Head of Government Affairs & Market Development - France & Benelux

Dataiku Misc Postings; Paris; Sur place; EUR 60 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

An innovative firm is seeking a dynamic Director of Customer Success Account Management to lead a team focused on enhancing customer experiences and driving retention. This role is pivotal in shaping the post-sale customer lifecycle, requiring a proven leader with a strong background in SaaS and customer success. You will implement strategies, manage key relationships, and foster a culture of excellence within your team. If you're passionate about customer success and thrive in a collaborative environment, this is the perfect opportunity to make a significant impact.

Prestations

Flexible working hours

Health insurance

Remote work options

Professional development opportunities

Team building activities

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Sales or Customer Success, ideally in SaaS.
• 6+ years of leadership experience managing teams.

Responsabilités

• Lead strategy for customer retention and growth.
• Manage team performance to achieve high satisfaction.

Connaissances

Sales Management

Customer Success

Leadership

Negotiation

Change Management

Data Analytics

Formation

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Outils

Salesforce

Gainsight

Description du poste

Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

What you'll do

The Director, Customer Success Account Management is a high-impact role responsible for managing key aspects of the post-sale customer lifecycle, focused on retention and growth. The Director is a proven leader with a track record of scaling SaaS organizations. This individual will be responsible for completing the necessary strategy to achieve retention, churn, and growth quotas for their assigned team and customer base.

This individual will be a customer-first leader, dedicated to continuing to improve the customer experience through their intentional playbooks and processes. Additionally, this individual will excel and champion cross-functional initiatives to improve retention, building strong alignment with key business partners.

This position is a people manager role and reports to the VP of Customer Success, EMEA.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team’s vision and strategy, and manage the overall performance of people to achieve the highest levels of retention, growth and satisfaction for the customer base
• Achieve financial and strategic revenue, bookings and billings targets for their assigned quotas and targets
• Maintain and update an accurate, rolling retention and churn forecast of their team’s territory and communicate any risk to executive leadership
• Implement scalable processes and playbooks that drive the team’s metrics forward
• Champion cross-functional initiatives to improve gross retention and upsell outcomes
• Partner closely with leaders from across the Docusign ecosystem, driving unified initiatives forward
• Serve as a customer escalation point for the team in driving satisfaction and negotiations, while protecting and enhancing customer trust
• Set the culture, pace and expectations for their individual teams

Job Designation

Remote : Employee is not required to be in or near an office frequently and works from a designated remote work location for the majority of the time.

Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role / job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law.

What you bring

Basic

• Fluency in written and spoken English and French (Spanish and Italian would also be an advantage but is not essential)
• 8+ years of experience within Sales, Renewal Management, Account Management and / or Customer Success - ideally within SaaS offerings
• 6+ years leadership experience (people management) in Sales, Renewal Management, Account Management and / or Customer Success
• Track record of leading and building teams of individuals and people managers that consistently meet and exceed established goals
• Executive-level experience in B2B customer success roles
• Experienced with negotiating (Renewals / Sales) with C-level executives
• Experience with leading an adoption strategy across organizations, serving as a change agent for the customer

Preferred

• Proven record of meeting performance goals
• Experience in a field organization with targets and financial goals
• Able to attract and retain talent
• Creates a professional culture that encourages innovation, motivates employees, and delivers outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully resolve situations that are broadly defined, complex, diverse, and / or occasionally, unprecedented
• Lead and coach the team to drive the customer journey process inclusive of all stages from implementation through renewal
• Coach, develop, and handle elements from customer communications, presentations, RFP submissions, client negotiations, and change management and signing the deal
• Experience with enterprise content and / or contract platforms such as ECM, Document Management, Contract Management, eDiscovery or BPM systems and related implementations
• Background using data and analytics in decision making
• Ability to interact and influence all levels and divisions within an organization
• Change management and Leading Change methodology and / or first-hand experience
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal
• Experience with AI / machine learning technologies and implementations
• Experience with growth and retention of multi-product implementations
• Project management, business process reengineering knowledge and / or first-hand experience
• Salesforce and Gainsight experience
• Self-motivated, highly collaborative, creative, goal-focused, and team-centered

Life at Docusign

Docusign is committed to building trust and making the world more agreeable for our employees, customers and the communities in which we live and work. You can count on us to listen, be honest, and try our best to do what’s right, every day. At Docusign, everything is equal.

We each have a responsibility to ensure every team member has an equal opportunity to succeed, to be heard, to exchange ideas openly, to build lasting relationships, and to do the work of their life. Best of all, you will be able to feel deep pride in the work you do, because your contribution helps us make the world better than we found it. And for that, you’ll be loved by us, our customers, and the world in which we live.

Accommodation

Docusign is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need such an accommodation, or a religious accommodation, during the application process, please contact us at [emailprotected].

If you experience any issues, concerns, or technical difficulties during the application process please get in touch with our Talent organization at [emailprotected] for assistance.