VP of Customer Experience

About The Role

Reports to: SVP Success, Support & Enablement
We are seeking a dynamic and visionary Vice President of Customer Experience to lead our global Support, Enablement, Community, and Digital Engagement teams. This leader will be responsible for shaping a unified, digital-first customer experience that accelerates value, scales efficiently, and delights customers at every moment of their journey. This role is the strategic counterpart to our VP of Customer Success and VP of Solution Success. Together they will define and deliver a consistent, proactive, and outcome-based experience across all customer segments.

The Ideal Candidate

Biggs deep expertise In high-scale, multi-channel Customer Support operations
Digital-first customer experience strategy
Scaled Enablement (customer learning, field & product readiness)
Online Community programs and user-led engagement
Customer communications and lifecycle messaging
AI-powered experiences, content strategy & governance and automation
Building a unified customer experience operating model across functions

Responsibilities

• Lead a global, multi-tier Technical Support organization focused on high-quality, omnichannel support experiences.
  Drive operational excellence through rigorous metrics (CSAT, CES, deflection, FRT, FCR, utilization, cost-to-serve)
  Expand and optimize self-service and hybrid experiences, AI-assisted support workflows, and automated troubleshooting.
  Partner closely with Product and Engineering to resolve escalations and influence roadmap priorities.
• Oversee Customer Enablement, including onboarding programs (in partnership with VP Solution Success), learning paths, curriculum design, certification, and scalable education experiences.
  Lead Field Enablement to ensure CSMs, Solution Success, Support Engineers and supporting teams are equipped with the skills, messaging, and tools to drive adoption and deliver value.
  Build an integrated enablement strategy that aligns product launches, success motions, and customer lifecycle milestones.
• Own scaled content and knowledge management across CX (KCS, LMS, taxonomy, search optimization, content freshness).
  Partner with Product, Marketing, and Customer & Solution Success to deliver cohesive digital programs that reduce friction and accelerate time-to-value.
• Lead the strategy for our online customer community—expanding user-led engagement, best practice sharing, thought leadership, and peer-to-peer problem-solving.
  Develop community programs that fuel product adoption, reduce support volume, and mobilize customer advocates.
• Oversee customer-facing communications, including release notes, product updates, incident communications, migrations, and lifecycle messaging.
  Ensure communications are clear, timely, consistent, and aligned across Support, Success, Product, and Marketing.
  Establish a governance model for customer communications to ensure quality and reduce noise.
• Define and operationalize a unified CX operating model built on simplicity, consistency, and scale.
  Partner with Customer & Solution Success leadership to create seamless transitions and shared insights across Support, Digital, Community, and Success teams.
  Drive insight-to-action loops by leveraging C360 intelligence, product telemetry, support analytics, and customer feedback.
  Lead capacity planning, workforce management, tooling strategy, process excellence, and CX-level metrics.
• Develop a high-performing, diverse global team with strong leadership at all levels.
  Foster a culture of collaboration, customer obsession, data-driven decision-making, and continuous improvement.
  Champion AI adoption and digital fluency across all teams to improve productivity and customer outcomes.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in Customer Experience, Support, Enablement, or related SaaS leadership roles.
• Proven success running large-scale, multi-channel support organizations and/or digital CX programs.
• Demonstrated expertise in customer education, learning design, and field readiness.
• Experience building and scaling thriving online communities.
• Strong background in customer communications, ideally in SaaS or complex product environments.
• Deep understanding of digital engagement, automation, AI-powered support, and scaled success motions.
• Strong operational acumen with the ability to build processes, systems, and operating rhythms that scale.
• Highly empathetic leader with excellent communication, executive presence, and cross-functional influence with Product, Engineering, Marketing and Business Technology leaders.
• A passion for building simple, intuitive experiences that help customers realize value quickly.

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements

Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, not in a Workiva office.

How You’ll Be Rewarded

• Salary range in the US: $231,800.00 - $301,200.00
• A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
• Raised Stock Units granted at time of hire
• 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package

Why Join Workiva

Workiva is the platform designed to bring confidence, control, and a competitive edge to the world’s most complex organizations. Our AI-powered platform unifies finance, risk, and sustainability on a single, secure foundation—ensuring data is trusted, traceable, and ready to act on. With an unbroken path from source to output, leaders gain confidence in their numbers, visibility into current and emerging risks, and the ability to move with speed and precision in a constantly changing world. At Workiva, you’ll bring technology to market that executives, boards, and regulators depend on. The work you do here helps organizations navigate uncertainty, maintain trust, and make decisions that stand up to scrutiny.