Semgrep

Application Security Testing

VicePresident,CustomerExperience

$300–400k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Vice President, Customer Experience at Semgrep. Skills: post-sales leadership, Deployment Engineering, Technical Account Management, Technical Support, Renewals, customer success, B2B SaaS, developer tools, security, infrastructure, product transition, operational instincts, Executive presence, clear communication. Own the full post-sales journey for every Semgrep customer.. Lead four critical functions: Deployment Engineering, Technical Account Management, Technical Support, and Renewals — unif”

What You'll Achieve.

making every customer extraordinarily successful with Semgrep; Gross and Net Revenue Retention (GRR / NRR); Time-to-value and deployment success rates; Customer health scores and risk escalation rates; Support SLA attainment and CSAT / NPS; Renewal on-time rate and renewal ACV

Industry & Context.

Application Security Testing

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

8+ years of experience in post-sales leadership, with direct ownership of at least two of: Deployment Engineering, TAM, Support, or Renewals., Deep technical fluency, Proven track record of building and scaling customer experience organizations in B2B SaaS, Experience navigating a product transition, operational instincts, Executive presence and clear communication

Nice to Have

Familiarity with CI/CD, static analysis, AppSec, or developer tooling is a plus, ideally in developer tools, security, or infrastructure, Experience at a company scaling through the $50M–$200M ARR range is a advantage

What You'll Do.

Own the full post-sales journey for every Semgrep customer.

Lead four critical functions: Deployment Engineering

Technical Account Management

and Renewals — unifying them around a single mission: making every customer extraordinarily successful with Semgrep.

Build the team responsible for deploying Semgrep into complex enterprise environments—custom CI/CD pipelines

and bespoke security workflows.

Drive the organization's capability to handle increasingly sophisticated customer deployments as Semgrep moves from semi-out-of-the-box to deeply integrated configurations.

Partner with Product and Engineering to feed deployment learnings back into platform improvements.

Manage the leader of the TAM team

who serve as trusted technical advisors to Semgrep's most strategic accounts

Define what high-quality technical partnership looks like at scale — including QBR programs

and proactive risk management

Build a TAM model that maps to customer segment and complexity

ensuring the right coverage at the right cost

Own the customer support function end-to-end — from inbound ticket triage to escalation management and SLA delivery.

Build processes and tooling that scale as the customer base grows

without sacrificing response quality.

Establish a feedback loop between Support and Product/Engineering to systematically reduce recurring issues.

Lead the Renewals Account Management team responsible for on-time

full-value contract renewals.

Build tight coordination between Renewals

and Sales to ensure health signals are surfaced early and acted on.

Own gross and net retention metrics across the business

reporting progress directly to the CRO.

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Serve as the voice of the customer in executive and product planning conversations.; Partner with Sales to ensure seamless handoffs and aligned expansion motions.; Collaborate with Product on the customer feedback loop, shaping the roadmap with real-world deployment data.; Work with Marketing on customer references, case studies, and community programs.; Partner with Product and Engineering to feed deployment learnings back into platform improvements.; Establish a feedback loop between Support and Product/Engineering to systematically reduce recurring issues.; Build tight coordination between Renewals, TAMs, and Sales to ensure health signals are surfaced early and acted on.

Communication Scope

Executive presence and clear communication

Full Job Description

ABOUT SEMGREP Semgrep, the leader in code security for builders, empowers invention without friction. Teams catch, flag, and fix real issues before they ship, powered by security that learns as they build. Semgrep secures code as it’s written and provides guardrails that pave the road for developers to move fast and stay secure. Built for builders and trusted by security, Semgrep lives where developers work, delivering fixes without breaking flow, and giving security teams visibility, control, and confidence. Semgrep gets smarter as you build, with AI that learns your context to cut false positives and prioritize reachable vulnerabilities, validated by 95% of security reviewers across 6M+ findings. Semgrep makes zero false positives a reality with AppSec teams triaging 80% fewer false positives across Code and Supply Chain, dramatically shrinking the backlog. Founded in San Francisco and backed by Menlo Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital, Semgrep is recognized by Gartner in Application Security Testing and is trusted by leading organizations, including Vanta, Lyft, and Dropbox. Learn more at semgrep.dev http://semgrep.dev. THE OPPORTUNITY We're at an inflection point. Semgrep has evolved from a powerful developer security scanning technology, into a platform that customers are embedding at the center of their entire application security program. That shift changes what great customer experience looks like — and we need a VP to lead the organization through it. As VP of Customer Experience, you'll own the full post-sales journey for every Semgrep customer. You'll lead four critical functions: Deployment Engineering, Technical Account Management, Technical Support, and Renewals — unifying them around a single mission: making every customer extraordinarily successful with Semgrep. This is a rare opportunity to build a world-class customer organization at a company where the product is technically deep, the cu

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