Director Renewals Desk

This range is provided by Dayforce. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range CA$136,200.00/yr - CA$243,300.00/yr Dayforce is a global human capital management (HCM) company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, with operations across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region. Our award-winning Cloud HCM platform offers a unified solution database and continuous calculation engine, driving efficiency, productivity and compliance for the global workforce. Our brand promise - Makes Work Life Better™ - Reflects our commitment to employees, customers, partners and communities globally. Effective November 1, 2025 this position is not open to residents of Quebec ; applicants must reside in a province or territory of Canada other than Quebec to be considered. Any roles available in Quebec will be posted separately. About The Opportunity The Director, Renewals Desk — part of the Revenue Operations organization — plays an integral role in defining, operationalizing, and optimizing the company’s renewals motion. Working collaboratively with Customer Success, Sales, Finance, Legal, and Revenue Operations leadership, this role ensures the renewals function operates with precision, consistency, and scalability. The Director will bring deep renewal expertise to help shape strategy, improve process efficiency, and drive alignment across teams that collectively protect and grow recurring revenue. What You’ll Get To Do Collaborate closely with Customer Success, Sales, Finance, Legal, and RevOps leadership to help define and refine the overall renewals strategy and execution model. Lead and support a customer-facing renewals team responsible for executing renewals with professionalism, accuracy, and customer focus. Operationalize and manage the centralized Renewals Desk function, ensuring renewals are executed predictably, accurately, and in alignment with customer and business objectives. Translate renewal strategy into standardized processes, playbooks, and metrics that enable efficient execution across all customer segments. Partner with Revenue Operations to develop renewal dashboards, performance reports, and forecasting frameworks that deliver actionable insights. Work with Legal and Finance to streamline contract terms, approval processes, and pricing policies to reduce renewal cycle times and improve accuracy. Collaborate with Customer Success and Sales leadership to ensure alignment on renewal ownership, communication standards, and escalation paths. Build and lead a high-performing renewals team that drives operational excellence, collaboration, and customer focus. Support continuous improvement through data-driven recommendations, automation opportunities, and best practice adoption. Serve as a key liaison across go-to-market functions, ensuring renewal processes are transparent, consistent, and well-governed. Report on renewal performance, retention trends, and process health, highlighting opportunities for optimization across the organization. Oversee pricing and contracting operations, ensuring consistency, compliance, and commercial rigor in all deal structures. Lead commercial operations for Customer Base Sales, aligning deal strategy, forecasting, and process enablement to revenue targets. Skills And Experience We Value 10+ years of experience in SaaS, technology, or recurring revenue businesses, with 5+ years in Revenue Operations, Renewals, or Customer Success leadership. Proven ability to influence and collaborate cross-functionally in shaping renewal strategy and operational design. Strong operational and analytical mindset with expertise in process optimization, forecasting, and reporting. Deep understanding of SaaS revenue metrics, including ARR, GRR, NRR, and churn, and how operational design impacts them. Demonstrated experience leading renewal or commercial operations teams within a RevOps framework. Proficiency with Salesforce, renewal automation tools (e.g., CPQ, Conga, DocuSign), and analytics platforms. Skilled communicator who can translate operational insights into business recommendations. Exceptional leadership skills, with the ability to build trust and alignment across functions and at all organizational levels. What’s In It For You Dayforce is fueled by the diversity of our talented employees. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider and embrace ALL individuals and what makes them unique. We believe our employees should be happy and healthy, with peace of mind and a sense of fulfillment. We encourage individuals to apply based on their passions. Dayforce encourages personal and professional growth. We offer excellent time away from work programs, comprehensive wellness initiatives and recognition through competitive pay and benefits. With a commitment to community impact, including volunteer days and our charity, Dayforce Cares we provide opportunities for you to thrive both in your career and personal life. Our focus is not just on your job but on supporting you to be the best version of yourself. About The Salary Ranges Please note that the salary range mentioned in this job description should serve simply as a guide. The final compensation offered may vary based on a variety of factors, including bonuses and/or incentives, or a candidate’s experience, skills, budget and location. Our company is committed to providing a fair, equitable, and competitive package that reflects the value an individual brings to the organization. Language Requirements Pro in English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with English-speaking stakeholders, co-workers, managers and/or clients across the world. Further, our back office support teams, including but not limited to Human Resources, are primarily English speaking. Employees need to be able to communicate with these departments in English to appropriately administer their business relationship. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking co‑workers, managers, stakeholders and/or clients, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement. Fraudulent Recruiting Beware of fraudulent recruiting. Legitimate Dayforce contacts will use an @dayforce.com email address. We do not request money, checks, equipment orders, or sensitive personal data during the recruitment process. If you have been asked for any above, or believe you have been contacted by someone posing as a Dayforce employee, please refer to our fraudulent recruiting statement found here: Dayforce actively monitors all job applications to ensure authenticity. Submissions determined to be fraudulent or misleading will be declined from the recruitment process. Seniority level Director Employment type Full-time Job function Other Industry Software Development Referral Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Dayforce by 2x. #J-18808-Ljbffr