Education Customer Success Leader - Hybrid & Growth

Centorrino Technologies Pty Ltd.; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave 12 weeks

Wellbeing leave

Birthday leave

Discounts

Job summary

Centorrino Technologies Pty Ltd. in Sydney is seeking a Head of Customer Success to build and lead the post-sale function for an allied health SaaS platform.

You will own onboarding, retention, and expansion, direct a growing team, and collaborate with Product to shape the roadmap while expanding self-serve onboarding. The role emphasizes data-driven management, AI-driven stickiness, and working closely with Product, Sales, and Growth leadership in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• Built a CS function from the ground up in a SaaS environment.
• Numerate and data-driven; owns retention and time-to-value metrics.
• Strong point of view on AI adoption to drive product stickiness.
• Hands-on builder; not a delegator.
• High energy and execution‑oriented in a fast-paced setting.
• Able to operate at peer level with Product, Sales and Growth leadership.

Responsibilities

• Rebuild and lead the onboarding/support team (8+ staff plus offshore) to shorten time-to-value.
• Digitise onboarding with a self-serve portal replacing manual ticket processes.
• Own retention, cross-sell and upsell across growth products for a month-to-month base.
• Partner with Product to influence roadmap and self-serve onboarding for high-churn segments.
• Collaborate with Marketing/Growth on lifecycle and adoption campaigns.
• Build data and usage-metric foundations to reduce early churn.
• Grow the CS function as the business scales.

Skills

Customer Success

Data-driven

Retention metrics

AI adoption

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

Head of Customer Success — Allied Health SaaS Scale-Up

Sydney – 3 days in-office – Reports to the CFO (who runs Sales & Customer Success)

About the Company

Our client is a fast-growing Australian SaaS company building practice management software for allied health providers, used by thousands of practices and tens of thousands of users nationally. They raised a landmark, oversized Series A round off the strength of the product alone — with almost no formal go-to-market motion behind it until now. The business is scaling quickly, expanding into new revenue lines (in-platform payments and an AI clinical documentation product), and opening a UK market alongside its Australian base.

This is a build-from-zero opportunity: there is currently no dedicated Customer Success function. The existing post-sale team has never owned retention, expansion, or account management — that gap is entirely this role's to build.

The Role

You’ll own the end-to-end post-sale customer journey for the first time in the company's history:

• Rebuild and lead the existing 8-person onboarding/support team (plus a growing offshore team), reducing time-to-value from today's 2 weeks–3 months
• Digitise the onboarding experience — a customer-facing self‑serve portal is underway to replace a largely manual, ticket‑based process
• Own retention, cross‑sell and upsell across the company's growth products, for a customer base that's majority month-to-month
• Partner closely with Product to influence roadmap and self‑serve onboarding, especially for the high-churn small-customer segment
• Partner with Marketing/Growth on lifecycle and adoption campaigns
• Build the data and usage‑metric foundation the business has never had, to understand what drives stickiness and reduce early churn
• Grow the team as the function proves itself — this isn't a "manage what exists" role, it's a build

What You’ll Be Measured On

• Reducing early‑stage churn in the self‑serve segment (currently running high single‑to‑low double‑digit % monthly in the first 3 months)
• Lifting overall logo retention, which is currently pulled down significantly by the self‑serve segment relative to larger accounts
• Sustaining/improving strong Net Revenue Retention and Gross Revenue Retention
• Adoption and retention of the company's expansion products post‑sale
• Standing up the team, process and reporting infrastructure this function currently lacks

Compensation

• $180K–$220K base (flexibility to $250K OTE for the right candidate), plus a commission component tied to retention and time-to-value metrics
• 12 weeks parental leave, wellbeing leave days, birthday leave, plus other perks/discounts
• No private health insurance

What We’re Looking For

• Has genuinely built a Customer Success function from the ground up — ideally at a Series A‑stage SaaS scale‑up — not just managed an existing one
• Highly numerate and data‑driven; comfortable owning retention and time-to-value metrics directly
• Strong point of view on AI adoption and using it to drive product stickiness
• A hands‑on builder, not a delegator — the current team isn't yet at a level to hand things off to
• High energy, "always wired to execute" — this is a fast-moving, high‑ownership environment
• Comfortable operating at peer level with Product, Sales, and Growth leadership

Interview Process

• Initial 20–30 min culture‑fit conversation
• Technical round / case study on CS strategy, metrics and retention approach
• Final rounds with HR and the CEO (a board conversation may be added for finalists)