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Director of Client Services - Req #873

We connect people with jobs by providing businesses, communities, and education institutions with the best labor market data possible.

Lightcast

Employee count: 501-1000

United States only
The Director of Client Services is a strategic, people-centered leader responsible for coaching and developing a high-performing team of account managers who manage client relationships, focusing on long-term success, retention, and expansion. This Director acts as a strategic leader, guiding account managers while remaining deeply knowledgeable about key client accounts and extending relationships. This role combines high-impact leadership with consultative sales influence, data-driven decision-making, and a growth mindset to drive measurable outcomes. The Director collaborates cross-functionally with senior leadership, product management, business development, marketing, and sales to scale operations, fuel growth, and create lasting client value.

Major Responsibilities:

  • Team Leadership & Coaching: Strategic leader, coach, and mentor to a team of account managers to deliver best-in-class service and results. Foster a high-performance, feedback-driven culture prioritizing growth, learning, and team development. Champion a coaching culture by developing talent, providing regular feedback, and enabling career progression through structured development plans. Establish performance expectations, conduct regular 1:1s and team check-ins, and build a continuous learning environment through training, shadowing, and knowledge-sharing. Promote leadership at all levels, encouraging innovation, accountability, and a team ownership mindset.
  • Client Growth & Sales Strategy: Own and drive client renewals, upsells, and cross-sells through consultative, value-focused engagement that links business objectives to Lightcast’s solutions. Partner closely with the sales team to identify expansion opportunities, co-create proposals, and drive revenue growth. Empower account managers to uncover client challenges proactively, positioning our offerings as strategic solutions. Ensure a sales-oriented mindset across the team, supported by training on client value articulation, objection handling, and opportunity qualification.
  • Customer Success & Retention: Define and monitor KPIs that reflect client health and success, including Net Promoter Score (NPS), retention metrics, product adoption, and service utilization. Implement scalable, repeatable processes to ensure seamless onboarding, strong product adoption, and long-term value realization. Adapt service strategies based on client lifecycle stage and business needs, demonstrating agility and a growth-oriented approach to continuous improvement.
  • Strategic Insight & Decision-Making: Use data-driven insights to inform account strategy, team development, and resource planning. Regularly assess performance and make informed decisions that align with broader business goals. Act as a strategic thought partner across departments, helping to shape go-to-market and product roadmaps with client feedback and market insights. Build dashboards and reporting cadences that bring transparency to client health and highlight early signals of risk or opportunity.
  • Product & Innovation Collaboration: Maintain a deep understanding of client use cases and business contexts; translate insights into actionable recommendations for internal product and R&D teams. Lead the team in identifying market trends and unmet needs, influencing the roadmap through thoughtful client feedback. Drive innovation by building a culture that encourages creativity, experimentation, and solution-focused thinking in response to evolving client needs.

Education and Experience:

  • 5+ years of experience in Account Management, Client Services, or Customer Success, with a proven track record of managing and growing high-performing teams, preferably within the education sector
  • Demonstrated sales experience, preferably in a consultative or enterprise environment, including responsibility for revenue growth, account expansion, or quota achievement
  • Strong leadership and coaching skills, with a passion for developing people and cultivating a performance-driven, growth-focused team culture
  • Strategic thinker with the ability to align client insights with broader business goals and communicate recommendations clearly to stakeholders
  • Proven ability to implement scalable systems and processes that enhance client engagement and service delivery
  • Highly skilled in both qualitative and quantitative analysis, using data to drive decisions and measure success
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills; able to build trust with executives, clients, and cross-functional teams
  • Exceptionally organized, proactive, and results-oriented, with a bias for action, adaptability, and a continuous improvement mindset
Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights. With headquarters in Moscow (ID) and offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, and India, we work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, institutions, companies, and communities.
Lightcast is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Lightcast has always been and always will be committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.

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About Lightcast

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We connect people with jobs by providing businesses, communities, and education institutions with the best labor market data possible. Our data-driven insight enables better, faster decisions.

What we do

At Lightcast, our software products, APIs, and consulting solutions bring clarity to the fast-changing world of work.

Formerly Emsi Burning Glass, Lightcast has over two decades of experience in finding solutions and delivering the competitive edge our clients demand. With world-class customer service, we provide the answers and insight to meet your specific need—because every decision made without data is just a shot in the dark.

By helping communities, businesses, and education institutions succeed, our ultimate goal is connecting individuals with the right skills and right jobs in the right places. People are at the heart of everything we do, and we want to create a job market that works for everyone.

How we do it

Lightcast is a global pioneer in the collection and big-data analysis of information on the labor market. Our data provides the world’s most detailed information about occupations, skills in demand, and career pathways.

Our tools collect real-time data from over 65,000 sources every day, contributing to a database with over 1 billion job postings and billions of other data points. We combine that with curated input from dozens of other statistical sources, like government agencies, to provide the most complete view possible of the fast-changing labor market. We put that information to work for businesses, communities, and education providers by showing them the granular details and big-picture trends they need in their organizations.

Whether you’re interested in software salaries in Seattle, need new skills in New Zealand, or looking for anything in between, Lightcast data can provide the insight you need.

Where you can find us

Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and Moscow, Idaho, we are active in more than 30 countries and have offices in the United Kingdom, Italy, New Zealand, Canada, and India. Lightcast is backed by global private equity leader KKR.

Lightcast Principles

Live the mission: We genuinely care about the work we do and never lose sight of the human behind the data.

Innovate, inside and out: We take personal responsibility for finding new and better ways to do all things—large and small, internally and externally.

Give customers the unexpected: We aim to exceed customer expectations and seek opportunities to excite and delight with every interaction.

Hide nothing, own everything: We strive to be transparent in our actions, own our mistakes, and remain humble in our approach.

Teamwork makes the data work: We work together, respect our differences, play to our strengths, and celebrate our successes. #crushedit

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Employee Ownership

Recognizing dedication, Lightcast grants employee ownership shares, aligning team success with company growth.

Retirement Savings Match

Employees at Lightcast can take advantage of a 401(k) plan with a company match to build their retirement savings.

Life & Disability Insurance

Lightcast offers life insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage to protect employees and their families.

Commuter Benefits

Lightcast supports its employees' commute by providing parking, gas, and public transit benefits, easing the daily journey to work.

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501-1000 employees

Founded in

2000

Chief executive officer

Chris Kibarian

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