Client Success Director

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Skai, Inc. is seeking a strategic Client Success Director to own the end-to-end journey for a select book of large advertisers and agencies.

You will articulate business strategy, value realization, and risk management, partnering with cross-functional teams to drive retention and growth. The role centers on Retail Media with extension into Paid Search and Paid Social, requiring executive-level communication, strong commercial acumen, and hands-on performance marketing expertise.

Qualifications

• B.A. or B.S.; MBA preferred.
• 5+ years in enterprise client services or account management.
• Hybrid work model — 3 days per week in office.
• Proven record of owning and growing strategic advertiser relationships.
• Strong understanding of performance marketing across ecommerce, search, and social.
• Experience communicating with executive and C-suite levels.
• Willingness to travel up to 20%.
• Amazon, Google, or Meta certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the customer journey end-to-end for your book and executive relationships.
• Drive account strategy, value narrative, and risk management.
• Lead Quarterly Business Reviews and map account health.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to capture market opportunity.
• Use AI to accelerate preparation, planning, and client-facing output.
• Maintain a living success plan with measurable milestones and timelines.
• Represent growth initiatives in joint account planning with Growth Directors.

Skills

Executive relationships

Strategic account mgmt

Digital marketing

CRM hygiene

Client storytelling

AI-assisted prep

Education

B.A./B.S.; MBA preferred

Tools

Skai platform

AI tools

Performance marketing platforms

Job description

Ready to take your career to the next level?

Skai is looking for the best and the brightest to join our rapidly growing team. We're proud of our industry-leading digital marketing software but we're even prouder of the people behind it. That's where you come in!

A strategic Client Success Director owns and grows relationships with our largest advertisers/agencies. You will serve as the senior partner to executive-level client stakeholders, owning the customer journey end to end: business strategy, value narrative, value realization, and risk management.

In this role, you own account strategy and performance with a primary focus on Retail Media, while also supporting Paid Search and Paid Social. You partner closely with the Client Success Managers aligned to your accounts to translate strategy into execution, align client objectives with Skai's capabilities, and drive retention and growth. This is an individual contributor role built around ownership and relationship management.

The ideal candidate is a results-driven, consultative leader with strong executive relationship management skills, real commercial acumen, experience in digital marketing strategy and execution, and a deep understanding of the performance media landscape.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Own the customer journey end-to-end for your book, business strategy, executive relationships, and risk, leading as the strategic advisor who sets the agenda and drives the account forward rather than reacting to the next event.
• Maintain commercial understanding of every account in your book, using it to drive adoption and engagement, coordinate commercial moments, and seed opportunities for Growth.
• Own the customer's value story from discovery through executive communication: push past surface-level goals, translate business priorities into concrete outcomes, and communicate impact in the customer's own language.
• Lead customer meetings with structure, executive presence, and follow-through.
• Own the living success plan that translates account goals into measurable milestones, owners, and timelines, kept current and reviewed quarterly for your largest accounts.
• Lead Quarterly Business Reviews that quantify impact in real numbers, dollars saved, risk reduced, revenue created, and end forward-looking.
• Maintain a multi-threaded relationship map for every account, tracking power, influence, and sentiment, anchored by a documented, activated executive sponsor.
• Own CRM hygiene and account health accuracy for your full book, and own save plans the moment an account goes at risk: activate the executive sponsor, coordinate internal stakeholders, and drive recovery tactics to catch yellow before red.
• Partner closely with Product, Sales, Onboarding, Technical Account Management, and Services to capture market opportunity, acting as the de facto project manager coordinating those teams on larger initiatives.
• Drive joint account planning with Growth Directors on top accounts, and own the talk track for introducing Growth into the relationship.
• Advise on publisher and vertical best practices so advertisers maximize results for their business and agencies for their end clients.
• Ensure in-person visits have a clear purpose, including QBRs, success-plan setting, and executive alignment, and produce a documented outcome or next step every time.
• Act as an escalation point for complex or cross-product issues, driving proactive problem-solving, so issues don't stall on ownership gaps.
• Adopt and lead agentic workflow fluency internally and externally: use AI to accelerate preparation, planning, account insight, and client-facing output, applying judgment before anything goes to a customer.

Requirements

Skai Requirements:

• Passion and dedication
• Desire to be the best
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Strong interpersonal communication skills - in writing and verbally
• Proven track-record of problem-solving
• Results oriented
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment with tight deadlines

Position Requirements:

• B.A. or B.S.; MBA preferred
• 5+ years of experience in enterprise client services, account management, and/or client-facing technical project management
• Hybrid work model - 3 days per week required in office
• Proven record of owning and growing strategic advertiser or agency relationships, including direct revenue ownership
• Strong understanding of performance marketing across ecommerce, search, and social, with hands‑on experience implementing and managing digital campaigns
• Demonstrated ability to communicate, present, and influence credibly at all levels, including executive and C-suite, with strong listening and storytelling skills
• Demonstrated success delivering client-focused, strategic solutions and leading business reviews that generate quantified outcomes and expansion conversations, not status updates
• Comfort using AI tools to accelerate research, prep, and documentation as a core part of how the role operates, not a side skill
• Ability to manage multiple strategic accounts at once while maintaining strong attention to relationship and CRM detail
• Experience with Skai or comparable performance marketing platforms preferred
• Willingness to travel up to 20%
• Amazon, Google, and/or Meta certifications a major plus

The salary range for this position is $100,000 - $110,000. The actual salary amount will vary depending on the applicants experience, skills and abilities as well as internal equity and market data. This position is eligible for additional bonus compensation, full details will be provided during the recruitment process.

We are hybrid for the long term - with a great home/ office work mix (three days in office per week), passionate and diverse team members, and a vibrant company culture.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Skai, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. At Skai, we believe ensuring a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace is not just an ideal to strive for; it is right, necessary, and our responsibility as humans. Our full DE&I commitment and global framework can be viewed on our company website and are aligned to our core values. We strongly encourage and seek applications from women, people of color, and bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, marital status, medical condition including acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related conditions, or any other protected status. Also pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we encourage and will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Applicants with Disabilities

Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process. Please advise in writing of special needs at the time of application.

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