The Company

Qventus provides a real-time decision-making platform for hospital operations. Our mission is to simplify how healthcare operates, so that hospitals and caregivers can focus on delivering the best possible care to patients. We use artificial intelligence and machine learning to create products and solutions that help nurses, doctors, and hospital staff anticipate issues and make operational decisions proactively. We work with leading public, academic, and community hospitals across the United States.

Qventus works with leading public, academic, and community hospitals across the United States. The company was recognized by the 2019 Black Book Awards in healthcare for patient flow and by CB Insights as a 2019 top 100 Most Promising Company in Artificial Intelligence. Recently, Qventus won the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Emergency Response for the Healthcare System Innovation Challenge through its work helping health systems across the country plan for and operate in the COVID pandemic.

The Role

We’re looking for a Director of Customer Success to lead the Customer Success team that supports our enterprise and strategic accounts post-implementation (“Value Enablement”). This requires strong expertise in a range of competencies including: executive relationship development/management, people and project leadership, change management, healthcare consulting/professional services, and enterprise account management with technical and operational components. The right person for this role will bring a passion for creating repeatability and predictability in a highly complex technical and operational environment.

The Director of Customer Success, Value Enablement will lead a team of Customer Success Managers to define, package, and iterate on Value Enablement methodology (internal and customer-facing journey mapping), partner with customers to expand adoption of solutions, and analyze data and workflows to unlock opportunities. The Director serves as an Industry and Qventus product expert who strategically and independently drives high impact customer relationships, Value Enablement enhancements, and deep analytical insights to communicate our value proposition and drive adoption and outcomes. The Director will lead the team to provide ongoing value and delight to our customer base, resulting in high retention rates, satisfaction, and expansion opportunities. The Director of Customer Success will lead and manage Customer Success Managers and Senior Customer Success Managers by supporting their achievement of goals and professional development. The right candidate has a history of consistent high performance and is passionate about making our healthcare delivery system more efficient.

Core Responsibilities:

Independently lead cross-functional account teams (Customer Success, Clinical Operations, and Technical Operations) that manage Qventus’ enterprise and strategic customers in their Value Enablement journey.
Responsible for client usage, outcome generation, reference-ability, renewal, and identifying opportunities for expansion.
Establish, guide and manage expansion of executive relationships to ensure alignment both within the accounts and across supporting teams within Qventus (product, engineering, clinical operations, technical operations, sales).
Define, lead and execute account strategy – focusing short and long-term efforts around prioritized efforts to drive customer adoption, referenceable relationships across key stakeholders, tangible value, and performance improvement.
Independently manage high-impact and critical client conversations, expertly communicate the Qventus value proposition.
Resolve complex account issues largely independently, but know when to bring to bear resources from across the organization.
Develop and manage team members.
Act as a critical member of the Customer Operations Leadership team.
Use data and processes to measure and manage account performance creatively, proactively, and applicable to other members of our customer base.
Drive internal improvement activities including operational processes and customer journey methodologies.
Craft, manage and deliver high-impact, visually compelling client communications and presentations.
Provide clinical, technical and process expertise into solution design in order to address customer use cases and to deliver results.
Partner with Product (and other areas) to drive Qventus solutions in directions our customers need.
Act as the primary point of escalation for the account, both within the client and inside Qventus.
Partner with Sales to identify and support growth – both within the assigned account and within prospective. customers with similar profiles.
Ability to travel 25-50% (once safe to do so again).

Minimum Qualifications:

BA/BS required; MBA or another relevant advanced degree (preferred).
A background in professional services or consulting in provider-side healthcare technology or operations at a top firm (5-10 yrs) is required.
Strong understanding of hospital operations
A track record of leading cross-functional teams to deliver measurable outcomes and growth.
Strong interpersonal communication (verbal + written), project management and client service skills with the political savvy to engage with health system C-suite executives
Strong attention to detail and proven data/analytical skills with a bias towards process design
Flexible learning mindset to fully understand and integrate Qventus solutions with a high level of critical thinking and the ability to navigate ambiguous and dynamic circumstances and environments
Solid written communication and documentation skills to create and edit internal and client deliverables that are succinct, articulate and meet Qventus standards of quality
Experience handling tough conversations, addressing and delivering pushback, understanding issues and developing effective, fact-based persuasion strategies.

Nice to Have’s:

The experience, knowledge and confidence to be a leader within a fast-paced high-tech start-up company in the healthcare vertical
Demonstrated ability to lead and develop staff
The ability to translate client needs into product and service terms for Qventus teams and articulate the implications of product features for client workflows
Comfortable in an early-stage, high growth environment
Bias to action – intolerant of inefficiency and bureaucracy
Experience driving structure from ambiguity
Creative problem-solver, willing to be a trailblazer
High levels of personal accountability
A passion for fixing our healthcare system

Qventus is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Candidate information will be treated in accordance with our candidate privacy notice which can be found here: https://qventus.com/ccpa-privacy-notice/