Director of Customer Success & Onboarding; B2SMB

Sauce is a premier restaurant technology platform that helps businesses grow with our Commission-Free Delivery & Pickup structure and proprietary delivery optimization technology. We are serving a 105 billion dollar US local restaurant business. Headquartered in NYC and Tel-Aviv, Sauce wants restaurants to fulfill their highest potential, this means giving local establishments everything they need to connect directly with their customers.

The Sauce team pools together decades of restaurant tech experience, along with seasoned tech, sales, marketing, product and operations executives who produce an industry-changing delivery system for successful local restaurants and chains.

We're looking for a seasoned Director of Customer Success & Onboarding — an experienced people leader and strategic operator who can own the full post-sale function, develop a high-performing team, and drive measurable customer outcomes at scale.

This is a leadership role reporting directly to the CEO, based in our NYC office (3x/week in-person). You'll bridge company strategy and day-to-day CS and Onboarding execution, and this is a true player-coach role: you'll personally own strategic accounts while elevating how the team operates in a fast-moving, high-pressure environment;
You know how to automate the repeatable work without making customers feel like they're talking to a bot.

Success means smoother go-lives, stronger retention, and customers who stay and grow because Sauce has become essential to their business.

• Own team-level NRR/GRR, activation, time-to-value, and product adoption.
• Lead and develop CSM and Onboarding teams as their primary people manager — writing performance reviews, setting goals, and defining OKRs.
• Build and own the customer health scoring system from the ground up.
• Ensure every customer follows a clear, well-supported journey from contract to "Sauce is indispensable."

• Maintain, refine, and document onboarding and success playbooks.
• Personally manage a portfolio of strategic, complex, or at-risk accounts.
• Join at-risk calls, churn prevention efforts, and high-stakes pitches where senior presence adds leverage — including after-hours when the business needs it.
• Model persistence, positivity, and outcome-oriented problem-solving.

• Build your own dashboards, health-score systems, and automations — self-sufficient, without relying on R&D resources.
• Prototype, deploy, and iterate yourself — don't hand it off.

• Maintain clean health scores, workflow tracking, and task management across the CS platform/CRM.
• Define and track SLAs for onboarding, activation milestones, and ongoing engagement.
• Use data to find bottlenecks and opportunities — test improvements and iterate.

• Align with Sales on clean handoffs and standardized customer expectations.
• Partner with Product to surface customer insights and drive continuous improvement.
• Keep communication open across functions so teams move in sync.

• Develop a clear understanding of current CS and Onboarding workflows and identify friction points.
• Build strong relationships with the team, cross-functional stakeholders, and a portfolio of strategic accounts.
• Ship at least one self-built automation or dashboard that removes manual work from the team.

• Deliver more predictable onboarding timelines and smoother go-lives across all segments.
• Improve logo retention and NRR across the managed book of business.
• Define and establish the CS & Onboarding function's long-term operating model.
• Become a trusted partner to the CEO, Sales, and Product leadership.

• 6-8 years in Customer…