Customer Success Director

Starmind is revolutionising how enterprises in the DACH region manage and leverage their most valuable resource: organisational knowledge. Our AI-driven platform bridges the gap between questions and expertise, significantly reducing the time teams spend searching for answers and enhancing productivity. We are looking for a seasoned Customer Success Director to join our team in Zurich, who will strategically guide our highest-value clients across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, ensuring seamless onboarding, relationship growth, and robust commercial expansion.

If you thrive on delivering measurable impact at senior and executive levels, this is your opportunity to shape customer outcomes at the forefront of enterprise innovation.

**Core Responsibilities**:
**Customer Value & Strategic Success**
- Define, validate, and manage success criteria aligned to customer business outcomes, ensuring a detailed plan is developed and executed
- Lead strategic success planning and business reviews (QBRs/EBRs)
- Monitor leading indicators to ensure value realisation and customer satisfaction
- Develop the overarching rollout plans on a per customer basis in line with the success criteria

**Executive Relationship Ownership**
- Serve as the strategic point of contact for executive stakeholders in key accounts
- Build and maintain relationships across champions, sponsors, and influencers
- Lead stakeholder mapping and long-term engagement strategy

**Expansion & Commercial Growth**
- Own commercial discussions for expansions within the same business unit/function
- Drive upsell motions and value-based pricing conversations
- Identify and scope expansion opportunities; hand over new-business deals to Sales when necessary
- Discovery - new and potential sponsors, interested parties, use cases, value

**Renewal Ownership**
- Manage the full renewal process for strategic accounts
- Proactively identify and mitigate churn risk in collaboration with CSMs
- Ensure customer success criteria supports renewal outcomes

**Cross-Functional Collaboration**
- Lead the collaboration with Sales, Product, and Sales and Implementation Engineer to represent the voice of the customer
- Own the product and roadmap feedback from customers based on strategic account insights and ensure stakeholders involved are responsive and remain aware
- Internally lead the efforts to resolve issues and issue escalations

**Skills and Experiences**
- Senior or Director level experience managing strategic enterprise customers in a B2B SaaS environment, ideally across onboarding, rollout, renewal, and expansion
- Directly owns commercial outcomes, leading renewal and expansion negotiations, executive business reviews, and building long term C-level stakeholder alignment across sponsors, champions, and decision makers.
- Demonstrates a strong track record of driving measurable customer success through structured planning, proactive adoption strategies, risk management, and deep expertise navigating complex enterprise account structures and multi-stakeholder environments.
- Highly effective communicator with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical audiences and gain buy in at all organizational levels
- Comfortable leading cross functional initiatives with Sales, Product, and Technical teams to deliver strategic outcomes and represent the voice of the customer
- Proficient in leveraging customer data and health metrics to inform strategy, prioritize engagement, and drive commercial performance
- Skilled at turning perceived objections and obstacles into opportunities to engage stakeholders, uncover needs, and deliver strategic value
- Bring resilience and genuine enthusiasm for technology to proactively solve complex platform challenges with a solution oriented mindset and strong bias toward action and ownership.
- Experience mentoring or coaching others within Customer Success or cross functional teams
- Fluent in both German and English

**Nice to Have**
- Experience engaging with works councils or similar employee representative bodies, particularly in enterprise or regulated environments