HighLevel, Inc. is an all-in-one marketing and sales platform whose tools and services are designed to help businesses grow. Established in 2018, the company’
Director, Customer Retention
Location
United States
Posted
49 days ago
Salary
$114K - $194K / year
Seniority
Lead
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Director, Customer Retention
HighLevel, Inc.
Role Description You are a customer-obsessed retention leader who thrives at the intersection of customer experience, success, support, and operations. You excel at building high-performing teams that don’t just solve problems, they prevent them. You bring deep expertise in customer lifecycle management, churn prevention, early adoption, and de-escalation. As the Director, Customer Retention, you will lead and evolve HighLevel’s retention engine across early adoption, de-escalation, frontline care, and customer value realization. You will partner closely with cross-functional teams to ensure customers achieve success in their first 90 days — the most critical driver of long-term retention. You thrive in high-growth environments, take ownership of customer outcomes, and operate with a balanced mindset of strategy, operational excellence, and people leadership. What you'll be doing: - Retention Leadership & Strategy - Lead and oversee 3 Customer Care/Retention teams (40+ members) focused on proactive resolution, engagement, and churn prevention. - Rebuild the org from "Customer Care” into a Retention & De-Escalation Center designed to protect revenue and reduce churn at scale. - Create and operationalize retention frameworks that eliminate friction, close expectation gaps, and accelerate adoption. - Early Adoption & Customer Health - Drive early activation, onboarding success, and value realization across the first 90 days, the period most correlated with long-term retention. - Identify customer-risk patterns early and design playbooks that trigger proactive outreach before churn happens. - Ensure the team is skilled and certified in all onboarding SOPs, including KO Calls and Implementation Calls. - Cross-Functional Collaboration - Partner with Customer Success, Account Management, Support, Product, and Marketing to create a seamless, retention-driven customer journey. - Translate frontline insights into product improvements, experience fixes, and revenue-impacting initiatives. - Influence product roadmap decisions through customer insights, patterns, and root-cause analysis from frontline interactions. - Operational Excellence - Own and run a revenue-retention operating model with clear KPIs tied to gross retention, save rate, activation milestones, and churn attribution. - Own and improve the metrics that matter, including: - Net Revenue Retention - Early adoption rates - Escalation deflection - Establish a performance system that measures and improves the quality, coverage, and speed of customer save motions and optimizes capacity and routing models so the highest-revenue and highest-risk customers receive prioritized attention. - Standardize SOPs, documentation, and workflows that allow retention operations to scale efficiently. - Implement forecasting discipline for churn and saves, improving visibility of revenue risk and enabling proactive interventions. - Champion automation and process innovations that reduce manual effort and improve customer outcomes. - Leadership & People Development - Lead, coach, and develop frontline managers and team leads — building a leadership bench that can scale with the org. - Foster a culture of high accountability, continuous improvement, and customer-centric problem solving. - Own capacity planning, staffing forecasts, and headcount alignment to support organizational growth. Qualifications - 12+ years of experience, a proven track record of improving Gross & Net Revenue Retention in a SaaS environment, with clear playbooks that moved the needle (early adoption, de-escalation, save motions, product activation). - 5+ years managing managers, with proven success leading large teams of 20+ people. - Demonstrated ability to transform reactive support or care teams into proactive, retention-driven organizations. - Expert at turning reactive support environments into proactive revenue-saving teams, with measurable reductions in involuntary and voluntary churn. - Strong commercial mindset — understands plan mix, cohort behavior, discount impact, and how customer experience directly influences revenue outcomes. - Deep fluency in early lifecycle metrics (activation, onboarding milestones, first-value attainment) and how these correlate to long-term retention and expansion. - Proven experience building de-escalation frameworks, early adoption programs, or churn reduction initiatives with measurable results. - Strong operational mindset with expertise in SOP development, process improvement, and scaling through systems and tooling. - Exceptional coaching ability — you build leaders who build strong teams. - Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills across product, marketing, success, support, and operations. - Highly analytical, data-driven, and able to translate insights into actionable strategies. - Positive, resilient, and passionate about helping customers achieve long-term success. Experience/Education/Certifications Required - Bachelor’s degree in Business, Communications, Management, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). - MBA or advanced degree preferred but not required. Salary The salary range for this position is $114,000 - $194,000 annually. Equal Employment Opportunity Information The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As an employer subject to affirmative action regulations, we invite you to voluntarily provide the following demographic information. This information is used solely for compliance with government recordkeeping, reporting, and other legal requirements. Providing this information is voluntary and refusal to do so will not affect your application status. This data will be kept separate from your application and will not be used in the hiring decision.
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