Customer Success & Support Manager
- Role
- Support
- Experience
- Mid
- Company size
- Startup
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No BS summary
Customer Success & Support Manager with 1-3+ years of experience in customer-facing roles within fast-growth startups, payroll/HR tech/SaaS, or consulting. Requires strong stakeholder management, analytical skills, and proficiency in English. Experience in complex environments and ability to manage competing priorities are essential.
Required languages
Customer Relationship & Journey Ownership • Act as the primary operational point of contact for customers post-sales handover • Build strong, trusted relationships with client stakeholders and guide them through implementation and onboarding • Navigate customers through their experience lifecycle, ensuring smooth adoption and engagement • Become a trusted advisor who translates business needs into effective implementation outcomes • Manage and strengthen relationships to support retention, satisfaction, and long-term success Implementation Coordination & Delivery Oversight • Coordinate HRIS and Payroll implementation consultants and track delivery milestones • Manage the handover from Sales into Implementation, ensuring clarity on scope, timelines, and expectations • Oversee implementation governance including status tracking, risk identification, issue resolution, and reporting • Ensure alignment across internal teams including Implementation, Payroll, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success • Support implementation readiness and ensure customers provide required inputs for successful go-live Customer Enablement & Adoption • Train customers on HRIS and payroll processes and platform usage • Drive product adoption with a focus on long-term customer value and success • Lead customer interactions with a growth and value-realisation mindset • Support go-live and early lifecycle stabilisation • Act as a problem solver, helping customers overcome operational challenges Data, Insights & Problem Solving • Use data to assess customer health, identify risks, and surface opportunities • Synthesize insights into clear, actionable recommendations for stakeholders • Support decision-making by identifying trends, risks, and opportunities across accounts Cross-Functional Collaboration & Growth Enablement • Collaborate closely with Account Executives, Customer Success Managers, Onboarding Managers, Product, and Support teams • Act as the voice of the customer, sharing structured feedback with Revenue and Product teams • Identify expansion opportunities and refer appropriately to Sales teams • Contribute to improving customer journey processes, playbooks, and delivery standards • Maintain the day-to-day operational relationship with the client’s Partner Management team, ensuring strong alignment, communication, and collaboration across all delivery workstreams • 1–3+ years of experience in Customer Success, Operations, Support, Consulting, Implementation, or similar customer-facing roles • Experience in fast-growth startups, payroll/HR tech/SaaS, consulting, or similarly complex environments • Strong stakeholder management and coordination skills across multiple parties • Ability to manage competing priorities in fast-paced environments • Strong analytical mindset with ability to translate data into insights • Excellent communication skills with senior stakeholders • Highly collaborative, proactive, and execution-oriented • Comfortable working in ambiguous environments • Strong track record of achievement and progression • Fully proficient in English
What you'll do
- Act as the primary operational point of contact for customers post-sales handover
- Build strong, trusted relationships with client stakeholders and guide them through implementation and onboarding
- Navigate customers through their experience lifecycle, ensuring smooth adoption and engagement
- Become a trusted advisor who translates business needs into effective implementation outcomes
- Manage and strengthen relationships to support retention, satisfaction, and long-term success
- Coordinate HRIS and Payroll implementation consultants and track delivery milestones
- Manage the handover from Sales into Implementation, ensuring clarity on scope, timelines, and expectations
- Oversee implementation governance including status tracking, risk identification, issue resolution, and reporting
- Ensure alignment across internal teams including Implementation, Payroll, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success
- Support implementation readiness and ensure customers provide required inputs for successful go-live
- Train customers on HRIS and payroll processes and platform usage
- Drive product adoption with a focus on long-term customer value and success
- Lead customer interactions with a growth and value-realisation mindset
- Support go-live and early lifecycle stabilisation
- Act as a problem solver, helping customers overcome operational challenges
- Use data to assess customer health, identify risks, and surface opportunities
- Synthesize insights into clear, actionable recommendations for stakeholders
- Support decision-making by identifying trends, risks, and opportunities across accounts
- Collaborate closely with Account Executives, Customer Success Managers, Onboarding Managers, Product, and Support teams
- Act as the voice of the customer, sharing structured feedback with Revenue and Product teams
- Identify expansion opportunities and refer appropriately to Sales teams
- Contribute to improving customer journey processes, playbooks, and delivery standards
- Maintain the day-to-day operational relationship with the client’s Partner Management team, ensuring strong alignment, communication, and collaboration across all delivery workstreams
What they require
- 1–3+ years of experience in Customer Success, Operations, Support, Consulting, Implementation, or similar customer-facing roles
- Experience in fast-growth startups, payroll/HR tech/SaaS, consulting, or similarly complex environments
- Strong stakeholder management and coordination skills across multiple parties
- Ability to manage competing priorities in fast-paced environments
- Strong analytical mindset with ability to translate data into insights
- Excellent communication skills with senior stakeholders
- Highly collaborative, proactive, and execution-oriented
- Comfortable working in ambiguous environments
- Strong track record of achievement and progression
- Fully proficient in English