Director – Customer Success Management

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About the role

  • 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

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

SQL

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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