Director, Customer Transformation

Garuda Ventures; California (MO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Arkero is seeking a Director, Customer Transformation to ensure successful adoption of our AI-powered solutions across sports organizations and live entertainment clients. You will own how Arkero lands in customer ecosystems, leading rollouts, driving change, enabling teams, and turning frontline learnings into product improvements.

This senior role balances executive communication with hands-on workshops, and you will report directly to the CEO.

Qualifications

• Experience implementing customer success and rollout programs at scale.
• Proven track record driving adoption and change in enterprise software.
• Skilled in bridging executive strategy with frontline delivery.
• Able to create playbooks, guides, and training materials.
• Willing to travel on-site with customers as needed.
• Strong written and visual communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own rollout and adoption plans for Arkero customers.
• Manage system integrations and access provisioning to enable live launches.
• Lead change management from executives to front-line teams.
• Create rollout guides, launch plans, and training materials.
• Coach customer teams on applying Arkero to their workflows.
• Represent customer feedback to inform the product roadmap.

Skills

Customer implementation

Customer success

Management consulting

Solutions consulting

Product operations

Enablement

Enterprise software rollout

Tools

Ticketmaster API

Slack

Email systems

Job description

About Arkero

Arkero is an AI company building intelligent automation solutions for professional sports organizations, ticketing platforms, and live entertainment businesses. We were founded on the conviction that the passionate professionals running these institutions deserve tools that amplify their expertise, not slow them down.

Our AI works alongside sports professionals, automating repetitive workflows so teams can focus on strategy, creativity, and the decisions that drive real business impact. If you're excited about applying cutting-edge AI to one of the most data-rich industries in the world, we'd love to hear from you.

The Role

We are hiring a Director, Customer Transformation to make sure Arkero doesn't just get purchased — it gets adopted. You will own how our AI lands inside sports organizations and live entertainment businesses: leading rollouts, driving change management, enabling teams, and turning what you learn on the front line into product that gets better every week.

You live at the intersection of customer success and product. You are as comfortable in an executive readout as you are running a hands-on workshop with a frontline team — and you are not above chasing down API tokens and Slack credentials to get a launch over the line. You will report directly to the CEO. This is a senior individual‑contributor role with room to grow a team as our customer base scales.

Key Responsibilities

• Own rollout and adoption plans for new and existing Arkero customers — define success metrics, remove adoption barriers, and make Arkero part of the daily workflow rather than another tool that gets ignored.
• Handle the unglamorous parts of getting live: system integrations, email and Slack access, and API tokens for platforms like Ticketmaster — whatever it takes to ship a real launch.
• Lead change management across every level of the organization, from the executive suite to the people doing the work — running workshops and building internal champion networks.
• Create the materials that make adoption stick: rollout guides, launch plans, internal comms, training materials, Loom‑style videos, FAQs, and playbooks.
• Build reusable enablement assets and coach customer teams on how to actually apply Arkero to their work.
• Be the voice of the customer inside Arkero — gather feedback, separate signal from noise, spot patterns across accounts, and translate it into product insight that shapes the roadmap.

Required Qualifications

• Experience in customer implementation, customer success, management consulting, solutions consulting, product operations, enablement, or enterprise software rollout.
• A track record of driving adoption and change inside customer organizations — you have taken a product from signed contract to embedded in daily use.
• Equally credible in the executive meeting and the frontline workshop — you can set the strategy and then go do the detailed work yourself.
• A builder who thrives in ambiguity: you write the playbook where none exists instead of waiting for one.
• Genuinely customer‑obsessed — you learn how people actually work before you tell them what to change.
• Excellent written and visual communication: you produce clear, polished guides, decks, videos, and training docs.
• Willing to travel to be on‑site with customers when it matters.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience rolling out AI or automation products, with a clear point of view on what makes teams trust and adopt them.
• Fluent using AI tools like Claude to produce enablement materials — decks, docs, and videos — quickly and at high quality.
• Background in sports, ticketing, live entertainment, or fan engagement.
• Experience as the first or an early member of a customer‑facing function, with the range to grow it into a team.