VP, Customer Success and Support
Xendit · Singapore
Xendit is an enterprise payments platform powering complex financial operations across Southeast Asia and global markets. We provide a unified API layer combining payment processing, global payouts, localized FX, identity compliance, and fraud protection. As a trusted financial partner backed by top-tier global investors, Xendit processes high-throughput transaction flows for leading global platforms including Meta, Traveloka, ByteDance, Wise, and Grab, building resilient payment infrastructure to drive regional commerce forward.
About the Job
We are looking for an exceptional operational leader to serve as our VP, Customer Success and Support. In this executive role, you will take full ownership of our global Customer Success and Support organizations, shaping the complete merchant lifecycle and driving client retention as our platform expands worldwide.
You combine strategic vision, process architecture, domain expertise, and a passion for payments. If you excel at diagnosing operational bottlenecks, collaborating directly with Product teams to fix underlying issues, and bringing focus and pace to ambitious goals, this role offers the platform to transform merchant operations at scale.
Responsibilities
Executive Leadership & Team Scaling
- Build and lead a global team: Lead, mentor, and scale Customer Success and Support organizations across multiple countries focused on client outcomes and operational efficiencies.
- Anticipate and scale: Think ahead with a data-driven instinct, recognizing patterns early and building the frameworks, workflows and tooling to resolve merchant issues fast and protect retention.
- Lead through change: Help teams adapt and thrive as the organization grows and priorities evolve
Product & Cross-Functional Alignment
- Be the merchant’s voice: Turn merchant feedback into clear, thoughtful, requirements for Product and Engineering, driving self-serve capabilities and platform improvements, while prioritizing based on business impact
- Risk & compliance collaboration: Navigate dynamic regulatory mandates (including AML, KYC, PCI-DSS, and regional financial laws) to keep client management, and success playbooks fully compliant with Risk and Legal controls.
Data-Driven Strategy & Performance
- Metrics & success measures: Establish, monitor, and optimize core performance indicators.
- Data-driven decision making: Leverage quantitative insight to map user journeys, anticipate risk, uncover portfolio expansion opportunities, and continuously elevate baseline targets.
Global Strategy & Merchant Experience
- Global mindset: Lead support and success teams across multiple countries, adapting strategies to each market’s dynamics and client segments.
- Merchant advocacy: Foster enduring partnerships with key strategic clients and act as the executive sponsor for high-priority accounts.
Questions You May Help Answer
- Which recurring merchant issues should we eliminate at the source, and what would it take?
- How should we measure merchant health so it reliably signals churn risk?
- How do we resolve merchant issues faster, and make sure they stay resolved?
- Where should Xendit invest in AI and self-serve to scale support while raising the bar on experience?
- How do we balance risk and compliance requirements with a seamless merchant experience?
- What should our global Customer Success and Support model look like as we bring operations together across regions? What support coverage model will serve merchants across time zones and languages as we scale?
- Which capabilities should we build in-house, and where should we partner?
- How do we build the next generation of leaders from within our teams?
- How should we tailor our service model for global enterprises versus regional SMEs?
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional experience managing Customer Success and/or Support and scaling leadership across merchant operations, support, or client success within high-growth tech.
- Deep familiarity with payment infrastructure, financial technology, or SaaS platforms.
- Direct experience steering end-to-end processing workflows, spanning authorization, clearing, settlement, payouts, and dispute resolution channels.
- Proven ability to guide organizations through rapid expansion and operational transformation.
- Strong product instinct, with a history of translating operational friction into functional engineering specs.
- Comprehension of financial compliance, risk controls, and regional regulatory frameworks.
- Rigorous analytical approach to dissecting complex problems and establishing data-driven processes.
- History of supporting varied merchant tiers, ranging from SME to global multi-market enterprises
Why Join Xendit?
- This is an opportunity to sit at the center of how Xendit's global Ops organization evolves. You will work directly with the President and Global Head of Product, gain exposure across Xendit's products and markets, and collaborate with leaders throughout the company. You will see how major decisions are made to achieve operating leverage - and help improve the system through which those decisions become reality. For someone who wants to become an exceptional technology operator or future business leader, few roles offer this combination of breadth, access and responsibility.
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