VP, Success & Services
WFA Digital Insight
Vanta’s VP of Services & Support sits at the intersection of three critical customer‑facing functions—Professional Services, Customer Success, and Support—making it one of the most strategically layered leadership roles on the remote tech talent market. The candidate will inherit an established Customer Success and Support organization while simultaneously architecting a brand‑new Professional Services practice, a rare chance to define methodology, service tiers, and go‑to‑market motions from scratch. Because Vanta’s platform automates compliance and risk management, the role demands a deep understanding of how to translate technical security outcomes into measurable business value for clients of any size. Close partnership with sales, solutions, and channel teams adds a cross‑functional dimension that few senior GTM positions offer, and the remote‑first setting means the leader must drive culture and performance without a physical office anchor.
Job Description
At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. As the Vice President, Professional Services, Customer Success & Support at Vanta, you will lead our existing Customer Success and Support organizations and build Vanta’s Professional Services function from the ground up. You will refine and define the delivery model, team, service offerings, and standards that accelerate customer time-to-value across every segment we serve. Vanta's mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We help companies automate compliance, security, and risk management so they can move fast without sacrificing trust. Our GTM organization is at the center of that mission, bringing Vanta's agentic trust platform to companies at every stage of growth, from early stage startups to global enterprises. Professional Services, Customer Success, and Support together form a strategic, high-leverage function within Vanta's GTM org. This VP will own the end-to-end delivery of implementation and consultative engagements that drive measurable outcomes for our customers, as well as ongoing account health, retention, and support across the customer lifecycle. This function will be a key driver of onboarding quality and long-term retention. You will own the combined Professional Services, Customer Success, and Support P&L, retention, support quality metrics, and services margin. Working in close partnership with our Channel & Alliances team, you will also help equip and enable Vanta's partner ecosystem, acting as a bridge between Vanta's delivery standards and partner-led engagements to drive mutual customer success. What you'll do as a Vice President, Professional Services, Customer Success & Support at Vanta: - Lead the Team - Take ownership of Vanta's existing Customer Success and Support organizations, assessing current state and driving continuous improvement in process, tooling, enablement, and team structure.
- Customers - Serve as the executive escalation point for complex and strategic customer engagements and support escalations.
- Own Delivery Execution - Own responsibility for net revenue retention and expansion targets for Customer Success and quality/efficiency metrics (SLAs, CSAT, resolution time) for Support.
- Implement the tools, dashboards, and QA processes to track and continuously improve metrics across services, retention, and support.
- Own delivery execution and quality for Professional Services engagements, scoping and staffing implementations to ensure on-time, high-quality delivery.
- Cross Functional Partnership - Collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions, and Channel & Alliances on seamless presales-to-post-sales handoffs.
- Build a partner enablement services program that helps Vanta's reseller, service partner, distributor, and auditor ecosystem grow their practices and deliver consistent outcomes at scale.
- Establish the Services Practice - Define and build Vanta's Professional Services function from the ground up including the delivery methodology, service offerings, and team structure, with scalable packages differentiated for high-touch enterprise and mid-market segments.
- Create a repeatable, measurable motion spanning onboarding, implementation, and enablement through ongoing adoption, renewal, and support, and design new service offerings tightly aligned with Vanta's product roadmap.
- Proven builder: you've hired, structured, and developed a Professional Services or consulting organization from scratch and know what great looks like at every level.
- Proven operator of established Customer Success and/or Support organizations: experience taking over an existing team and driving measurable improvements in retention, efficiency, or quality.
- Track record of owning services revenue, with experience scoping, pricing, and selling professional services engagements including SOWs, change orders, and renewals.
- AI-forward mindset: you actively use AI tools to drive team productivity and delivery quality, and you've experimented with (or built) AI-enabled workflows in a services or customer-facing context.
- Strong operator: you build processes, implement tools, and use data to drive decisions.
- Executive presence with the ability to navigate complex enterprise customer relationships and serve as a credible partner to C-suite stakeholders.
- Familiarity with compliance and security frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, etc.) and the ability to translate them into customer-facing delivery strategies.
- Familiarity with key platforms in the compliance and security ecosystem (AWS, Okta, Azure/EntraID, GCP, Jira, etc.).
- Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state.
How to Stand Out
- Highlight specific instances where you built or scaled a Professional Services team, including the methodology you introduced.
- Prepare a short case study that shows how you improved net revenue retention or support metrics in a previous role.
- Familiarize yourself with Vanta’s compliance platform basics; being able to discuss security automation will set you apart.
- During interviews, emphasize cross‑functional collaboration stories, especially with sales or channel partners.
- Bring concrete examples of dashboards or QA processes you created; visual artifacts can reinforce your impact.
- When negotiating, consider equity and remote‑work allowances alongside base salary, as senior GTM roles often include sizable equity components.
- Watch for vague descriptions of team size or reporting lines; ask clarifying questions to ensure you understand the scope of ownership.
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