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BackdPayments

Head of Customer Success

BackdPayments, Austin, Texas, us, 78716

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Overview Executive Assistant / Head of Customer Success (Founding) — Austin, In-Office

Company:

BackdPayments (division of Backd Business Funding)

Location:

Austin, TX — On-site, Mon–Fri (5–10% travel)

About BackdPayments

BackdPayments powers

B2B Payments & BNPL

for distributors, manufacturers, and most B2B organizations. We enable merchant partners to offer

Net Terms and extended financing options to their business buyers —boosting conversion, AOV, and loyalty—while we assume risk and pay merchants upfront.

The Opportunity

This is a

founding, hands-on leadership role . You’ll build Customer Success

from the ground up —owning merchant implementations and buyer activation while you

design the measurement system itself : KPIs, health models, SLAs, reporting, and dashboards. You’ll create the

operating system

(playbooks, processes, tooling, AI workflows) that scales CS as we grow, with the capacity to support

a steady onboarding cadence (e.g., up to 2–3 new merchant launches per week) .

What You’ll Do

Build the CS operating system :

Define the

KPI framework

(leading indicators first), health scoring, journey stages, SLAs, and QBR cadence.

Stand up

reporting & analytics

(dashboards, scorecards, executive summaries) across CRM/ticketing/BI.

Own launches & activation :

Run end-to-end implementations (discovery, plan, integration/readiness, training, go-live).

Drive

buyer activation & adoption

across e-commerce and sales-assisted channels.

Author

playbooks

(onboarding, adoption, renewal, escalation), templates, checklists, and internal docs.

Produce merchant enablement kits and exec-ready QBR materials.

AI-enabled CS :

Use

ChatGPT/Claude

to automate onboarding checklists, QBR drafts, risk digests, macros/FAQ libraries; curate prompt libraries.

Revenue partnership & voice of customer :

Identify expansion plays (branches, channels, product lines); partner with Sales on proposals and forecast inputs.

Convert feedback into product requirements; help prioritize roadmap; pilot betas.

Design capacity plans, issue management, and comms cadences to reliably handle

multi-launch weeks .

Draft the

hiring plan

and develop the scorecard for the next CS hire(s).

What Success Looks Like (30/60/90) 30 days — Foundations

Publish the

CS KPI taxonomy

(leading indicators, definitions, data owners, cadence).

Map the

merchant & buyer journeys

with stage gates and SLAs.

Baseline

TTV

and

activation

metrics; document current system gaps.

60 days — Systems live

Ship

v1 dashboards

(ops + exec), automated weekly health reports, and incident/comms templates.

Deliver

v1 playbooks

(onboarding, adoption, QBR, escalation) + training materials.

Launch

≥2 AI automations

(e.g., QBR draft, onboarding document generator) showing

≥20–25%

prep-time savings.

Achieve

predictable go-lives

on a multi-launch week; establish

go/no-go

criteria and risk burndown format.

QBRs delivered for target accounts; adoption plans approved with Sales/Product.

Present the

CS hiring plan

and role scorecards; propose v2 metrics (adding lagging indicators as scale justifies).

Note: We intentionally prioritize

building the measurement & reporting stack

before holding you to late-stage retention metrics. As volume increases, we’ll layer in lagging indicators (e.g., renewal rates), built on the system you design.

What You’ll Bring

6–10+ years

in

Customer Success/Account Management

(fintech/payments/lending or B2B SaaS), including complex implementations (ERP/e-commerce/payment).

A track record of

designing CS metrics & reporting

(defining KPIs, building dashboards, establishing data hygiene).

Process builder

who has authored scalable playbooks and operational cadences.

AI prompting

fluency (ChatGPT/Claude) with shipped automations and quantified time/quality impact.

Compensation & Rewards

Compensation : base salary will match the individual's experience & skillset (no equity at this time).

Bonuses : Eligible for milestone and annual performance bonuses (non-commission) tied to stage-appropriate outcomes—e.g., on-time go-lives, activation/adoption targets, CSAT/NPS baseline & improvement, systemization deliverables, and AI productivity gains.

Who We Are Founded in 2019, with an entrepreneurial vision for prosperity, growth, and innovation, Backd strives to empower and support the backbone of the economy which lies in its small to medium business enterprises, responsible for roughly 95% of the US job market today. We’re hitting our stride and need ambitious, take-charge individuals to join the team to help exceed the next chapter in our phenomenal growth!

Why Backd Backd saves businesses time and money! Not only that but we let these businesses maintain 100% ownership of their company. We provide speed, convenience, and a flexible repayment structure customized to your unique business.

Start-Up Life Our company has approximately 60 employees and we are looking to expand. Why work for a start-up? There are great opportunities and challenges to take on while building your existing skill sets.

Seniorities

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Project Management, Business Development, and Strategy/Planning

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