Senior Director, Customer Success

Cohesity, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); Remote; GBP 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Cohesity is seeking a senior leader to grow and shape the EMEA Customer Success organization, driving strategic value, adoption, and expansion for our enterprise customers. You will manage a multi-country team of Technical Account Managers, establish scalable processes, and partner with product, engineering, and sales to deliver outcomes.

Ideal candidate has deep post-sales expertise, executive presence, and a proven track record in AI-driven customer value strategies, with strong

Qualifications

• Proven experience building, scaling, and leading Customer Success teams with deep expertise in technical account management.
• Strong expertise in post-sales strategy, best practices, and tooling, including AI-driven capabilities for customer value.
• Successful track record running high-touch, low-touch, and digital-touch CS motions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; effective with C-level audiences.
• Proficiency in at least one domain: Data Protection, Data Security, Storage, Virtualization, Cloud, or related technologies.
• Strong “quarterbacking” skills - project management, conversation control, ownership, and escalation judgment.
• Demonstrated leadership: talent development, data-driven decision-making, planning, creativity, and inspirational management.
• Executive presence with confidence, assertiveness, and humility.
• High emotional intelligence and strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to drive alignment and influence decisions across teams.
• 18+ years of progressive experience in roles such as Solution Architecture, Product Management, CS, TAM, Pre-Sales, Escalation, or Professional Services.
• Ideally, blended experience across post-sales, sales, and consulting.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Computer Science preferred) or equivalent experience.
• Proven success in people leadership, coaching, and elevating team performance.
• Strong business operations acumen; hands-on with SFDC, Gainsight, reporting, and dashboards.
• Deep understanding of recurring-revenue value drivers.
• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
• Creative, enthusiastic leader who inspires teams.
• Strong influencing skills across all organizational levels.
• Proven success in strategic negotiation and execution.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and expand the EMEA Customer Success organization, driving retention, adoption, and expansion.
• Lead a multi-country team of Technical Account Managers and Managers, including hiring, onboarding, and career development.
• Define and implement scalable CS models, playbooks, and success metrics.
• Coach CS leaders to deliver measurable outcomes with accountability and ownership.
• Travel up to 25% to engage with key customers and internal teams.

Skills

CS leadership

Technical acct mgmt

Post-sales strategy

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

AI-driven capabilities

Forecasting renewals

People leadership

Strategic negotiation

Domain knowledge

C-level communication

Data-driven decisions

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

SFDC

Gainsight

Reporting

Dashboards

Job description

Cohesity is the leader in AI-powered data security. Over 13,600 enterprise customers, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 and nearly 70% of the Global 500, rely on Cohesity to strengthen their resilience while providing Gen AI insights into their vast amounts of data. Formed from the combination of Cohesity with Veritas’ enterprise data protection business, the company’s solutions secure and protect data on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge. Backed by NVIDIA, IBM, HPE, Cisco, AWS, Google Cloud, and others, Cohesity is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with offices around the globe. We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design , and our culture.

This leadership role oversees and expands the EMEA Customer Success (CS) organization, ensuring our customers achieve meaningful outcomes, accelerating adoption and growth of our technology, and delivering strategic insights that elevate our product value. It’s a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on Cohesity’s customers. This is a high impact role requiring deep knowledge of our technology and use cases, strong leadership capabilities and an experienced leader to build, lead, and scale our Enterprise Customer Success organization. You'll oversee a multi-country team of Customer Success Senior Managers and Managers, who lead teams of Technical Account Managers (TAMs), responsible for driving retention, adoption, and expansion across our largest and most strategic customers in the region. As a member of the global Customer Success Senior leadership team, you'll shape how Cohesity engages and retains enterprise customers across EMEA's diverse markets, strengthen executive relationships, and scale customer outcomes in partnership with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Renewals. Success in this role means transform and position CS as a growth engine - proactive, outcome-driven advisory, withGross Revenue Retention (GRR)andNet Revenue Retention (NRR)as the shared scoreboard. You'll need deep knowledge of Cohesity's technology and use cases, strong multi-geography leadership capability, fluency in industry-standard Customer Success methodology, and the strategic and analytical range to operate from the account team level up to the boardroom. The role will report directly to the global VP of Customer Success.

HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE

Customer Value & Cross-Functional Partnership

Ensure customers realize measurable, ongoing value from Cohesity's platform, business outcomes, cost efficiency, performance, and operational resilience, guiding them through adoption, optimization, and scaling in production environments. Act as the strategic advisor and senior technical escalation point for the region's most strategic accounts, building deep, trust-based relationships with technical and operational stakeholders. Proactively surface risk, underutilized capability, and expansion opportunity, and partner with Account Managers, Support, Product, and Engineering to act on it, close the loop, and shape the roadmap. Define and track the KPIs that matter (adoption, value realization, customer health, and satisfaction) and represent the voice of the customer across the organization.

Strategy & Team Leadership

Own the Technical Account Management strategy across EMEA, defining the engagement models, success metrics, and playbooks that drive long-term technical and customer outcomes at scale. Build, lead, and scale a multi-country team of Technical Account Managers (Senior Managers and Managers), owning hiring, onboarding, enablement, and career development for the function. Define the standard for excellent technical account management, then create documentation and processes that ensure consistent execution across geographies. Operational Rigor: Implement scalable success planning, executive business reviews, and value realization frameworks tailored to enterprise customers. Be AI-forward, use data-driven insights to improve customer health, forecast renewals, and guide proactive engagement. Coach and mentor CS leaders to build high-performing teams that deliver measurable outcomes and operate with accountability and ownership. Ensure the EMEA CS organization is the customers champion within Cohesity influencing product direction and go-to-market priorities. Travel up to 25% to meet with key customers and internal teams.

Operational Rigor

Implement scalable success planning, executive business reviews, and value realization frameworks tailored to enterprise customers. Be AI-forward, use data-driven insights to improve customer health, forecast renewals, and guide proactive engagement. Coach and mentor CS leaders to build high-performing teams that deliver measurable outcomes and operate with accountability and ownership. Ensure the EMEA CS organization is the customers champion within Cohesity influencing product direction and go-to-market priorities. Travel up to 25% to meet with key customers and internal teams.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building, scaling, and leading Customer Success teams with deep expertise in technical account management.
• Strong expertise in post-sales strategy, best practices, and tooling, including emerging AI‑driven capabilities for customer value.
• Successful track record running high‑touch, low‑touch, and digital‑touch CS motions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; effective with C‑level audiences.
• Proficiency in at least one domain: Data Protection, Data Security, Storage, Virtualization, Cloud, or related technologies.
• Strong “quarterbacking” skills - project management, conversation control, ownership, and escalation judgment.
• Demonstrated leadership: talent development, data‑driven decision‑making, planning, creativity, and inspirational management.
• Executive presence with confidence, assertiveness, and humility.
• High emotional intelligence and strong cross‑functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to drive alignment and influence decisions across teams.
• 18+ years of progressive experience in roles such as Solution Architecture, Product Management, CS, TAM, Pre‑Sales, Escalation, or Professional Services.
• Ideally, blended experience across post‑sales, sales, and consulting.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Computer Science preferred) or equivalent experience.
• Proven success in people leadership, coaching, and elevating team performance.
• Strong business operations acumen; hands‑on with SFDC, Gainsight, reporting, and dashboards.
• Deep understanding of recurring‑revenue value drivers.
• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
• Creative, enthusiastic leader who inspires teams.
• Strong influencing skills across all organizational levels.
• Proven success in strategic negotiation and execution.

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