About the Role
As the Customer Onboarding Manager, you will lead a team of Onboarding Specialists to ensure new PropertyMe customers have fast, confident, and successful onboarding experiences. This leadership role involves setting standards, owning key metrics, and collaborating cross-functionally to enhance the customer and team experience. You should be comfortable leading from the front, developing people, and using data to drive decisions.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of Onboarding Specialists through regular 1:1s, clear goal-setting, and performance conversations.
- Coach for quality by reviewing calls and onboarding touchpoints, providing direct feedback.
- Build team capability through targeted coaching, training, and development initiatives.
- Participate in recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding new team members.
- Foster a high-performance culture by setting clear expectations and addressing underperformance.
- Track and report on key team metrics, diagnosing trends and translating data into actionable insights.
- Present team performance, pipeline, and improvement initiatives to leadership.
- Manage workload distribution and adjust team allocation to keep projects on track.
- Define and maintain onboarding playbooks, templates, and frameworks.
- Identify and lead initiatives to address bottlenecks and improve processes.
- Ensure customers are well-configured, trained, and documented at handoff.
- Set standards for CRM and onboarding tool usage and ensure team accountability.
- Partner with Sales to ensure clean and informed customer handoffs.
- Align with Customer Success on handoff standards and share onboarding insights.
- Systematically surface onboarding friction, product gaps, and customer feedback to inform the product roadmap.
- Represent the onboarding function in cross-functional forums to advocate for resources and improvements.
Requirements
- Experience leading a customer-facing team with direct report management experience.
- Comfortable with the full scope of people management, including coaching and performance conversations.
- AI-first mindset with experience using AI tools and strategic thinking for optimization.
- Background in customer onboarding, implementation, or customer success in a SaaS or technology environment.
- Strong data literacy, comfortable owning metrics, building reports, and using data for decision-making.
- Structured, process-oriented thinker capable of designing and improving repeatable systems.
- Excellent communication skills: clear and direct with the team, credible and composed with stakeholders.
- Genuine developer of people, investing in team growth and holding a high bar for quality.
- Comfortable operating in a cross-functional environment and influencing without authority.
Skills
- People Management
- Coaching
- Performance Management
- Data Analysis
- Process Improvement
- Communication
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- AI Tools
- SaaS
- Customer Onboarding
- Implementation
- Customer Success
Location
- Sydney CBD
Work Type
- Hybrid work environment (2 days from the office)
Experience Level
- Leadership experience
- Experience managing direct reports
Benefits
- Nurturing and empowering team environment
- Hybrid work environment
- Beautiful offices in Sydney CBD
- High autonomy and recognition
- Vibrant culture with regular events
- Fully stocked kitchen
- Job security
About the Company
- PropertyMe is Australia’s leading cloud-based property management platform.
- Trusted by over 6500 agencies across Australia and New Zealand.
- Manages over 1.8 million properties.
- Offers a complete end-to-end solution including CRM, payments, leasing, and sales.
- Customers stay due to product and experience, not contracts.
- Focuses on the importance of the first impression (Onboarding).
