Customer Activation Manager

Joyous Limited; New Zealand; Remote; NZD 132,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Six extra paid Joy Days

EAP support

Home-office setup

Joyous merch

Autonomy

Founders access

Activation playbook

Job summary

Joyous Limited in New Zealand is seeking a Customer Activation Manager to own the post-sign journey, guiding customers from onboarding to live value. You will translate client goals into a simple activation plan, coordinating our teams and removing friction to ensure a smooth launch.

This remote, full-time role fits someone who loves organizing complexity, thrives in a fast-moving SaaS environment, and enjoys shaping the activation playbook.

Qualifications

• Evidence you can organise complexity and get things over the line.
• Experience in B2B software, SaaS or AI is valuable.
• NZ-based with experience supporting overseas customers is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own customers' activation after signing and guide them to live and value.
• Turn objectives into a simple, repeatable activation plan.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams and minimize friction for customers.
• Help codify activation learnings into product and process.

Skills

Organisational skills

Customer activation

Project coordination

Remote collaboration

Job description

Careers at Joyous

Customer Activation Manager

Location

New Zealand

Employment type

Full time

Location type

Remote

Department

Sales New Zealand-based | Fully remote | Supporting primarily US customers $75k-$95k

Joyous replaces traditional surveys with dynamic AI conversations and real-time action.

Instead of simply collecting feedback and producing another report, Joyous can understand what people are saying, ask smarter questions in the moment and help organisations move directly into making changes.

We’re building something genuinely different in a market where almost everyone agrees that surveys are overdue for a rethink.

Joyous already has an impressive product and real traction, including many of the world’s largest telecommunications companies across the US, Europe and New Zealand. But we’re still early in the journey, which means there is a lot left to build, improve and learn.

We’re now expanding into a more repeatable mid-market motion and are looking for a Customer Activation Manager to help us build the simplest possible journey from signed to live and getting value.

The role

Once a customer signs, you’ll own getting them successfully launched.

You’ll understand what they are trying to achieve, turn it into a simple plan, guide them through setup, coordinate anything required from our team and keep things moving until they are live and confident.

There can be plenty of complexity behind the scenes. Your job is to absorb that complexity rather than pass it on to the customer.

We already have a strong view on what good activation should look like. Your role is to help us turn that into a simple, repeatable playbook that works across lots of customers without feeling like a process factory.

Over time we want to go further than documenting the process. A big part of the opportunity is spotting what can be codified into the product itself, so activation becomes increasingly intuitive and scalable rather than depending on a person repeating the same steps.

So you’ll be doing two things at once:

Helping customers get live successfully today, while helping us design a much simpler activation model for tomorrow.

You’ll know you’re winning when customers get from signed to live quickly, confidently and with very little friction, and the process becomes increasingly repeatable as we learn.

Who we’re looking for

You could come from customer success, implementation, account management, consulting or another customer-facing role.

We care more about evidence that you can organise complexity and get things over the line than job titles or years served.

Experience in B2B software, SaaS or AI is especially valuable. Experience in a NZ company supporting overseas customers translates well too.

You’ll need to be exceptionally organised and comfortable keeping track of multiple customers, details and commitments at once.

We like people who communicate simply, act when something is stuck and instinctively look for the easiest path to the outcome.

If you find yourself explaining the same thing repeatedly, we want you thinking about whether we can improve the product, guidance or process so we don’t need to explain it next time.

How we work

Joyous is a small, flat and tight-knit team.

You’ll work directly with the founders and early team who built Joyous, as well as Sales and Product. Customer feedback doesn’t disappear into layers of management. An observation you make while activating someone can quickly become a change to the product or the way we work.

We’re pragmatic, highly supportive of each other and try hard to keep things simple.

People have a lot of freedom over how and where they work. That freedom comes with an expectation of strong ownership, a high work rate, and transparent communication.

This role will be fully remote once you’re up and running, with a great home-office setup provided. We’ll spend more time together while you ramp and occasionally get together afterwards.

Because most of the customers you’ll support are in the US, offset hours are likely, generally meaning an earlier start and earlier finish to create good overlap.

What you get

• Southern Cross health insurance
• Six extra paid Joy Days each year, scheduled through the months where there isn’t already a public holiday
• EAP support
• A great home-office setup
• Joyous merch
• Lots of autonomy over how you work
• Direct access to the founders, early team and Product
• The opportunity to help shape both the activation playbook and the product that eventually replaces parts of it

Why now

We already have real customers, a sophisticated product and evidence that what we’re building works.

What we don’t want to do is scale by simply adding more people and more process.

We want to make activation so simple and repeatable that we can support a much larger customer base with a very efficient team, while giving customers an experience that still feels personal and effortless.

You’d be one of the first people helping us figure out exactly how to do that.

Sound like a fit?

If you’re ready to help big telco brands transform how they listen, learn, and lead - let’s talk.