Client Success Manager (Northeast)

PayIt
Northeast Region, US
Career-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

GovTech professionals with consultative experience will find this client-focused role in the Northeast Region rewarding.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with SaaS experience and a background in GovTech or FinServ will thrive here.
    — “GovTech, FinServ, or Marketing background is preferred”
  • Individuals who can lead strategic reviews and manage complex projects are ideal for this role.
    — “Experience leading strategic business reviews with senior-level stakeholders”
  • Candidates who can translate client needs into actionable product feedback will stand out.
    — “[REDACTED] the voice of the customer and champion feedback to internal Product teams”

Things to consider

  • Travel is a significant part of the role, with up to 30% time spent on client visits.
    — “Willingness to travel up to 30 percent of the time”
  • The role requires managing client project lifecycles and aligning with internal teams.
    — “Collaborate with PayIt Delivery teams to ensure all service projects are aligned with client strategy”

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate experience in driving client adoption through digital transformation strategies.
    — “Work with clients and our internal PayIt Resident Communications team to develop strategies that increase citizen awareness”
  • Highlight your ability to analyze client health and adoption metrics to shape account strategy.
    — “The ability to digest multiple data inputs to analyze client health, adoption, and lifetime value”
  • Showcase your experience in facilitating end-user training and technology enablement.
    — “Comfort facilitating end-user training and enablement of new technologies”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • high client satisfaction
  • portfolio growth
Typical background
5+ years in client success or account management

Skills & requirements

Required

Client Success ManagementConsultative SellingCustomer RetentionStrategic Planning

Preferred

Technical AptitudeEmotional Intelligence

Stack & domain

CommunicationProblem-solvingTeamworkGovtechCustomer SuccessSolutions

About the role

Original posting from PayIt

PayIt is a fast-growing GovTech company on a mission to modernize how residents interact and transact with government, improving the customer experience and helping our client agencies more efficiently and effectively achieve their missions. Our easy-to-implement platform consolidates government services and payments into one connected experience and enables our clients to drive resident trust, collect revenue quickly, and redeploy their staff to more important challenges. This innovative approach to government service delivery has garnered significant recognition in both the public and private sectors, including our inclusion in the GovTech 100 every year since 2017. PayIt solutions cover services including hunting and fishing licensing, DMV, courts, property tax, utilities, tolling, and more.

Our culture welcomes people who exhibit what we call “PayIt DNA”: High integrity, drive, grit, high aptitude, and team orientation. We are collaborative and passionate about the work we do to improve the lives of our government clients and the end users they serve. We have ambitious scaling goals, and we look for team members who are ready to roll up their sleeves, solve problems, and find new opportunities to win with our clients. And we have a lot of fun together.

At PayIt, we’re on a mission to be the best partner our clients have ever worked with and the Client Success team plays a central role. The opportunity to positively impact our clients and their constituents is abundant, so we keep our portfolio sizes small, empowering Client Success Managers to deliver exceptional, consultative engagements.

In this role, you will:

Own the success, retention, and growth of a regionally-focused portfolio of government agency clients in the Northeast Region

Deeply understand customers’ goals, business processes, and use cases, and serve as a trusted advisor on digital government, consulting clients on how to leverage current and future PayIt solutions to improve efficiencies and modernize the citizen experience

Work with clients and our internal PayIt Resident Communications team to develop strategies that increase citizen awareness and drive usage of PayIt-powered digital services

Hold regular Executive Strategy Sessions that document successes and inform mutually defined partnership roadmaps

Own the renewal process, and strategically grow client footprint through ongoing identification and management of value-driven expansion opportunities

Collaborate with PayIt Delivery teams to ensure all service projects are aligned with client strategy, requirements and timelines

Serve as subject matter expert on the PayIt platform, and enable clients to realize the full value of available features and services

Monitor customer health indicators and proactively work with internal PayIt teams to mitigate identified risk

Act as the voice of the customer and champion feedback to internal Product teams

What You’ll Need to Have:

PayIt CSMs are proactive, solutions-oriented, and extremely collaborative. We are looking for someone with a strong technical aptitude coupled with a high emotional quotient, capable of quickly building trust with your colleagues and clients alike. In addition, our ideal candidate will have:

A minimum of 5 years of experience serving as a thought leader, customer advocate, and consultative partner for a portfolio of high-touch customers in a SaaS environment

GovTech, FinServ, or Marketing background is preferred

The ability to digest multiple data inputs to analyze client health, adoption, and lifetime value to inform account strategy

Experience leading strategic business reviews with senior-level stakeholders

Comfort facilitating end-user training and enablement of new technologies

Prior forecasting, renewal management and/or sales experience, or strong interest in developing these skills

Proven experience managing clients through complex project lifecycles

Familiarity with Project Management and Collaboration Tools (i.e Confluence, Slack, Jira, etc.) Google G-suite and Microsoft Office

Willingness to travel up to 30 percent of the time; travel varies based on your assessment of client needs. ** Travel will be primarily focused in your regional designation with occasional visits to Kansas City HQ

Annual Salary Range: $85,000—$115,000 USDWhy Work For Us:

Our mission matters. Your work will make life better for our government agency clients and the millions of residents they serve.

You’ll do some of the best work of your career here. We tackle complex challenges that are interesting to solve, and you’ll grow a ton working at PayIt 

People are our most important resource. Everyone has a voice. Collaboration is our default setting. And we have fun together.

We #payitforward with our corporate volunteer program, serving the communities where we work and live.

Competitive salaries, excellent benefits, flexible working arrangements, and all the resources you will need to do your best work.

What We Care About:

We hire high-aptitude, high-integrity people who are great communicators and want to be part of a growing team.

A Note About AI at PayIt

We love AI. We use it every day and encourage our team to find creative, effective ways to put it to work. If you join PayIt, you'll bring the same enthusiasm for exploring how AI can amplify impact, productivity, and innovation. During the interview process, though, we want to hear from you, not a model. Our goal is to understand how you actually think, solve problems, and communicate, so we ask that your live conversations and assessment responses be your own work.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

PayIt is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law. 

PayIt is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an email to the People Operations Team and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.  

NOTE: U.S. Citizens and all those authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to provide sponsorship in the United States at this time. PayIt participates in E-Verify. To learn more, click here. Canadian Citizens and those authorized to work in Canada without sponsorship are also encouraged to apply.

To all recruitment agencies: PayIt does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our careers’ alias, PayIt employees or any other company location. PayIt is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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Source: PayIt careers

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