SVP Customer Success

Sapiens; Singapore; Remote; SGD 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Sapiens is seeking a SVP Customer Success to lead CS across APAC with a hands-on, player-coach approach. You will manage a regional team of Customer Success Managers, ensure retention and growth, and personally oversee a small book of strategic accounts.

This is a remote APAC role focused on delivering a single global CS standard across diverse markets. You will own regional outcomes (NRR, gross retention) and drive capacity planning, playbooks, and cross-functional collaboration with Sales,

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Customer Success or account management, including 3+ years leading a team of CSMs or account managers.
• Insurance domain experience (P&C, Life & Pensions, or Reinsurance) or enterprise software serving insurers.
• Track record of owning retention and expansion outcomes (NRR / gross retention).
• Player-coach credibility: personally run strategic C-suite relationships while leading a team.
• Experience building and running a playbook-led CS motion at scale.
• Executive presence and commercial fluency for C-suite value narratives.
• Willingness to travel across the region to customer sites, exec reviews, and events.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a regional team of CSMs across Strategic and Commercial tiers.
• Own capacity and coverage planning across the regional book.
• Set and uphold one global CS standard and shared playbooks across the region.
• Hire, onboard, and performance-manage CSMs; build a growth bench.
• Own regional CS outcomes: aggregate NRR, gross retention, and account health.
• Run the regional operating rhythm: health reviews, forecasting, escalations.
• Collaborate with Sales, Delivery, and Support; report to Head of Global CS.
• Personally manage a small book of the region's most strategic accounts.

Skills

CS leadership

Executive relationships

Strategic accounts

Change management

SaaS delivery

Job description

SVP Customer Success

We are hiring a SVP Customer Success to run Customer Success in APAC. This is a player-coach role: you lead a team of Customer Success Managers and are accountable for the region's retention and growth, while personally carrying a small book of our most strategic accounts. You keep your region running to one global standard and stay hands-on enough to model it.

Location: APAC - remote.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a regional team of Customer Success Managers across the Strategic and Commercial tiers.
• Own capacity and coverage planning across the regional book - the right CSM on the right account at the defined tier coverage ratios.
• Set and uphold one global Customer Success standard and shared playbooks consistently across the region.
• Hire, onboard, and performance-manage CSMs, and build a bench for growth.
• Own regional Customer Success outcomes: aggregate Net Revenue Retention, gross retention, and account health across the region.
• Run the regional operating rhythm - health and risk reviews, forecasting, and escalation of the most at-risk accounts.
• Represent regional Customer Success to in-region Sales, Delivery, and Support leadership, and roll the region up to the Head of Global Customer Success.
• Personally own a small book of the region's most strategic accounts - staying hands-on at C-suite level and modelling the standard you set for the team.

You lead the regional Customer Success team and carry a personal account book. Your team owns customers' success and growth - not their contracts, tickets, or implementation projects, which sit with Sales, Support, and Delivery. You do not line-manage Sales, Support, or Delivery in the region; you orchestrate across them.

Experience & Skills Required

• 10+ years in Customer Success or account management, including 3+ years leading or managing a team of CSMs or account managers.
• Insurance domain experience (P&C, Life & Pensions, or Reinsurance), or enterprise software serving insurers.
• A track record of owning retention and expansion outcomes (NRR / gross retention) across a portfolio or a team.
• Player-coach credibility: able to personally run strategic C-suite relationships while leading a team.
• Experience building and running a consistent, playbook-led Customer Success motion at scale.
• Executive presence and commercial fluency: able to build and defend a value and ROI narrative and a persuasive business case at C-suite level.
• Willingness to travel across the region to customer sites, executive reviews, and events.

Desirable

• Experience hiring and scaling a Customer Success team within a defined coverage and capacity model.
• Knowledge of Sapiens' product suite (e.g. IDIT, TIA, AdvantageGo) or comparable core insurance platforms (policy administration, claims, or billing).
• Change-management or transformation experience - executing at scale and adapting to obstacles.
• Experience with cloud-native or SaaS delivery and managed solutions.
• Working within a born-in-the-cloud software company.

Sapiens is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment that embraces individuals from diverse backgrounds.

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