Enterprise Customer Success Manager
AdvicePay
Job description
About Us
Well-known financial advisors Michael Kitces and Alan Moore witnessed firsthand the growing demand for fee-for-service financial planning. This inspired them to create a solution that could streamline billing processes for advisors while ensuring regulatory compliance. Since its public launch in 2018, AdvicePay has become a cornerstone of the financial planning landscape, serving thousands of advisors and firms nationwide and earning recognition for its innovative approach.
Today, AdvicePay continues to grow and adapt with new features and partnerships, enhancing the platform's capabilities. Driven by our belief in the fee-for-service model, our mission remains clear: to empower advisors and firms in offering fee-for-service financial planning. Our aim is to make getting paid for advice easy and scalable for everyone involved – from advisors to the home office, and clients. As the industry evolves, we're dedicated to staying ahead of the curve, ensuring that AdvicePay remains the trusted solution for financial professionals nationwide.
We are headquartered in Bozeman, Montana and we are incredibly proud to be listed on the Inc. 5000 list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies for 3 years in a row, as well as being recognized as a 2022 WealthTech 100 company, which places us among the top 100 innovative FinTech providers in the world addressing opportunities faced by the wealth and asset management industries.
You’ll love working here if you value - and want to contribute to - a positive, inclusive, innovative, and “Get Sh*t Done” culture where teammates help one another succeed and are committed to doing the right thing. If you're up for the challenge of disrupting an industry, join us.
About the Position
As an Enterprise Customer Success Manager (CSM III), you’ll serve as a trusted partner to a portfolio of key enterprise customers, guiding them through every stage of the post-sale customer journey. You’re equal parts consultant, project manager, trainer, facilitator, and product expert, and you thrive in that blend. Acting as an extension of each customer’s operational team, you’ll build strong relationships, anticipate needs, and help customers turn strategy into action.
If you love working closely with enterprise clients, juggling complex initiatives, and helping teams get real, measurable value from the tools they use every day, this role is for you. The CSM III focuses on proactively guiding customers on how to leverage the AdvicePay platform to achieve the best possible outcomes for their Fee-for-Service programs, while helping customers feel supported, confident, and successful along the way.
What You’ll Be Doing
Serve as the AdvicePay platform expert, making confident recommendations on how to best use products, features, and integrations to address business needs.
Lead new customer implementations and other technical projects, wearing multiple hats as project manager, onboarding consultant, and trainer.
Serve as the day-to-day contact for assigned customers’ leadership and admin teams for all questions related to AdvicePay; prepare agendas and lead regular check-ins, and respond to incoming questions via phone, Zoom, and email.
Partner with AdvicePay technical resources to ensure proper solutions mapping and integrations based on each customer’s specific use case.
Provide warm, friendly, intelligent customer service in all interactions with customers.
Develop and share content to promote product and practice management best practices in the form of webinars, blog posts, and newsletters.
Develop training materials based on customers’ unique setup.
Act as a director, orchestrating internal teams to deliver value for customers through product features, integrations, educational content, and customer support.
Respond quickly to customer issues (requests, concerns, ideas, etc), ensuring that issues are closed out, and outstanding conversations are “closed” in a timely manner.
Execute our Customer Success Playbooks and best practices around onboarding, customer product feedback, feature adoption, and ongoing Enterprise support.
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Attend conferences and talk to advisors to promote AdvicePay.
Anticipating 4 - 8 per year
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Attend customer site visits and in-person strategy and/or work sessions.
Anticipating 4 - 8 per year, depending on new customer contracts
Serve as an escalation point for customer support for customer-specific issues.
Work closely with Relationship Manager on items including, but not limited to: customer concerns, customer feature request prioritization, renewals, business review prep, expansion opportunities, and custom projects.
Translate customer needs and opportunities into product feature requests, helping the Product team understand the scope and impact of the requests.
Build and execute customer success plans, ensuring that each customer interaction is intentional and that we are working toward making progress on closing out customer issues and accomplishing mutual action plans.
Other duties as assigned
Measurables:
Proactive customer engagement
Time to launch (Implementation)
Success Plan execution
Module adoption
The Deets
Start Date: ASAP
Status: Exempt, Full-time (40-45 hours/week)
Location: Bozeman, MT
Department: Customer Success
Reports to: Head of Customer Success
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Travel: 15% (4-8 conferences or site visits per year to start)
Compensation & Benefits
Salary: $88,626/year (please note this salary is inclusive of total earnings for this role. We do not have a commission or bonus structure at AdvicePay)
Flexible paid time off days to maintain work-life harmony (we encourage and support that you take at least 3 weeks off per year!)
11 paid holidays when the office is closed
401(k) with match - you put in 6% and we put in 4.5%
12 weeks of paid parental leave for the birth or adoption of a child
Health benefits package provided of up to $450/month for an individual, $1000/month for families
Dental, Vision, Voluntary Life and AD&D, and Accident insurance options
Employer-paid life insurance
Employer-paid long-term disability coverage
Up to $1800/year to cover the cost of working with a financial planner, plus up to $500 toward the one-time upfront fee
$250/quarter to spend on yourself specific to our core value of “Be Well Being You”
$500 donated to a non-profit organization of your choice when you volunteer 40 hours/year
$2,000/year in Professional Development funds
A sabbatical program that includes a cash bonus and extra time off at 5, 10, and 15 years
Subsidized employer-sponsored childcare through our partner daycare program for Bozeman area Team Members
Pet insurance
Company-owned laptop provided
Please see our Team Member Handbook to learn more about the benefits and perks we offer!
Job requirements
What You’ll Bring to the Table (If you think, “I only meet 80% of these qualifications”, still apply!)
3+ years of experience working in a high-touch customer-facing role (Customer Success, Professional Services, Sales or Project Management) in fast-paced environment (required)
A true sense of hospitality, with a desire to serve people and the ability to manage the details that create “WOW” customer experiences.
Proven ability to serve and navigate complex organizations and business processes.
Ability to manage multiple concurrent complex projects (most importantly implementation and roll-out) while providing a seamless customer experience. (required)
An intense curiosity that drives you to continually learn about our customers, their business, and our business processes. You believe in starting with “Why?”
A love of detailed work that requires both accuracy and consistency. You’re enthusiastic about a good process, with a strong desire to build resources and repeatable workflows that make your team and your customers better at their jobs.
Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability and confidence to adapt your communication to audiences of various sizes and levels from end users to C-suite executives.
You have a strong drive to find the ‘Yes’ for the customer while also knowing when to say ‘No’ and you’re comfortable in delivering the good news as well as the bad.
You wear many hats well and can switch hats based on the customer’s needs in the post-sales journey.
You have the mindset of a consultant, constantly and confidently proposing ways for AdvicePay to create business value through its software and services.
Ability to identify challenges and opportunities to grow a partnership, and a strategic mindset to create a roadmap on how to get from here to there.
Trust us—there's a lot going on around here, and your ability to self-manage both long and short-term deadlines allows you to swim instead of sink.
High sense of personal responsibility + integrity. (required)
An understanding of and strong alignment with our core values. (required)
Legally authorized to live and work in the United States. (required)
What Will Make You Stand Out From the Crowd
Experience working in a Customer Success or Sales or Project Management role in a SaaS environment.
Experience working in financial services whether as a paraplanner, client services manager, relationship manager, advisor, operations manager, etc.
Experience building out a resource program for financial advisors.
Experience implementing new workflows and technology within a financial planning firm.
Experience with feature adoption initiatives.
CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional designation.
Application
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In lieu of a cover letter, please respond to the following prompt in 2–3 paragraphs:
At AdvicePay, we believe customer success is about more than resolving issues. It’s about being a strategic partner who helps customers meet their goals, evolve their workflows, and build something sustainable over time.
In 2–3 paragraphs, tell us what customer success means to you in practice, and ground your response in a specific example from a role listed on your resume (please reference the company and role).
Share an example from your experience supporting B2B or SaaS customers, ideally at the enterprise level, where you helped guide a customer toward their desired outcome. What actions did you take, how did you know it was working, and what did you learn from the experience? We’re looking for a real, concrete example that reflects how you think about customer success and how that experience would translate to this role at AdvicePay.
Resume (to be uploaded)
Note on AI use: While AI is a useful tool for refining your work, please ensure this response is primarily in your own words and reflects specifics from your own experience. We're interested in seeing your unique communication style and personality shine through.
Applications will be reviewed as they are received. Please note that we review every application individually, and because our team is small, we’ll be closing this posting once we’ve received a manageable number of applicants (around 50 - 75). If you’re interested in this role, we encourage you to apply sooner rather than later - we don’t want you to miss the window!
Process
Initial phone screen answering a few short questions about AdvicePay and the position
First-round interview with the hiring manager
Work sample
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Final round, including:
Company Core Values interview
An informal coffee chat to get to meet some current AP team members
Executive team member interview
Final wrap interview with the hiring manager
Our typical hiring process takes 4-6 weeks from when we first post the job to when we extend a final offer
After applying, please be on the lookout for an email from us confirming receipt of your application, as well as future correspondence (emails sometimes get caught in your Junk/Spam folder or a Promotions tab)
AdvicePay believes that our Team Members, and the individual identities and experiences of our Team Members, are our key differentiators. We won't settle for mere acceptance of each other's differences because we maintain that our Team is better because of our differences, not in spite of them. As such, our culture celebrates, champions, supports, protects, and thrives on our various and collective identity categories. AP is beyond proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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