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Senior Director, Customer Experience, Air Force

DL
Decision Lens
TypeFull-time
SeniorityDirector / Executive
Salary$150,000–$200,000
LocationWashington, DC
Posted10/20/2026
Customer Success

The Senior Director of Customer Experience, Air Force, will ensure every stage in the customer lifecycle, from pre-sales engagement through adoption, expansion, and long-term retention, delivers measurable value, strengthens relationships, and exceeds expectations. You’ll collaborate across functions—including executive leadership, sales, product, marketing, and customer experience—to address key customer challenges, drive satisfaction, and fuel growth. Success in this role requires balancing execution and innovation—delivering exceptional client outcomes today while shaping transformative experiences for the future.

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 practicesand 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.

Apply: Send your resume to careers@decisionlens.com

Decision Lens Inc is an equal opportunity employer, and as such affirms the right of every person to participate in all aspects of employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.

If you are interested in applying for employment and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply for a posted position, contact our Human Resources department at*humanresources@decisionlens.com.*

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Decision Lens

Decision Lens develops integrated planning software which modernizes how government prioritizes, plans, and funds. We have been transforming public sector planning since 2005, delivering the people, process and technology which empower agencies to effectively meet the needs of today while delivering the cutting-edge capabilities of tomorrow. Customers across the Department of Defense, intelligence community, federal civilian agencies and state and local government achieve a sustained operational advantage through superior long-term planning, continuous medium-term prioritization, and short-term funding execution. Interested in joining our team? Check out our available positions now! https://www.decisionlens.com/company/careers/

Founded2003
HQArlington, US
Size65 employees
Unlock human wisdom
ThesisTermsPrivacy
Industry
Software Development
Tech stackbucketlist, nodejs, bitbucket, the-org, salesforce, microsoft-typescript, bamboo, microsoft-excel, slack, eloqua

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