About the Role
As a Senior Customer Success Consultant, you will act as a trusted strategic advisor to a portfolio of our largest schools, including long-tenured partners and major accounts. You will partner with school leadership to shape long-term success plans, drive deep product adoption, and unlock value from the Compass ecosystem. Your work will directly influence retention, partnership maturity, and growth across key accounts.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end consulting experience for a portfolio of key school accounts, from implementation, training and ongoing partnership.
- Lead complex implementations across the Compass product suite, including module adoption and partner integrations.
- Design and own structured success plans for each school in your portfolio, and lead EBRs and senior leadership conversations.
- Build trusted relationships with senior school stakeholders and act as their primary strategic advisor.
- Drive advocacy and reference-ability across your portfolio, positioning Compass as a strategic partner.
- Use Compass adoption and usage data to shape success plans, surface risk and ground EBR conversations.
- Partner with Sales and Product to identify and shape opportunities for schools to expand their use of Compass.
- Represent the voice of key accounts internally to influence product, process and service improvements.
- Anticipate risks and act as an escalation point for complex or sensitive matters.
- Mentor and uplift the wider Customer Success team, contributing to playbooks and best practices.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Senior Consultant or equivalent customer-facing, advisor or implementation role, managing complex, high-value accounts with senior stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of the Australian school environment, or a proven track record of rapidly building deep domain knowledge in complex, regulated sectors.
- A track record of driving outcomes independently, identifying problems, building solutions and executing without waiting for direction.
- Composure and credibility in front of executive audiences, including the ability to handle pushback and difficult conversations constructively.
- Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
- High attention to detail with the ability to balance strategic thinking and hands-on delivery.
- Commercial acumen and confidence operating in premium service environments.
- Genuine AI fluency, demonstrated how you work day to day.
- Comprehensive knowledge and confidence utilizing the Compass platform (Desirable).
- Experience in education (Primary or Secondary teaching, school operations, or EdTech customer-facing roles) (Desirable).
- A valid Employee Working With Children Check.
- A satisfactory National Police Check.
- Verification of unrestricted work rights in Australia.
- A valid full Driver's Licence.
Skills
- Strategic thinking
- Executive presence
- Problem-solving
- Communication
- Facilitation
- Stakeholder management
- Attention to detail
- AI fluency
Location
- Brisbane
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Learning and development opportunities
- Dedicated PD budget
- 24/7 access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Parental leave program
- Regular team events
- Social budgets
- In-office perks
- Employee Referral Program
About the Company
- Compass is a product that genuinely provides students, teachers, and parents with an improved educational experience.
- Our school management ecosystem is now used in more than 5,000 schools across Australia and beyond.
- We’re joined by over 300+ members of the Compass team, building the operating system for schools worldwide.
- You’ll join a purpose-driven company at a genuinely exciting stage of growth, working with some of Australia's largest schools and shaping how they get value from Compass at scale.
Equal Opportunity
- Compass is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
