Senior Onboarding Manager

Professional Services United States


Description

 
What We Do 
Payscale's Onboarding & Education organization is responsible for the first part of the customer journey, ensuring customers are receiving maximum and sustained value from our products from the very beginning of our relationship with the end goal of making sure that our customers renew at higher rates. Our Implementation team is responsible for assisting clients with the technical set-up and initial training and our Education team ensures that our customers and end-users have access to high-quality training options throughout their entire lifecycle.  
 
What You Do 
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Customer Onboarding, the Onboarding Manager is a key member of the Customer Onboarding & Education team and is responsible for ensuring the successful execution of the Payscale customer onboarding strategy and accelerating customer adoption of Payscale’s products and solutions. The Onboarding Manager works with the customer success team, the customer education team, and the customer implementation team to put together effective joint success & deployment plans, including goals, timelines, and resource coordination to ensure quick ROI for Payscale Customers. This is a high-visibility role within an exciting area of the business with a chance to quickly make a difference. 
 
Essential Responsibilities
  • Manage the comprehensive onboarding for all Payscale customers (including new business, renewals, upsells, and add-on products) to ensure customers receive a highly organized program with detailed goals, timelines, and processes. Serve as primary point of contact for customers during onboarding and implementation phase of the customer lifecycle.
  • Build strategies to ensure customers in all customer segments are onboarding within the defined SLAs. Coordinate communication with other business areas to ensure a streamlined approach for each customer. 
  • Work directly with customers to set appropriate expectations, address customer goals, determine target dates, manage customer tasks, and provide regular project updates during the onboarding phase of the customer lifecycle. 
  • Collaborate with the customer org teams including customer success, customer education, implementation, and comp services to create a streamlined and cohesive approach that allows customers to get successfully implemented and trained. 
  • Manage multiple simultaneous onboarding projects at one time, balancing priorities of business results, customer satisfaction, and technical quality. This includes being an asset to the Customer Success Manager, Education Manager, and Implementation Manager while being an advocate for the customer. 
  • Provide best practices and mentorship to customers on how best to implement Payscale’s suite of products and solutions. Provide thought leadership regarding overcoming challenges the customer is facing. 
  • Ensure appropriate handoff of new accounts to the Customer Success Manager and/or the Customer Support Team. Build out a standardized information flow/transition document to prepare the CSM and Support team for success, including documenting wins and challenges the customer faced during the onboarding process. 
  • Serve as the primary owner of Customer Journey tasks in Salesforce. Document all steps and touchpoints as appropriate. 
  • Perform a wide variety of professional tasks, which demand a high level of creativity and imagination, as well as a thorough knowledge of the applicable needs and expectations of employees/customers. 
  • Exercise best in class customer service methods to deliver white glove onboarding experiences to high value customers as identified by the Executive Leadership team.
 
  • Rapidly adapt to the needs of the team and the organization with a superior ability to quickly learn new products, processes, and systems. 
 
 
 
Required Experience and Education
  • BA/BS degree. At least 5+ years of experience in customer onboarding/customer success/customer implementation and/or project management, ideally in a SaaS environment.
  • Ability to manage multiple competing priorities, rapidly adapt and respond to customer requests and timeline changes. 
  • Highly collaborative, organized, and execution-oriented with strong presentation skills. 
  • Excellent project management skills that emphasize attention to detail, timelines, and work quality. 
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to be flexible in project situations. Ability to research, analyze and provide a solution to newly identified issues. 
  • Experience developing, installing, training, and/or supporting B2B solutions (previous experience with Payscale products strongly preferred). 
  • Highly familiar with Payscale tech stack, including Salesforce CRM, Gainsight Customer Success Software, Microsoft Office, and Slack.  
  • Able to be successful in a fast-paced environment that rewards hard work and self-motivation. 
  • Superior relationship and communication skills (both verbal and written). 
 

Compensation 

In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range for this position is $88,300 - $132,500, exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses. This position is also eligible for an annual corporate bonus of 10%. If you are hired at Payscale, your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, education, and/or experience. In addition to those factors – we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider any internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above is the full base salary range for the role. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical in order to allow for future & continued salary growth. We also offer a generous compensation and benefits package (more information on benefits listed below). 

Company Description 

Payscale gives employers and employees confidence to know the what and why behind pay. With our leading data, technology, and experience we make it easier for you to connect compensation to goals. 

As the industry leader in compensation management, Payscale is on a mission to help job seekers, employees, and businesses get pay right and to make sustainable fair pay a reality. Empowering more than 50 percent of the Fortune 500 in 198 countries, Payscale provides a combination of diverse and dynamic data sources, experienced compensation services, and scalable software to enable organizations such as Angel City Football Club, Target, United Healthcare, Gainsight, eBay, and The Washington Post to make fair and appropriate pay decisions. To learn more, visit www.payscale.com 

Location 

Payscale has an employee centric remote-first model that providesyou the flexibility to do your best work in a space that supports you,whilealso finding time to collaborate in person for the moments that matter. 
 
In our remote-first model, employees can work from the location that works best for them. We do not have centralized corporate offices.Employees can choose to work from home, in company-paid co-working spaces, or any combination of the two that best suits their unique needs. 

When it matters (usually no more than a few times a year) we take the time to gather for in-person events. 

Payscale has employees across the US, Canada, and the UK, however we are currently unable to hire in the Quebec Province, Northern Ireland, and Hawaii. 

Benefits and Perks   

All around awesome culture where together we strive to live our 5 values: 

  • Respect every individual, work as a team 
  • Be Customer first, customer centric 
  • Have a Bias towards action 
  • Commit to excellence (we give our best everyday) 
  • Make Data driven decisions 

An open and inclusiveenvironment where you’ll learn and grow through programs and resources like:  

  • Monthly company All Hands meetings 
  • Regular opportunities for executive leadership exposure through things like AMAs 
  • Access to continued learning & development opportunities  
  • Our commitment to a continuous feedback culture which allows us to drive performance and career growth 
  • A growing network of Employee Resource Groups 
  • Company sponsored volunteer hours 
  • And more!  

Our more standard benefits 

  • Flex Paid Time Off, giving you flexibility to rest, relax and recharge away from work 
  • 15 Paid Company Holidays, including an extended Fourth of July break, World Mental Health Day, and Juneteenth 
  • A comprehensive benefits plan including medical, dental, life, vision, disability, and life insurance covered up to 100% by Payscale 
  • 401(k) retirement program with a fully vested immediate company match 
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing or non-birthing parents 
  • Unlimited infertility coverage benefits through our medical plans 
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) options and company contribution each pay period  
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations 

Equal Opportunity Employer:  

We embrace equal employment opportunity. Payscale is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. It is our policy that employees will not be subjected to unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, marital status, sexual orientation, political ideology, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to: recruitment, hiring, transfers, promotions, training, discipline, termination, compensation and benefits, performance appraisals, education, and social and recreational programs. 

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