The SVP of Global Customer Success and Support is integral to our mission of helping customers solve their most complex security challenges by creating great teaming experiences and making the most successful security technologies and practices accessible to all. This is a rich, complex opportunity for someone to drive our transformation on the path to being a $1b+ company, but to do it in a customer-led way.
About the Team
The Global Customer Success and Support organization at Rapid7 delivers the partnership that our customers need to achieve their security goals with our comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity solutions.
About the Role
The Senior Vice President of Global Customer Success and Support will steer this organization to deliver an excellent customer experience that removes barriers to usage and adoption, and enhances customers' value achievement. This person will offer strategic leadership at Rapid7 to transform the customer product usage and support experience, working collaboratively across the company to create a transparent, urgent, and expert experience that delivers meaningful customer impact.
This role reports directly to the SVP, Chief Customer Officer, and drives a large, diverse global team. As the senior leader for this organization and this critical experience of our customers, you should be passionate about shaping all aspects of the organization - setting priorities, hiring and developing talent, establishing standards, nurturing a team culture of customer advocacy, deeply collaborating cross-functionally, and driving transformation in the experience.
In this role, you will:
Create Best-in-Class customer support experience
Define and implement a strategy to improve customer experience and engagement with support, scale the team and develop talent, and improve retention, all to deliver customer value achievementCreate a support experience delivering a differentiated competitive advantage and value to our customers that demonstrates partnership, transparency and urgencyDevelop and maintain a plan that ensures adequate support coverage (language, capacity, and technical capability) and meets anticipated future demand based on customer utilization trends, customer growth, service utilization, new product/service releasesDevelop new programs designed to enhance and leverage our partners' strengths and contributions to support experience objectives and customer needs.Develop and execute comprehensive customer success strategies aligned with company goals
Oversee the customer journey from onboarding to renewal, identifying opportunities to enhance the customer experience at every touchpoint.Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure a seamless and customer-centric experience throughout the customer lifecycle.Implement processes and systems to monitor customer health and identify potential issues or opportunities for intervention.Create strategies to mitigate churn risks and proactively address customer concerns.
Relentlessly focus on key customer outcomes such as resolution time, NPS, CSAT and customer retention; partner with Success and Support Operations to establish, manage and monitor performance.Monitor product quality metrics (case volume, percent escalated, issue categorization and prioritization, backlog, customer impact, etc.) and work as the advocate for the customer by partnering with the products' organization to drive improvement and issue resolution.Collaborate with other Rapid7 teams to drive improvements in Rapid7's products, services, and overall customer experience by advocating for the customer with actionable data and insight on customer behavior, satisfaction, and areas for improvement
The skills you'll bring include:
Experience managing a global Customer Success and Support organization for a portfolio of advanced SaaS products serving tech-savvy customers, with a breadth of exposure to a variety of customer needs15+ years of experience in leading and scaling a globally dispersed customer-facing organization in a technical environment, including at least 5 years in a senior-level leadership roleDemonstrated strategic and impactful executive leadership with large customer success and support teams in highly collaborative environmentsCare deeply about culture and values and can be a steward for transparency, collaboration, diversity and inclusiveness, impact and innovationInspired to deliver a differentiated support and customer product experience, and you have examples of transformations you have led in these areasDemonstrated experience with interpreting data analytics to derive insight and drive customer valueAbility to form solid cross-functional relationships and influence others to drive to a common goalPassionate about the customer and delivering focused measurable improvementsExcellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify the complex and effectively interface with executive, operational and technical teamsExperience with cybersecurity technology, SaaS, modern services for cloudBS degree in a relevant technical field such as Engineering, Architecture, or Computer Science. MBA highly desirable
We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That's because these teams reflect a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don't be shy - apply today.
About Rapid7
At Rapid7, we are on a mission to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by embracing tenacity, passion, and collaboration to challenge what's possible and drive extraordinary impact.
Here, we're building a dynamic workplace where everyone can have the career experience of a lifetime. We challenge ourselves to grow to our full potential. We learn from our missteps and celebrate our victories. We come to work every day to push boundaries in cybersecurity and keep our 11,000 global customers ahead of whatever's next.
Join us and bring your unique experiences and perspectives to tackle some of the world's biggest security challenges.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state or local law.