Client Engagement Manager

Ascend Learning; Leawood (KS); On-site; USD 84,600 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance

Wellness programs

Job summary

Ascend Learning, a HealthTech company, is seeking a Client Engagement Manager for its StaffGarden platform to help a growing portfolio of nursing employers leverage the SaaS solution. You’ll act as a trusted advisor, drive adoption, and guide users through onboarding, training, and ongoing engagement to improve outcomes and satisfaction.

The role is remote within the United States, with preference for Eastern or Central time zones.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 5+ years in client-facing support across various organizational levels.
• Platform expertise with StaffGarden or similar SaaS.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• Ability to train and support users effectively.
• Strategic thinking to drive outreach and interventions.

Responsibilities

• Ensure user delight and drive adoption across a portfolio of StaffGarden clients.
• Lead onboarding and training sessions for new users.
• Communicate StaffGarden value with Marketing, Sales, and Delivery.
• Develop client outreach plans and intervention strategies.
• Capture and relay user feedback to Product Management.
• Manage renewal opportunities and overall account health.

Skills

Client-facing

Communication

Strategic thinking

Training & support

Analytical skills

Self-driven remote work

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Office365

HubSpot/CRM

LMS

MixPanel

Job description

We Impact Lives Through Purpose-Driven Work in A People First Culture

Ascend Learning, a leading healthcare and learning technology company, is the connection between a powerful portfolio of brands serving students, educators, and employers with outcomes-based, data-driven solutions across the lifecycle of learning. From testing to certification, Ascend Learning products are used by physicians, emergency medical professionals, nurses, allied health professionals, certified personal trainers, financial advisors, skilled trades professionals and insurance brokers. Headquartered in Burlington, MA, with additional office locations and hybrid and remote workers in cities across the U.S., Ascend Learning was recognized by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group as one of America’s 2025 Greatest Workplaces as well as America’s Best Places to work for Mental Well-Being for 2025. We’re always looking for talented, passionate professionals to join us in our mission to help change lives. If this sounds like an environment where you’d thrive, read on to learn more.

What You’ll Do

StaffGarden, a high-growth nursing professional development SaaS platform within Ascend Learning’s Healthcare Workforce Solutions, seeks a Client Engagement Manager to help a growing portfolio of clients leverage the platform to advance nurse competency, professional growth, and positive patient outcomes. The CE Manager is a platform expert and hands‑on trainer/coach, serving as a trusted advisor to ensure successful implementations, high user adoption, robust usage, impact achievement, and user satisfaction (NPS). This role involves scaling knowledge transfer through various methods, quickly identifying and resolving roadblocks, and partnering closely with Client Engagement Directors to align on strategy and achieve shared client goals. This individual will execute core functions with a focus on improving the customer journey, demonstrating a generative, process-oriented, and solutions-focused approach to achieve client goals and organizational metrics, delight users, and build a scalable, customer-focused process.

Where You’ll Work

This position offers the flexibility of remote work within the United States, living within Eastern or Central time zone preferred.

How You’ll Spend Your Time

• Ensure user delight and drive adoption across a portfolio of StaffGarden clients
  • Works closely with product team to develop and implement user outreach strategies for each client using insights from utilization metrics tracking software. This includes developing and deploying intervention techniques that build proof of StaffGarden’s value, advance users to higher adoption levels, and overcome any roadblocks hindering client goals. Own KPI metrics across a portfolio of clients.
  • Identifies main contacts and builds relationships with them to drive advocacy around StaffGarden
  • Works jointly with Delivery team members to build better processes and operations to improve the experience for all users over time
  • Supports the implementation process by co‑leading strategy sessions with client operational leadership to drive successful StaffGarden use strategies
  • Supports content creation and design for Executive Partnership Review decks (including building visuals)
• Lead new user onboarding across the client portfolio
  • Throughout each client’s first year of StaffGarden use, ensures all users across the portfolio are engaged, on‑boarded, trained, nurtured, and informed
  • Leads Champion and Full User training sessions and imparts deep functional understanding of key StaffGarden features with these users
  • Monitors new user utilization and identifies course corrections as needed during early learning sessions
• Platform Mastery
  • Develops deep, hands‑on mastery of the StaffGarden platform—including Grow (clinical ladder and professional advancement), Roots (competency management), and supporting workflows for nurse residency, peer/360 review, ePortfolios, and Magnet® reporting—and stays ahead of new features and functionality prior to their release. Becomes the go‑to StaffGarden product expert and a partner to the Product Management team, translating unique nursing professional development client use cases into actionable product insight and feedback.
  • Applies platform mastery to configure and optimize clinical ladders, competency frameworks, and development pathways to each client’s practice standards, accreditation, and Magnet® goals.
• User value communication and ongoing engagement
  • With Marketing, Sales, and Delivery, communicates key elements of StaffGarden’s value to users and ensures consistency of user‑directed messaging across all functions
  • Establishes user‑level communication plan for each client in partnership with the Client Engagement Directors. Builds and enhances content for automated user outreach
  • Educates and trains new and existing users on new platform functionality, initiative‑specific workflows, and StaffGarden use strategies
• User feedback and development
  • Fields, prioritizes, and communicates new development suggestions from users to the Product Management team
  • Attends Product, Marketing, Sales meetings as needed to communicate user feedback
  • Resolves complex client support tickets in collaboration with the Client Engagement Associate team
• Commercial operations for manager’s client segment
  • Owns day‑to‑day commercial operations for a broad portfolio of StaffGarden’s (small and mid‑size) clients, serving as the primary point of contact across 20-40 accounts.
  • Drives on‑time renewals, surfaces expansion and upsell opportunities, and partners with Sales to grow account value across the book of business.
  • Manages the full commercial lifecycle—onboarding through renewal—at scale, standardizing repeatable, one‑to‑many playbooks that keep a client portfolio healthy without high‑touch, one‑to‑one coverage.
  • Tracks and reports on portfolio‑level commercial health (retention, utilization, NPS, and expansion) and flags at‑risk accounts early for coordinated intervention with BP, Client Engagement and Delivery.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 5+ years in client‑facing support across various organizational levels.
• Client‑Centric: Committed to understanding and ensuring client/user satisfaction and success.
• Platform Expertise: Develop deep knowledge of the StaffGarden platform (Grow, Roots), including upcoming features, to act as the product expert for clients.
• Communication: Clear verbal/written communication and effective cross‑functional collaboration.
• Content Creation: Skilled in creating engaging user‑facing content (including slide decks) to boost engagement and support strategy initiatives.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop and execute tailored client outreach and intervention strategies to enhance platform value and utilization.
• Training & Support: Able to deliver effective user training and support as needed.
• Process Optimization: Collaborate internally (Delivery, Marketing, Sales) to improve the user experience.
• Analytical Skills: Analyze key performance metrics to drive best practices in user outreach/engagement.
• Commercial Operations: Experience owning renewals, expansion, and account health across a client portfolio, ideally in a SaaS or health‑tech environment.
• Self‑driven, proactive remote work approach.
• Preferred Experience: Office365, HubSpot/CRM, LMS, MixPanel; adopting AI productivity tools (Co‑Pilot, ChatGPT) to increase efficiency.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.

Hiring Range

The current full‑time annualized hiring range for this role is $84,600.00-$121,000.00 and does not include discretionary bonus or sales incentives, if applicable. In accordance with applicable state laws, we are providing the expected salary range for this position. Individual compensation will be determined by various factors, including relevant experience, qualifications, current business needs and local market factors. Most regular, full‑time employees are eligible to participate in an Ascend incentive bonus or sales plan.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Company paid Life Insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off and parental leave
• Employee assistance program
• Other employee wellness programs such as Headspace and Airvet
• Charitable matching program

Fostering A Sense of Belonging

Our values‑driven culture unifies our teams and inspires a mindset of action, innovation, and collaboration, with a relentless focus on customers. We seek out and celebrate all people and perspectives and cultivate an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and be authentic. Our culture is firmly rooted in the belief that by embracing our differences and drawing on diverse perspectives, we are a stronger, more innovative, and more successful organization where employees experience a sense of belonging.

Ascend Learning, LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer (M/F/Vets/Disabled). No agency or search firm submissions will be accepted. Applications for U.S.-based positions with Ascend Learning, LLC must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.