Ashby Renewal Manager for SMB Startup accounts at Ashby managing contract renewals and customer subscriptions. Responsible for leading renewal processes, negotiating pricing, and maintaining customer trust.
Responsibilities
As an Ashby Contract Manager for Startup accounts, you will play a key role in supporting our revenue function and customer satisfaction with customers who are up to 100 employees. You will manage annual customer renewals, month-to-month customer subscriptions, contract questions, and will collaborate closely with a number of internal teams across Ashby’s largest customer segment.
As a trusted guide to quickly growing and steady-state startups, you will need to secure early customer loyalty, guide non-recruiting personas through the renewal process, and provide hands-on assistance to customers. Attention to detail on a high volume of accounts will be essential, with an agile approach to secure continuing customers swiftly and solve for these smaller businesses creatively.
With a focus on helping small startups begin to meaningfully grow their businesses, you will identify opportunities to support these businesses and identify high growth accounts. Your work as a Contract Manager directly impacts our broader business goals, with Ashby’s Operating Principles woven into our processes.
This position requires expertise in core contract management competencies:
Navigating pricing and negotiation discussions with empathy and tact, while upholding a high level of respect for the value of Ashby and the services we render
Leading the renewal process with customers, ensuring timely and successful contract renewals, with terms that align to both the broader business goals and solve for the customer’s needs
Building and maintaining trust with customers, proactively addressing concerns and ensuring their subscription needs are met at time of renewal and throughout the customer lifecycle
Managing day-to-day administrative tasks, such as customer outreach, generating order forms, and CRM maintenance
Understanding contract terminology and how to communicate these terms to customers
Our ideal candidate will have a strong background in a combination of sales, customer success, and renewal management, with a proven ability to drive contract renewals and enhance customer relationships. In this role, you will work closely with our customers to ensure they receive maximum value from our offerings, ultimately contributing to customer retention and satisfaction. You will work in partnership with Sales and Customer Success to ensure that the right resources are engaged to maximize customer growth, driving expansion and renewal.
Ashby takes tremendous pride in our software; as such, we encourage all employees to have rich product knowledge. While the scope of your role does not require technical product aptitude, we will empower you with product knowledge to ensure you’re well-positioned for customer conversations (e.g. should tech stack pricing efficiency surface in a renewal, you are comfortable communicating our differentiators).
You could be a great fit if:
Qualification
You might not be a great fit ifYou avoid taking ownership
Required
You delight in having autonomy over your schedule — there is a high level of accountability at Ashby, and we rely on you to complete your work; while all of your work will be visible to the entire company, you will be responsible for managing your time
You display empathy in situations that require it – you understand where our customers are coming from and strive to find a solution accordingly
You value transparency – there is clarity and honesty in every step of our renewal process, and within Ashby as a company
You might not be a great fit if:
You avoid taking ownership, and prefer to hand off various tasks
Dynamic situations make you uncomfortable
You find pricing conversations and negotiations demanding and taxing
You do not enjoy admin work and prefer to be in face-to-face meetings all day
You find it challenging to devise creative solutions for complex situations, which may hinder your ability to effectively address the needs of both the customer and Ashby.
You prefer to work independently and not collaboratively
You prefer a rigid schedule with limited autonomy, as you find accountability challenging
Our co-founders have written authentic pieces about Ashby’s communication and operating principles. As a company, we hire fewer, stronger people and provide them with clear ownership over a specific scope of work. Our Customer Success team, in particular, prioritizes solving for the customer. Our hope is to hire a driven Contract Manager who embodies empathy and curiosity to join the team.
