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Customer Retention Program Manager

New York, New York

Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.

Our Values

If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

Who You Are

At Justworks, retaining our growing customer base is essential to long-term success. As we continue to scale, we’re investing in a dedicated, strategic function to lead and optimize our customer retention efforts.

We’re hiring a Customer Retention Program Manager to oversee the strategy and daily operations of our customer retention programs. This cross-functional role will collaborate with key stakeholders across Customer Success, Support, Sales, Revenue Operations, Quality, Risk & Insurance, and Enablement to drive measurable impact on customer retention.

You’ll own key initiatives such as our customer resell programs, churn analysis, and retention project work — uncovering insights, identifying opportunities, and ensuring our teams are empowered to deliver a world-class customer experience. 

The ideal candidate has prior experience launching and managing retention programs and can serve as a thought partner to the Justworks leadership team. This is a senior individual contributor role, reporting to the Sr. Manager of Customer Retention.

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

  • Own and operationalize customer retention programs to improve customer retention at scale.
  • Develop and maintain retention workflows that scale across teams, products and segments.
  • Analyze churn data to identify trends, root causes, and actionable insights.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional partners to address product, service, or experience gaps that impact retention.
  • Partner with Customer Success to ensure frontline teams have the right tools, playbooks, and messaging to proactively retain customers.
  • Surface new ideas and opportunities to improve customer experience and loyalty.
  • Monitor performance of retention programs and iterate based on impact.
  • Communicate insights and progress to leadership and stakeholders.
  • Run projects, as needed, that contribute to customer happiness and retention
  • Perform other related duties as assigned.

How You Will Do Your Work

As a Customer Retention Program Manager, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:

  • Consultative - takes an approach that focuses on building relationships with others, understanding their problems, and developing solutions to their challenges through open-ended questions and active listening.
  • Resourcefulness - taking a can-do approach, even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing what’s in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have, whether it's working on something new or thinking about how to do something better.
  • Clear communication - the ability to articulate thoughts and express ideas effectively using oral, written, visual and non-verbal communication skills, as well as listening skills to gain understanding.
  • Initiative and motivation - identifying what needs to be done and doing it before being asked or before the situation requires it.
  • Customer focus - builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions.

In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

  • Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
  • Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
  • Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
  • Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example. 
  • Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in customer retention, customer success, program management, or similar roles in SaaS or technology companies.
  • Proven track record of launching and managing customer-facing programs that reduce churn or improve customer satisfaction.
  • Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity and can prioritize effectively in a fast-paced environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to plan and align effectively—identifies growth opportunities, prioritizes tasks based on urgency and impact, and ensures timely, targeted communication to drive results.
  • Proven ability to optimize work processes—creates efficient workflows and clearly communicates to streamline execution and continuously improve productivity and outcomes.
  • Strong analytical skills — comfortable working with data to drive insights and decisions.
  • Strong cross-departmental collaborator—able to influence without authority and tailor messaging to different audiences.
  • Passionate about improving customer experience and operational efficiency.
  • Familiarity with Airtable, Zendesk, and Salesforce a plus.

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $109,000.00 to $119,900.00 per year.

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Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location.  Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location. 

For more information about Justworks’ Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks

Diversity At Justworks

Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. Justworks is fully dedicated to providing necessary support to candidates with disabilities who may require reasonable accommodations. We also provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on their sincerely held religious beliefs, as well as for other covered reasons consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at accommodations@justworks.com. Your comfort and success matter to us, and we're here to ensure an inclusive experience.

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