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Dir, Customer Operations & Retention NAR

Volkswagen Financial Services

Reston, US, Libertyville · Hybrid

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Job ID: 29203

Company: VW Credit, Inc.

Location: Reston, VA, US, 20190 Libertyville, IL, US, 60048

Department: Financial Services and Insurances

Career Level: Executives & Management

Working Model: Full-time

Contract Type: Unlimited

Remote Working: According to company policy

Posting Date: Aug 7, 2026

Dir, Customer Operations & Retention NAR

Volkswagen Financial Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Volkswagen Group, is the trusted key to mobility for its brand partners. We are committed to supporting the Audi, Ducati, and Volkswagen brands and their Dealers, specializing in providing accessible mobility solutions for its Customers. The company’s offerings include Retail Leasing, Retail Financing, Commercial Financing for new and used vehicles, and End-of-Term vehicle disposition.

Brief Role Description

This position is Career Level 31L based in Reston, VA or Libertyville, IL with a Role Classification of Hybrid.

Role Summary

The Customer Operations & Retention function is a cornerstone in advancing long-term customer value, loyalty, and lifetime relationships across the portfolio. We are accelerating toward a technology-enabled, AI-driven engagement model that proactively identifies customer needs, reduces attrition risk, and drives sustained engagement across the lifecycle.

The Director, Customer Operations & Retention, NAR will lead this transformation—shifting from reactive, channel-based engagement to a predictive, insight-led, and digitally orchestrated customer success model. This role is responsible for defining and scaling AI-powered customer strategies that optimize retention, satisfaction, and portfolio performance.

This leader owns the strategy, performance, and evolution of customer engagement across all touchpoints—including digital, agent-assisted, and emerging AI-enabled channels. The role integrates customer analytics, lifecycle management, product strategy, and technology innovation to deliver seamless, personalized, and proactive customer experiences across Volkswagen Financial Services’ North American portfolio.

Responsibilities within this Role

Customer Operations & Retention Performance – 30%

Lead teams, technologies, processes and operations to effectively and efficiently maximize customer lifetime value and engagement while ensuring our operations and agent ecosystem is simplified, efficient, and aligned to financial and customer objectives
Develop and scale AI-driven engagement models, including predictive churn modeling, next-best-action frameworks, and personalization strategies
Design and optimize omnichannel customer journeys across lifecycle stages, including onboarding (funding), active servicing, and lease maturity
Leverage our people as our strategic advantage

Operational Excellence – 30%

Own and optimize core customer operations, including funding, account servicing, lease-end operations, and payments, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and customer satisfaction
Drive digitization and automation of servicing processes to reduce friction, cycle time, and operational cost
Implement AI-enabled workflows and intelligent routing to improve throughput, quality, and customer experience
Establish and manage end-to-end operational KPIs (e.g., funding turnaround time, servicing SLAs, lease-end conversion/retention rates, payment success rates)
Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance productivity, scalability, and service quality across operations
Optimize our mix of vendors, technologies, people and providers for cost, efficiency, customer satisfaction and functional OKRs.

Leadership, Talent & Organizational Effectiveness –20%

Build and lead high-performing teams focused on customer outcomes, innovation, and continuous improvement
Establish a customer-centric, experimentation-driven culture that embraces AI, data, and digital transformation
Develop talent in contact center, advanced analytics, product management, and customer lifecycle strategy
Foster cross-functional collaboration across Customer Engagement, Risk, Marketing, Product, and Technology

AI, Personalization & Technology Enablement – 10%

Define and execute the customer success technology roadmap, including engagement platforms, AI tools, and data ecosystems
Partner with IT and Product teams to deliver scalable, API-enabled, and customer and agent platforms and experiences
Drive modernization of customer platforms to enable hyper-personalized and frictionless experiences
Ensure seamless integration of customer experience technologies across channels and functions
Leverage advanced analytics, machine learning, and behavioral insights to identify drivers of retention, satisfaction, and engagement
Build and scale predictive and prescriptive models to proactively identify at-risk customers and trigger targeted interventions
Establish a data-driven culture anchored in measurable customer outcomes and insights-led decision making

Governance, Compliance & Risk Management – 10%

Ensure all customer engagement strategies comply with regulatory and data privacy requirements (e.g., FDCPA, UDAAP, CFPB)
Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Risk teams to ensure responsible and ethical use of AI and customer data
Maintain strong governance frameworks for customer communications, model usage, and digital engagement practices
Drive transparency, audit readiness, and responsible AI practices across all initiatives

Qualification requirements

Years of Relevant Experience:

12+ years of progressive leadership and relevant experience in consumer finance.
Minimum 5 years of financial, customer and operational performance management of digital self-service, customer service, and retention functions
Demonstrated success operating at a director level - leading leaders, managing experience risk and financial performance, and owning enterprise-level outcomes
Minimum 3 years (and proven track record) in developing and using advanced behavioral data modeling and internal/vendor-based technologies to steer, optimize and evolve customer success targets
Minimum 5 years in delivering technology and data initiatives; experience in product management and agile methodologies
Ability to balance customer outcomes with strong financial and risk discipline

Required Education:

Bachelor's Degree

Skills:

Data/performance driven: Experienced and exceptional understanding of customer service and retention performance drivers, and how to use segmentation and data to drive performance-driven change and culture in our customer resiliency function. Experience in running structured segmentation and product experiments a plus.
A bias to action: The leader will have an executive level charter to deliver on key opportunities and, in parallel, stand up an org structure and talent model that sets a high bar for employees, and rewards and empowers teams delivering on this.
Acts like an owner. Takes full responsibility for functional performance and has a 360 view on what happens upstream and downstream; partners transparently with those stakeholders and partners to affect change.
Ability to influence and lead changes: Willingness to challenge the status quo by driving pragmatic, forward-leaning change across people, process, performance and technology
Customer Centricity: Deep respect for the importance of keeping our promises to customers, being easy to do business with, and ensuring we are doing this in a consistent, well-managed way
A clear communicator: Excellence in clear communication and storytelling – to set expectations and motivate employees, present to C-Levels, hold vendors responsible, and partner successfully with stakeholders

Volkswagen Financial Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome and encourage applicants from all backgrounds, and do not discriminate based on race, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, color, gender identity/expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.

This role description is a guideline and does not create contractual rights between the Company and any of its applicants. The Company does not enter into any type of employment contract, implied or written, with its applicants regarding job security.

This Organization participates in E-Verify. We maintain a drug free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

Job ID: 29203

Company: VW Credit, Inc.

Location: Reston, VA, US, 20190 Libertyville, IL, US, 60048

Department: Financial Services and Insurances

Career Level: Executives & Management

Working Model: Full-time

Contract Type: Unlimited

Remote Working: According to company policy

Posting Date: Aug 7, 2026

Volkswagen Financial Services - The key to mobility

VW Credit, Inc., dba Volkswagen Financial Services (VWFS), was founded in 1981 as the captive financial services arm of Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. and is affiliated with Volkswagen of America, Inc., Audi of America, Inc. and Ducati North America, Inc. VWFS offers services to Volkswagen, Audi, Ducati customers, and authorized dealers as Volkswagen Financial Services, Volkswagen Credit, Audi Financial Services, and Ducati Financial Services. The company offers competitive financial products and services to customers and authorized dealers in the United States. VWFS is headquartered in Reston, VA.

VWFS is seeking individuals from diverse professional backgrounds who can bring fresh perspectives and ideas to help us drive forward in the ever-evolving financial and mobility services industry. As we continue to grow, we are excited to welcome talent from a variety of professional backgrounds to join our team. We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, as it fuels creativity, fosters innovation, and strengthens our ability to serve our customers better. Are you a forward-thinker, a problem-solver, or an innovator? This is an opportunity to be part of a dynamic team that values diversity, creativity, and collaboration.

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