Customer Success Director

Vera Whole Health

1d • $131,243 - $196,865

About The Position

Defines the organization’s customer success strategy and sets the standard for how the organization engages, retains, and grows its most important client relationships. Acts as the enterprise expert on customer success model design, client lifecycle management, and portfolio performance optimization. Shapes both the programmatic and relationship dimensions of customer success at the highest level, influencing commercial outcomes and long-term client loyalty. The Customer Success Director drives short- to mid-term strategy for the discipline and exercises independent judgment on novel, cross-functional problems. This job operates as a subject-matter expert across multiple functional areas, designing engagement and retention strategies where no established precedent exists within the function, and influences both functional and cross-functional strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; 12+ years of experience in customer success strategy or enterprise account leadership in healthcare or health technology.
• Deep expertise in designing and scaling customer success programs with direct accountability for retention and growth outcomes.
• Exceptional executive relationship management and communication skills.
• Strong analytical capability with experience building portfolio-level performance frameworks.
• Expert knowledge of health plan, employer, or value-based care markets.

Nice To Haves

• CANDIDATES WITH STRONG LABOR AND UNION EXPERIENCE HIGHLY PREFERRED
• MBA or advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Set the strategic vision for customer success across the organization, defining engagement models, success metrics, and client lifecycle frameworks.
• Own relationships with the most strategically significant clients, personally engaging at the executive level on matters of program direction, escalation, and growth.
• Lead design and continuous refinement of customer success infrastructure, including health scoring, QBR formats, and data-driven retention frameworks.
• Partner with sales, clinical, and product leadership to align customer success strategy with enterprise commercial and product priorities.
• Evaluate and drive adoption of technology and tooling that scales customer success capabilities across the team.
• Lead customer success professionals, setting quality expectations, establishing team standards, and developing functional expertise.
• Synthesize portfolio-level performance insights to advise senior leadership on client satisfaction, retention risk, and expansion opportunity.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior