Customer Success Leader
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Sentrycs is seeking an experienced, hands-on Customer Success Leader to build, lead, and manage our customer success and technical support operations across North America.
This is a key leadership role responsible for establishing the structure, processes, and strategy needed to deliver an exceptional customer experience. The ideal candidate will bring a combination of technical expertise, customer relationship management, operational leadership, and a continuous improvement mindset.
A primary focus of this position will be transforming our approach from reactive technical support to a proactive customer success model by anticipating customer needs, identifying recurring issues, improving processes, and ensuring customers realize the full value of Sentrycs solutions.
This individual will manage day-to-day team operations, serve as the escalation point for critical customer issues, and work closely with our global Customer Success, Product, and R&D teams in Israel to build a scalable and effective North American support model.
LOCATION: Huntsville, Alabama preferred; remote candidates will be considered based on experience and qualifications.
Responsabilidades
Leadership & Operational Management
· Lead and manage day-to-day Customer Success and Technical Support operations across North America.
· Provide direction, coaching, and oversight to team members, ensuring accountability, responsiveness, and high-quality customer service.
· Establish the North American customer success and support operating model, including team responsibilities, workflows, service standards, and escalation procedures.
· Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), including customer satisfaction, response and resolution times, recurring issues, and customer adoption.
· Assess team capabilities, identify resource needs, and support future team development and growth.
· Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous improvement, and customer focus.
Customer Success Strategy & Continuous Improvement
· Drive the transition from reactive issue resolution to a proactive, relationship-driven customer success model.
· Develop strategies to anticipate customer needs, identify potential challenges, and address issues before they impact operations.
· Establish structured customer engagement practices, including onboarding, training, regular check-ins, and ongoing operational support.
· Analyze customer issues, support trends, and lessons learned to identify root causes and implement sustainable improvements.
· Develop scalable processes and best practices that improve efficiency, consistency, and the overall customer experience.
· Partner with Sales to support customer retention, renewals, and long-term account growth.
Technical Support & Escalation Management
· Serve as the primary North American escalation point for urgent, complex, or business-critical customer incidents.
· Oversee the timely resolution of technical issues, coordinating resources across local and global teams.
· Establish clear escalation protocols, communication standards, and incident management procedures.
· Ensure customer issues are effectively documented, tracked, resolved, and communicated.
· Monitor customer system performance and operational readiness to proactively identify potential risks.
· Lead post-incident reviews and ensure lessons learned translate into process, product, or service improvements.
Customer Relationships & Enablement
· Build and maintain strong relationships with key customer stakeholders, including technical, operational, and executive contacts.
· Ensure successful customer onboarding, deployment transitions, product adoption, and ongoing operational readiness.
· Develop and maintain customer-facing training materials, technical documentation, FAQs, troubleshooting guides, and other support resources.
· Establish a knowledge base and self-service resources to improve customer independence and reduce recurring support requests.
· Identify opportunities to improve customer education, engagement, satisfaction, and long-term success.
· Support customer training, on-site engagements, and technical discussions as needed.
Global Collaboration & Cross-Functional Partnership
· Build strong working relationships with Sentrycs’ Israel-based Customer Success, Technical Support, Product, and R&D teams.
· Serve as the key North American liaison to global teams, ensuring effective communication, coordination, and alignment.
· Establish clear processes for knowledge sharing, technical escalations, and issue resolution across regions and time zones.
· Translate customer feedback and field experience into actionable recommendations for product enhancements and service improvements.
· Collaborate with Sales, Solution Engineering, and other internal stakeholders to ensure a seamless customer experience.
· Work with system integrators and strategic partners to support successful customer outcomes.
Requisitos
· 5+ years of progressive experience in Customer Success, Technical Support, Technical Account Management, or related technical customer-facing functions.
· Demonstrated experience leading and managing customer success, technical support, or service delivery teams.
· Proven ability to build or improve operational processes, support models, and customer engagement strategies.
· Experience supporting complex technical hardware/software solutions in enterprise, government, defense, homeland security, or public safety environments.
· Background in RF technologies, telecommunications, cybersecurity, defense systems, or related technical fields strongly preferred.
· Experience working with global, cross-functional teams, particularly in fast-growing or evolving organizations.
· Experience managing critical customer escalations and complex technical issues.
· Ability to travel for customer engagements, training, and team activities. (25%)
· Flexibility to collaborate with global colleagues across time zones, particularly teams based in Israel.
Cualificaciones preferidas
· Strong people leadership, coaching, and team management capabilities.
· Strategic thinker with a hands-on, operationally focused approach.
· Demonstrated ability to develop scalable processes and drive continuous improvement.
· Strong technical aptitude and ability to communicate effectively with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
· Exceptional customer relationship management, communication, and problem-solving skills.
· Ability to remain composed, decisive, and responsive during urgent or high-pressure customer situations.
· Proactive, analytical mindset with the ability to identify trends, anticipate challenges, and implement solutions.
· Highly organized, self-directed, and comfortable building structure in a growing organization.