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DNV

Independent assurance and risk management firm.

Head of Customer Success

Customer SuccessConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in business, management, technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
  • At least 10 years of experience in customer success, digital transformation, implementation, or business enablement, including leadership of a customer-facing or internal customer success function.
  • A demonstrated record of growing sustained adoption of digital products and showing measurable business value beyond initial launches or pilots.
  • Experience leading and developing teams, setting priorities, and building scalable customer success processes across multiple stakeholder groups.
  • Ability to build credibility with senior leaders and professional users, lead outcome-focused business reviews, and influence decisions across a matrix organization.
  • Strong capability in onboarding, change management, and enablement, including diagnosing adoption barriers and helping teams change established ways of working.
  • A data-driven approach to setting baselines, defining meaningful-use measures, assessing customer health, and validating realized benefits with business owners.
  • Clear communication, sound judgment, and the ability to collaborate with business, product, and technical teams across regions and time zones.
  • Strong written and verbal English communication skills to serve customers by email and phone in Quebec, the rest of Canada, and the United States.
  • Must undergo pre-employment background screening.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute customer success strategy across business groups, service lines, and regions, aligning priorities with business outcomes, customer outcomes, and the digital product portfolio.
  • Build trusted relationships with senior business stakeholders and client-facing teams, and create joint success plans with priority use cases, adoption milestones, and expected benefits.
  • Establish customer segmentation and engagement models that focus team capacity on each business group's needs, readiness, and value opportunities.
  • Lead executive business reviews, communicate progress and risks, and secure business ownership of changes needed to realize value.
  • Define and communicate value propositions that help users and clients understand the benefits of digital and AI-enabled capabilities and adopt new ways of working.
  • Build, lead, and develop the customer success team; set responsibilities, coach performance, and foster accountability and customer advocacy.
  • Create repeatable playbooks for onboarding, engagement, value reviews, and adoption recovery.
  • Set team priorities and resource plans, balancing high-touch support for complex needs with scalable enablement for broader adoption.
  • Establish customer health reporting based on meaningful usage, stakeholder engagement, progress toward outcomes, and unresolved barriers; lead timely recovery actions.
  • Own the customer journey from readiness and onboarding through first value and sustained use, with clear responsibilities shared with business sponsors and delivery teams.
  • Lead role-based training, communications, and change enablement to help users integrate relevant features into real business workflows.
  • Develop a network of business and regional champions to share practical experience, support peer learning, and scale proven approaches.
  • Identify and address adoption barriers, including process, skills, data, product usability, and policy constraints; coordinate escalation and confirm interventions restore sustained use.
  • Own measurement of customer adoption, feature adoption, value realized by business group, and growth in adoption; agree eligible populations, meaningful-use criteria, baselines, reporting periods, and targets with stakeholders; maintain consistent definitions and review progress by business group.
  • Measure customer adoption by the number and share of eligible users and teams using the product meaningfully in agreed workflows over each reporting period; compare against baseline and verify continued use across successive periods.
  • Measure feature adoption by the number and share of eligible users and teams applying priority features to relevant work; compare against baseline and assess repeat use, depth of use, and workflow fit rather than one-time trials.
  • Measure value realized by business group through validated improvements against pre-adoption baselines over agreed periods, such as time saved, reduced cycle time, improved quality, or increased delivery capacity; distinguish expected from realized benefits and confirm sustained results with business owners.
  • Measure adoption growth by net increases in meaningfully active users and teams and changes in adoption rates across comparable periods; account for drop-off and changes in eligible populations, and assess whether adoption remains sustained as it expands.
  • Bring structured customer feedback, adoption evidence, and unmet needs into product prioritization, advocating for improvements with the greatest business value.
  • Partner with product and delivery leaders on launch readiness, feature enablement, and resolution of recurring customer issues; close the feedback loop with affected business groups.
  • Promote responsible digital and AI use consistent with DNV's independence, confidentiality, and quality requirements, with appropriate expert oversight and clear communication of capability limits.
  • Use validated success stories and lessons learned to scale effective practices across regions and continuously improve the customer success operating model.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in the energy sector, professional services, assurance, advisory, or another complex or regulated business environment.
  • Experience establishing or scaling an internal customer success function across business groups and regions.
  • Experience enabling adoption of AI-supported workflows, with understanding of responsible use, confidentiality, and human oversight.
  • Familiarity with product analytics, dashboards, and benefits-realization methods.
  • Experience building champion networks, communities of practice, or executive sponsorship programs that sustain organizational change.

About the Company

DNV

Independent assurance and risk management firm.

DNV is a global assurance and risk management firm that certifies the safety and compliance of a company’s systems, products, and supply chains across industries like maritime, energy, healthcare, and food. Its work involves independent verification and certification, using standardized, science-based criteria to assess ships, pipelines, safety management, and other processes, ensuring they meet agreed standards. What sets DNV apart is its long history and wide reach: born from 19th-century maritime risk assessment, it has grown into a multinational organization with about 15,000 employees in over 100 countries, and it combines deep domain expertise with a focus on safety and sustainability, including digitalization and the energy transition. The company’s goal is to be the trusted voice on safety and sustainability, helping clients manage risk, improve reliability, and demonstrate compliance through trusted certifications and assessments.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Grant
Total funding
$2.1M
Headquarters
Bærum, Norway
Founded
1864

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