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Salesforce lists this VP, Customer Success, Agentforce and Data 360 opportunity in chicago, Illinois. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Role Description
The Vice President of Customer Success is an executive leader of leaders responsible for setting the global vision and delivering proactive, outcomes-driven customer success experiences for Salesforce's most mission-critical, high-value customers. This role leads a team of Senior Directors and Directors who each run high-performing Customer Success organizations — requiring someone who can set enterprise strategy, operate at global scale, and drive outcomes through empowered, accountable leaders. This executive must be equally comfortable in the boardroom — able to synthesize complex customer health and adoption data into compelling narratives for C-suite and board-level audiences, build trusted executive relationships, and drive cross-functional alignment across Sales, Engineering, Product, and Support. This position reports to the SVP, Customer Success and is a key member of the global Customer Success senior leadership team.
Your Impact
You will define and own the global strategy for Customer Success at scale — driving measurable improvements in customer adoption, retention, expansion, and value realization. Your organizations serve Salesforce's most strategic customers, and your ability to set vision, translate data into insights, influence at the executive level, and develop the next generation of senior leaders will be the defining factor in your success.
Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Vision Define and communicate a bold, data-driven global strategy for Customer Success that aligns to broader Customer Success and company priorities
Operate as an executive leader of leaders — developing and inspiring a team of Senior Directors and Directors, each responsible for their own high-performing organizations
Establish the operating model, performance standards, and culture for Customer Success at global scale
Identify and capitalize on emerging risks, trends, and opportunities across the customer lifecycle; translate insights into investment decisions and enterprise-level plans
Represent Customer Success as a strategic voice in executive forums, ELT discussions, and cross-functional leadership councils
Customer Health, Adoption & Value Realization Own the strategy and execution for driving product adoption, feature utilization, and time-to-value across the customer base
Build and evolve a proactive, data-driven customer health model that predicts risk and surfaces expansion opportunity well ahead of renewal
Champion structured success planning and value realization frameworks that tie customer outcomes directly to business impact and ROI
Partner closely with Sales and renewals teams to reduce churn, improve retention, and identify whitespace for expansion
Ensure customers achieve measurable business value from their Salesforce investment through proactive engagement, not just reactive problem-solving
Data, Insights & Operational Excellence Maintain exceptional command of global operational metrics — customer health scores, adoption/usage rates, NRR/retention, expansion revenue, CSAT/NPS, and organizational health indicators
Drive a data-first culture across the leadership team, ensuring all decisions are grounded in evidence and communicated with precision at the board and C-suite level
Build and evolve executive-level reporting and dashboards that surface customer and business health and enable proactive, scalable intervention
Use data to identify systemic patterns across customer segments, product areas, and geographies — driving upstream improvements in partnership with Product, Engineering, and Support
Hold senior leaders accountable to measurable outcomes while enabling their growth and success
Executive Engagement & Stakeholder Management Serve as the ultimate executive escalation leader for the most complex, high-visibility, and strategically sensitive customer situations — bringing calm, clarity, and decisive action
Build trusted, long-term relationships with C-level and board-level stakeholders at Salesforce's most strategic global accounts, acting as a trusted advisor on their transformation journey
Navigate complex, multi-threaded internal environments — influencing at the ELT and C-suite level across Sales, Engineering, Product, and Finance
Champion the voice of customers in product and engineering investment decisions, driving prioritization of high-impact initiatives
Deliver compelling executive communications — board presentations, ELT readouts, investor-relevant narratives — with precision, confidence, and strategic framing
Executive People Leadership & Culture Lead, inspire, and develop a team of Senior Directors and Directors, elevating their strategic impact, executive presence, and leadership maturity
Build a high-performance, inclusive culture grounded in accountability, customer obsession, and continuous transformation
Identify and deliberately develop next-generation senior and executive leaders within the global Customer Success organization
Drive employee engagement, retention, and succession planning across a geographically distributed, multi-thousand-person organization
Foster psychological safety and model the behaviors required for candid, growth-oriented feedback at scale
Program, Commercial & Cross-Functional Partnership Partner with Sales leadership to ensure Customer Success program commitments are consistently delivered and commercially differentiated, directly supporting retention and expansion targets
Own the global scaling, evolution, and innovation of the Customer Success program — including success planning, digital/scaled engagement models, and emerging AI-augmented success motions
Partner with Finance and Strategy on multi-year headcount planning, investment cases, and business reviews at ELT and board level
Collaborate with Enablement, Product, Engineering, and Support to build and sustain programs that accelerate adoption, close capability gaps, and drive innovation in how customers realize value
Required Experience
15+ years in customer success, account management, or enterprise-facing customer-facing roles
10+ years in senior management, with 5+ years experience as a leader of leaders
Proven track record building and scaling enterprise-grade customer success programs — adoption, health scoring, renewals/expansion motion — at global scale
Demonstrated ability to own and resolve the most complex, highest-visibility customer situations at the C-suite and board level
Deep familiarity with CRM, SaaS, or cloud-based enterprise software — Salesforce platform experience strongly preferred
Exceptional ability to synthesize complex customer health, adoption, and retention data into strategic insights, investment decisions, and executive-level communications
Track record of driving transformational improvement in retention, expansion, and adoption metrics grounded in data (e.g., materially improving NRR, adoption rates, CSAT/NPS)
Proven ability to present data-driven investment cases and business narratives to ELT, C-suite, and board-level audiences
Experience building or transforming customer success analytics capabilities at organizational scale
Outstanding executive communication skills — written, verbal, and presentation — with the gravitas to lead board-level and C-suite conversations
Proven ability to build long-term trust with senior customer executives and internal ELT leadership through consistent delivery, transparency, and strategic partnership
Track record of influencing and aligning cross-functional partners at the highest levels of Sales, Engineering, Product, and Finance
Comfortable operating with high ambiguity and leading through complexity, change, and organizational transformation
Deep experience developing senior leaders — coaching Leaders to grow their strategic impact and executive readiness
Demonstrated commitment to building diverse, inclusive, and high-performing global organizations
Strong track record of employee engagement, retention, and executive succession planning
Proven ability to operate across both the visionary and executional spectrum — setting the long arc of strategy while maintaining organizational accountability
Willingness to travel globally to support strategic customers and executive alignment
Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the Values & Behaviors for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)
Unleash Your Potential
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time off programs
medical
dental
vision
mental health support
paid parental leave
life and disability insurance
401(k)
and an employee stock purchasing program
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Salary
The typical base salary range for this position is $221,900 - $390,300 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $266,800 - $426,900 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.
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Worksite address
chicago, IL, 60290, US
Who can apply
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