Customer Strategy Director
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Description
- The role of a Customer Strategy Director at Cresta is a senior-level position where you’ll partner externally with Cresta’s largest and most strategic customers as well as cross-functionality internally with Cresta’s Sales, Professional Services and Customer Success teams
- You’ll own delivering the strategy and vision for the partnership, iterative deployment planning, and communicating the expected value of the solution over time
- Customer Strategy Directors have a deep understanding of Customer Success principles, value realization fundamentals, and enterprise sales acumen
- You’ll serve as a trusted advisor to our most strategic customers, influencing C-suite decisions and guiding enterprise-wide transformations using Cresta’s AI solutions
- You would own the creation of a compelling long-term strategy, with Sales and with the Customer, which will serve as the blueprint for several Post-Sales teams to follow to achieve big wins
- Act as a strategic thought partner for enterprise customers, aligning Cresta’s solutions to executive-level goals and contact center objectives
- Lead customer engagements including business value discovery, stakeholder alignment, and use-case prioritization to unlock rapid time to value
- Partner with customer executives and Cresta account teams to ensure proposed solutions support key initiatives such as cost efficiency, revenue growth, and customer experience improvement
- Own the positioning and sale of Cresta’s professional services by articulating the value of our delivery approach, domain expertise, and long-term partnership model
- Lead the scoping and resourcing process to define the right services modules, team composition, and deployment plan based on customer goals, complexity, and timeline
- Present tailored implementation strategies to executive and program stakeholders, including delivery milestones, governance, and customer responsibilities
- Partner with internal teams across Professional Services, Sales, and Customer Success to ensure tight handoffs and long-term success
- Build and present business cases and ROI models tailored to customer-specific goals (e.g., cost reduction, sales lift, compliance)
- Define KPIs and track Cresta’s impact across performance, operational, and financial metrics
- Guide customers on how to leverage Cresta’s insights to take action and scale impact
- Coach internal teams on customer-centric value messaging and success planning
- Develop assets such as playbooks, frameworks, and executive readouts to scale Cresta’s strategic approach
Benefits
- Weekly lunch & learn
- Work with an A+ team of ex-Founders, world leading scientists, and nationally competitive athletes
- Mentorship - A world class mentorship board advises and mentors our team-members to capture the opportunity ahead of us
- If you enjoy leading strategic customer engagements, conducting strategic planning for SaaS products, have world-class consulting skills, and are comfortable working across multiple stakeholders, then you might be a great fit
- Has extensive experience in large scale enterprise software implementations and complex use cases
- Deep understanding of business value creation, change management, and/or consulting methodologies
- Proven experience in a strategic customer-facing role, preferably in a SaaS or technology-driven environment
- Experience managing and advising on large scale programs with many stakeholders and dependencies
- General understanding of how enterprise organizations are looking to leverage Generative AI solutions within their business
- Experience designing and interpreting Statements of Work to meet Enterprise customer needs
- Is able to build strong external relationships with external stakeholders, and in general, is able to take a consultative and strategic approach to solving customer problems
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with a focus on quantifying business value and ROI