Director of Customer Success
Read Ai
| Company | Read Ai |
| Category | Customer Support |
| Location | Seattle |
| Remote | Hybrid |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Director |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 5 Jun 2026 |
| Last verified | 9 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (ashby) |
Description
At Read AI https://www.read.ai?utm_source=chatgpt.com, we’re building products that help people get more value from their meetings, workflows, and communication. We’re looking for a Director of Customer Success to lead and scale our post-sale customer organization across both strategic account management and high-volume customer success operations.
This role will oversee two core functions:
- Account Management — relationship management, enablement, retention, and growth for larger accounts
- Customer Success — high-volume support and technical support for self-serve and single-payer customers
The ideal candidate is both operationally strong and customer-centric, with experience leading account management teams, scaling customer operations, improving technical support processes, and partnering cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Growth teams.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
LEAD ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT
- Oversee account management and customer engagement for larger customers and strategic accounts
- Lead and develop a team of Account Managers, while helping build and scale the organization as our enterprise business grows.
- Partner closely with Sales on onboarding, renewals, expansions, customer health, and escalations
- Support customer enablement and adoption to drive retention and long-term account growth
- Develop structured engagement strategies, lifecycle programs, and operational playbooks for larger accounts
- Ensure enterprise customers receive proactive communication, strategic guidance, and strong ongoing support
- Partner with Product and Engineering to surface customer needs, feature requests, and product feedback from strategic accounts
LEAD CUSTOMER SUCCESS OPERATIONS
- Oversee high-volume customer success and technical support operations across email, chat, and other support channels
- Manage and support the Senior Manager responsible for the Customer Success Team
- Increase the use of AI, automation, and tooling improvements to improve team efficiency while maintaining a high-quality customer experience
- Partner with Growth and Marketing to improve 1:many communication channels and experience.
- Drive the customer feedback and feature request process to ensure insights from customers are consistently incorporated into product planning
- Partner with Product and Engineering to identify recurring customer pain points and improve product usability
- Support the team that acts as product experts for Sales, including trial support, customer enablement, and product guidance
- Develop operational reporting and data analysis to identify trends, customer risks, product gaps, and opportunities for improvement
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
- 7+ years of experience in customer success, support, account management, or related customer-facing leadership roles
- Experience leading account management or customer success teams in a SaaS environment
- Experience scaling customer-facing teams and processes in a high-growth company
- Strong operational and analytical mindset with experience using data to drive decisions and process improvements
- Experience managing technical support or product support organizations
- Ability to partner effectively with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Growth teams
- Experience supporting SaaS onboarding, customer enablement, retention, and expansion initiatives
- Strong communication, leadership, and organizational skills
- Startup or high-growth SaaS experience preferred
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
- Strong customer retention and growth across strategic accounts
- A scalable account management organization that evolves alongside the Sales team
- Faster, more effective customer support and technical issue resolution
- Clear and actionable customer feedback loops into Product and Engineering
- Improved onboarding, enablement, trial conversion, and customer engagement
- Strong operational visibility and reporting across