About the Role
Braze powers ambitious consumer engagement programs. You will own the flagship community platform, customer advocacy program, executive Customer Advisory Boards, and customer storytelling motion. You'll lead a team of five and partner with various marketing and customer experience teams to integrate these programs into customer retention and growth strategies.
Responsibilities
- Lead the community function, owning the strategy and operating cadence of Braze Bonfire, including online forums, regional meetups, and recognition programs.
- Wire the community into Braze's operations, ensuring community signals feed account health and CS workflows, support deflection is measured, and meetups align with regional events strategy as a retention and expansion lever.
- Lead the advocacy function end-to-end for Braze Customer Champions, producing references, speakers, storytellers, and product co-creators, and measuring influence with rigor.
- Own Customer Advisory Boards, running high-stakes CABs aligned to Braze's flagship moments and partnering with Product and PMM to translate customer insight into roadmap and narrative.
- Own customer storytelling, establishing testimonial capture across video and written formats, and ensuring customer voices are integrated into case studies, campaigns, and analyst programs.
- Co-design the journeys, shared identity, and measurement framework for a unified customer empowerment ecosystem, connecting community, advocacy, and learning.
- Lead and develop a team of five, setting direction, raising the bar, and developing team members while operating credibly with senior leadership.
- Own a clear KPI tree including engagement, advocacy influence dollars, share of at-risk and expansion accounts touched by community and events, CAB follow-through, and story volume and utilization.
- Build investment cases based on the KPI framework.
Requirements
- Led a customer advocacy program at scale, including building or growing a reference, champion, or ambassador program in B2B software.
- Run a customer community of meaningful scale, optimizing for community as a customer experience.
- Experience with platform migration or re-platforming.
- Comfortable in pipeline conversations and able to defend the function's investment with credible numbers.
- Operate cross-functionally at a senior level, resolving disagreements with peers.
- Demonstrated ability to build and develop people, ensuring reports stay, grow, and become future leaders.
- Experience experimenting with and pushing new platforms, AI tooling, and operating models.
Skills
- Customer advocacy program management
- Customer community management
- Cross-functional leadership
- Team development
- Data analysis and reporting
- Strategic planning
- Customer engagement
- MarTech
- B2B SaaS
- Platform migration
- AI tooling
- Public speaking
Location
- New York
- Austin
- Berlin
- Bucharest
- Chicago
- Dubai
- Jakarta
- London
- Paris
- San Francisco
- São Paulo
- Singapore
- Seoul
- Sydney
- Tokyo
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior level
- Management
Salary/Compensations
- $155,000 - $232,000/year
- OTE $174,000 - $260,000/year
Benefits
- Equity grants of restricted stock (RSUs)
- Competitive compensation
- Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans
- Flexible paid time off
- Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability
- Family services including fertility benefits
- Equal paid parental leave
- Professional development supported by formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend
- Curated in-office employee experience
- Opportunities to give back to your community, including an annual company-wide Volunteer Week and donation matching
- Employee Resource Groups
- Collaborative, transparent, and fun culture recognized as a Great Place to Work®
About the Company
- Braze is the leading customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging™.
- Braze helps brands deliver great customer experiences that drive value both for consumers and for their businesses.
- Built on a foundation of composable intelligence, BrazeAI™ allows marketers to combine and activate AI agents, models, and features at every touchpoint throughout the Braze Customer Engagement Platform for smarter, faster, and more meaningful customer engagement.
- From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered decisioning and optimization, Braze enables companies to turn action into interaction through autonomous, 1:1 personalized experiences.
- The company has been consistently recognized as a Leader in marketing technology by industry analysts.
- Named a G2 “Best of Marketing and Digital Advertising Software Product” in 2026.
- Named a 2026 Best Places to Work by Built In.
- Named a 2025 America’s Greenest Companies by Newsweek.
- Named a 2025 Fortune Best Workplace in Technology™ by Great Place To Work®.
- Proudly certified as a Great Place to Work® in the U.S., the UK, Australia, and Singapore.
Equal Opportunity
- Braze strives to create equitable growth and opportunities inside and outside the organization.
- Committed to offering all candidates a fair, accessible, and inclusive experience – regardless of age, color, disability, gender identity, marital status, maternity, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a protected veteran.
- Encourages candidates to apply even if they do not meet 100% of the criteria.
