Customer Success Director in London

Location: London
Salary: £80,000 per year
Recruiter: Permutive
Job Hours: Full-time

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Permutive is a real-time data platform that empowers publishers and advertisers to address all of their audiences, whilst protecting consumer privacy and respecting user consent.

Our unique technology sits behind some of the world's largest publishers such as News Corp, Hearst, BuzzFeed, The Guardian, Conde Nast International to name a few — we enable them to understand and personalise user experiences for hundreds of millions of people every month.

You'll love working with us if you're excited about collaborating with brilliant colleagues, embracing autonomy and responsibility, and tackling challenges that will drive us forward. It’s a great time to join and become a key contributor in shaping Permutive for the future.

Thanks to our category-defining edge technology, we've attracted the attention of global investment partners like EQT Ventures, Octopus Ventures, ACE & Company, and SoftBank Investment Advisers. Additionally, we are listed among YCombinator’s Top 150 companies of all time.

About the Role  

Permutive has built an advertiser business that works with some of the most innovative advertisers in the world. Our platform connects brands directly with premium publishers. Using the Permutive infrastructure for data collaboration, we enable audience activation that respects consumer privacy and is non-reliant on an identifier to drive performance.

As Customer Success Director, you will be the most senior member of the team in EMEA and actively work to improve internal processes and practices while driving cross-team partnerships with other departments. In partnership with our Account Management team, you will support renewal and upsell opportunities within your account base, and be accountable for Net Dollar Retention. You will also be seen as an example by the rest of the team and will be setting best practices for customer relationships management and an informal leader in the team

What you’ll be doing 

As Customer Success Director, UK you will focus on deepening our strategic relationships with our top tier customers in the UK, some of which have a global presence. You will be tasked with continuously improving client health across our customers. You will support your customers in continuous innovation within the space of their first party audience strategy, lead the innovation process and collaborate with them to maintain their leading position in the advertising market. of their direct sold advertising strategy and ensure they are taking the right steps to grow their revenue through the use of first party data. 

The customers within your portfolio have been our partners for a long time - your goal should be to continuously identify ways to evolve their strategy and lead a creative process to unlock additional pockets of value for them, deeply solidifying our position as their strategic, long-term partner.

About the Team  

You'll be joining a collaborative, diverse customer success team who are based in London, Paris, and across the United States. We're focused on ensuring our customers meet their organizations' strategic goals while also helping us achieve world-class customer satisfaction and net revenue retention. We're a forward-thinking team who cares deeply about our customers' businesses; we are industry experts and consultants. We are the voice, eyes, and ears of our customers at Permutive, and we work hard to spread customer empathy in all internal teams.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

  • Achieving and maintaining high customer health through strategic success and account planning and engagements (e.g. Executive Business Reviews), understanding and improving product usage, and supporting clients in meeting their business objectives
  • Managing a book of business, comprised of our top tier, strategic customers in the UK, a good number of which run global businesses; deeply understanding their commercial strategy, needs, and pain points; proactively bringing those insights back to the business
  • Your book of business will consist of publishers who have been our strategic partners for a number of years; you will be expected to proactively identify ways to advance their first party audience strategy and unlock additional packets of value for them on a regular basis, further solidifying our position as their strategic partner.
  • You will proactively support your clients in building and optimizing their direct-sold advertising business, and help them go to market through 1-1 and at-scale enablement tactics
  • You will build relationships across the customer’s organization, including senior as well as day-to-day executional stakeholders. You will map the customers’ organisation and look to expand our footprint across geographies and teams
  • You will partner with teams across the business to deliver optimal value for our customers and maintain high customer satisfaction
  • You will act as a voice of the customer, bringing product and strategy feedback and uncovering opportunities for new products and features
  • You will be a deep industry expert and you will make a proactive effort to educate yourself on evolving trends and insights in digital advertising, data, and privacy
  • You will occasionally manage renewal and upsell opportunities within your portfolio, and look to uncover cross-sell opportunities, with the view of expanding this responsibility over time. 
  • What you’ll need?

    You’ll be perfect for this role if you have:

  • Worked as a Senior Customer Success Manager, CS Director, or an Account Manager within a SaaS organization, in the ad tech or mar tech space
  • You have significant experience managing large global contracts and navigating complex organizations
  • You have a strong track record of driving best-in-class net revenue retention and developing customer advocacy
  • You have a proven ability to build senior stakeholder relationships and map complex organizations across geographies and budget holders
  • You have a deep understanding of the advertising and media landscape
  • You have created and/or delivered frameworks for value delivery, tracked them appropriately, and effectively constructed narratives against them (e.g. in EBRs)
  • You are very comfortable working with data - you have the skills to effectively visualize data, draw conclusions, and take action based on those
  • You are a self-starter, who is comfortable with ambiguity and enjoys solving new problems. For example, where content or collateral does not exist, you will proactively create it and share it with the rest of the team
  • We’ll be excited if you also have… 

  • Direct experience managing customer relationships with global publishers
  • What we are offering...

    We take a structured, objective approach to salary-setting, which is based on marketing information, our compensation strategy, and your experience and capability assessed through our interview process. For a typical candidate who meets our requirements, we pay a base salary between £80,000 - £100,000 with a 20% performance bonus. 

    Benefits

  • Stock options
  • Parental Leave Policy entitling new parents up to 26 weeks of leave on full pay
  • Everyone has full access to LinkedIn Learning
  • Time to rest and relax with unlimited paid leave (minimum expectation of 25 days + bank holidays annually)
  • Extensive training and development opportunities
  • Free access to , our mental health partners
  • Work-from-home allowance - £500 budget to upgrade your working environment. 
  • YuLife insurance - virtual GP and healthcare services, work-life consultations, free will writing service, wellbeing discounts

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