Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Director level Customer Success role sits squarely in the enterprise SaaS operating model, where adoption, renewals, and measurable outcomes are the core levers of durable revenue. Leading both success managers and renewal managers signals a focus on post sale execution as a coordinated motion, not a collection of individual accounts. The remit also reflects a mature SaaS environment where executive alignment and value realization are treated as strategic disciplines.
From a SaaS career standpoint, the role builds depth in the metrics and systems that define modern Customer Success leadership, including gross and net retention, forecasting, and scaled engagement via playbooks and tooling such as Salesforce, Gainsight, Gong, and Tableau. It also offers repeated exposure to cross functional tradeoffs between sales, product, services, and support, which is often where enterprise SaaS strategy becomes operational reality.
This position tends to suit leaders who enjoy balancing hands on customer engagement with building management capacity through hiring, coaching, and operating cadence. It fits professionals who want to be accountable for outcomes at the regional level and who prefer working with C suite stakeholders where influence and clarity matter as much as process.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
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 Atlanta 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.
