Client Partner - Co-Sec

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.

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Position Overview

Diligent is recruiting a Client Partner who will play a key role in Diligent's GTM expansion strategy. The ideal candidate is an advocate and champion of Corporate Governance 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.

If you have a background as a Corporate Secretary or General Counsel and would like to utilize your knowledge and relationships to provide sound advice to others in the Corporate Governance field, this is the perfect role to provide that opportunity.

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

• Domain knowledge in one or more of these areas: Company Governance via your role as a CoSec or Asst. General Counsel, Audit, Regulatory Compliance, Security, and/or Risk Management (Enterprise, IT, Regulatory and/or Third Party), to help Fortune 500 clients solve their business problems.
• Extensive experience in a consulting, CoSec, Asst. GC 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 recruitment@diligent.com.

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