Director, Customer Experience Strategy

Swooped is a Talent Platform (not a staffing agency). The organization is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and over 50% of the Fortune 100 trust the organization to ship better, more secure software faster. The team embraces AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all members expected to incorporate AI into daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact.

About the role

As the Director, Customer Experience (CX) Strategy, you will lead the team responsible for shaping the strategic direction of the post-sales organization. This role turns complex customer, market, and business signals into clear decisions that improve retention, expansion, adoption, and long-term customer value. You will partner directly with the Chief Customer Officer (CCO) and support the Global Customer Experience organization, which includes Customer Success, Renewals, and Professional Services. Focus areas include business planning, lifecycle design, coverage/segmentation strategy, executive decision support, strategic programs, and performance insight across the customer journey.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision and priorities for the CX Strategy function, aligning strategic programs, analytics, and planning around customer lifecycle outcomes and business priorities.
• Own annual planning and in-year strategic cadences for CX, including business planning, coverage and segmentation decisions, headcount and investment proposals, executive reviews, and priority-setting across Customer Success, Renewals, and Professional Services.
• Develop and evolve business models, KPI frameworks, and executive decision support for CX leadership to enable better tradeoffs around customer health, retention, expansion, and growth efficiency.
• Lead high-priority cross-functional initiatives from ideation through implementation, bringing structure to ambiguous problems and driving alignment across CX, Sales, Finance, Product, Revenue Operations, and Data teams.
• Shape customer lifecycle strategy, including journey design, handoffs, engagement models, and program recommendations that improve customer outcomes and field effectiveness.
• Partner with Product and customer-facing leaders to bring voice-of-customer insights, adoption signals, and customer feedback into roadmap discussions, program design, and strategic decision-making.
• Define the strategic requirements and business cases that inform systems, tooling, reporting, and process changes, in partnership with CX Operations and Revenue Technology leaders.

Requirements

• Progressive experience in strategy, analytics, customer success, renewals, revenue operations, consulting, and/or business planning roles in a B2B SaaS environment.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect customer lifecycle strategy to operating metrics, planning decisions, financial considerations, and go-to-market outcomes.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing without direct authority across multiple senior stakeholder groups.
• Experience hiring, developing, and leading high-performing distributed teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to interpret complex data and translate it into clear recommendations, business cases, and strategic decisions.
• Fluency with key CX and GTM systems and analytical tools such as Salesforce, Gainsight, BI tools, spreadsheets, and SQL, along with comfort defining business requirements for data and tooling investments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create executive-ready documents, decks, proposals, and recommendations.
• Comfort operating in an all-remote, asynchronous, values-driven environment with a high degree of ownership, iteration, and transparency.

About the Team

The CX Strategy team is a small, high-impact partner to the broader Customer Experience organization, focused on steering the end-to-end customer journey from purchase through adoption, renewal, expansion, and advocacy. The team works across strategy, analytics, planning, and cross-functional programs to help CX leaders make better decisions, prioritize investments, and improve customer and business outcomes.

Pay

United States Salary Range: $168,000—$285,600 USD. The base salary range does not include bonuses, equity, or benefits. Sales roles are eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

Benefits

• Benefits to support health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave