Role Overview

Own the full post-sales organisation, including Partner Success, Implementation, and Product/User Support.
Direct accountability for user adoption, time-to-value, retention, renewals, and expansion across the customer base.
Implement a successful user adoption strategy, ensuring it is measurable, repeatable, and scalable.
Identify and address root causes of churn, working cross-functionally to reduce avoidable attrition.
Collaborate with the Sales team to build a repeatable and scalable conversion process for paid short-term pilots to become multi-year ARR contracts
Design and execute a post-sales operating model that aligns roles, responsibilities, processes, and handovers across the customer lifecycle.
Ensure Implementation, Partner Success, and Product/User Support work as one system, with shared goals and clear ownership.
Balance customer experience quality with operational efficiency, making conscious trade-offs as the company scales.
Define what “good” looks like across each stage of the customer journey, and ensure this is consistently executed across teams.
Continuously improve tooling, workflows, and processes to support scale without degrading customer experience.
Lead and develop senior leaders across Partner Success, Support, and Implementation
Providing clear direction, coaching, and accountability to global team
Set clear expectations, success metrics, and decision-making authority within and across teams.
Build a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement across the post-sales organization.
Be the voice of the customer
ensuring customer insights are shared with and inform Product, Engineering, and GTM priorities.
Partner closely with Product and Engineering to improve adoption, reduce support friction, and influence product roadmap decisions.
Work with Sales and Marketing to ensure smooth transitions from pre-sales to post-sales and to support expansion opportunities.
Represent post-sales outcomes and risks in SLT discussions and strategic planning.
Define and own success metrics: Net Revenue Retention (NRR), Net Promoter Score (NPS), Churn value, Adoption rate, Pilot to paid contract conversion rate, Time-to-value, Support efficiency and quality.
Use data and customer insight to guide decisions, prioritize initiatives, and measure impact.
Create transparency around performance and health across the customer base.

Requirements

Senior leadership experience, including the management of a 15+ person team, in Customer/Partner Success or closely related post-sales function within a B2B or B2G SaaS environment.
3+ years experience in 2nd line management (leading leaders) and managing multiple post-sales teams.
Proven results scaling user adoption and reducing customer churn.
Strong understanding of how Implementation, Partner Success, and User/Product Support collectively drive customer retention and expansion.
Experience operating in scale-ups where structure exists but needs to be significantly elevated, including bringing clarity, consistency, and accountability to underdefined environments.
Strong cross-functional leadership skills, able to influence Product, Engineering, and Commercial teams without relying on hierarchy.
Data-informed, pragmatic decision-maker, comfortable acting with imperfect information.
Clear, direct communicator who creates alignment and focus across senior stakeholders.
Able to move fluently between strategic thinking and operational detail when needed.

Benefits

25 paid holidays per year
Hybrid work schedule (3 days onsite)
A day off for your birthday
Advantageous pension scheme
3 days of volunteering leave per year
€550 Learning & Development budget per year as well as 3 days paid leave for learning purposes
Travel allowance and Swapfiets subscription
Free access to office gym
Unlimited access to mental health support with OpenUp service (within the EU, US, and AUS)

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