VP, Client Success

Swayable is a fast-growing AI and automated data science platform that measures public opinion, and the impact of messages and advertising content on it. Swayable is looking for a high-performing leader to run the Client Success team. This function owns end-to-end client relationships across brand and advocacy clients, sets the bar for client experience across every account, and builds the team, processes, resourcing, and tooling needed to scale. The role has a dual mandate: leading the people and systems responsible for delivering high-quality results from our testing platform, while also ensuring clients receive proactive, strategic guidance throughout the relationship.

Responsibilities

Ensure client satisfaction, demonstrated value, and continued usage across the portfolio; Represent Client & Research Success in cross-functional and leadership forums, surfacing account health, resourcing needs, and methodology gaps to inform company-wide planning; Continue to train and uplevel the Client & Research Success team on commercially-minded behaviors, such as proactively identifying opportunities for expansion or upsell in partnership with the Account Management team; Own client retention and churn across the portfolio, ensuring the team identifies risks early, drives strong client outcomes, and takes action to protect and grow key relationships; Enforce research methodology and QA standards across client studies to ensure every deliverable meets Swayable’s rigor bar before it reaches a client; Build and scale Client Success Operations playbooks, workflows, tooling, and reporting infrastructure to ensure client efficiencies, accurate forecasting, and capacity planning; Turn recurring client needs and industry best practices into clear, actionable input for the Product team; Maintain detailed awareness of market trends affecting current clients, and of developments in the broader marketing, advertising, and research industry; Support in training the cross-functional teams on research methodology and test design so they can credibly represent Swayable's platform in client conversations

Requirements

10+ years of experience in client success, account management, or professional services, including several years leading and scaling a team, ideally at a high-growth SaaS company; Track record owning end-to-end client relationships with major brands or complex organizational clients, including retention, expansion, and escalation management; Strong interest and ability to pick up research methodology and quantitative analysis (e.g., RCT design, survey research, market research), with the ability to enforce quality and rigor standards across a research delivery team; Demonstrated success building and scaling operational infrastructure (e.g., playbooks, workflows, tooling, capacity planning, and reporting) to support team and client growth; A commercially-minded approach to client management, comfortable identifying expansion opportunities and partnering with sales or account management teams to act on them; Experience coaching and developing managers or individual contributors, with a track record of raising the bar on client-facing skills across a team; Excellent judgment operating at the intersection of client strategy and technical/methodological delivery, with the ability to translate between the two for clients, cross-functional teams, and leadership; Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience representing a function in cross-functional or executive forums; Genuine interest in Swayable's mission and the ability to work credibly with both commercial brand clients and civic/advocacy organizations

Benefits

100% Medical, Dental & Vision Plans - no employee contribution required; Generous PTO; Equity Options; 401k plan, FSA; Ongoing professional development investments