Technical Customer Account Manager

Summary

Join Gusto as a Technical Customer Account Manager and become the primary point of contact for high-value clients. You will handle inbound and outbound inquiries via phone, email, and Zoom, providing expert support for Gusto's payroll and benefits products. Responsibilities include building strong customer relationships, proactively identifying and mitigating churn risk, and collaborating cross-functionally to solve problems. This role requires extensive customer experience, payroll expertise, and account management skills. Initially, onsite training in Phoenix or Chicago is required before transitioning to a remote position. Gusto offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• 6+ years of customer experience with 2+ years of full-time experience in Payroll, and 2+ years of account management experience
• Proven ability to proactively and reactively support customers, driving their success, happiness, and loyalty through expert guidance and creative problem-solving
• Ability to synthesize and communicate complex subjects clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing, with customers and internal partners
• Excels in balancing inbound calls, scheduled meetings, and email inquiries while managing and prioritizing multiple high-priority resolutions effectively
• Strength in providing effective, expert, and creative resolutions for customers with minimal support, demonstrating agility and critical thinking
• Strong rapport-building skills to foster trust, collaboration, and loyalty with customers, peers, and internal teams
• Ownership in churn identification and mitigation with confidence in navigating retention-focused discussions with customers
• Deep payroll knowledge, pride, and awareness to act as an advocate for the solution you provide, understanding customer needs and promoting satisfaction
• Exceeds expectations with goals, deadlines, and commitments set by both yourself and the organization
• Eager to think creatively, pivot quickly, and work strategically in ambiguous situations to deliver customer-centric solutions

Responsibilities

• Own the customer journey by building trust, rapport, and partnership with your book of business through inbound and outbound phone, email, and Zoom interactions
• Act as a dedicated advisor, building trust in the support you provide to contain most customer interactions from your dedicated customers
• Provide passionate, opinionated, consistent, expert, reliable support as a dedicated point of contact for payroll and benefits inquiries
• Proactively connect with customers to build a deep understanding of their business, your support model, and their preferred connection style
• Identify churn risk and quickly act to deliver solutions to mitigate the risk of churn, using your product knowledge and unique understanding of each individual customer
• Build and maintain relationships built on trust and collaboration with admins to better understand and anticipate their needs
• Partner with your customers and cross-functionally to unblock points of friction, proactively address potential concerns, and build an understanding of individual team needs and processes
• Think creatively, pivot quickly, live in ambiguity, and collaborate strategically. You will be required to expand your critical thinking skills and creatively problem-solve across all areas of the business, with an understanding of a variety of stakeholders and needs
• Display strong product knowledge, including a deep understanding of the competitive landscape to protect against customer churn
• Use your expertise to plan and build solutions for your customers to drive product adoption, and satisfaction, including consulting on products and service solutions
• Become a strategic player to promote customer satisfaction and client retention

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Salesforce, Zoom, Google Suite, Google Calendar, Gmail, and Chili Piper

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k)s
• Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $27.88 - $31.25/hr in Phoenix, and $29.81 - $33.65/hr in Chicago. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location, experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above
• Remote work, flexible hours