Head of Customer Success and Implementation, Europe
Key Skills
Job Description
Open is building the AI that answers when it matters most — the complete customer communication engine that leading enterprises trust for their hardest, highest-stakes conversations. If you live in Europe, there's a good chance our AI has already helped you. Companies like MoneyGram, Mollie, TicketSwap, Viva.com, More.com, Trunkrs, and FareHarbor (a Booking.com company) rely on Open to handle millions of customer interactions — at a 77% average automation rate and 99%+ accuracy, priced on outcomes rather than seats. We're backed by Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, and Spacetime, and we focus on large enterprises with the most sophisticated support needs.
The roleIt begins hands-on and grows into a team you will build and lead. In your first months you are the implementation team; within a year, you are leading one.
What you'll do- Own implementation personally — take enterprise customers from signed contract to live production in collaboration with our customer engineering team: scoping each deployment, designing integrations with their helpdesk and workflows (Zendesk, HubSpot, Salesforce, Intercom, Freshdesk, and more), and getting their AI agents resolving real conversations.
- Get customers live, and to value — a kickoff call is not success; a customer automating at scale in production and renewing because the ROI is undeniable is. You will own go-live as the metric that matters and clear every blocker between signature and success.
- Navigate complex enterprise cycles — partner closely with sales and engineering through long, high-stakes deals with many stakeholders, security reviews, data migrations, and legacy systems, keeping business and technical stakeholders aligned from pre-sales scoping to post-sales expansion.
- Build the playbook, then the team — codify what works into a repeatable implementation methodology, then hire and lead the Customer Success and Implementation team across Europe, coaching them to the bar you have set.
- Be the voice of the customer — turn what you learn on the front line into sharper onboarding, a better product, and stronger retention, working directly with our founders and engineers, who talk to customers every day.
- 8–10+ years in customer success, implementation, professional services, or solutions and onboarding leadership at an enterprise B2B SaaS company, with genuine depth in technical implementation.
- A track record of personally leading complex enterprise deployments end to end — integrations, APIs, data migrations, and getting customers into live production.
- The ability to operate as a player-coach: hands-on delivering today, hiring and building a team tomorrow.
- Experience navigating long, complex enterprise sales and deployment cycles, and managing senior stakeholders on both the customer and internal sides.
- Fluency with CRM and support tooling (Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, Intercom, Freshdesk) and the modern AI tools your team will build on.
- Based in Western Europe — ideally Germany, the United Kingdom, or the Netherlands — able to work across CET business hours and to travel to customers when it counts.
- You've built a Customer Success or Implementation function from the early stage, not just joined a mature one.
- Domain experience in AI, customer support, fintech, or enterprise support operations.
- You've carried or directly influenced retention and expansion targets.
- Trust — we earn trust through consistency and care: we listen fully, communicate clearly, and honor our commitments.
- Customer Devotion — we put real people at the heart of every decision, learn their goals, and shape solutions that genuinely help them grow.
- Pride in the Craft — we treat our work as something worth doing beautifully; details matter, and we refine until it feels lasting.
- Purposeful Momentum — we move quickly but never chaotically: with clarity, intention, and optimism, treating challenges as chances to grow.
- Community & Care — we're at our best when we support each other as whole human beings, celebrating milestones and respecting boundaries.
We want our benefits to reflect our values, and offer the following to full-time employees:
- Flexible paid time off
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
- Parental leave
- Fertility and family-building benefits
- Top-tier work equipment and home-office setup
These benefits are further detailed in Open's policies and are subject to change, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefits plans. Eligible full-time employees can participate in Open's equity plans subject to the terms of those plans and policies.
Core Responsibilities
Lead the end-to-end implementation of AI agents for enterprise customers, ensuring they reach production and realize undeniable ROI. Develop a repeatable implementation playbook and build and lead the Customer Success and Implementation team across Europe.
Requirements
Requires 8-10+ years of experience in enterprise B2B SaaS implementation or customer success with deep technical expertise in APIs and integrations. Must be based in Western Europe and capable of operating as a player-coach to build a function from the ground up.
Benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Medical Benefits
- Dental Benefits
- Vision Benefits
- Parental Leave
- Fertility And Family-building Benefits
- Work Equipment
- Home-office Setup
- Equity Plans
About Open
Industry: Insurance
Company size: 2-10 employees