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Manager of Strategic Customer Success

Ashby · Remote - US · Remote

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About Ashby

Ashby’s all-in-one recruiting software consolidates your ATS, Analytics, Scheduling, and CRM. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

As the Manager of Strategic Customer Success, you'll lead a tenured team of skilled CSMs while helping shape how Ashby delivers value as we scale upmarket. You'll be the team's coach, sounding board, and champion — helping CSMs grow, building systems that scale, and advocating cross-functionally — all in service of helping customers drive exceptional outcomes with a rapidly evolving product. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Team Leadership & Coaching : You have experience leading and developing Customer Success Managers in a SaaS environment. You know how to foster a culture of empathy, accountability, and continuous growth
  • Technical Acumen : You're able to get into the technical details of the product alongside your direct reports to help drive customer solutions, and you have experience coaching teams that support a technically complex product
  • Customer Journey Expertise : You understand the enterprise customer lifecycle and have helped improve onboarding, adoption, and retention through thoughtful, repeatable approaches
  • Up Market Motion : You have worked with enterprise customers and scaled their use case as they grow in complexity
  • Operational Mindset : You’ve helped implement and improve team processes, and you bring a structured lens to scaling what works while staying adaptable
  • Cross-functional Collaboration : You’re comfortable partnering with teams like Sales, Product, and Support to align around customer needs and elevate the experience
More about this role

Hi, I’m Loren , the Head of Strategic Customer Success here at Ashby. My team is dedicated to building deep, consultative partnerships within the Enterprise space. One of our operating principles is “Aim High” and I'm excited to find a Manager of Strategic Customer Success who can identify gaps, drive meaningful change, and bring a creative vision to this segment as we scale.

In this role, you'll lead a team of CSMs who serve Ashby's largest and most complex customers. A key part of this role is helping your team navigate the nuances of enterprise partnerships — building the depth of engagement these customers expect while identifying what's working and translating it into repeatable approaches that scale across a sophisticated book of business. You'll partner closely with other leaders across Product, Implementation, Support, and Contract Management.

As the Manager of Strategic Customer Success, you'll lead a tenured team of skilled CSMs while helping shape how Ashby delivers value as we scale upmarket. You'll be the team's coach, sounding board, and champion — helping CSMs grow, building systems that scale, and advocating cross-functionally — all in service of helping customers...

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