Lead and evolve customer retention strategies, managing large teams focused on reducing churn and improving customer value realization. Foster collaboration across teams to enhance onboarding success and drive revenue retention through operational excellence. Develop performance metrics and frameworks for proactive outreach and early activation.
About Us
HighLevel is an AI powered, all-in-one white-label sales & marketing platform that empowers agencies, entrepreneurs, and businesses to elevate their digital presence and drive growth. We are proud to support a global and growing community of over 2 million businesses, comprised of agencies, consultants, and businesses of all sizes and industries. HighLevel empowers users with all the tools needed to capture, nurture, and close new leads into repeat customers. As of mid 2025, HighLevel processes over 4 billion API hits and handles more than 2.5 billion message events every day. Our platform manages over 470 terabytes of data distributed across five databases, operates with a network of over 250 microservices, and supports over 1 million hostnames..
Our People
With over 1,500 team members across 15+ countries, we operate in a global, remote-first environment. We are building more than software; we are building a global community rooted in creativity, collaboration, and impact. We take pride in cultivating a culture where innovation thrives, ideas are celebrated, and people come first, no matter where they call home.
Our Impact
Every month, our platform powers over 1.5 billion messages, helps generate over 200 million leads, and facilitates over 20 million conversations for the more than 2 million businesses we serve. Behind those numbers are real people growing their companies, connecting with customers, and making their mark - and we get to help make that happen.Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel or Blog Posts
Who You Are:
You are a customer-obsessed retention leader who thrives at the intersection of customer experience, success, support, and operations. You excel at building high-performing teams that don’t just solve problems, they prevent them. You bring deep expertise in customer lifecycle management, churn prevention, early adoption, and de-escalation.
You know how to develop managers, scale programs, and use customer insights to drive measurable improvements in retention, NRR, and product adoption. You are energized by helping customers find value quickly and by creating an environment where teams feel empowered, accountable, and proud of the experience they deliver.
As the Director,Customer Retention, you will lead and evolve HighLevel’s retention engine across early adoption, de-escalation, frontline care, and customer value realization. You will partner closely with cross-functional teams to ensure customers achieve success in their first 90 days — the most critical driver of long-term retention.
You thrive in high-growth environments, take ownership of customer outcomes, and operate with a balanced mindset of strategy, operational excellence, and people leadership.
What you'll be doing:
Retention Leadership & Strategy
- Lead and oversee 3 Customer Care/Retention teams (40+ members) focused on proactive resolution, engagement, and churn prevention.
- Rebuild the org from "Customer Care” into a Retention & De-Escalation Center designed to protect revenue and reduce churn at scale
- Create and operationalize retention frameworks that eliminate friction, close expectation gaps, and accelerate adoption.
Early Adoption & Customer Health
- Drive early activation, onboarding success, and value realization across the first 90 days, the period most correlated with long-term retention.
- Identify customer-risk patterns early and design playbooks that trigger proactive outreach before churn happens.
- Ensure the team is skilled and certified in all onboarding SOPs, including KO Calls and Implementation Calls.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Customer Success, Account Management, Support, Product, and Marketing to create a seamless, retention-driven customer journey.
- Translate frontline insights into product improvements, experience fixes, and revenue-impacting initiatives.
- Influence product roadmap decisions through customer insights, patterns, and root-cause analysis from frontline interactions.
Operational Excellence
- Own and run a revenue-retention operating model with clear KPIs tied to gross retention, save rate, activation milestones, and churn attribution
- Own and improve the metrics that matter, including:
- Net Revenue Retention
- Early adoption rates
- Escalation deflection
- Establish a performance system that measures and improves the quality, coverage, and speed of customer save motions and optimizes capacity and routing models so the highest-revenue and highest-risk customers receive prioritized attention
- Standardize SOPs, documentation, and workflows that allow retention operations to scale efficiently.
- Implement forecasting discipline for churn and saves, improving visibility of revenue risk and enabling proactive interventions
- Champion automation and process innovations that reduce manual effort and improve customer outcomes.
Leadership & People Development
- Lead, coach, and develop frontline managers and team leads — building a leadership bench that can scale with the org.
- Foster a culture of high accountability, continuous improvement, and customer-centric problem solving.
- Own capacity planning, staffing forecasts, and headcount alignment to support organizational growth.
What You’ll Bring:
- 12+ of experience, a proven track record of improving Gross & Net Revenue Retention in a SaaS environment, with clear playbooks that moved the needle (early adoption, de-escalation, save motions, product activation).
- 5+ years managing managers, with proven success leading large teams of 20+ people.
- Demonstrated ability to transform reactive support or care teams into proactive, retention-driven organizations.
- Expert at turning reactive support environments into proactive revenue-saving teams, with measurable reductions in involuntary and voluntary churn
- Strong commercial mindset — understands plan mix, cohort behavior, discount impact, and how customer experience directly influences revenue outcomes.
- Deep fluency in early lifecycle metrics (activation, onboarding milestones, first-value attainment) and how these correlate to long-term retention and expansion.
- Proven experience building de-escalation frameworks, early adoption programs, or churn reduction initiatives with measurable results.
- Strong operational mindset with expertise in SOP development, process improvement, and scaling through systems and tooling.
- Exceptional coaching ability — you build leaders who build strong teams.
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills across product, marketing, success, support, and operations.
- Highly analytical, data-driven, and able to translate insights into actionable strategies.
- Positive, resilient, and passionate about helping customers achieve long-term success.
- Experience/Education/Certifications Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Communications, Management, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- MBA or advanced degree preferred but not required.
The salary range for this position is $114000 - $177000 annually. (Variable Pay included)
Equal Employment Opportunity Information
The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As an employer subject to affirmative action regulations, we invite you to voluntarily provide the following demographic information. This information is used solely for compliance with government recordkeeping, reporting, and other legal requirements. Providing this information is voluntary and refusal to do so will not affect your application status. This data will be kept separate from your application and will not be used in the hiring decision.
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