Senior Client Partner

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London, Greater London, England
7+ Years Experience
Software
The Role
As a Senior Client Partner at Diligent, you will manage a portfolio of accounts, build strong relationships with customers, represent the company at the highest standards, and drive business opportunities. You will be a key player in the company's GTM expansion strategy.
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About Us

Diligent is the global leader in modern governance, providing SaaS solutions across governance, risk, compliance, audit and ESG. Empowering more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members and leaders with a holistic view of their organization’s GRC practices so they can make better decisions, faster. No matter the challenge.

At Diligent, you are an agent of positive change. You are joining a team of passionate, smart, creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place. Be a part of a global community on a mission to make a real impact.

Learn more at diligent.com.

Position Overview:

You are an advocate and champion of the customer with strong interpersonal, client management and business development skills. Someone with an instinct and desire to put customers and their success first above all things and take ownership of that success. Powered by a customer centric mentality you are a leader, ensuring customers stay the course on a journey to celebrate value, promote their positive experience and ultimately reward us with future investment.

You enjoy working in governance, compliance and risk management domain and tools but you don’t feel fulfilled in your current role.  You are successful, but still looking for something more which hasn’t been defined yet. You want to be part of something bigger, but the right something hasn’t found you yet.  If you are anything like the talented Client Partners at Diligent then this feeling you have, might be the desire to serve others- but you are blinded by the limits placed on you in your current role. The Client Partner role is key to Diligent’s GTM expansion strategy.
Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage a portfolio of accounts and take action-oriented ownership of the revenue/engagement/success of all assigned accounts. The buck stops with you.
  • Build and foster peer/trusted advisor-style relationships with senior people on your customer’s organizations: Stay close to your accounts.
  • Represent Diligent to the highest standards and add value though every customer interaction
  • Align the rest of the Diligent team to best serve our customers: Develop internal relationships across departments, build your reputation, influence decision makers. Be a leader and know when to follow. Make things happen. Extract commitments when needed and keep people accountable.
  • Master Diligent’s technology stack: Client Partners need to be able to have confident, natural discussions with our customers about what our products can do. They should be able to at any time, jump into a Diligent demo environment and walk a customer through the platform with a business-first approach.
  • Partner with your customer to evaluate and understand their GRC vision and objectives and hold Diligent and them accountable to achieving these over time.
  • Leverage all of the above to generate and drive to close good-fit expansion business opportunities in your portfolio:
  • You will be helping customers to buy more. You should be comfortable and good at selling where needed. 

Required Experience, Skills and Values:

  • Domain knowledge in one or more of these areas: Audit, Regulatory Compliance, Security, and/or Risk Management (Enterprise, IT, Regulatory and/or Third Party), to help Fortune 500 clients solve their business problems
  • 10+ years of experience in a consulting or customer-facing role (internal or external customers)
  • Track record of successful delivery management in an enterprise or to enterprise customers with a dynamic and complex technical/regulatory environment
  • Professionalism, domain knowledge, real-world experience, product knowledge.
  • Effective skills in persuasion and influence, as well as an ability to enthuse and inspire multidisciplinary teams in order to build successful relationships at all levels both internal and external
  • The drive and determination to succeed in a dynamic company and growing team

What Diligent Offers You 

  • Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients
  • We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs to name a few
  • We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
  • Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability – to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place. 

Headquartered in New York, Diligent has offices in Washington D.C., Baltimore, London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, and Sydney. 


We are a drug free workplace. Diligent is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental disability, age, military status, protected veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related), genetic information, or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Diligent's EEO Policy and Know Your Rights. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected].

To all recruitment agencies: Diligent does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Diligent employees or any other organization location. Diligent is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

The Company
HQ: New York, NY
1,213 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Diligent is the leading GRC SaaS provider, serving nearly 1 million users from 25,000 organizations around the world. Our software enables holistic and informed conversations about governance, risk and compliance and ensures CEOs, CFOs and the board have an integrated view of audit, risk, information security, ethics and compliance from across the organization.

Our world-changing idea is to bring technology, insights and confidence to leaders so they can build more effective, equitable, and successful organizations – and create lasting, positive impact on the world. We seek to empower organizations to be better for their stakeholders and communities, for their customers and employees, for their bottom line.

Headquartered in New York, Diligent also has offices in Washington D.C., London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, and Sydney.

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