For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and its what we show up for every day.
Smartsheet is looking for a leader to help build and operate our EMEA Customer Success team. The right candidate is passionate about creating great customer experiences, growing and developing team members, creating a vision and strategy to support their teams and delivering with a high level of success, leveraging cross-departmental collaboration.
As Director, Customer Success you will oversee the Select and Commercial Customer Success teams in EMEA. This person will work with their sales counterparts to determine the needs of our customers to make them successful and enable the continual rapid growth for the EMEA geography at Smartsheet. This is a critical role that will have exposure and influence at the executive level internally and externally. The right person will own and be responsible for net retention and executing success planning to grow and improve our business.
This important position will report to Smartsheets Sr. Vice President of Customer Success and is based out of Smartsheets London office (Hybrid Eligible).
You Will:
- Lead an EMEA Customer Success organisation centered on guiding customers through AI-powered transformation, unlocking measurable business outcomes through the Smartsheet portfolio, including its AI capabilities.
- Understand, contribute and successfully translate mission, vision and values into actionable goals and objectives for the Customer Success organisation.
- Hire, manage, develop and grow leaders and individuals on the Customer Success team which are empowered to own and grow our business.
- Develop your team's AI expertise and equip them to coach customers on AI adoption roadmaps that align with strategic priorities.
- Responsible for enabling the coaching, mentoring and training needs of the EMEA Customer Success team, ensuring a strong focus on quality customer experience
- Maintain and enhance a strong, collaborative, effective and supportive culture within the team, amongst their peers and senior leadership.
- Partner with Product, Marketing, and Sales to drive EMEA's AI-first go-to-market strategy and positioning.
- Experience working creating a consistent customer journey for a Commercial and/or Enterprise book of business that drives positive customer satisfaction, referrals, and account growth.
- Work cross-functionally and cross-culturally to identify company goals, objectives and benchmarks for customer conversions and advocacy
- Lead the team in annual and quarterly planning to achieve retention and engagement targets and Customer Success initiatives with a focus on customer impact and revenue growth.
- Drive accountability for AI adoption metrics, feature expansion, and customer outcomes enabled by AI, not just traditional retention KPIs.
- Instill a high performance culture with focus on teamwork, customer excellence, and ownership
- Create a culture of inclusivity, recognising the strengths that individuals bring to the team to promote engagement and development opportunities
- Perform other duties as assigned
You Have:
- 8+ years of management experience in Customer Success, Professional Services, or related disciplines for a global B2B tech, SaaS or enterprise software business.
- Experience using and or a strong desire to deeply understand Smartsheets benefits, use cases, and business and technical elements.
- Experience successfully working cross organisationally with senior leaders.
- Experience in growing teams in new markets, managing budgets and successfully scaling teams.
- Strong leadership, business development, organisation, team building and management, communication (verbal, written and presentation), negotiation and interpersonal skills.
- Strong analytical skills with an aptitude for translating quantitative and qualitative data into actionable plans.
- Experience establishing and growing relationships with all levels within enterprise organisations; line managers, S-level, and C-suite.
- Experience driving both low-touch and high-touch customer engagement activities to success, including management of customer issues and escalations.
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement processes.
- Proven ability to be a leader, hands on doer and visionary
- Experience working and managing remote employees
- Willing to travel based on customer and business needs
- Experience using Salesforce and Gainsight
- Bachelors (BA/BS) degree required
- Legally eligible to work in the UK on an ongoing basis
Perks & Benefits:
- Employer-paid Private Medical and Dental, additional cost for family members
- Monthly contributions toward your pension
- Monthly stipend to support your work and productivity
- 25 days paid for Holiday + Bank Holidays + Flexible Time Away Program
- 20 weeks fully paid Maternity Leave
- 12 weeks fully paid Paternity/Adoption Leave
- Personal paid Volunteer Day to support our community
- Opportunities for professional growth and development including access to Udemy online courses
- Company Funded Perks including a counseling membership, salary sacrifice options, and your own personal Smartsheet account.
- Teleworking options from any registered location in the UK (role specific)
Get to Know Us:
At Smartsheet, your ideas are heard, your potential is supported, and your contributions have real impact. Youll have the freedom to explore, push boundaries, and grow beyond your role. We welcome diverse perspectives and nontraditional pathsbecause we know that impact comes from individuals who care deeply and challenge thoughtfully. When youre doing work that stretches you, excites you, and connects you to something bigger, thats magic at work. Lets build whats next, together.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Smartsheet is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment with the best employees. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants in accordance with applicable laws in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Costa Rica, Japan, Bulgaria, India, and Singapore. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
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