to manage escalations and ensure delivery

     

🍩 Benefits & perks (UK full-time employees):

  • Generous PTO, plus company holidays.

  • Comprehensive medical and dental insurance

  • Paid parental leave for all parents (16 weeks)

  • Fertility and family planning support

  • Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri

  • Competitive pension scheme and company contribution

  • Annual work-life stipends for:

    • Wellness stipend for gym, massage/chiropractor, personal training, etc.

    • Learning and development stipend

  • Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites

  • Competitive compensation and company stock options

Skills Required

  • 15+ years of experience in enterprise SaaS or transformation-driven technology
  • Deep experience leading Fortune 500 or Global 2000 relationships
  • 7+ years of senior customer success or post-sales leadership experience
  • Experience leading multi-country EMEA operations
  • Experience leading engagement managers, customer architects, and customer support directly or indirectly
  • Proven record building and scaling customer success organizations through hypergrowth, global expansion, or IPO
  • Fluency in enterprise AI adoption and governance
  • Strong understanding of ROI frameworks and transformation programs
  • Strategic and hands-on operational leadership ability
  • Executive presence and credibility with C-suite stakeholders
  • Ability to coach employees at every level
  • Ability to manage customer escalations and ensure delivery

Writer Compensation & Benefits Highlights

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

  • Healthcare Strength — Employer-covered medical plan options plus dental, vision, life insurance, and FSA are highlighted across careers materials. These details point to strong core coverage in the health benefits offering.
  • Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is positioned as competitive, with recent postings citing 12 to 16 weeks depending on role or location. This indicates a substantial leave benefit for parents, though specifics should be confirmed at the offer stage.
  • Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer contributions is repeatedly listed as part of total rewards. Job ads and company materials consistently reinforce retirement support as a core benefit.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
350 Employees
Year Founded: 2020

What We Do

Writer is the full-stack generative AI platform delivering transformative ROI for the world’s leading enterprises. Its fully integrated solution makes it easy to deploy secure and reliable AI applications and agents that automate mission-critical work. Writer’s suite of development tools is supported by Palmyra – Writer’s state-of-the-art family of LLMs – alongside its industry-leading graph-based RAG and customizable AI guardrails. Hundreds of customers like Accenture, Intuit, L’Oreal, Salesforce, Uber, and Vanguard trust Writer to transform the way they work. Founded in 2020 with offices in San Francisco, New York City, and London, Writer is backed by world-leading investors, including Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, ICONIQ Growth, Insight Partners, Balderton, B Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Adobe Ventures, Citi Ventures, IBM Ventures, WndrCo, and others. Learn more at writer.com.

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