Growth and Retention Lead
Overview
Placement Type:
Temporary
Compensation:
£218.35 p/d PAYE
Start Date:
10 Jun, 2025
Imagine a career where your creative inspiration can fuel BIG innovation. Immerse yourself in our award-winning culture while creating breakthrough solutions that simplify the lives of consumers and small businesses and their customers worldwide. We are a mission-driven, global financial platform company that gives everyone the opportunity to prosper. We’re using technology to build solutions to challenging financial problems for millions of people around the world.
Overview:
We are transforming our customer success function from a cost center to a value driver. We now play a pivotal role in driving retention and monetisation, through delivery of exceptional customer experiences that build confidence at every touchpoint. This cultural shift moves from an approach that focussed on traditional call center indicators to delivering what matters to our customers and harnessing the power of our ecosystem of products and services to increase customer lifetime value and ARPC.
The successful candidate will help to shape and deliver the customer success strategy for retention and monetisation of our customer base. As our customer base primarily consists of accountants, sole traders and small businesses, we focus on 1:many initiatives – both digital and value added human services. This enables us to execute on our strategy at scale.
This role reports directly to the Senior Manager of Growth and Retention with scope across the local market. This is an individual contributor role. The team working model is hybrid, with 3 days per week in the London office (Victoria).
Responsibilities:
● Contribute to the customer success retention and value realisation strategy, aligned to both the global Customer Success ‘growth and retention’ strategy, and the local Market strategy
● Drive and deliver on the growth and retention goals established under the programs: Onboarding, Lead generation, Saves, and Monetisation programs
● Continuously improve existing initiatives to achieve retention and monetisation targets – including customer onboarding, lead generation, cancellation saves, and AI driven upsell recommendations.
● Ideate, design and run experiments to quantify the expected impact of proposed growth initiatives before formally launching them across the market
● Partner with Customer Experience Design to create the detailed design, playbook and implementation plan to enable execution of these strategic initiatives – the playbook would include an overview of the customer journey, process maps, resources needed to test/execute, measures of success etc.
● Drive the implementation of programs and be accountable for the execution of the program through collaborating with internal stakeholders – whether they be delivered by our outsourced BPO partners, in-house team members or through digital interventions
● Contribute to the establishment of the lagging and leading indicators to report on the success of our retention and monetisation strategy – and confidently present impact and insights to key stakeholders and leadership
● Contribute to the development of business cases for tech and resource investment to accelerate the roll out of AI and platform capabilities.
● Work with global peers and stakeholders in Sydney, London, and US markets to, share new ideas, experiments and successes – to support our ‘global by design’ principles
Qualifications:
● 4+ years experience in designing and executing customer success programs at scale, ideally in a SaaS or Fintech organization
● 3+ years experience in executing on customer retention initiatives and a clear understanding of key growth and retention success measures including GRR and increasing ARPC
● Customer centric – you put the customer at the heart of the decisions you make and design for delight, you have a background in delivering customer success at scale in a SaaS environment.
● Commercially savvy – you have a proven track record of exceeding revenue targets in the 1:many customer success space
● Strategic thinker – you have strong business acumen, and can connect the dots between the customer success strategy with local market strategic priorities
● Operational excellence – you feel comfortable getting into the nitty-gritty of how we implement initiatives, and tweak processes to drive efficiencies
● Data driven – you are confident digging into the numbers to quantify ROI, articulate impact, and identify focus areas for continuous improvement
● Influencer – you are a people person, and amplify our impact in collaboration with cross-functional teams and a wider variety of stakeholders (up to a senior level)
● Confident communicator – you have excellent written and verbal communication skills, including an ability to communicate complex issues simply
**This role is open for a limited time. Next steps will be shared with shortlisted candidates by Thursday September 4th. Due to the high volume of applicants, we may be unable to reply to each applicant individually. If you have not received a response, please assume that you have not been selected for progression to the next stage of the hiring process.
Client Description
Our Client is a global technology platform that specialises in overcoming the world’s most important financial challenges. Their products and services are driven by artificial intelligence, and their accounting software is one of their most recognisable creations. Considered one of the top companies to work for, they are proud of their company culture and entrepreneurial spirit.
Aquent is dedicated to improving inclusivity & is proudly an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from under-represented groups & are committed to providing support to applicants with disabilities. We aim to provide reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, to those with a medical condition, disability or neurodivergence.