SMB Customer Success Manager - Americas

The posting, as Ashby wrote it

Hello! I’m Jared 👋 I joined Ashby four years ago as the first member of the Startup Customer Success team. Since then, I have been a part of building out the onboarding and success functions across our entire startup segment. Today, we’re a team of fifteen spanning across the US, Canada, and EMEA. I am so excited to be hiring another SMB Customer Success Manager in the US or Canada 🎉.

Our SMB Customer Success Team serves our early-stage customers programmatically. These customers are special to us because they aren’t just learning our software; they are learning how to build hiring excellence into the DNA of their growing organizations.

Our SMB Customer Success Managers create high-quality onboarding materials, documentation, and e-webinars that enable our customers to get up and running independently. They also jump in to assist via email and customer calls when needed. This is a mid-level role, so we require at least 2 years of experience as a full-time SMB Customer Success Manager, Account Manager, or Program Manager.

In this role, you’ll take ownership of a book of customers for whom you’d be the main point of contact in our shared inbox and hop on customer calls per our SLAs. You’ll also take ownership of medium and large projects that are core to our team’s operations. Existing projects our team has taken on include:

• Building an in-app onboarding experience using Amplitude
• Creation of a live, foundational webinar series + recorded content
• Building retention best practices into our engagement with customers that extend well beyond just onboarding

YOU SHOULD APPLY IF

• You have 2+ years of customer-facing experience supporting a complex and rapidly evolving product (for complexity, think tools like Zapier, HubSpot, and Acuity Scheduling).
• You enjoy becoming a subject matter and product expert to help deliver excellent experiences when assisting our customers in solving complex challenges. Oftentimes, there will be multiple solutions to any given challenge and you enjoy getting in the weeds with customers to figure out what exactly they need to suggest the best path forward.
• You’re skilled at defining the scope of problems and creating comprehensive solutions independently and collaboratively. With a complex product comes complex problems - you are excellent at identifying an issue, mapping multiple paths forward, and taking action based on principled thinking.
• You possess keen attention to detail, ensuring your email and live responses are thorough, clear, and empathetic along the way. Solving the problem is sometimes only half the battle - you are gifted in extracting only the necessary details that our customers or our team members need to solve a problem.
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills. You effectively communicate with diverse user groups, whether partnering with an experienced TA leader developing the recruiting function at a Series A startup or instructing individuals

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houldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby —do it when you feel financially comfortable.

• Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year. Expect “Vacation?” in our one-on-one agenda until you start taking it 😅.
• Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave in the US. We plan to expand this to employees in other countries as situations arise.
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget. Get what you need to be happy and productive!
• $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.
• If you’re in the US, top-notch health insurance for you and your dependents, with all premiums covered by us.

Ashby’s success hinges on hiring great people and creating an environment where we can be happy, feel challenged, and do our best work. We’re being deliberate about building that environment from the ground up.

If you’ve read this far, thank you, and I hope this all excites you enough to complete an application! Please note that we’ll contact you via your application's email address to keep things fair. Reaching out through other platforms will not change the priority of your application. Whether we move forward together or not, I wish you all the best in your job search!

Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.

Ashby is committed to a fair and transparent hiring process. We confirm that this advertisement is for an active, existing vacancy within our organization. Please be advised that we may use artificial intelligence-driven tools to assist our recruitment team in screening, assessing, and selecting candidates for this position.