Strategy & Operations, Customer Success - Ashby

Role Overview

In this Strategy and Operations, Customer Success role, you will drive the strategy, processes, and data-driven insights that empower our Customer Success Team to deliver exceptional outcomes for our customers. Reporting to the Manager of Strategy and Operations, and partnering closely with Customer Success leadership, you will define strategies and execute improvements that optimize customer health, retention, and revenue growth.

Our Customer Success team is consistently praised by our customers for their deep expertise, responsiveness, and dedication—a testament to how much we Care Deeply About Customers, one of our core Operating Principles. As we continue to scale, it’s critical that we preserve and enhance this high standard of customer care while ensuring our processes, tools, and insights evolve to support sustainable growth.

You will play a crucial role in our operations, including process improvements, planning, and reporting. This is both a strategic and tactical role in which you’ll design frameworks and programs, uncover actionable insights, and create data-informed recommendations across our Customer Success functions.

What you'll do at Ashby

• Operationalize CS Strategy: Develop and refine processes, tools, and workflows to scale Customer Success operations. This includes customer segmentation, onboarding workflows, lifecycle mapping, and playbook development.
• Analyze Business Dynamics: Partner with internal stakeholders on reporting & analysis of metrics such as NRR, GRR, churn, product adoption, health score, and customer sentiment. Use these insights to provide early warnings and refine CS strategies.
• Optimize the Customer Journey: Enhance the end-to-end customer journey, ensuring smooth transitions across all post-sales touch points from onboarding through support and renewal.
• Support Strategic Planning: Collaborate with Finance and CS leadership on planning cycles, including headcount planning, capacity modeling, and quota setting. Provide relevant historical data for informed decision making.
• Drive Process Improvements: Identify inefficiencies and implement improvements to CS workflows, customer onboarding, account transitions, and renewal processes. Implement & deploy KPIs to measure performance against strategic initiatives.
• Optimize CS Systems: Define the business requirements to improve Customer Success efficiency, efficacy, and scalability. Partner with RevOps teammates to implement changes to tools (CRM, health scoring platforms, etc.).
• Collaborate Cross-functionally: Ensure alignment with Sales, Product, and other teams to align resources with customer needs and forecasted growth.
• Support Change Management: Lead the roll-out and adoption of new processes or workflows to the CS team. Partner with Enablement on larger scale change programs.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Are a self-starter, innately curious in your approach
• Bring both SaaS & financial literacy, offering an informed perspective on CS benchmarks (e.g. ideal book sizes)
• Have a strategic mindset, with the ability to distill data into actionable recommendations
• Are detail-oriented and committed to data accuracy and process quality
• Have experience in fast-growth SaaS environments, ideally in a Customer Success or Revenue Operations role
• Are skilled in CRM reporting, with preference for HubSpot experience
• Work autonomously, managing multiple tasks and deadlines effectively
• Are an excellent communicator, both verbally and in writing

This role may not be a fit if:

• You’re unwilling to manage both high-level strategy and hands-on execution
• You’re uncomfortable with ambiguity and prefer structured, predefined assignments
• You prefer focused work on a single project at a time
• You prefer working within a single team rather than across multiple teams

Interview Process

1. Recruiter Screen with Talent Acquisition Team - 30 minutes
2. Hiring Manager Interview - 45 minutes
3. Challenge Interview - 45 minutes
4. Virtual Onsite - 90 minutes

Benefits

• Equity: 10-year exercise window for stock options.
• Unlimited PTO: Recommended four weeks per year.
• Parental Leave: 12 weeks of fully paid family leave in the US.
• Home Office & Equipment: Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• Professional Development: $100/month education budget, plus budget for conferences with approval.
• Health Care: Top-notch US health insurance for you and your dependents with 100% employer-covered premiums.