Vice President, Customer Success

About Harver

Harver is the industry leading hiring solution helping organizations optimize their talent decisions. Rooted in over 35 years of rich data insights, the company’s portfolio of solutions enables organizations to make the best talent decisions across the entire employee lifecycle. Having processed over 100 million candidates, Harver provides trusted, flexible, and adaptable offerings making hiring better, faster, and fundamentally more fair. More than 1,300 customers trust Harver to help put purpose to work.    

At Harver, we are:  

• Transparent: We believe in fostering an open, honest, and accountable environment where information flows freely and clearly. We are dedicated to being transparent in our decision-making processes, communication, and actions, both with our customers, peers, and partners. 
• Collaborative: We embrace the power of collaboration and recognize that every individual brings unique strengths to the table. We have strong working relationships and partner together with respect, kindness, and empathy to achieve shared goals and deliver impactful results to our peers, customers, and partners. 
• Curious: We embrace curiosity as a driving force for continuous learning and innovation. We are committed to being agile, dynamic, and adaptive, always seeking opportunities to improve and evolve in response to new challenges and changing environments.

Job Overview:

Team Mission 
We operate a best-in-class Customer Success Team and leverage a repeatable go-to-market motion. We hire high-caliber Enterprise SaaS customer success professionals to thoughtfully engage CHOs, TA teams, VPs, General Managers, and other corporate decision makers. Our Customer Success team takes a proactive, consultative, and high-touch approach when working with customers, by engaging directly with end-users to generate platform adoption and running Executive Business Reviews to align with strategic initiatives and quantify and communicate ROI. 

Vice President, Customer Success 

We’re seeking a strategic and hands-on Customer Success Leader to drive customer outcomes, retention, and expansion across our portfolio. This individual will lead a high-performing team of CSMs and be responsible for ensuring customers achieve measurable value while identifying opportunities to grow our footprint within accounts. 

In this role you get to: 

• Drive customer retention and expansion by leading a team of CSMs focused on our largest customers 

• Drive the customer success strategy to ensure consistent, high-quality customer experiences across the journey 

• Own gross and net revenue retention for our global customer base 

• Design scalable programs to onboard, engage, and support customers at every stage 

• Build a proactive customer health model and implement playbooks for risk mitigation and value realization 

• Build, coach and scale the Enterprise Customer Success team, including sharing and shaping Customer Success process, best practices, and strategies 

• Drive accountability amongst the Customer Success team to ensure best practices are being followed to demonstrate the value of their Harver investment to our customers  

• Regularly monitor account health and user adoption across a large portfolio of accounts, and report on key performance indicators to Customer Success and broader Commercial team leadership 

• Takes ownership of customer retention and customer health programs to drive optimum retention results 

• Follow best practices for delivering customer excellence and hold team accountable for delivering against KPIs and hold team to a high standard of consistency 

• Engage directly with key customers on Executive Business Reviews (with CSMs) to communicate value provided by Harver 

• Provide support for CSMs in at-risk accounts through risk detection/alerting and action plans 

• Building hiring plans and recruit, hire and onboard world class CSMs 

• Partner closely with sales, product, and services teams to advance Harver's mission and approach to customer engagement 

We’re looking for people who have:  

• 8+ years of experience in Customer Success or Account Management Enterprise SaaS 

• 3+ years of experience leading high performing teams as a Senior Manager or Director which includes a track record of exceeding retention and expansion targets 

• Previous experience leveraging value realization best practice techniques to drive customer's desired outcomes  

• Previous experience cultivating relationships with Chief People Officers and Chief Human Resource Officers is an advantage 

• Experience with HR Technology or adjacent SaaS solutions preferred 

• Has bias for action and executing with urgency 

• Foster a culture of feedback, accountability, and customer-centricity 

• Proven track record of exceeding retention targets 

• Lead by example with ability to develop close personal relationships with customers and colleagues through empathy and respect 

• Patient and active listener 

• Proactive and self-driven, and bring infectious positive energy and resiliency 

• Passion for people, with a history of hiring, developing, and up leveling your teams 

• Proven ability to manage large (several hundred) logo portfolio 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (email & PPT) 

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