Vice President Customer Operations (m/f/d)
Berlin / Remote (Germany)
Ref: OQ66217853
July 30, 2025
INFORMÁTICA
FUNCIONES
Our client, a leading AI and back office automation scale-up, is seeking an experienced Vice President Customer Operations.
Your Key Responsibilities:
1. Value Delivery: Pre Sales to Post Sales
• Design & Improve Processes: Architect and continuously refine customer value delivery frameworks spanning solution design, onboarding, implementation, and ongoing support.
• Customer Journey Ownership: Map, monitor, and optimize the customer journey to ensure seamless transitions and measurable value realization at every stage.
• Cross Functional Leadership: Align Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Partner teams to ensure customer operations reflect product capabilities and GTM strategies.
• Feedback Loop: Implement mechanisms to capture, analyze, and act on customer feedback to improve processes and customer satisfaction.
2. Partner Standards & Training (Enablement)
• Leadership of Enablement Team: Lead the team responsible for defining partner delivery standards, curricula, and training assets.
• Content & Curriculum: Build and maintain sales/playbooks, product collateral, delivery checklists, and technical enablement resources that ensure consistent, high quality partner delivery and messaging.
• Training Programs: Run partner onboarding bootcamps, release/update trainings, and role based enablement paths (sales, solution architects, delivery consultants).
• Alignment with Partner Team: Collaborate with the Partner Team (owner of the Partner Program and partner success metrics) to co design certification paths and requirements.
• Quality Assurance: Define and audit adherence to delivery standards and best practices through spot checks, shadowing, or post project reviews.
3. Account Expansion
• Growth Strategy Execution: Identify and execute upsell, cross sell, and add on opportunities within existing accounts using customer data, usage patterns, and feedback.
• Segmentation & Playbooks: Segment customers to spotlight high expansion potential and deploy tailored engagement and expansion playbooks.
• Advocacy & Referrals: Cultivate champions and reference customers to drive referrals and support new business development.
Interfaces & Collaboration:
• Sales & Pre Sales: Ensure seamless handoffs and value hypothesis validation.
• Product & Engineering: Channel structured feedback, prioritize roadmap requests, and prepare enablement for new capabilities.
• Marketing: Coordinate on case studies, success stories, and partner-facing collateral.
• Partner Team: Align on certification requirements, performance dashboards, and joint QBRs while keeping clear ownership boundaries.
Your Qualifications:
• Executive experience in customer operations, customer success, or service delivery within SaaS, AI, or enterprise software.
• Demonstrated success building and scaling value delivery processes across the customer lifecycle.
• Strong background in partner enablement from a standards/training perspective (program ownership optional but cross-functional collaboration essential).
• Proven track record of driving account expansion and revenue growth from existing clients.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Data-driven mindset with expertise in journey mapping, segmentation, and feedback analysis.