What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Manager, Customer Success & Support position at GetDandy?
GetDandy is an AI-powered digital front office for local businesses. We help over 10,000 SMBs across the U.S. capture leads, manage reputation, and automate customer communication using custom AI agents that work 24/7.
We are at $9M ARR, growing quickly, and focused on doing two things exceptionally well:
- Getting customers to value fast
- Keeping customers happy, retained, and growing
We’re hiring a Senior Manager, Customer Success & Support to lead Customer Support and Account Management / Onboarding. This role owns outcomes, not just people.
You will be directly accountable for:
- Onboarding success
- Revenue retention
- Support quality and execution
This is a hands-on leadership role with a meaningful performance-based compensation component. If you believe strong execution should be rewarded, this role is built for you.
Target OTE: $150,000–$170,000
- Base (60%): $90,000–$102,000
- Bonus (40%): $60,000–$68,000
- Bonus cadence: Quarterly (¼ of target each quarter)
This structure intentionally rewards leaders who deliver measurable results.
Metric: Monthly revenue churn
Targets:
Threshold: 2.5%
Target: 2.0%
Stretch: 1.5%
Payout:
Miss threshold: 0%
Hit target: 100%
Stretch: up to 150%
Metric: % of new customers successfully onboarded within 30 days
“Successful” means:
Account live
Core integration connected
First workflow or campaign launched
Initial training completed
Targets:
Threshold: 70%
Target: 80%
Stretch: 90%
Payout: 0% / 100% / 150%
Binary, table-stakes metric (one of the following):
- CSAT target met
- SLA compliance met
- Ticket backlog under target for the full quarter
Miss = 0% | Hit = 100%
Safeguards are in place to prevent “grow fast, churn later” behavior and to keep incentives aligned with sustainable outcomes.
- Lead onboarding from signup through first value
- Ensure 80% of customers are successfully onboarded within 30 days
- Define, document, and enforce onboarding success criteria
- Coach Account Managers on execution, consistency, and customer communication
- Identify onboarding friction and partner with Product and Engineering to fix it
- Lead an 8-person customer support team handling inbound support and escalations
- Own customer retention outcomes with a target of ≤2% monthly revenue churn
- Personally step in on high-risk escalations when needed
- Improve response times, resolution quality, and overall customer experience
- Implement QA processes to maintain consistent support standards
- Manage, coach, and develop 11 total reports across Support and Account Management
- Set clear expectations, metrics, and accountability
- Run weekly team meetings, 1:1s, and performance reviews
- Help recruit and ramp future hires as the company scales
- Build processes that work now and at $15M ARR
- Track onboarding success, churn, and support KPIs
- Use data to identify risk early and take corrective action
- Maintain clean, auditable metric definitions leadership can trust
- New customers reach value quickly and consistently
- Upset customers are retained and de-escalated
- Revenue churn stays at or below target
- Teams are accountable, improving, and motivated
- Leadership has clear visibility into customer health
- 5 years in Customer Success, Support, or Account Management in B2B SaaS
- 2 years managing teams across customer-facing functions
- Direct ownership of onboarding, retention, or churn metrics
- Strong operational mindset with a bias toward execution
- Comfortable with performance-based compensation
- Excellent communication and escalation-handling skills
- Experience serving SMB customers is a strong plus
- Experience at a $5M–$20M ARR SaaS company
- High-volume SMB customer base experience
- Familiarity with CS tools (ticketing, CRM, onboarding platforms)
- Exposure to AI, automation, or marketing technology
- Clear ownership and accountability
- Direct impact on customer experience and company growth
- High upside for strong performers
- Fully remote team
- Opportunity to grow into a Director role as we scale
- Initial screen focused on metrics and past results
- Practical interview covering onboarding, retention, and escalations
- Final conversation on leadership style and expectations
- If you’re a customer leader who believes great execution should be rewarded, we’d love to meet you.
Salary : $90,000 - $170,000