About the Role
As Pod Lead, you will be the heartbeat of the Customer Success engine, leading a high-performing pod of Brand Champs while managing a portfolio of key accounts. This player-coach role involves setting standards through your own craft and employing a coaching style that unlocks individual potential within a diverse team. You will be central to bringing Tracksuit's community for modern brand builders to life.
Responsibilities
- Join key customer conversations to stay close to what's working (and what's not)
- Help turn Tracksuit insights into clear, compelling brand stories for senior stakeholders
- Drive continuous value by embedding brand health into how customers make decisions and run their business
- Build strong relationships with Senior Marketers and Brand Insights professionals across strategic and growth accounts
- Lead a pod of 3–6 Brand Champs and their combined book of business, owning GRR & NRR outcomes
- Drive and support renewals, expansion and strong customer health outcomes across the full portfolio
- Step in as a calm, senior escalation point when the stakes are high
- Own forecasting, reporting and save plans with a clear view of risk and upside
- Coach Brand Champs to grow in capability, confidence and commercial thinking
- Run high-impact 1:1s and pod stand-ups that actually move things forward
- Lead performance, feedback and development conversations with clarity and care
- Hire and onboard new Brand Champs, coaching them for success from day one
- Balance capacity and manage customer allocations across the pod
- Keep a bird's-eye view to spot churn risks, patterns and opportunities early
- Be the voice of your pod internally — surfacing product feedback and customer needs
- Contribute to CS-wide initiatives that lift the whole team
Requirements
- 8+ years managing a portfolio of clients where they created real value for marketers — in Customer Success, brand/marketing strategy or account management
- 2+ years leading a team of 3–6 direct reports in a high-growth or SaaS environment
- Agency experience (advertising, media or research) is highly regarded
Skills
- Curious
- Data Informed
- Loves people leadership
- Passionate about customers
- Humble
- Calm under pressure
- Brand and Marketing interest
- Comfortable with ambiguity
Location
- AU
- NZ
- US
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years client portfolio management
- 2+ years team leadership
Salary/Compensations
- $155,000 - $170,000 a year
- Up to 20% commissions on-top of base
Benefits
- Comprehensive full-cycle comp reviews annually
- Rolling promotions when you've levelled up
- Generous ESOP
About the Company
- One of the world's fastest-growing brand tracking companies.
- Built beautiful, always-on, radically affordable brand intelligence.
- Taken an old-school, $100k+ market research product and made it 10x easier to use and 10x more affordable.
- A world-class team of kind, ambitious, generous, and smart humans.
- Working with over 1,000 epic brands across AU, NZ, the US and UK.
- A data and research company with a deep love of brand that uses SaaS as its delivery mechanism.
- Not a conventional SaaS CS team — subject matter experts on Brand Theory and Brand Health.
- More than a platform; it's a community for modern brand builders.
- Vision is to be used in every strategic growth conversation for the best consumer brands of today and tomorrow.
- Becoming the common language to measure, understand and communicate the value of brand building.
- Built for speed and comfort, fun and informal (yet tidy), and practical and ready for anything.
- Pet-friendly in principle and practice.
