Cobu
Director of Customer Success
Remote Lead $14.2k/mo
Summary
Cobu is a seed-funded, profitable, remote-first SaaS prop-tech company serving the multifamily real estate industry with a B2B2C community-building platform. The Director of Customer Success will lead and scale the B2B CS function while directly owning Cobu’s most critical customer relationships to improve retention, renewals, and expansion outcomes.
What you'll do
- Own revenue retention for approximately 20 top B2B customer accounts and serve as the executive point of contact for customer leadership.
- Reduce CEO/COO involvement in day-to-day customer management while increasing customer confidence and retention.
- Own customer health, churn risk, renewals, and expansion signals; lead executive check-ins, QBRs, and renewal conversations.
- Ensure customers understand and realize measurable business impact and ROI from Cobu.
- Own B2B churn, retention, renewals, and Net Revenue Retention (NRR); partner with Sales on renewal and expansion strategy.
- Design and implement a data-driven customer health framework including segmentation, early-warning indicators, and escalation/intervention playbooks.
- Build the B2B Customer Success operating system from the ground up, including onboarding frameworks, adoption motions, renewal/expansion workflows, and CS playbooks (e.g., wow moments, time to value).
- Design CS for scale by leveraging AI and automation prior to significant team growth.
- Personally design and own CS tooling, workflows, and reporting; implement and configure CRM/CS platforms and AI-first CS tools.
- Use Excel/Google Sheets and AI for cohort analysis, churn modeling, and health scoring; work with BI and analytics tools.
- Lead AI implementation across CS (health scoring, churn prediction, sentiment analysis, automated QBRs/executive reporting, internal efficiency and insight generation).
- Lead, develop, and scale the B2B Customer Success team; define roles, responsibilities, and scorecards; transition lower-tier accounts into structured ownership.
- Serve as the internal voice of the B2B customer; translate customer insights into prioritized input for Product and GTM teams; partner with Sales/Marketing on proof points and messaging.
Requirements
- 10+ years in Customer Success with senior leadership experience.
- Very early-stage startup experience as one of the first CS hires (e.g., pre-product-market fit, under 15 employees).
- Direct ownership of executive-level B2B customer relationships.
- Proven success owning churn, retention, renewals, and Net Revenue Retention (NRR) outcomes.
- Hands-on experience applying AI in Customer Success.
- Track record of establishing meaningful (including in-person) customer relationships at all levels.
- Executive presence with strong relationship-building, communication, responsiveness, and follow-through.
- Willingness to operate as a hands-on player/coach in an ambiguous environment with adaptability and creativity.
- Ability to map customer journeys, define wow moments, accelerate time-to-value, and drive exceptional customer experiences.
- Ability to travel.
- Preferred: multifamily/proptech/adjacent real estate technology experience; experience with property owners/asset managers/property management companies; experience in complex multi-stakeholder B2B environments; experience with B2B2C platforms.
Conditions
- Location: Remote (US).
- Compensation: Base salary $150,000–$170,000 plus ~10% performance bonus tied to churn and other business metrics.
- Equity: Vesting over 4 years with a 1-year cliff.
- Benefits: Unlimited vacation; health insurance (medical, dental, vision); 401(k).
- Travel: Required.