Director of Customer Onboarding responsible for enhancing customer experiences at Relay for small businesses. Leading onboarding strategy and cross-functional collaboration to achieve customer success.
Responsibilities
Own the multi-year vision and near-term strategy for Customer Onboarding.
Build a tiered and segmented onboarding motion across revenue bands and acquisition sources.
Define what great activation looks like for each segment and channel, aligning onboarding milestones to long-term usage, retention, and revenue outcomes.
Establish a clear framework for when human-led onboarding is the right investment versus scaled and product-led interventions.
Ensure the onboarding strategy supports both customer outcomes and efficient cost-to-serve.
Lead and develop a high-performing team of onboarding specialists.
Build a coaching culture with clear performance expectations, role clarity, and growth pathways.
Drive organizational design and capacity planning to ensure the team can scale with growth.
Partner with Talent and Enablement to refine hiring profiles, ramp plans, and ongoing training.
Own end-to-end onboarding workflows, playbooks, and documentation to improve speed, consistency, and scalability.
Establish a rigorous operating cadence that includes weekly performance reviews, cohort health reviews, QA, and quarterly planning.
Identify bottlenecks in the onboarding journey and drive improvements across people, process, and product.
Define and maintain service levels and internal handoff standards across Sales, Advisor Partnerships, Support, and Onboarding.
Partner with RevOps and Data to build dashboards and cohort views that track onboarding performance at 30, 60, and 90-day horizons.
Diagnose performance differences between human-touched and self-serve cohorts and translate insights into clear prioritization and investment cases.
Design and run experiments to measure incremental impact of onboarding plays and scaled programs.
Build and ship scalable onboarding experiences including webinars, guided setups, in-product journeys, and lifecycle campaigns.
Pilot and implement automation and AI-driven tools to extend high-quality onboarding into lower-touch segments.
Create trigger-based intervention programs for accounts at risk of stalling early in their journey.
Partner closely with Direct Sales, Advisor Partnerships, Product, Marketing, Support, and Growth to create clean handoffs and consistent customer journeys.
Build a referral-specific onboarding and activation path for partner-sourced SMBs that improves time to value and early revenue outcomes.
Represent onboarding strategy and results in leadership forums.
Provide structured feedback to Product on onboarding friction, activation blockers, and feature adoption gaps.
Requirements
8+ years of experience in onboarding, implementation, customer success, lifecycle growth, or adjacent roles within SaaS or fintech.
Strong operational builder who can create repeatable systems, playbooks, and cadences that improve performance over time.
Highly data-driven, comfortable using cohort analysis, funnel metrics, and experimentation to inform decisions and prove impact.
Cross-functional leader with strong influence and a track record of shaping product and lifecycle priorities to remove onboarding friction.
Deep customer empathy paired with urgency and accountability.
Comfortable balancing strategic planning with hands-on execution in a fast-growing environment.
Experience in SMB fintech, banking, accounting software, or vertical SaaS is a bonus.
Experience designing multi-source onboarding motions that include referral-led acquisition is a bonus.
Experience building activation frameworks tied directly to revenue and retention is a bonus.
Experience partnering closely with Product teams to evolve in-product onboarding is a bonus.
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