Director, Client Relationships
Location: Anywhere in the US
Mode of work: Remote
As Director, Client Relationships, you will lead a team of Client Partners while directly managing strategic customer relationships. You’ll be responsible for driving value realization, retention, and growth across a portfolio of high-impact accounts. By mentoring your team and guiding strategic engagements, you’ll ensure alignment between our solutions and customer business priorities, while fostering long-term partnerships and measurable outcomes.
Ideal candidates have strong leadership skills, deep business and commercial acumen, and a track record of managing complex, consultative relationships—preferably with experience in management consulting or enterprise SaaS.
Key Responsibilities
- Product Adoption & Value Delivery
- Lead discovery and exploratory conversations with the client to uncover pain points, challenges and needs to customise solutions
- Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned clients, ensuring our solutions drive measurable business outcomes.
- Translate client goals and challenges into actionable plans that align with our offerings.
- Drive product adoption and deliver ROI
- Account Retention & Growth
- Manage renewal conversations by proactively demonstrating ROI, mitigating churn risks and building stakeholder alignment.
- Identify and drive cross-sell and upsell opportunities through strategic account planning.
- Develop multi-threaded relationships across client organizations, including C-suite stakeholders, to build advocacy and deepen partnerships.
- Drive expansion across BUs, functions, geos
- Strategic Client Engagement
- Lead QBRs, MBRs, and ongoing value conversations focused on customer ROI and long-term impact.
- Monitor and act on key health metrics (Customer ROI, % Monthly Active Users, Health Score, GRR, NRR) to preempt risks and capitalize on opportunities.
- Program & Stakeholder Management
- Collaborate with internal teams (primarily Engagement Manager and occasionally other teams such as Product, Sales, Services) to ensure seamless delivery, client satisfaction and account growth.
- Manage complex, multi-stakeholder client programs with clear ownership and outcomes.
- Develop a best-in-class customer value driven team and structures
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team by providing regular coaching, feedback, and growth opportunities
- Own end-to-end team staffing including headcount planning, recruitment, onboarding, and succession planning
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous learning within the team
- Identify skill gaps and drive initiatives for upskilling, cross-training, and career progression
- Act as a culture champion, role-modeling company values and promoting inclusion, transparency, and psychological safety
- Continually innovate and refine internal playbooks, processes, workflows and systems leveraging first principles as well as industry best practices
- Accelerate customer response time by debottlenecking for the team, as required
Skills & Role Requirements
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Business & Strategic Capabilities
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Deep understanding of business strategy, operations, and industry trends, with the ability to engage clients in big-picture conversations.
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Strong problem-solving skills with a structured, first-principles approach to client challenges.
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Ability to collaborate with clients to uncover their broader organizational goals, and strategically align product and service offerings to drive measurable business outcomes.
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Client & Program Management
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Experience managing large-scale, client-facing programs with multiple stakeholders.
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Strong communication and influence skills, capable of engaging senior executives and translating complex ideas into actionable plans.
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Ability to lead strategic conversations centered around ROI, adoption, and long-term outcomes.
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Commercial Acumen
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Prior experience in consultative selling, customer success, or account management, ideally in SaaS or tech environments.
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Demonstrated success in managing renewals and driving account expansion.
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Technical & Analytical Skills
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Strong grasp of our product suite and services, enabling effective solution design and value articulation.
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Comfort working with technical products and translating client needs into technical solutions.
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Data-driven mindset with experience tracking customer metrics to inform decision-making and proactive engagement.
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Other Requirements
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10+ years of experience in client service, consulting, strategy, or customer success roles.
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Experience in a top-tier management consulting firm is preferred.
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Exposure to enterprise SaaS or technology clients is a plus.
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Prior account management and quota-carrying experience is preferred
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Advanced degree (MBA or equivalent) preferred.
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Prior team and client management experience is a must. Team management experience includes hiring, coaching / mentoring, and building competitive processes and structures
Success Metrics
- Value Realisation Metrics — Demonstrated business impact and ROI for clients
- Product Adoption and Engagement — % Monthly Active Users (MAU), C-SAT
- Customer Health Score — Overall health and satisfaction of assigned accounts
- Renewal and expansion metrics — GRR and NRR translating to $ quota achievement