CoLab Software

Customer Education Lead

CoLab Software$90K — $120K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Canada
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in instructional design or customer education within a B2B SaaS environment
  • Proven track record of producing content that drives adoption
  • History of connecting education programs to measurable business outcomes
  • Strong collaboration skills with Customer Success, Product, and Marketing teams
  • Excellent writing and organizational abilities

Responsibilities

  • Map out customer learning needs based on different audience types
  • Analyze customer data to pinpoint areas for educational impact
  • Create diverse onboarding and enablement materials for customers
  • Design and implement interactive learning paths for user education
  • Develop and maintain a learning management system for self-serve learning
  • Set up feedback mechanisms between learners and teams for continuous improvement
  • Partner with teams to identify onboarding friction points and address them through education

Benefits

  • Opportunity to build educational systems from the ground up
  • Focus on measurable impact and metrics to drive business success
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams to enhance customer learning
  • Develop a strong Customer Education program that boosts customer satisfaction
  • Potential for professional growth in a fast-paced SaaS environment
Full Job Description
The Customer Education Lead will design and deliver scalable learning experiences that extend the reach of our Customer Success team, accelerate time-to-value, and create consistent, high-quality enablement across our customer base. You'll partner closely with Product (who owns in-product experience), Customer Success (who understand customer pain points and workflows), our Implementation Specialist (who delivers hands-on onboarding and sees firsthand where customers struggle), and Marketing (who own brand voice and external content) to build an education infrastructure that supports the entirety of our customer base from first login to advanced use cases.

You'll also be standing up CoLab Academy, designing the certifications, learning paths, and resources that make our customers confident, self-sufficient users from day one.

What You'll Do

Understand your learners
  • Map CoLab's distinct customer audiences and identify what each group needs to learn, when, and how
  • Use product usage data, support ticket trends, and CSM feedback to pinpoint where customers get stuck and where education can have the highest impact
  • Partner with Customer Success Managers, Solutions Engineers, and the Implementation Specialist to translate real-world customer friction into learning priorities

Design & Build Scalable Learning Experiences
  • Create customer-facing onboarding and enablement materials (videos, guides, templates, self-paced modules)
  • Design interactive learning paths for end-users
  • Translate complex product workflows into clear, actionable resources
  • Build assessments to check comprehension and certification exams to validate mastery of knowledge and skills
  • Develop CoLab Academy curriculum (certifications, learning paths, use case guides)

Stand up the education infrastructure
  • Evaluate, select, and implement a learning management system (LMS) or content hub that supports self-serve learning, progress tracking, and completion reporting
  • Define repeatable content creation, review, and maintenance processes - including version control and a release-aligned update cadence so materials stay current as the product ships new features
  • Build feedback loops between learners, CSMs, and Product so content improves continuously
  • Identify opportunities to complement formal education with peer learning: how other companies use CoLab for design review, what configurations work for different industries, workflows for various teams
  • Lay the groundwork for customer community and knowledge-sharing programs as the education function matures
  • Partner with the Implementation Specialist to define what gets delivered 1:1 in live implementations vs. what gets built as self-serve education and evolve that over time as the content library matures

Accelerate Time-to-Value
  • Partner with CSMs, Product, and the Implementation Specialist to identify high-friction onboarding points and address them through education
  • Measure the impact of content on customer health, user activation, feature adoption, and renewal outcomes and Iterate based on data

Enable Customer Success & Go-to-Market Teams
  • Equip CSMs and CSEs with ready-to-use materials to drive consistent messaging and reduce 1:1 training time
  • Create internal enablement content on new features and use cases (if we're teaching customers, we should enable our teams too)
  • Partner with Product Marketing on key feature launches, ensuring education content is ready at release

What We're Looking For

Must have:
  • 3+ years in instructional design, customer education, or enablement at a B2B SaaS company
  • Experience creating customer-facing content that drives measurable adoption
  • Demonstrated success linking education programs to business outcomes (adoption, time-to-value, renewals)
  • Strong project management and collaboration skills across Customer Success, Product, and Marketing
  • Excellent writing, organization, and presentation skills
Nice to Have:
  • Experience with technical B2B products, especially engineering tools (CAD, PLM, DevOps, etc.)
  • Hands-on experience with LMS platforms (e.g., Skilljar, Docebo, Thought Industries) or course authoring tools (e.g., Articulate Rise, Camtasia, Adobe Creative Suite)
  • Proven ability to design for scale, blending asynchronous and live learning formats
  • Background in customer marketing, enablement, or customer community
You'll Thrive at CoLab If You
  • Are energized by building systems from scratch and bringing clarity to ambiguity
  • Are passionate about helping people learn, adopt, and succeed
  • See education as a strategic lever for customer and business outcomes
  • Love partnering cross-functionally and connecting dots between Product, Success, and Marketing
  • Are motivated by measurable impact: you care about activation, usage, and renewal metrics

About CoLab Software

CoLab Software is a software company that provides a cloud-based platform for managing engineering design reviews. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Victoria, BC. CoLab's platform is designed to streamline the design review process by allowing teams to collaborate in real-time and track issues and feedback. The platform integrates with popular design tools like SolidWorks and Autodesk, and is used by companies in industries like aerospace, automotive, and consumer goods. CoLab is committed to helping teams work more efficiently and effectively by providing them with the tools they need to succeed.
Learn more about CoLab Software
Size
50 employees
Industry
Founded
2017

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