Director of Customer Risk & Escalations

Eve · Remote, United States

Eve is redefining legal technology for plaintiff law firms, and were building the team that will take us there. We help firms handle more cases, recover more for clients, and grow with AI that works across every stage of a case, from intake through resolution. If youre someone who takes ownership, stays curious, and wants to build AI thats already changing how law is practiced, this is where you belong.

Product-market fit:

Eve is trusted by over 1000+ law firms, and we’re growing fast.
We’ve raised over $160M from world-class partners including Spark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz(A16z), Menlo Ventures, and Lightspeed.
Engineers, designers, and operators from places like Scale, Meta, Airbnb, Cruise, Square, Rubrik, and Lyft are building Eve from the ground up.
We’re on the bleeding edge of AI, collaborating directly with teams at OpenAI and Anthropic to build best-in-class AI workflows tailored for legal work.
Lead Eves response when a customer runs into a serious product, integration, delivery or adoption problem. Reporting to the VP of Customer Success, you will build and run the customer escalation program, personally lead complex recoveries and work directly with customer executives and with Customer Success, Support, Product and Engineering.
Support, Product, Engineering and Delivery keep ownership of diagnosis, fixes, release timing and project work. You make sure the customers problem is understood, prioritized and decided, and that the outcome works for the customer.
Build and run one view of every flagged customer risk and escalation. Set severity based on customer impact and urgency, name an accountable owner and next step for each case, and decide which cases need your direct leadership.
Personally lead complex recovery plans and executive customer conversations. Agree actions, owners and dates with the teams doing the work, and keep customers informed as the situation changes, without promising fixes or dates those teams have not agreed.
Bring technical judgment to customer issues. Work with Support, Product and Engineering to understand failures, dependencies and possible remedies, then translate the findings into clear customer communication.
Set decision deadlines, and when priority or resource conflicts block progress, take the tradeoff and your recommendation to the VP of Customer Success and the relevant functional leaders.
Agree exit criteria, confirm the recovery work is complete and return the customer to their usual account team. Keep the Customer Success Manager involved throughout.
Identify recurring causes of escalations and work with the responsible teams to improve the product, delivery process and customer experience.
Experience personally leading complex enterprise software escalations, customer recovery or technical account engagements.
A hands-on technical background, such as support engineering, solutions engineering or architecture, technical account management or implementation engineering. A record of communicating clearly with customer executives during difficult situations and earning trust through follow-through.
Experience building an escalation or customer risk program, including prioritization, accountable owners and clear criteria for resolution.
Sound judgment under pressure and the ability to secure decisions across teams without direct management authority.
Experience using data, AI or automation to identify emerging problems and improve follow-through, while checking the quality of the underlying information.
Experience with legal technology, enterprise integrations or complex software implementations.
Incident management experience, including leading the response to high-severity customer issues.
Experience improving a recurring product or delivery problem using evidence from customer escalations.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. Competitive Salary & Equity
Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
Short Term and Long Term Disability
Workplace Setup Reimbursement
Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays
In office Perks *
* In office employees only

Eve Legal is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation during the application process, reach out to your recruiter.

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