We help Marketing Agencies scale profitably using Growth Partner Principles
Customer Onboarding Lead
Location
South Africa
Posted
6 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Customer Onboarding Lead
The Growth Partner
• Own the customer journey from "paid" to "completing, renewing, expanding" • Define the activation metric and move it weekly • Build kickoff, milestone, save, and escalation playbooks from a blank page • Run a small onboarding team and grow it as the product line scales • Decide what gets templated, what gets cut, what gets escalated • Bridge sales promises to delivery reality without dropping either side • Ship improvements in days, not quarters
Job Requirements
- 4 to 7 years owning customer onboarding, success, account management, or implementation in a high-velocity environment
- Built or rebuilt a 30-60-90 day onboarding flow in the last 24 months, ideally while the product was still moving
- Worked inside a fast online education, SaaS, agency, coaching, or info-product company that ships weekly
- Owned an activation, completion, or retention metric and moved it
- Managed at least 2 to 5 direct reports (CSMs, onboarding specialists, implementation managers)
- Comfortable working with US and UK customers and teammates across time zones
- Native or near-native written and spoken English
Benefits
- Competitive ZA-market base salary, full-time
- Performance bonus tied to onboarding outcomes you own
- Remote, South Africa-based
- Direct line to senior onboarding leadership
- Growth track into broader ops or regional leadership seats
- Working at scale with a profitable, bootstrapped US company
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