Lead, Customer Experience Strategy and Operations (High-Touch)

Klaviyo; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Klaviyo is seeking a strategic and hands-on leader to shape the high-touch customer experience for our largest customers. You will design programs, define operating models, and build the rhythms, metrics, and processes that scale with growth.

You will partner with CS leadership, Sales, Product, Support and Marketing to close gaps, drive adoption, and influence outcomes. Expect a role that blends strategy with execution and measurable impact.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years in Customer Success, CS Operations, strategy, or program management, ideally in SaaS.
• Designed a customer program or operating model and demonstrated impact.
• You think in outcomes, define problems, and measure results.

Responsibilities

• Shape the high-touch customer experience from onboarding to value.
• Define high-touch criteria and outcomes for key customers.
• Turn feedback into changes to programs, playbooks and engagement models.
• Work with Product, Support, Marketing, and Sales to close gaps across teams.

Skills

CS Strategy

Strategy & Programs

SaaS

Data analysis

Executive communication

Tools

Salesforce

Gainsight

Tableau

Snowflake

Job description

*At the company, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives each the company (we call ourselves Klaviyos) brings to our workplace each and every day. We believe everyone deserves a fair shot at success and appreciate the experiences each person brings beyond the traditional job requirements. If you’re a close but not exact match with the description, we hope you’ll still consider applying.*

About the role

Our high-touch customers are where the relationship, the stakes, and the revenue are biggest. This role makes sure that book is run like a business: clear on who we serve and how, deliberate about the experience we create, and measured on what it delivers.

This is half strategy, half operator. You'll design customer experiences and programs for our highest-value accounts, and you'll build the operating rhythm, metrics, and processes that keep the high-touch team effective as it grows. You'll work directly with CS leadership, CSMs, Sales, Support, Product, and Marketing, and you'll have room to shape how we serve our biggest customers.

What you’ll doShape the high-touch customer experience

• Design and pilot the moments that matter for high-touch customers: onboarding to value, executive engagement, business reviews, renewal and expansion plays.

• Define what high-touch should mean: which customers qualify, what they get, and what outcome each touchpoint should create.

• Turn customer feedback and data into specific changes to programs, playbooks, and engagement models.

• Work with Product, Support, Marketing, and Sales to close gaps that customers feel across teams.

Run the high-touch business

• Own the operating model for the high-touch segment: coverage, capacity, cost to serve, and how the model changes as the customer base grows.

• Set the metrics that tell us whether it's working, such as adoption, retention, expansion, and customer sentiment, and build the cadence to review them.

• Lead the planning cycles for the segment, and make the case for where to invest and where to automate or pool.

• Build the playbooks, workflows, and tooling the team uses, and keep them current.

Lead projects across teams

• Manage a portfolio of strategic and operational projects from ambiguous idea to launched, measured program.

• Translate leadership priorities into plans with clear owners, timelines, and success measures.

• Bring structure to cross-functional problems, flag risks early, and drive adoption of new ways of working.

• Prepare clear, decision-ready materials for leadership, with a recommendation attached.

Who you are

• 5-8 years in Customer Success, CS Operations, strategy, or program management, ideally in SaaS, with time close to enterprise or high-touch customers.

• You've designed a customer program or operating model and can show what changed because of it.

• You think in outcomes first. You can say what problem you're solving, how you'll know it worked, and what you'd stop doing to make room.

• You're comfortable with data. You can build the analysis yourself in tools like Salesforce, Gainsight, Tableau, or Snowflake, or ask sharp questions of someone who can.

• You influence without authority, and people across Sales, Support, Product, and CS want you in the room.

• You write and present clearly, and you can lead with the answer for executives.

• You like building new things and also making them stick.

• Experience using AI or automation to scale customer engagement and CSM efficiency

Nice to have

• Experience with customer segmentation, health scoring, or customer journey design.

• Program or project management certification.

**Massachusetts Applicants:**It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Our salary range reflects the cost of labor across various U.S. geographic markets. The range displayed below reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all our US locations. The base salary offered for this position is determined by several factors, including the applicant’s job-related skills, relevant experience, education or training, and work location.

In addition to base salary, our total compensation package may include participation in the company’s annual cash bonus plan, variable compensation (OTE) for sales and customer success roles, equity, sign-on payments, and a comprehensive range of health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits based on eligibility.

Your recruiter can provide more details about the specific salary/OTE range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Base Pay Range For US Locations:

$120,000—$180,000 USD

*This role may require up to 10% travel for purposes such as new hire onboarding, client or partner work if applicable, team meetings, and industry events. Travel is coordinated in advance.*

Get to Know the company

We’re the company (pronounced clay-vee-oh). We empower creators to own their destiny by making first-party data accessible and actionable like never before. We see limitless potential for the technology we’re developing to nurture personalized experiences in ecommerce and beyond. To reach our goals, we need our own crew of remarkable creators—ambitious and collaborative teammates who stay focused on our north star: delighting our customers. If you’re ready to do the best work of your career, where you’ll be welcomed as your whole self from day one and supported with generous benefits, we hope you’ll join us.

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