Principal GTM Onboarding Manager

Socket.dev; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness programs

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

ZoomInfo is seeking a Principal Customer Onboarding Manager to lead the most strategic onboarding programs for enterprise customers. You will own governance, cross-functional execution, risk management, and executive communications to ensure rapid value and long-term adoption.

You’ll mentor onboarding teams, drive delivery standards, and improve methodologies across complex deployments, collaborating with Product, CS, Sales, and Professional Services.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience leading complex customer implementations, enterprise onboarding, program management, professional services, or customer success within a SaaS environment.
• Bachelor’s Degree in business or a related field strongly preferred.
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities, rapidly adapt and respond to customer requests and timeline changes.
• Highly collaborative, organized, and execution-oriented with strong presentation skills.
• Excellent project management skills with attention to detail, timelines and quality of work.
• Exceptional problem-solving and ability to adapt to project situations and provide solutions.
• Experience developing, installing, training, and/or supporting B2B solutions (ZoomInfo experience/certification preferred).
• Highly familiar with Salesforce CRM.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the overall project lead for ZoomInfo's most strategic and complex onboarding engagements.
• Develop comprehensive implementation plans with scope, milestones, dependencies, and success criteria.
• Drive execution across multiple concurrent enterprise onboarding programs.
• Facilitate governance meetings, executive status reviews, and stakeholder communications.
• Identify and resolve risks, issues, dependencies, and scope changes.
• Coordinate cross-functional execution across Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, Professional Services, Product, and Sales.
• Lead documentation, playbooks, and delivery frameworks to standardize onboarding.

Skills

Enterprise onboarding

Program management

SaaS experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Salesforce CRM

Project governance

Relationship management

Problem solving

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in business or related field

Tools

Salesforce CRM

Job description

ZoomInfo is where careers accelerate. We move fast, think boldly, and empower you to do the best work of your life. You’ll be surrounded by teammates who care deeply, challenge each other, and celebrate wins. With tools that amplify your impact and a culture that backs your ambition, you won’t just contribute. You’ll make things happen–fast.

The Principal Customer Onboarding Manager is responsible for leading the successful delivery of ZoomInfo's most complex, strategic customer onboarding programs. Acting as the overall implementation lead, this role drives project governance, cross-functional execution, risk management, and executive communication to ensure customers achieve rapid time-to-value and long-term adoption. In addition to leading strategic implementations, this role establishes delivery standards, mentors onboarding teams, and continuously improves onboarding methodologies for enterprise deployments.

What You'll Do:

Program & Project Leadership

• Serve as the overall project lead for ZoomInfo's most strategic and complex customer onboarding engagements.
• Develop comprehensive implementation plans, including project scope, milestones, dependencies, resource planning, risk mitigation, and success criteria.
• Drive execution across multiple concurrent enterprise onboarding programs while balancing customer outcomes, timelines, quality, and business priorities.
• Facilitate recurring project governance meetings, executive status reviews, and stakeholder communications throughout the implementation lifecycle.
• Identify, manage, and proactively resolve project risks, issues, dependencies, and scope changes.

Cross-Functional Program Management

• Coordinate execution across Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, Professional Services, Product, Learning & Development, Sales, and Technical Implementation teams.
• Own cross-functional accountability to ensure deliverables are completed on schedule and implementation milestones remain on track.
• Establish clear decision points, escalation paths, and governance processes for complex customer implementations.

Operational Excellence

• Own project documentation, implementation plans, milestones, and customer communications within Salesforce and other project management systems.
• Standardize implementation artifacts, project plans, playbooks, and delivery frameworks to improve consistency across Custom Onboarding.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that enhance implementation quality, efficiency, and customer experience.
• Develop reporting and executive dashboards to communicate project health, progress, risks, and outcomes.

Strategic Leadership

• Partner with Product to influence roadmap priorities based on enterprise customer implementation feedback and recurring deployment challenges.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for enterprise onboarding methodologies, deployment strategies, and implementation best practices.
• Mentor onboarding managers by sharing project management best practices, implementation frameworks, and customer engagement strategies.
• Lead team enablement initiatives, including coaching sessions, project reviews, and knowledge-sharing forums.
• Partner with leadership to define, document, and evolve processes supporting complex onboarding motions.

What You Bring:

• 7+ years of experience leading complex customer implementations, enterprise onboarding, program management, professional services, or customer success within a SaaS environment.
• Bachelor’s Degree in business or a related field strongly preferred.
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities, rapidly adapt and respond to customer requests and timeline changes.
• Highly collaborative, organized, and execution-oriented with strong presentation skills.
• Excellent project management skills with an emphasis on attention to detail, timelines, and quality of work.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to be flexible to project situations. Ability to research, analyze and provide a solution to newly identified issues.
• Experience developing, installing, training, and/or supporting B2B solutions (previous experience with ZoomInfo and/or ZoomInfo certification strongly preferred).
• Highly familiar with Salesforce CRM.
• Able to be successful in a fast-paced environment that rewards hard work and self-motivation.
• Superior relationship and communication skills (both verbal and written).
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise, cross-functional implementation programs involving multiple stakeholders and executive sponsors.
• Proven ability to manage project scope, timelines, risks, dependencies, and executive communications.
• Experience creating project governance frameworks, implementation methodologies, or operational processes.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence stakeholders across technical and business organizations.
• Exceptional organizational and project management skills with experience managing multiple complex workstreams simultaneously.

The US base salary range for this position is $100,000 - $130,000 + bonus + benefits

Actual compensation offered will be based on factors such as the candidate’s work location, qualifications, skills, experience and/or training.

We want our employees and their families to thrive. In addition to comprehensive benefits we offer holistic mind, body and lifestyle programs designed for overall well-being. Learn more about ZoomInfo benefits here.

About us:

ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM) is the Go-To-Market Intelligence Platform that empowers businesses to grow faster with AI-ready insights, trusted data, and advanced automation. Its solutions provide more than 35,000 companies worldwide with a complete view of their customers, making every seller their best seller.

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