Director of Client Services (Remote)

Businessolver; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Benefits package

Job summary

Businessolver, a leader in benefits technology, seeks a Director, Client Services to drive strategic leadership across service teams and client portfolios. You will influence executives, shape talent planning, and oversee risk governance while ensuring client outcomes and portfolio health.

The role includes travel up to 15% and responsibility for enterprise readiness, service excellence, and scalability of delivery across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in Benefits Administration, Client Services, Customer Success, HR Technology, Healthcare, or another complex service environment.
• Experience leading leaders, managing large teams or portfolios, and driving strategic planning, talent management, operational results, and financial performance.
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders, navigate ambiguity, drive scalable solutions, and support change adoption.
• Availability to travel up to 15%.

Responsibilities

• Own business performance, client outcomes, portfolio health, and service effectiveness across multiple teams and client segments.
• Set direction for retention, service quality, financial performance, workforce capacity, risk mitigation, and client continuity.
• Lead organizational change by translating strategy into priorities, reinforcing adoption, and measuring impact.
• Oversee client risk management, escalation governance, operational readiness, compliance, and business continuity.
• Partner with VP-level and cross-functional leaders to align priorities, support strategic client discussions, and advance enterprise readiness.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Executive influence

Leadership coaching

Risk judgment

Job description

Since 1998, Businessolver has delivered market-changing benefits technology and services supported by an intrinsic responsiveness to client needs. The company creates client programs that maximize benefits program investment, minimize risk exposure, and engage employees with easy-to-use solutions and communication tools to assist them in making wise and cost-efficient benefits selections. Founded by HR professionals, Businessolver’s unwavering service-oriented culture and secure SaaS platform provide measurable success in its mission to provide complete client delight.

Please be aware of recruitment scams. Businessolver does not make job offers outside of our official hiring process or request payment or sensitive personal information. You will never receive an offer of employment without meeting a hiring authority and having a “live” and face-to-face conversation.

The Director, Client Services is a strategic leader accountable for business outcomes, leadership effectiveness, operational performance, and client portfolio health across multiple service teams, AVP-led functions, client segments, and complex portfolios. This role provides oversight for talent planning, workforce effectiveness, risk management, servicedeliveryhealth, escalation governance, and enterprise alignment. The Director drives execution through service leadership teams rather than owning day-to-day service delivery.

Strategic Business Leadership

• Own business performance, client outcomes, portfolio health, and service effectiveness across multiple teams and client segments.
• Set direction for retention, service quality, financial performance, workforce capacity, risk mitigation, and client continuity.
• Lead organizational change by translating strategy into priorities, reinforcing adoption, and measuring impact.

Leadership, Talent, and Organizational Effectiveness

• Build leadership capability through coaching, succession planning, talent reviews, and workforce planning.
• Create accountability frameworks for performance, engagement, leadership consistency, and business outcomes.
• Partner with HR and executive leaders on organizational effectiveness, scalability, and engagement strategies.

Risk, Governance, and Partnership

• Oversee client risk management, escalation governance, operational readiness, compliance, and business continuity.
• Review enterprise trends and implement actions to reduce systemic risk and improve consistency.
• Partner with VP-level and cross-functional leaders to align priorities, support strategic client discussions, and advance enterprise readiness.

Success Measures

• Improved client retention, portfolio health, service consistency, and operational performance.
• Stronger leadership bench,successionreadiness, engagement, retention, and leadership effectiveness.
• Reduced escalation volume, repeat issues, unresolved risk trends, and improved change adoption.
• Perform other duties as assigned and comply with all policies and standards.

Required Competencies

• Strategic thinking, enterprise leadership, and business acumen.
• Executive influence, cross-functional partnership, and client portfolio judgment.
• Leadership coaching, talent development, succession planning,and changeleadership.
• Risk judgment,escalationgovernance, operational discipline, and problem solving.

Experience

• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in Benefits Administration, Client Services, Customer Success, HR Technology, Healthcare, or another complex service environment.
• Experience leading leaders, managing large teams or portfolios, and driving strategic planning, talent management, operational results, and financial performance.
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders, navigate ambiguity, drive scalable solutions, and support change adoption.
• Availability to travel up to 15%.

The pay range for this position is 80K to 154K per year (pay to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data).__

Other Compensation: This role will be eligible to participate in the annual bonus plan.

Other Compensation: If this position is full-time or part-time benefit eligible, you will receive a comprehensive benefits package which can be viewed here: https://businessolver.foleon.com/bsc/job-board-businessolver-virtual-benefits-guide/__

Dear Applicant.

At Businessolver, we take our responsibility to protect our clients, employees, and company seriously and that begins with the hiring process.

Our approach is thoughtful and thorough. We’ve built a multi-layered screening process designed to identify top talent and ensure the integrity of every hire. This includes quickly filtering out individuals who may attempt to misrepresent themselves or act in bad faith.

We also partner with trusted, best-in-class providers to conduct background checks, verify identities, and confirm references. These steps aren’t just about compliance, they’re about ensuring fairness, safety, and trust for everyone involved.

Put simply: we will always confirm that you are who you say you are. It’s just one of the many ways we uphold the standards that matter most, to you, to us, and to the people we serve.

With heart,
The Businessolver Recruiting Team

Businessolver is committed to maintaining an environment that protects client data. We train our employees to maintain leading class security practices and expect all employees to adhere to policy, procedures and controls.

(Applicable to all roles at an AVP, DIR, VP, Head Of or SVP and above level):

Serve as a security contact for the business unit. Responsible for driving adoption and compliance with information security and privacy practices. Serve as a liaison with the information security team on security and privacy matters.

Businessolver is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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