About this role.
Semperis is seeking an Associate Vice President to lead its Americas Customer Success organization for a cybersecurity product and services business. The role manages Customer Success leaders rather than an individual customer portfolio and owns regional retention, adoption, value realization, advocacy, and expansion influence. It requires substantial experience partnering with executive and technical security stakeholders, including CISOs, CIOs, IAM leaders, and security operations teams. The AVP will work closely with Sales, Renewals, Technical Delivery, Product, Support, and Security to scale a high-performing post-sale operating model. Success is measured through GRR, NRR, adoption, CSQL, renewal readiness, success-plan quality, and leadership-bench development.
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I start by segmenting customers by risk, value potential, adoption maturity, and renewal timing, then establish clear inspection cadences for health, success plans, executive alignment, and risk mitigation. I ensure managers own leading indicators such as use-case activation and sponsor engagement, not only lagging renewal results, and partner with Sales and Renewals early on account strategy.
I would define role charters, customer-segment coverage, operating metrics, and decision rights for each leadership level. I would coach managers to inspect account quality, develop CSM capability, and remove systemic blockers, while using regular business reviews to create consistency without losing flexibility for strategic enterprise accounts.
I prepare around the customer's security priorities, risk profile, deployment maturity, and desired business outcomes. In executive conversations, I connect product adoption to resilience, operational risk reduction, and measurable outcomes while bringing the appropriate technical experts into deeper architecture or implementation discussions.
I would quickly align the account team on root causes, stakeholder map, commercial exposure, and an achievable recovery plan. The plan would include executive sponsorship, prioritized use cases, clear technical ownership with Delivery or Support, measurable milestones, and a disciplined communication cadence through the renewal decision.
I would use GRR, NRR, renewal forecast accuracy, churn and contraction drivers, adoption milestones, time to value, success-plan quality, customer health distribution, advocacy, CSQL creation, and manager/team capacity. I would review these by segment, product, customer tier, and tenure to distinguish isolated account issues from operational patterns.
At Semperis, our mission is to be a Force for Good. Starting with being a great place to work. We believe that when people feel valued, supported, and empowered, they do their best work. That’s why we focus on creating an employee experience rooted in purpose, growth, and balance. Semperis has been recognized as one of America’s Fastest-Growing Cybersecurity Companies by the Inc. 5000, a DUNS 100 Top Startup to Work For, and a multi-year Inc. Best Workplace awardee.
What we are looking for:
We are looking for an experienced Associate Vice President, Customer Success – Americas to join our Global Customer Success team.
About the role:
As Associate Vice President, Customer Success you will be a senior regional leader accountable for the Americas Customer Success business, including retention, expansion influence, product adoption, customer value realization, leadership development, and cross-functional execution. This role leads Customer Success Team Leads / Managers across the region rather than owning an individual book of business and is responsible for building a high-performing management layer that scales consistent execution across enterprise, strategic, and scale segments.
This leader must bring strong cybersecurity experience in a product/services environment, credibility with CISOs, CIOs, security operations leaders, IAM leaders, and technical champions, and the ability to translate technical adoption into business outcomes, renewal defense, and expansion strategy.
The AVP will operate as the regional owner of the CS strategy for the Americas, ensuring the team is organized and coached to drive proactive adoption, success plan execution, executive engagement, and tight partnership with Sales, Renewals, Technical Delivery, Product, Support, and Security.
What you will be doing:
Building, leading, and developing a high-performing team of Customer Success leaders across the Americas, with clear expectations by segment, role, and customer tier
Driving GRR, NRR, adoption, advocacy, renewal readiness, and success plan quality through your management team
Ensuring the Americas CS organization is designed to prioritize adoption and value realization over reactive project coordination, with clear role delineation and strong collaboration with Technical Delivery responsible for deploying our products
Acting as the senior CS partner to Sales leadership in the region on coverage, renewal forecast, expansion strategy, and executive account planning
Elevating the leadership bench so Team Leads / Managers / Directors can coach teams on cyber product adoption, executive storytelling, risk mitigation, and security-value realization
What you will bring to the table:
Essential Experience
8+ years in Customer Success, Technical Account Management, Services, Account Management, or related post-sale leadership roles, with meaningful time in cybersecurity and/or infrastructure software
3+ years leading leaders (Team Leads / Managers) in a high-growth B2B SaaS or cybersecurity company
Experience in a cyber product/services company where success depends on product adoption, use-case activation, value realization, and cross-functional execution between customer-facing and technical teams
Demonstrated success working with CISOs, CIOs, security operations managers/directors, IAM leaders, architects, analysts, and executive buyers
Proven ability to build strong partnerships with Sales leadership and influence commercial outcomes through adoption, customer strategy, and renewal defense
Track record of building and coaching teams that consistently hit GRR, NRR, CSQL, adoption, and advocacy targets
Strongly Preferred
Deep understanding of cybersecurity domains such as identity security, Active Directory / Entra, threat detection, incident response, backup/recovery, security posture, and resilience
Experience leading organizations that support complex enterprise customers with both executive and technical stakeholders
Strong command of SFDC, TaskRay, health scoring, dashboards, forecasting, and operational inspection
Experience leading through organizational change, coverage-model redesign, or role specialization initiatives
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Why Join Semperis?
You’ll be part of a global team on the front lines of cybersecurity innovation. At Semperis, we celebrate curiosity, integrity, and people who take initiative. If you’re someone who sees the glass as half full, embraces challenges as growth opportunities, and values a healthy balance between work and life—we’d love to meet you.
**Semperis maintains office locations in several cities across the globe. Where the job description specifies a required location, candidates will follow our hybrid work model. This includes working up to three days per week and remotely the remaining days.
Semperis is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, citizenship, marital status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law. The information collected by the Semperis application is solely to determine suitability for employment, verify identity, and maintain employment statistics.
Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or other applicable state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Semperis. Please inform Semperis representative Anna Taylor, Director of Global Recruiting, if you need assistance completing this application or to otherwise participate in the application process.
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