Senior Director, Community & Advocacy at Braze | California, USA | Rezi

Senior Director, Community & Advocacy at Braze

Senior Director, Community & Advocacy

Braze · California, USA

1 months ago

Senior Director, Community & Advocacy

Braze · California, USA

2 months ago
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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.