Senior Manager, Customer Success
Chicago, IL - USA
Job Summary
Location: Remote (US) Type: Full-time Reports to: VP of Partnerships Team: Customer Success
About Turn
Turn is a venture-backed AI-native background screening company built for the realities of high-volume hiring. Our platform TurnOS runs FCRA-compliant pre-employment screening and continuous monitoring. Its API-first and embedded directly inside leading HR platforms like BambooHR so employers can screen where they already hire.
Enterprise employers staffing agencies and talent platforms across 30 industries in the U.S. and Canada use Turn to hire quickly without giving up compliance.
Were a fully remote team of about 30 people led by experienced entrepreneurs and working with some of the most recognized names in HR tech. Were small on purpose: everyone here owns real work ships real things and sees the impact directly.
About the role
As Senior Manager Customer Success youll own the post-sale experience for Turns customers from onboarding through renewal and expansion. Youll be a trusted advisor to HR talent acquisition and compliance leaders at our largest accounts and platform partners. Youll help them run screening programs that are fast accurate and compliant and turn that value into lasting partnerships.
Youll also lead and coach a team of three Customer Success Associates. Youll set the standards playbooks and escalation paths that help the team solve problems early and resolve them with confidence. This is a player-coach role: youll manage a book of strategic accounts yourself while building a Customer Success function that scales with the business.
Youll work closely with Compliance Operations Product and Sales and bring the voice of the customer into every conversation. Theres an opportunity to grow into Head of Customer Success as the team scales.
What youll do
Own the customer relationship:
- Build trusted relationships with customers at every level from day-to-day HR users to executive sponsors
- Manage a book of strategic enterprise and partner accounts directly
- Lead Quarterly Business Reviews that tie screening data (turnaround time adjudication trends program health) to customer goals
- Develop account plans that drive adoption renewal and expansion into new products such as continuous monitoring verifications and drug testing
Onboard customers for success:
- Lead implementations for new enterprise and partner accounts including package design workflow setup and success criteria
- Make sure every new customer reaches value quickly and understands how to run a compliant screening program
Handle escalations with confidence:
- Be the point person for complex customer escalations and resolve them quickly and calmly
- Build and maintain a clear escalation framework the whole company can rely on
Build a scalable CS function:
- Create playbooks account health scores and a customer knowledge base
- Define and report on Customer Success metrics including retention escalation volume and customer satisfaction
- Partner with Operations to improve support workflows and automation in our ticketing tools
Be the voice of the customer:
- Share structured customer feedback with Product Engineering and Sales to shape the roadmap
- Work with the customer success and sales teams at our embedded HR platform partners to support their customers and help their reps position Turn
- Use data and AI tools to find insights prepare for customer conversations and work more efficiently
What you bring
Required:
- 4 years in customer success or account management at a background screening company or consumer reporting agency
- 1 year leading people whether as a manager team lead or pod lead
- Hands-on knowledge of screening products: criminal searches (county statewide federal and national databases) employment and education verifications MVRs and drug testing and when each one is the right fit
- Working knowledge of the FCRA including permissible purpose disclosure and authorization adverse action and disputes
- A customer-centric mindset: you see your customers success as your own
- A consultative approach to problem-solving and the ability to manage expectations when the answer isnt what the customer hoped for
- Excellent written and verbal communication with a talent for making complex topics simple
- Comfort with data: spreadsheets dashboards and reporting plus curiosity about using AI tools in your day-to-day work
- The ability to juggle multiple priorities in a fast-paced lean environment
Nice to have:
- Experience with HRIS/ATS integrations embedded partners or API customers
- Exposure to DOT/FMCSA compliance continuous monitoring international screening or tenant screening
- Freshdesk Zendesk or similar ticketing platform experience
Your first 90 days
- 30 days: Get to know the team our top customers and our products. Map the current escalation flow and publish a clear escalation framework.
- 60 days: Conduct Quarterly Business Reviews with our top accounts. Launch account health scores. Lead new enterprise onboardings end to end.
- 90 days**:** Report Customer Success metrics monthly. Set up a regular feedback loop with at least one HR platform partner. Share your plan for the teams next six months.
How well measure success: customer relationship retention and same-customer revenue retention time to resolve escalations QBR coverage for top accounts time from onboarding to first order and customer satisfaction.
Why Turn
- Real ownership. Youll shape how Customer Success works at Turn.
- Career growth. Theres an opportunity to grow into Head of Customer Success as the team scales.
- Work that matters. Background screening helps employers build safe workplaces and helps candidates get hired quickly and fairly.
- Modern tools. Were AI-native and we expect you to use AI to do your best work.
Compensation and benefits
- Competitive base salary annual performance bonus.
- Comprehensive benefits package (health dental vision).
- Generous vacation policy and paid holidays.
- Opportunity to grow into Head of Customer Success as the team scales.