Customer Sucess Director

(CS) Customer Success Director

The Job in short

As a Customer Success Director at Backbase, you will be at the forefront of driving customer

satisfaction and success across the region. You will be responsible for ensuring that our

customers derive maximum value from Backbase’s Engagement Banking Platform. This role

involves frequent travel across the region and requires a strong ability to build and maintain

relationships with key stakeholders at all levels, from C-suite decision-makers to programme

leaders.

Your mission is to foster product adoption and license consumption, enhance customer

satisfaction, and contribute to Net ARR Growth by ensuring that our customers successfully

leverage Backbase's solutions to achieve their business goals.

Meet the job

Customer Relationship Management:

● Develop and nurture strong, long-lasting relationships with key customers across your region.

● Regularly engage with senior stakeholders to understand their evolving needs and

expectations throughout the software development lifecycle, positioning yourself as a trusted

advisor and valuable resource.

● Facilitate complex discussions that involve multiple stakeholders, helping to align their goals

with Backbase's solutions and unblocking any adoption and license consumption challenges.

Value Maximization:

● Collaborate with customers to identify opportunities to maximize the value they derive from

Backbase products.

● Work with Backbase Customer Advisory to localize business cases. Provide strategic guidance

and best practices to ensure business cases align to the region and bank specific goals, ensuring

customers are fully utilizing the range of product capabilities available to them.

● Proactively identify and address potential challenges, working towards solutions that align with

the customer’s business objectives.

● Develop joint success plans with senior stakeholders, with clear objectives that are aligned with

their strategic goals.

● Actively work with the customer on roadmap planning to track and ensure the realization of the

business case throughout the programme lifecycle.

Advocacy Building:

● Identify and cultivate customer advocates who are willing to share their success stories and

experiences with Backbase solutions.

● Collaborate with marketing teams to create case studies, testimonials, and other materials that

showcase customer success.

Feedback Collection and Product Improvement:

● Gather and analyze product utilization, and end user feedback on product experiences,

providing actionable insights to R&D and steward the Request for Feature (RFF) process as a

joint responsibility with the Services team.

● Act as a bridge between customers and Backbase’s product development organization. Work

with the Backbase UX Research team, ensuring that customer needs and suggestions are

considered in future product enhancements.

Account Management:

● Proactively manage renewals by aligning customer success plans and business cases with

value realization, ensuring continued customer satisfaction and retention.

● In collaboration with Sales, identify opportunities for account growth by understanding the

banks’ business dynamics and leveraging them to expand ARR.

How about you

● Education: Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Business, or a related field.

● Experience: 10+

year

s of experience in a customer-facing role, including consulting, customer

support, delivery or account management in the APAC Hub region, with a focus on customer

success in the technology or software industry.

● Technical Acumen: Previous experience in roles requiring technical understanding, particularly

in customer success management within a software company.

● Language Proficiency: Fluent in English, with strong written and verbal communication skills.

● Customer-Centric Mindset: Passionate about delivering success for customers, with a deep

commitment to understanding customer needs and delivering solutions that exceed their

expectations.

● Results-Driven: Strong focus on customer satisfaction, with the ability to analyze data and

provide actionable insights and maintain dashboards that drive product adoption and customer

success.

● Relationship Builder: Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with

the ability to challenge, negotiate, influence, and persuade stakeholders.

● Autonomous and Cross-Functional: Ability to work independently, take ownership of customer

success initiatives, and drive results, while collaborating across teams with Sales, R&D and

Services colleagues, as well as Backbase’s partner network.

● Organizational Skills: Capable of prioritizing tasks, multitasking, and demonstrating adaptability

in a dynamic environment.

● Commercial and Functional Acumen: Understand the unique cultural and digital trends in the

customer’s market and speak to business drivers, with a strong focus on maximizing value for

customers. Experience in banking or other Financial Services is a plus.

● Frequent Traveler: Willingness to travel frequently across the region to engage with banks and

ensure their success with Backbase.

This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on Backbase’s customer

success, helping our customers achieve their strategic goals while driving growth and adoption of

our engagement banking platform and other solutions.