Gorgias

Customer Implementation Manager, Commercial

Gorgias$75K — $95K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-3+ years experience as an implementation manager in SaaS with a successful track record in post-sales adoption.
  • E-commerce experience is a plus, enhancing relevance to the core business.
  • Fluency in English; French is a significant asset.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in project management with a focus on merchant activation and strategic recommendations.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills with a keen attention to detail.
  • Ability to manage up to 50 accounts simultaneously, offering tailored support across diverse merchant needs.
  • Demonstrated enthusiasm for continuous personal growth and relationship building.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct tailored onboarding and optimization sessions for new customers, enhancing product adoption.
  • Utilize a consultative approach to customize solutions that match customer goals and needs.
  • Drive activation ratios and reduce activation times through expert guidance during onboarding.
  • Establish trust with clients by sharing product knowledge and best practices, driving value adoption.
  • Serve as the primary liaison between customers and internal teams for effective onboarding support.
  • Document customer interactions and feedback to continually improve onboarding experiences.
  • Analyze e-commerce customer data to optimize support strategies with the Automate product.

Benefits

  • 5-week vacation policy adhering to local PTO laws.
  • Paid sick leave and paid parental leave (16 weeks).
  • Provision of a MacBook Air and personal credit card for work-related lunch expenses.
  • Comprehensive private health insurance and retirement pension benefits.
  • Funding of up to $700 for home workstation setup and $2000 annually for learning materials, including courses and coaching.
  • Quarterly online summits for company-wide discussions and annual offsite retreats for team bonding.
Full Job Description
About the Team

The Customer Implementation Team at Gorgias is dedicated to ensuring a seamless and successful start for every customer's journey with our products. Our primary objective is to elevate the onboarding experience by delivering a white-glove service and expert guidance to our customers. This involves cultivating a heightened proficiency in product knowledge, engaging in consultative conversations, and adopting a strategic implementation approach that extends beyond mere activation. Our mission is to empower companies to launch swiftly and effectively on Gorgias, showcasing the exceptional value of our flagship products: Helpdesk and AI Agent.

Our team plays a pivotal role in the overall success of our products, influencing customer adoption, usage, and retention. As AI becomes central to how merchants support their customers, we're at the forefront of helping businesses unlock automation, configure AI Agent, and drive measurable outcomes from day one. By fostering meaningful connections with our customers, we contribute to the sustained growth and satisfaction of businesses leveraging Gorgias solutions.

About the Role

As the Customer Implementation Manager, your role is to manage the entire onboarding process for your book of business, beginning to end - from sales handover through configuration, training, and activation. As the first point of contact, this role is instrumental in managing all aspects of customer relations post-sales stage.

You will actively contribute to our mission of providing a white-glove onboarding experience, showcasing the value of our flagship products, Helpdesk and AI Agent. The perfect fit for this role is an adept professional with a consultative mindset and a strategic approach to onboarding.

What You'll Do
  • Conduct in-depth discovery and implementation sessions for your book of business, tailoring the experience to drive adoption and usage of our Helpdesk and AI Agent products.
  • Build on behalf of the customer, utilizing a consultative approach to customize solutions that align with their specific needs and goals.
  • Design and drive AI Agent adoption roadmaps for each customer, sequencing automation rollout to support change management and prove value at each stage.
  • Drive the activation ratio and reduce time to value through a white-glove experience, providing expert guidance on both Helpdesk and AI Agent configuration.
  • Establish trust with customers by demonstrating expert knowledge of our products, sharing best practices, and communicating the business impact of AI adoption in clear, compelling terms.
  • Act as the primary liaison between customers and internal teams, ensuring seamless communication and cross-functional accountability throughout the onboarding process.
  • Manage integrations with the customer's ecommerce tech stack; explore feasibility of custom integration paths and troubleshoot proactively using available technical resources and AI tools.
  • Drive project timelines through clear milestone setting and workback schedules, ensuring effective project management throughout the implementation.
  • Analyze and interpret e-commerce customer data to build compelling, executive-ready narratives - translating support metrics and AI Agent outcomes into business impact framed around revenue, efficiency, and risk, so that CEOs and CFOs become champions, not blockers.
  • Document customer interactions, configurations, and learnings meticulously - contributing insights that improve future implementations and team best practices.
  • Proactively identify and mitigate roadblocks to decrease time to value, and coach L1/L2 peers by sharing patterns, playbooks, and implementation learnings.
  • Leverage AI tools to accelerate discovery synthesis, solution design, and documentation.


Who You Are
  • Experience:3-5+ years in SaaS as an implementation manager or similar post-sales role, driving adoption and activation with a demonstrated track record of independently delivering complex implementations. Ecommerce experience is a strong plus.
  • Consultancy and Project Management: 3-5+ years crafting and overseeing project timelines tailored to enhance activation among merchants, encompassing strategic recommendations and actionable suggestions. Comfortable managing 25-30 accounts simultaneously with a high degree of autonomy.
  • Communication Skills: Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and executive presence. You build compelling narratives that resonate at the CEO and CFO level - translating complex data and AI outcomes into clear business impact, overcoming objections before they become roadblocks, and turning skeptics into champions. You adapt your message and materials to any audience.
  • Technical Curiosity: You understand how ecommerce platforms and integrations work, you're comfortable exploring how to build or troubleshoot integrations, and you default to resourcefulness over escalation. Familiarity with Shopify and common ecommerce tech stacks is a strong plus.
  • AI & Automation Mindset: Passionate about technology, automation, and the future of AI in customer support. Comfortable configuring AI Agent, discussing automation strategy with merchants, and learning new AI capabilities quickly. Proactively uses tools like Claude to improve your own efficiency.
  • Adaptability and Learning Agility: Thrives in an evolving onboarding process, demonstrating adaptability to change, quick learning, and the ability to keep up with new product developments and process changes.
  • Relationship Building: Passionate about building and maintaining relationships, with a focus on driving engagement, product adoption, and mitigating churn.
  • Passion for Learning: Demonstrated passion for continuous learning and personal growth. You stay current on Gorgias product developments and ecommerce trends, and you actively contribute to team knowledge.


Perks & Benefits

5-week vacation (We follow each country's appropriate PTO Laws)

Paid sick leave

Paid parental leave (16 weeks)

MacBook Air

Personal credit card to buy lunches (you'll have your own Gorgias credit card)

We provide private health insurance and retirement pension

Get up to $700 USD to set up your workstation at home (working from home should feel breezy)

Get up to $2000 USD of learning material per year (includes books, courses, training sessions that are easily identified and linked with your job scope. This also covers individual coaching!)

Every quarter, we organize an online company-wide summit to discuss where we're going and strengthen social bonds. Once per year we organize offsite team retreats and company retreats!

AI at Gorgias
At Gorgias, AI is a natural extension of how we work and build. Our teams use it every day to research, write, analyze, code, and craft better customer experiences. Everyone has access to premium AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Granola & others) and an annual L&D budget to explore new ones.

The real magic happens when we share what we learn. Our #powerup Slack channel is a digital petri dish of new tools and workflows, and each team has AI champions who showcase fresh ideas during weekly company-wide standups, now practically AI demo sessions.

We see AI not as a replacement for creativity or empathy, but as a multiplier, helping us move faster, think deeper, and serve customers better.

About Gorgias

Gorgias is a customer support automation platform that helps businesses deliver personalized customer service at scale. The company's software integrates with e-commerce platforms and other business tools to provide a unified view of customer interactions and automate repetitive tasks. Gorgias was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, with additional locations in Paris and New York.
Learn more about Gorgias
Size
100 employees
Industry
Founded
2015

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