Startup Customer Success Manager - Americas
Startup Customer Success Manager supporting early-stage customers with independent onboarding via materials, webinars, and documentation. Owns a pooled book of customers for ongoing email/calls, drives retention best practices, and leads key projects on a complex recruiting SaaS platform. Requires 2+ years customer-facing experience with complex products.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Create high-quality onboarding materials, documentation, and e-webinars to enable customers to get up and running independently.
- Assist customers via email and customer calls when needed.
- Own a book of customers as the main point of contact in the shared inbox and hop on customer calls per SLAs.
- Take ownership of medium and large projects core to team operations (examples: building in-app onboarding experience using Amplitude, creating live foundational webinar series + recorded content, building retention best practices into customer engagement).
- Partner long-term with customers on ongoing engagement that drives best practices in revenue retention and recruiting excellence.
- Identify and improve stale processes/practices, offering more effective alternatives.
Requirements
- 2+ years of customer-facing experience supporting a complex and rapidly evolving product (e.g. tools like Zapier, HubSpot, Acuity Scheduling).
- Experience as a full-time Startup Customer Success Manager, Account Manager, or Program Manager.
- Enjoy becoming a subject matter and product expert.
- Skilled at defining the scope of problems, mapping multiple paths forward, and creating comprehensive solutions independently and collaboratively.
- Keen attention to detail with thorough, clear, and empathetic email and live responses.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to communicate effectively with diverse user groups from experienced TA leaders to those new to recruiting SaaS tools.
- Curious; enjoys digging into customer use cases to suggest the best path forward.
- Comfortable with a pooled (1:many) approach to customer interactions rather than one-on-one with a small book.
- Excited to partner long-term with customers beyond onboarding, including revenue retention.
- Enjoys problem-solving and troubleshooting complex challenges with multiple solutions.
- Interested in balancing customer interactions with project work.
- Proactive in speaking up and acting on opportunities for improvement.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with complex products similar to Ashby (recruiting SaaS).
Compensation / Benefits
- Salary: $80,000 - $138,000.
- 10-year exercise window for stock options.
- Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year.
- Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave (US).
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
- $100/month education budget (more expensive items like conferences covered with approval).
- Top-notch health insurance for you and dependents with premiums covered (US).
Skills
Customer Success, Account Management, Program Management, Onboarding, Customer Onboarding, Webinars, Documentation, Amplitude, Problem Solving, Customer Support, SaaS, Zapier, HubSpot
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