Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Customer Success leadership role sits at the enterprise end of the SaaS spectrum, where retention and expansion depend on proving measurable outcomes across complex stakeholders. PagerDuty’s focus on platform adoption and executive alignment reflects a mature SaaS operating model, with Customer Success positioned as a revenue-adjacent function rather than a post-sales support layer.
For a SaaS career, the value is in running the full enterprise lifecycle at scale: adoption strategy, renewal forecasting, and value realization, all tied to metrics like gross and net revenue retention. The remit also signals deep exposure to the modern CS toolchain and operating cadence, including building playbooks, using product and engagement data to surface risk, and coordinating with Sales, Product, and Services to influence customer outcomes.
This role best suits a leader who prefers hands-on operational ownership alongside strategic planning, and who is comfortable coaching managers while engaging directly with senior customer executives. It will appeal to someone who wants to refine a repeatable enterprise success motion and is motivated by measurement, consistency, and cross-functional decision-making in an in-office, high-collaboration environment.
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Job Description
As our Regional Vice President, North America Customer Success, you will be reporting to the Chief Customer Officer of PagerDuty. You will have the responsibility for leading a team of success managers and renewal managers. Under your leadership the team members will engage with PagerDuty’s Enterprise customers to increase product and platform adoption, improve renewal rates and drive measurable customer business value to accelerate their digital journey.
This strategic, hands-on leader will have demonstrated a track record in a modern SaaS company by hiring and developing experienced team members, in creating a culture of customer centricity, and understanding the motion to win in the enterprise.
The Customer Success Management team acts as a Trusted Advisor to our customers, ultimately responsible for ensuring their success. As a key leader within the Customer Success organization, you will align with Executive stakeholders, evolve our Customer Success strategy and are responsible for helping customers achieve business value and ROI from their investment in PagerDuty.
Key Responsibilities
Advocate for the Customer:
- Proactively engage with customers to understand their needs, address challenges, and ensure they are achieving desired outcomes with the company's products or services.
- Serve as a voice of the customer within the organization, ensuring customer feedback is heard and acted upon.
Strategic Leadership:
- Develop and implement customer success strategies aligned with business goals, focusing on maximizing customer lifetime value and driving revenue growth.
- Uplevel our engagement with Executive decision makers and position the Operations Cloud as the platform for modern enterprises.
- Understand and ability to articulate Operations Cloud value proposition and how PagerDuty helps corporations revolutionize their digital operations.
- Develop and implement customer success strategies aligned with business goals, focusing on maximizing customer lifetime value and driving revenue growth.
Team Management:
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing customer success organization, providing guidance, coaching, and performance management.
- Build and sustain a team of high performing leaders (Success Managers and Directors) who embody our values, establish trusted advisor relationships and focus on making every customer successful.
- Instill operational rigor and consistency, as appropriate, to define and refine success manager engagement strategies, account management, and programs at scale.
Retention and Growth:
- Key metrics for this role are: gross revenue retention, net revenue retention, executive engagement, adoption, professional services, support and PagerDuty University.
- Drive customer retention and expansion by identifying opportunities for upselling, cross-selling, and building strong customer relationships.
- Forecast renewals by working cross functionally with sales, renewals and operations.
Data Analysis and Reporting:
- Monitor key customer success metrics, identify trends, and use data to inform decision-making and improve processes.
- Use adoption metrics to help CSMs understand where there is risk in their accounts and coach them through the use of playbooks to improve adoption.
- Work with the Value Realization team to ensure each customer has a value realization study that is data driven and outcomes based.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Effectively link business objectives in favor of continuous improvement. Present decision making situations that quickly allow cross functional teams to align and move forward in favor of deeper customer satisfaction.
- Partner with other departments, such as sales, marketing, product, and engineering, to ensure a cohesive customer experience.
Process Improvement / Managing Workload:
- Establish a rhythm of the business that is consistent and predictable in running the business activities and change the business projects.
- Continuously identify and implement improvements to customer success processes and tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
- Use Customer Success tools such as Salesforce, Gainsight, Gong, Tableau to manage the effectiveness of CSM plays, activities & renewals.
Basic Qualifications
- Ability to communicate and effectively present (verbally/in writing) coaching plans, strategic plans for your business, problem solving and decision making situations. Frame and solve complex business problems.
- Take on new challenges and the ability to work through uncertainty. Delivery high impacting contributions as well as pursue opportunities to influence decisions that impact customer value realization.
- Proven track record of trusted advisor to the C-suite in Enterprise accounts with strong consultative skills.
- Experience building plays and associated playbooks using Customer Success technologies such as Gainsight to measure impact and effectiveness.
- Understand and can apply Customer Journey frameworks to CSM tasks and responsibilities.
- Minimum of 10 years experience with a combination of working in a consulting firm running a team of senior consultants, and leading services or success organizations in a SaaS company.
- A four year degree or equivalent.
- Demonstrated ability to manage customer accounts in conjunction with sales organizations. Consistently delivering against targets; reduce churn and downgrades, produce accurate forecasts, while maintaining a focus on cost to serve.
- Exceptional leader of high integrity, intellect, and character who can set a clear vision for the group and plan, hire, manage, and inspire teams to achieve extraordinary results consistently quarter over quarter. Ability to collaborate effectively across the organization.
Preferred Qualifications
- A deep understanding of digital transformation in modern enterprises
- Strong C-suite relationships in enterprises globally
- MBA
PagerDuty is a flexible, hybrid workplace. We embrace and encourage in-person working as an integral part of our culture. Both our employees and external research tells us that co-located collaboration strengthens connections, drives innovation, and accelerates learning.
This role is expected to come into our San Francisco office 3 times per week, so you can thrive in your new role and fully embrace being a Dutonian!
The base salary range for this position is 180,000 - 275,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, commission, equity, and/or benefits.
Our base salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range, which is subject to change based on primary work location, reflects the minimum and maximum base salary we expect to pay newly hired employees for the position. Within the range, we determine pay for an individual based on a number of factors including market location, job-related knowledge, skills/competencies and experience.
Your recruiter can share more about the specific offerings for this role, as well as the salary range for your primary work location during the hiring process.
