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Customer Success Manager

Upwork$84K — $119K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5+ years in Customer Success, Account Management, or Sales with retention targets
  • Experience with consumption-based business models, HR tech, or staffing industries
  • Proven history of exceeding retention goals and KPIs
  • Strong consultative skills and problem-solving abilities
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Data-driven storytelling proficiency
  • Strong project and time management capabilities
  • Ability to collaborate in a matrix environment

Responsibilities

  • Partner with customers to achieve workforce and business goals via the Lifted platform
  • Provide expert training on talent sourcing and Lifted product configurations
  • Build and execute Customer Success Plans to maximize product value
  • Maintain strong relationships with Hiring Managers to increase adoption
  • Own retention strategies and collaborate with Sales on expansion efforts
  • Participate in product feedback and represent customer voice to R&D
  • Work with cross-functional teams to ensure integrated solutions

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical coverage for employee and family
  • Unlimited PTO
  • 401(k) plan with matching contributions
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave
Full Job Description
We're seeking a dynamic Enterprise Customer Success Manager to partner with customers and help them achieve their Talent and Workforce goals using the Lifted platform. This role is ideal for a strategic thinker with a proven track record in customer success, retention, and driving adoption in enterprise environments.

Your Responsibilities:
  • Partner with our customers to achieve their Talent / Workforce and Business goals, by driving adoption with Hiring Managers and ensuring they see value with the Lifted offerings
  • Provide expert consultation and training on Workforce talent sourcing/management, integrations (SSO, HRIS, etc), Lifted product configurations, Lifted Talent network, and best practices within the context of customer-appropriate workflows
  • Build and execute on Customer Success Plans outlining customer approach to maximizing value of the Lifted offerings (ensure Healthy customers)
  • Proactively build trusted relationships and maintain continuous engagement with Hiring Managers to drive increased adoption of Lifted offerings (expansion with existing users); including weekly, monthly and QBR meetings with appropriate stakeholders
  • Internally, own retention and churn mitigation of existing spend, including an internal Forecast, and partner with Sales on the expansion/growth motion
  • Actively participate in full Product feedback loop - provide thoughtful customer-driven product feedback to R&D teams, and represent Product roadmap and vision to the customer
  • Work closely with cross-functional partners like Sales, Professional Services, Talent Services, Support, Marketing, Product, Engineering, Implementation, Solution Architects, User Research
  • Exercise sound judgment, customer-centricity, and bias for action in resolving issues through effective and collaborative problem-solving, appropriate escalations, etc

What it takes to catch our eye:
  • 3-5+ years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, or Sales with direct responsibility for retention targets; experience with large Enterprise customers
  • Experience with consumption-based business models, and HR tech, Talent Acquisition, Staffing, VMS/MSP industries a plus
  • Proven track record of meeting or exceeding retention goals and business KPIs, commercial orientation and business acumen
  • Demonstrated history of building enduring customer relationships with key stakeholders
  • Strong consultative skills, including effective discovery, and creative problem solving
  • Excellent communication skills, experience leading client meetings, QBRs, product trainings
  • Comfort with data-driven storytelling and leveraging data to provide effective recommendations
  • Strong project management and time management skills - can stay organized and manage multiple projects simultaneously
  • Effective collaboration with cross-functional teams in a matrix environment
  • Strong sense of ownership, bias for action, and resilience - you are scrappy, will roll up your sleeves and can make things happen
  • Some travel to visit key customer stakeholders in person

Lift Your Career. Shape the Future of Work.

Our Mission: Unify contingent work. Elevate how it gets done. This isn't just a promise to clients, it's how we work at Lifted. Every feature we build, every client interaction we have, and every team decision we make is a chance to reduce fragmentation and set a new standard for efficiency, quality, and impact. We're not just building technology, we're building the new standard for how enterprise companies engage talent.

This is the right place for you if you are motivated by ambitious goals, ready to do what it takes to win, boldly curious in asking questions and exploring better ways forward, and dedicated to following through on your commitments. You'll thrive here if you raise the bar for yourself and others, collaborate across teams, and help others succeed so we can achieve our shared mission.

This may not be the right place for you if you're uncomfortable with constructive feedback, prefer rigid structure, shy away from high expectations and accountability, or find it difficult to adapt in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.

We operate with the agility of a startup and the impact of a global enterprise. Our values - trust, innovation, curiosity, excellence, and ownership - guide how we work and fuel the culture we're building together. And while our mission is big, growth here is both company-wide and personal, creating opportunities to learn fast, take ownership, and build a career that helps shape the future of work.

We're proud to offer benefits that go beyond the basics, including comprehensive medical coverage for you and your family, unlimited PTO, a 401(k) plan with matching, and 12 weeks of paid parental leave.

The estimated base compensation pay range for this role is displayed below.

Salary Range

$84,000-$119,000 USD

This position is also eligible for sales incentive compensation, and when combined with the base compensation, the estimated On-Target Earnings (OTE) for this position amount.

OTE

$105,000-$148,750 USD

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