Senior Customer Success Manager, AI Governance
TLDR
This role focuses on driving high-quality customer outcomes for AI governance across Optro's portfolio while advising C-suite stakeholders on complex governance needs.
Who We Are
Having surpassed $300M ARR and continuing to grow, Optro is the leading audit, risk, ESG, and InfoSec platform on the market. More than 50% of the Fortune 500, including 7 of the Fortune 10, leverage our award-winning technology to move their businesses forward with greater clarity and agility. And our customers love us: Optro is top-rated on G2.com and Gartner Peer Insights.
At Optro, we inspire each other to innovate and are proud of what we are producing. We spend each day thinking of new ways to help our customers and contribute to the greater good of our company and our surrounding communities. We are all about assisting each other and breaking through barriers to create the most loved audit, risk, ESG, and InfoSec platform by our customers. This is how we have become one of the 500 fastest-growing tech companies in North America for the seventh year in a row, as ranked by Deloitte!
Senior Customer Success Manager, AI Governance
Role Overview
AI governance is a critical space that is growing rapidly. As Senior Customer Success Manager, AI Governance, you will be focused on enabling Optro’s customers to succeed in developing, growing, and managing their programs. Working both on the ground with customers and with other Customer Success Managers to scale your impact, you’ll be the go-to-person for advising on complex customer needs and driving high-quality customer outcomes for AI governance across our portfolio.
This role offers a unique opportunity for a strategic problem solver with exceptional customer focus to build deep expertise in a critical space while leveraging customer context to shape the direction of Optro’s AI governance product offering.
Responsibilities:
Executive AI Governance Consulting: Partner with C-Suite stakeholders (Chief Risk Officers, General Counsels, and CDOs) as they establish their AI governance programs
Product Adoption Strategy: Translate AI governance product capabilities into actionable usage recommendations for customers, ensuring maximum value realization
Scaled Enablement: Empower the core Customer Success Management team with playbooks, training, and resources to drive AI governance stickiness and adoption at scale across their customer set
Portfolio Health Optimization: Monitor, analyze, and continually improve the AI governance customer portfolio health by identifying risks, proactively engaging on adoption blockers, and scaling best practices
AI Transformation Roadmap: Develop maturity model playbooks for clients to guide them from manual, ad-hoc AI governance to fully established AI governance programs
Policy Translation: Distill complex regulations (EU AI Act, NIST RMF, ISO 42001) into actionable business insights in the context of the AI governance product
Experience:
Prior Experience: 7+ years in high-touch SaaS environments (Management Consulting, Automation, Risk Advisory, or Legal Tech).
AI Governance Expertise: Demonstrated expertise in designing, implementing, and advising on AI Governance frameworks and programs (e.g., related to EU AI Act, NIST RMF, ISO 42001), or significant experience with related GRC or compliance fields
CS Tools: Familiarity with advanced customer success tooling to scale, streamline, and elevate their capabilities
Strategic Customer Engagement: Proven track record of providing high-level, strategic support and consultation to a wide variety of customers / clients, guiding them through complex transformations and tech adoption
Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to collaborate across an organization and manage ambiguity effectively.
Preferred Certifications:
AIGP (Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional) via IAPP
CIPP (Certified Information Privacy Professional)
Prosci Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP)
Our Company Values
Customer obsession: It starts and ends here. Consistently ask yourself how what you’re doing creates value for our customers. It’s a mindset.
Gritty resilience: Make it happen. Find a way. Move fast, stay positive, and do what it takes.
Drive innovation: Create the future. Continuously improve what exists and invent what’s next.
Win, together: One team. No silos, no egos. Drive to be the best and support each other’s success.
Growth mindset: 10x, not 10%. Think in orders of magnitude, not increments. Seek feedback, learn, and improve.
Perks*
Launch a career at one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in North America!
Live your best life (LYBL)! $200/mo for anything that enhances your life
Comprehensive employee health coverage (all locations)
401K with match (US) or pension with match (UK)
Competitive compensation & bonus program
Flexible Vacation (US exempt & CA) or 25 days (UK)
Time off for your birthday & volunteering
Employee resource groups
Opportunities for team and company-wide get-togethers!
*perks may vary based on eligibility/location
Please note that background checks are required. Qualified Applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for Employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. This role may have access to highly sensitive data, including employee data, customer data, company financials, and proprietary product information.
We love building strong partnerships, but please note that Optro cannot accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Any submissions without a signed agreement in place will not create a fee obligation.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
Comprehensive employee health coverage (all locations)
Birthday and volunteering time off
Time off for your birthday & volunteering
$200/month wellness stipend
Live your best life (LYBL)! $200/mo for anything that enhances your life