Senior Director, Customer Experience, Air Force

Duties and Responsibilities

Retention & Growth

• Achieve retention and growth targets by proactively identifying expansion opportunities, driving adoption, and deepening customer relationships.

• Deliver measurable year-over-year growth and demonstrate customer value for the accounts assigned, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.

• Partner with Decision Lens’ CX leadership to establish ROI and success metrics and maintain ongoing reporting that demonstrates the impact of our solution across the entire customer lifecycle.

• Actively contribute to QBRs by clearly communicating solution status, business impact, ROI, and opportunities for innovation and growth.

• Introduce new use cases, capabilities, and services that deliver measurable outcomes.

• Proactively monitor customer health scores, adoption trends, and satisfaction metrics to identify and address at-risk accounts before issues escalate.

• Partner with CX leadership, sales, and contracting to successfully complete renewals.

• Reports to and partners with the EVP of CX to provide customer-specific evidence-based metrics, case studies, and thought leadership for marketing and growth purposes.

Customer Experience

• Serve as the trusted advisor, applying emotional intelligence (EQ) and trust-based relationship management to build long-term customer partnerships.

• Serve as the single point of accountability for all activities with assigned customers.

• Partner with the Solution Engineering team and EVP of CX on pre-sales scoping, solution design, and value definition.

• Translate customer mission priorities and outcomes into measurable success plans that integrate CX best practices and adoption strategies. Continuously refine touchpoints to improve satisfaction, adoption, and expansion potential.

Solutions

• Oversee and collaborate cross-functionally on all solution offerings, including implementation, training, technical, analysis, and advisory services.

• Manage and maintain accurate time tracking for all internal projects, client work and billable services, ensuring achievement of utilization targets.

• Identify friction points and design interventions that improve the customer experience (CX) in alignment with the client’s mission.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Coordinate across Customer Experience, Product and Engineering to deliver a seamless, mission-aligned customer experience.

• Serve as the voice of the customer internally converting feedback into actionable insights for roadmap and solution improvements.

• Share lessons learned, customer stories, and effective strategies with internal teams to raise overall CX capability.

• Contribute to the evolution of CX governance, methodologies, and best practices in alignment with organizational growth strategies

Job Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in business, public administration, or related field.

• 12+ years in customer experience, account management, consulting, or project management—preferably in public sector SaaS.

• Deep understanding of the U.S. Air Force, including its organizational structure, key stakeholders, and environment.

• Proven ability to build and maintain trusted relationships with senior-level government customers.

• Demonstrated success driving customer retention, account expansion, and revenue growth.

• Experience overseeing customer engagements involving billable professional services and ensuring successful delivery of customer outcomes.

• Understanding of federal contracting, procurement cycles, and account growth strategies.

• Experience leading enterprise software adoption and driving measurable outcomes.

• Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills, with demonstrated emotional intelligence (EQ).

• Ability to manage multiple priorities, stakeholders, and timelines across complex accounts.

• Security clearance eligibility required.

Preferred

• Experience with federal budgeting processes (i.e., PPBE) or related mission areas.

• Master’s + preferred in business, public administration, or related field.

• Ability to receive the PMP certification.

• Familiarity with Decision Lens platform or similar decision support systems.

Location:  This role may require up to 30% travel and/or onsite work at customer locations, depending on customer contract requirements. Outside of client engagements, Decision Lens operates in a remote-first environment (Washington, DC area preferred). Our headquarters are located in Arlington, VA.

Compensation: The base salary range for this position is $150,000–$200,000 per year. The range reflects that this role may be filled at varying seniority levels; actual compensation will be determined by factors including relevant experience, skills, qualifications, security clearance, and internal equity. This position is also eligible to participate in a commission plan.

Company Overview
Decision Lens is an AI-driven platform for high-stakes government decisions, built to give leaders the clarity, speed, and analytical rigor that hard choices between competing priorities demand.

Behind every government budget, program, or policy tradeoff is a leader and a team accountable for the outcome, often working with incomplete information and competing pressures. That's the problem we've dedicated ourselves to solving.

Decision Lens establishes a governed decision framework that connects real-time data to the criteria and rationale behind every decision, so leaders can make better, faster tradeoffs with confidence and defend them at any point in time.

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