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. You'll lead a team of five and partner with Product Marketing, Content Marketing, Customer Experience, Demand Generation, and events 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 (online forums, regional meetups, recognition programs).
- Wire the community into Braze 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, owning Braze Customer Champions end-to-end to produce references, speakers, storytellers, and product co-creators.
- Make pulling from the champion bench the default move for every customer-facing team and measure influence with rigor (pipeline-touched, references-sourced, advocacy-led content produced).
- Own Customer Advisory Boards, running high-stakes CABs aligned to Braze's flagship moments.
- Build the executive-to-executive experience that earns time from strategic customers and partner with Product and PMM to turn customer insight into roadmap and narrative.
- Own customer storytelling, capturing testimonials across video and written formats.
- Keep customer voices flowing into case studies, campaigns, and analyst-facing programs with PMM and Content Marketing.
- Co-design the journeys, shared identity, and measurement framework for a unified customer empowerment ecosystem (learner → community participant → advocate → champion).
- Lead and develop a team of five (digital community, advocacy, community & learning events).
- Set direction, raise the bar, and develop team members while operating credibly with VPs and SVPs.
- 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 on the KPI framework.
Requirements
- Led a customer advocacy program at scale in B2B software, including operating infrastructure, tiers, and GTM relationships.
- 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 defending function investment with credible numbers.
- Operate cross-functionally at a senior level, resolving disagreements with peers.
- Experience as a builder, seeing integration opportunities as a chance for growth.
- Experience developing people, ensuring reports stay, grow, and become future leaders.
- Experience building with current tools, experimenting with new platforms, AI tooling, and operating models.
Skills
- Customer advocacy program management
- Customer community management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Team leadership and development
- Data analysis and KPI tracking
- Customer engagement strategies
- Storytelling
- Platform migration
- AI tooling experimentation
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
Salary/Compensations
- $139,000 - $209,000/year (base)
- $156,000 - $235,000/year (OTE)
Benefits
- Equity grants of restricted stock (RSUs)
- Competitive compensation
- Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans
- Flexible paid time off
- Comprehensive benefit plans (medical, dental, vision, life, disability)
- Family services (fertility benefits, equal paid parental leave)
- Professional development (formal career pathing, learning platforms, yearly stipend)
- Curated in-office employee experience
- Opportunities to give back (annual Volunteer Week, donation matching)
- Employee Resource Groups
- Collaborative, transparent, and fun culture
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 for consumers and businesses.
- Built on composable intelligence, BrazeAI™ allows marketers to combine and activate AI agents, models, and features for smarter, faster, and more meaningful customer engagement.
- Braze enables companies to turn action into interaction through autonomous, 1:1 personalized experiences.
- 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 don't meet 100% of the criteria.
