Director of Customer Success leading merchant retention, expansion, and CSM teams for Portless, a global 3PL provider. Building scalable lifecycle, forecasting, and fulfillment-success systems.
Responsibilities
Own the post-launch merchant relationship for every Portless merchant and lead the Customer Success Management team
Lead customer success motions across onboarding and lifecycle teams
Own Gross Revenue Retention and Net Revenue Retention for the merchant base
Set coverage models, playbooks, cadences, and segmented engagement across Enterprise, Strategic, and Growth accounts
Hire, onboard, coach, and develop CSMs and Hypercare managers
Set book-of-business capacity and revenue coverage; rebalance books quarterly
Define performance scorecards and manage team performance
Publish monthly retention forecasts with at-risk accounts, dollar exposure, and save plans
Run weekly at-risk reviews and lead churn post-mortems
Serve as senior escalation point for Enterprise and Strategic merchants
Own Hypercare-to-CSM handoffs and graduation standards
Lead merchant-facing peak planning with Operations for BFCM and Chinese New Year
Design merchant health scoring and use leading indicators to trigger interventions
Set standards for MBRs, QBRs, and EBRs focused on measurable merchant outcomes
Own the merchant sentiment program, including risk scoring, Customer Effort Score, and decision-maker NPS
Own service attach-rate targets and expansion playbooks for Portless and partner solutions
Coach CSMs on services-led discovery, ROI cases, and commercial rigor
Partner with Sales and Operations on expansion, win-back, and share-of-wallet growth
Enforce HubSpot data standards as the system of record
Deploy AI tooling to reduce CSM toil and establish human-review quality standards
Convert merchant friction into prioritized Product and Operations feedback
Partner cross-functionally with Technical Solutions, Operations, Product, Sales, RevOps, Engineering, and fulfillment centers
Deliver retention, growth, lifecycle, sentiment, and team success metrics
Requirements
Fluent in English with executive-level written and spoken communication
8+ years in Customer Success or Account Management
3+ years directly managing CSMs or Account Managers with ownership of retention and expansion targets
Fulfillment, 3PL, cross-border logistics, or e-commerce operations experience required
Understanding of SLA attainment, exception rates, carrier mix, inventory positioning, duties and de minimis exposure, and 3PL churn drivers
Experience designing segmented coverage models, leading-indicator health scores, retention forecasting, digital and pooled CS motions, and outcome-based business reviews
Track record of services-led expansion, attach-rate management, and forecasting NRR alongside GRR
Comfortable with HubSpot, a BI tool such as Metabase, and spreadsheets; SQL is a strong plus
Experience deploying AI tooling in a CS team and defining appropriate guardrails
Shopify ecosystem knowledge
Experience with Intercom, Jira, and Gong or similar call-intelligence tools
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