(MAU) Customer Success Manager
Ceridian
About the Role Title: Customer Success Manager- Activation & Retention
We are transforming the way Powerpay delivers value to new and existing customers. As part of this transformation, we are building a modern Customer Success Management function focused on improving customer health, product adoption, retention, and engagement across the Powerpay customer base. The Customer Success Manager will support a scalable, one-to-many customer success model for Powerpay customers, with a focus on identifying risk, driving adoption of key capabilities, improving customer outcomes, and reducing preventable churn. This role will support both early-life and existing customers by using data, lifecycle triggers, customer health signals, digital engagement motions, and customer feedback to help customers get greater value from Powerpay. This is a hands-on customer success role ideal for someone who understands payroll, enjoys solving customer problems at scale, and can work cross-functionally with Implementation, Support, Product, Sales, Retention, and other teams to improve customer experience and operational outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
1. Support Customer Health & Retention
• Monitor customer health signals across the Powerpay customer base, including payroll stability, case trends, product usage, engagement, adoption, and customer sentiment.
• Identify customers or customer segments showing signs of risk, disengagement, dissatisfaction, or reduced value realization.
• Execute proactive, targeted outreach where intervention is required to improve customer outcomes.
• Support retention by helping address preventable churn drivers before customers reach termination intent.
• Maintain accurate customer health, engagement, risk, and outcome information in Salesforce.
2. Drive Product Adoption & Value Realization
• Support adoption of key Powerpay capabilities, including priority features, workflows, and service offerings.
• Help customers mature in how they use Powerpay by identifying usage gaps and recommending scalable enablement or workflow improvements.
• Develop and maintain scaled success plans, segment-based value plans, and lifecycle playbooks that help customers progress from basic usage to stronger adoption and self-sufficiency.
• Partner with Product, Support, and Implementation teams to improve in-app guidance, digital education, and customer enablement.
• Use adoption data, case trends, and customer feedback to identify where customers are not realizing expected value.
3. Execute Scaled Customer Engagement Motions
• Create and support one-to-many customer engagement motions, including email campaigns, digital journeys, in-app guidance, webinars, templates, knowledge content, and targeted outreach.
• Use customer lifecycle stage, usage behavior, and risk indicators to determine when and how to engage customers.
• Ensure customers receive clear, timely, and relevant communications that help them use Powerpay effectively.
• Support customer education and community-oriented motions where appropriate, including webinars, feedback sessions, testimonials, or reference opportunities.
4. Support Early-Life Customer Stability
• Partner with Implementation teams during the early customer lifecycle to monitor customer stability, adoption, and readiness signals.
• Provide behind-the-scenes support to Implementation during hypercare, including risk identification, playbook recommendations, and customer health insights.
• Become customer-facing only when a customer moves into an at-risk state requiring Customer Success intervention.
• Support a smooth transition from Implementation-led hypercare to steady-state support once exit criteria are met.
5. Partner Cross-Functionally & Advocate for Customers
• Work closely with Implementation, Support, Product, Retention, Resolutions, Sales, and Support Operations to improve customer outcomes.
• Share recurring customer pain points, adoption barriers, process gaps, and product feedback back into the business.
• Partner with Support to identify case trends and opportunities to reduce preventable contacts.
• Share appropriate customer signals with Sales / Customer Base AEs, while ensuring CS does not own sales conversations, commercial negotiation, or expansion outreach.
• Help ensure customer communications across teams are coordinated and do not create confusion.
6. Contribute to Playbooks, Data & Continuous Improvement
• Help build and maintain scalable CS playbooks for customer health, adoption, at-risk intervention, existing customer engagement, and retention prevention.
• Support dashboards and reporting related to customer health, adoption, retention risk, case trends, campaign outcomes, and CS activity.
• Document CS interventions, customer signals, adoption barriers, and follow-up actions in Salesforce.
• Identify process waste, recurring friction points, and opportunities to simplify customer experiences.
• Contribute to broader Services transformation initiatives and the evolution of the Powerpay CS operating model. What Success Looks Like
• Improved visibility into customer health, adoption, and retention risk across the Powerpay customer base.
• Increased adoption of priority Powerpay features, workflows, and digital enablement resources.
• Earlier identification and intervention for customers showing signs of risk, dissatisfaction, or disengagement.
• Reduced preventable churn through proactive, data-informed customer engagement.
• Lower avoidable support demand through improved customer education, enablement, and in-app guidance.
• Stronger cross-functional coordination across Implementation, Support, Product, Sales, Retention, and Resolutions.
• More consistent Salesforce data, customer health tracking, and reporting to support decision-making.
• Clearer separation of responsibilities between Customer Success, Implementation, Support, Sales, and Retention.
Required Skills & Experience
• 3–5+ years’ experience in customer success, customer support, implementation, operations, service delivery, or account management.
• Experience in SaaS, payroll, HR technology, or workflow software preferred.
• Strong Powerpay product knowledge or ability to quickly develop deep product understanding.
• Understanding of customer lifecycle management, adoption, retention, customer health, and value realization concepts.
• Experience supporting multiple customers, segments, campaigns, or workstreams in a high-volume environment.
• Ability to identify risk patterns using customer data, case trends, adoption metrics, lifecycle triggers, and customer feedback.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics for customers.
• Comfort working with Salesforce, Pendo, dashboards, reporting tools, or similar systems.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, including the ability to work effectively with Implementation, Support, Product, Sales, Retention, and Operations teams.
• Proven ability to take ownership, solve problems, and improve processes in an evolving environment.
Key Behaviours We’re Looking For
• Proactive and outcome-focused.
• Comfortable working in a one-to-many customer success model. • Strong judgment on when to engage customers directly and when to coordinate internally.
• Customer-focused, while able to balance customer needs with scalable operations.
• Data-informed and curious about patterns, trends, and root causes.
• Strong customer advocate who can represent customer needs constructively back into the business.
• Collaborative, clear, and confident communicator.
• Able to work through ambiguity and help build new ways of working.
• Focused on prevention, adoption, retention, and long-term customer value — not just task completion.