AppDirect

Customer Success Manager

AppDirect$92K — $121K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-7 years of experience in customer success, account management, or support leadership, preferably in a B2B SaaS environment.
  • Proven track record managing strategic/enterprise accounts with high-touch engagement.
  • Experience working in a startup or early-stage setting, capable of navigating ambiguity.
  • Proficient in Zendesk and familiar with support operations and ticket management.
  • Ability to coordinate with cross-functional teams without direct management authority.
  • Strong skills in identifying churn risk and turning customer detractors into advocates.
  • Technical familiarity with APIs, AI/ML concepts, and developer-facing products.
  • Data-driven mindset, using metrics to prioritize rather than relying on intuition.
  • Fluency in AI tools for drafting responses, analyzing data, and automating tasks.
  • Excellent communication skills for engaging with both executives and technical teams.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end post-sale lifecycle for strategic accounts: onboarding, adoption, renewal, and expansion.
  • Facilitate quarterly business reviews (QBRs) and success plans for key customers.
  • Drive revenue retention through upselling and fostering deep product adoption.
  • Oversee the customer support experience, ensuring alignment with internal support teams.
  • Refine and enforce service level agreements (SLAs) for Devs.ai customers.
  • Manage ticket triaging and resolution using Zendesk as needed.
  • Collaborate with support leadership to ensure adequate attention for Devs.ai customers.
  • Establish customer health scoring to proactively identify churn risks and growth opportunities.
  • Develop and maintain a tailored Devs.ai knowledge base and help center content.
  • Implement customer satisfaction (CSAT) and net promoter score (NPS) metrics for ongoing improvement.
  • Collect and advocate for in-product customer feedback with the product team.
  • Bridge communication between customers and the product/engineering teams for actionable insights.

Benefits

  • Performance-based bonuses available for regular employees.
  • Comprehensive benefits package offered to employees.
Full Job Description
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About You

Devs.AI is AppDirect's most strategic initiative, focused on building the next generation of AI-driven enterprise tools and you'll be our first dedicated Customer Success Manager, but you won't be building everything from scratch. AppDirect already has a mature support infrastructure (Zendesk), internal support staff across Tier 1/2/3, and established SLAs. Your job is to leverage all of that for Devs.ai while owning the customer success function end-to-end. Your primary focus will be managing our largest, most strategic accounts: being their trusted partner, driving adoption, ensuring they get massive value from the platform, and expanding the relationship over time. You'll also oversee the support experience for Devs.ai customers, coordinating with internal AppDirect support teams and jumping in on tickets yourself when needed. This is a player-coach, swiss-army-knife role. One hour you're on a QBR with a key account, the next you're refining an SLA for Devs.ai, the next you're triaging a support ticket in Zendesk.

What you'll do and how you'll have an impact
  • Own the full post-sale lifecycle for strategic accounts: onboarding, adoption, renewal, and expansion
  • Be the primary relationship holder for our largest customers, running QBRs, executive check-ins, and success plans
  • Drive net revenue retention through upsells, cross-sells, and deep product adoption
  • Oversee the Devs.ai support experience by coordinating with AppDirect's existing Tier 1/2/3 support teams
  • Refine and enforce SLAs specifically for Devs.ai customers, adapting AppDirect's existing framework
  • Work out of the existing Zendesk instance, triaging, escalating, and picking up tickets yourself when needed
  • Partner with AppDirect's existing support leadership to ensure Devs.ai customers get the right level of attention
  • Build and maintain customer health scoring to proactively identify churn risk and expansion opportunities
  • Create and maintain a Devs.ai-specific knowledge base and help center content
  • Implement CSAT/NPS measurement and use it to drive continuous improvement
  • Own in-product feedback collection and be the voice of the customer to the product team
  • Be the bridge between customers and our product/engineering team, translating feedback into actionable insights

What we're looking for
  • 4-7 years in customer success, account management, or support leadership, ideally at a B2B SaaS company
  • You've worked in a startup or early-stage environment and thrived in ambiguity
  • Experience managing strategic/enterprise accounts with high-touch engagement
  • Comfortable working in Zendesk and familiar with support operations
  • You've partnered with existing support organizations before, and you know how to coordinate across teams you don't directly manage
  • Strong instincts for identifying churn risk early and turning detractors into advocates
  • Technical aptitude: comfortable with APIs, AI/ML concepts, and developer-facing products
  • Data-driven: you use metrics to prioritize, not just gut feel
  • AI-fluent: you use AI tools to draft responses, analyze customer data, build help documentation, and automate repetitive workflows. It's part of how you operate, not an afterthought
  • Excellent communicator who can work with executives and engineers alike

The salary band listed below reflects the expected annual base salary or OTE (on-target earnings) for this role at AppDirect and may be subject to change.

Base salary or OTE is just one component of AppDirect's total compensation package. In addition to base pay, regular employees may be eligible for performance-based bonuses and a full range of benefits.

Canada Compensation Band

$92,000-$121,000 CAD

L'échelle salariale indiquée ci-dessous correspond au salaire de base annuel prévu ou à la rémunération cible (OTE) pour ce poste chez AppDirect et est susceptible d'être modifiée.

Le salaire de base ou la rémunération cible (OTE) ne constitue qu'une composante du package de rémunération global proposé par AppDirect. Outre le salaire de base, les employés permanents peuvent prétendre à des primes liées à la performance et à une gamme complète d'avantages sociaux. Fourchette

Échelle salariale au Canada

$92,000-$121,000 CAD

About AppDirect

AppDirect is a cloud service commerce company founded in 2009. The company provides a cloud service marketplace and management platform that enables companies to distribute web-based services. AppDirect's platform is designed for businesses of all sizes, from small startups to large enterprises, and it offers a range of services, including billing and invoicing, subscription management, and analytics. The company has offices in San Francisco, Montreal, Munich, London, and Sydney.
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Size
1,000 employees
Industry
Founded
2009

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