Head of Customer Success

Revolution Viewing Ltd; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

30 days annual leave (+5 with pro-rata

Leeds office address on-site presence

Job summary

Vepple, part of Revolution Viewing LTD, seeks a Head of Customer Success to lead the enterprise SaaS customer success function in Higher Education. You will own renewals and expansions, manage the CS team, and forecast accurately while building trusted university partnerships.

This is a hands‑on leadership role based in Leeds with hybrid work and some travel. You’ll drive strategic account value and contribute to product-led innovation in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading customer success in UK university recruitment or related HE marketing.
• Proven ability to own renewal and expansion negotiations end-to-end.
• Strong relationship-building with senior university stakeholders and internal teams.
• Experience running a structured CRM-driven pipeline in HubSpot.
• Proven track record of driving renewal targets and account growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead commercial performance of Customer Success and manage renewals.
• Oversee CS Coordinator and CSM to maintain quoting, invoices and renewals.
• Develop and maintain accurate forecasting and upgrade pipelines.
• Build trusted, partnership-driven relationships with university partners.
• Collaborate with Product, Sales, Marketing and Operations to drive outcomes.

Skills

UK student recruitment cycle

Expansion pipeline

Executive stakeholder management

Renewal negotiations

CRM systems (HubSpot)

Strategic account growth

Tools

HubSpot

Job description

Location: Leeds (Hybrid). Our office address is: Consort House, 12 South Parade, Leeds, LS1 5QS.

We offer a flexible hybrid working approach, allowing a balance between home and office-based work. For this role, you’ll be required to attend the Leeds office approximately 1 day per month (more during the first few weeks for onboarding and so you can get to know the team!)

This role requires regular in-person meetings and event attendance. Broadly speaking, we would suggest the requirement will be to have in the region of 3 to 4 nights away per month.

Salary: £65,000 – £80,000 per annum, dependent on experience, plus the possibility for paid overtime

Hours of Work: Full-time: 40 hrs P/W. Our standard working day is 8 hours excluding lunch break, but our flexible working policy provides employees with the flexibility they need to balance their work and personal lives.

Annual Leave: 30 days including bank holidays (flexible up to 35 days with pro-rata salary reduction). An additional annual leave loyalty scheme kicks in after the first full year of employment.

Pension: Employer: 3% Employee: 5% (gross)

Application Deadline: November 16th, 2026

Full job spec

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Job Summary

This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced Head of Customer Success to take the next step in their career and join Vepple at a pivotal stage in the company’s growth journey.

Vepple is an enterprise SaaS platform operating within the Higher Education sector, helping universities to recruit students through personalised virtual experiences, guided tours, interactive maps and events. The platform plays a central role in our university partners’ recruitment strategies and is regarded by many institutions as an essential student engagement tool (see video in the full job spec).

With a focus on experiential storytelling and digital engagement, Vepple enables prospective students to experience the atmosphere and culture of a university from anywhere in the world and at any stage of the recruitment journey. By creating emotional connection, increasing engagement and supporting informed decision-making, Vepple helps universities strengthen recruitment performance and improve student conversion outcomes.

We are looking for a commercially minded and relationship-driven Head of Customer Success (HoCS) to lead our Customer Success function. Accountability and day-to-day responsibility for Customer Success currently sit with our CEO; this accountability and responsibility will transfer to the successful candidate, who will then report to the CEO.

This is a hands‑on leadership role. You will be accountable for the commercial performance of the function, leading renewal and expansion negotiations and maintaining accurate forecasting, while building genuine, trusted relationships with senior university stakeholders. We are looking for someone commercially astute, capable of running a well‑maintained upgrade pipeline in HubSpot, from opportunity through to delivery, combined with the emotional intelligence to grow accounts through partnership rather than a sales‑led approach. Universities respond to people who help them reach their recruitment goals, not to pressure, and we want someone who instils that approach across the team.

You will manage our Customer Success Coordinator, who handles the administrative backbone of the function, including quoting, invoicing, renewal reminders and scheduling. You will also manage our Customer Success Manager (CSM). At the point of writing, we have 38 customer accounts; you will split these accounts with the CSM, most likely with the CSM taking a higher number, allowing you time to operate strategically and build on the existing departmental systems and processes.

This role would suit an ambitious and highly organised Customer Success professional who combines commercial awareness with exceptional relationship-building skills and a passion for digital innovation, customer outcomes and Higher Education.

Key Skills, Experience and General Outlook

Key Skills

• Understanding of the UK student recruitment cycle and Higher Education marketing
• Commercially astute, with the discipline to run an expansion pipeline, combined with the emotional intelligence to grow accounts through genuine trust and partnership rather than a sales‑led approach
• Strong ability to interpret customer data, demonstrate ROI and communicate commercial and strategic insights effectively
• Proven ability to lead renewal and expansion negotiations through to close
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the ability to build trusted relationships with senior university stakeholders and internal leadership teams
• Proven ability to work cross‑functionally and influence outcomes across Product, Sales, Marketing and Operations teams
• Strong understanding of CRM systems (we use HubSpot), customer success platforms, reporting tools and customer analytics, with the ability to run a disciplined pipeline from opportunity through to delivery
• Strong strategic thinking, commercial awareness and problem‑solving capability
• Excellent communication, presentation and relationship‑building skills, with the ability to communicate confidently at all organisational levels
• Ability to operate effectively across both strategic leadership and hands‑on operational delivery
• Strong commercial mindset with the ability to balance customer value, retention and growth objectives
• Strong leadership and coaching capability, with the ability to develop high‑performing customer‑facing teams
• Genuine enthusiasm for customer experience, digital innovation and the Higher Education sector
• Ability to operate effectively within a scaling and fast‑evolving business environment
• Understanding of GDPR and its implications for digital products and customer data
• Understanding of accessibility, inclusivity and digital experience best practice

Experience

• Experience working in or with (supplier side) the marketing and recruitment function of a UK university
• Demonstrable experience operating at Head of Customer Success level, either through:

• - existing experience in a Head of Customer Success role, or
• - significant Senior Customer Success Manager experience with leadership, strategic and commercial responsibilities equivalent to a HoCS remit

• Experience running and scaling a Customer Success function with autonomy
• Experience working within SaaS, EdTech or technology‑enabled subscription businesses
• Demonstrable experience managing and growing strategic customer relationships where those relationships are with people working at director level
• Track record of delivering renewal and expansion targets, including leading negotiations
• Strong understanding of SaaS customer success methodologies, customer health frameworks and Net Revenue Retention (NRR) principles
• Track record of improving customer retention, renewal rates and customer satisfaction metrics
• Experience leading and developing high‑performing customer‑facing teams
• Experience contributing to product strategy and customer‑led innovation
• Strong commercial acumen with experience driving customer growth, expansion and long‑term account value
• Experience instilling CRM and pipeline discipline across a teamExperience working within a small company or scale‑up environment
• Experience building customer success processes, reporting frameworks or customer health methodologies
• Experience line managing and developing Customer Success or account management professionals
• Experience within immersive technology, virtual experience platforms or digital engagement products
• Experience presenting at industry events, conferences or thought leadership forums

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