Tehrani Burke

Tehrani Burke

Customer Success, Technology & Operations Executive

Over 15 years building and scaling customer success and technical operations, from a Fortune 500 hiring coalition to a global consumer technology support network. I turn ambiguous, high-stakes situations into structured, measurable systems.

Tehrani Burke
0→1
Chapter operating infrastructure built from zero, NSLS
40%+
At-risk participants retained, OneTen
$5M+
Annual enterprise & education renewals influenced, Apple
$1.3M
At-risk enterprise account recovered, B.E.S.T.
B.E.S.T.Senior Director, Customer & Technical Operations
OneTenHead of Customer Success & Experience
AppleDirector of Customer Success
Match GroupCorporate CX Operations & Escalation Authority

Leadership track

For hiring teams evaluating Customer Success or CX Operations leadership. Each entry below is a real situation I stepped into, what I built, and the measurable result.

NSLS
VP of Operations, Executive Board
2025–present
  • Own chapter strategy, operations, and programming execution for the University of Phoenix chapter, building organizational infrastructure, dashboards, and communication systems from zero.
  • Promoted from Leadership Development Department through competitive selection.
B.E.S.T.
Senior Director, Customer & Technical Operations
2024–2026
  • Built and scaled customer and technical operations from the ground up, leveraging ServiceNow and enterprise service-management workflows to oversee incident management, escalation governance, SLA performance, backlog control, and end-to-end service delivery for 250+ enterprise partners.
  • Designed AI-driven troubleshooting guides, runbooks, and performance dashboards, reducing resolution time by 35% and increasing customer satisfaction by 40%.
  • Recovered a $1.3M enterprise account at risk of churn after the partner questioned delivered ROI, rebuilding trust through transparent value reporting and relationship-driven account management.
OneTen
Head of Customer Success & Experience
2022–2024
  • Built the Customer Success function from zero, architecting Customer Impact Plans, onboarding systems, escalation workflows, health scoring models, and digital engagement programs serving 1,000+ registered users across 10+ Fortune 500 partner organizations.
  • Co-built OneTen's HubSpot CRM and pipeline architecture, originally scoped for Marketing, and extended it into Acquisition and the Talent side as engagement needs grew.
  • Took over a ticket queue two years behind on resolution, personally reaching out to every affected user and retaining 40%+ of at-risk participants who intended to leave the platform.
Apple
Director of Customer Success
2014–2021
  • Led enterprise customer success and technical service delivery across iOS, Mac, Apple TV, and App Store ecosystems, scaling operations to support 500+ global advisors across North America, EMEA, and APAC.
  • Led approximately 15 to 25 Tier 2 managers, conducting skip-level reviews, 1:1s, and structured performance planning while leading cross-departmental rollouts of new software and support tools.
  • Influenced $5M+ in annual enterprise and education renewals; earned Apple's Leadership Award every quarter for four consecutive years.
Match Group
Corporate CX Operations & Escalation Authority
2014–2015
  • Drove a 97.62% quality score while reducing churn by 32% through escalation workflow redesign, queue management, and CRM process optimization.
  • Held escalation and policy-enforcement jurisdiction across Match Group's portfolio of dating platforms, personally stepping in when small, distributed site teams were at capacity.

How I operate

The same underlying framework shows up across every engagement above, just applied to a different customer base and business model.

Feedback loop: findings redesign the system, not just fix the case Onboarding & Lifecycle Mapping Define stages, owners, milestones Health & Risk Signals Usage, sentiment, ticket trends Triage & Prioritization Severity, impact, urgency Escalation & Intervention Right owner, right urgency Resolution & Recovery Close the loop with the customer System Redesign Fix the process, not just the case

A generalized version of the operating model used across the engagements above — rebuilt independently, with no company-specific data or proprietary material.

Customer success & CRM
ServiceNow, Gainsight, ClientSuccess, Vitally, HubSpot, Salesforce, Zendesk
Data & analytics
Tableau, Looker, Power BI, Google Analytics, Excel & SQL
Operations & workflow
Eightfold, Bullhorn, Jira, Asana, Notion, Calendly
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Full resume, references, and background details available on request. Email me.

Thought leadership

Selected writing on customer success, operations, and leadership, published on LinkedIn.

Customer Success Is Not a Department. It’s an Operating System. Read on LinkedIn Customer Success Isn’t About Effort; It’s About Design. Read on LinkedIn Why Most Customer Experience Strategies Fail at Scale Read on LinkedIn Customer Success Isn’t One-Size-Fits-All Read on LinkedIn Empathy Isn’t a Soft Skill—It’s the Strategy That Scales Read on LinkedIn When Speaking Up Makes You a Target: The Silent Cost of Workplace Advocacy Read on LinkedIn Transforming Challenges into Opportunities: Mastering Customer Success in SaaS Read on LinkedIn
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Advisory work

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The SaaS Customer Success & Revenue Diagnostic is a short, focused engagement for SaaS founders and Customer Success leaders who suspect their customer experience is quietly costing them retention and revenue, and want a clear, prioritized view of what to fix first.

  1. Diagnostic review

    An audit of your current customer success operations, tooling, and escalation paths, grounded in the same operational frameworks used to run enterprise CS orgs at scale.

  2. Findings & priorities

    A clear, prioritized report connecting the gaps in your customer experience directly to their revenue impact, not a generic best-practices checklist.

  3. Roadmap conversation

    A working session that turns the findings into a concrete plan for the next 90 days, sized to your team's actual capacity.

Who this is for Customer Success leaders and founders at growing SaaS and technology companies who want an experienced, outside perspective before committing to a full-time hire or a larger consulting engagement.
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