Senior Director – Nonprofit and Arts & Cultural Customer Success
Job Description:
- Lead and evolve the Customer Success strategy for nonprofit and arts and cultural organizations
- Build and scale AI-enabled customer success motions, including predictive health scoring, risk identification, automation, and data-driven account prioritization
- Drive measurable results across retention, net revenue retention, transactional and payments revenue growth, product adoption, and employee-generated sales opportunities
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leaders at nonprofits, foundations, faith communities, museums, performing arts organizations, and other mission-driven institutions
- Take executive ownership of major customer escalations, ensuring rapid resolution, clear communication, and proactive risk management
- Develop a high-performing leadership team through clear expectations, accountability, forecasting disciplines, and operational rigor
- Partner across Sales, Product, Marketing, Support, Payments, Finance, and Legal to bring customer insight into product, commercial, and market strategies
Requirements:
- 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in Customer Success, account management, recurring revenue operations, advancement services, or a related discipline
- Significant experience serving nonprofit, foundation, faith-based, or arts and cultural organizations, or direct leadership experience within those sectors
- Demonstrated success owning retention, expansion, transactional or payments revenue, and other measurable commercial outcomes
- Expertise in customer segmentation, account planning, forecasting, product adoption, customer risk management, and organizational transformation
- Experience using AI, predictive analytics, automation, and data-driven operating models to improve customer engagement, retention, and business performance
- Proven ability to lead senior leaders, manage complex customer escalations, and communicate effectively with executive stakeholders and boards
- Strong financial and commercial acumen, including experience evaluating revenue opportunities, retention risks, contractual commitments, investment decisions, and business tradeoffs
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Remote-flexible workforce
- Wellness Programs
- 401(k) program with employer match
- Flexible paid time off
- Generous Parental Leave
- Donations for Doers
- Pet insurance, legal and identity protection
- Tuition reimbursement program