Catchafire is a full service, on-demand solution designed to address the wide-ranging and complex needs of nonprofits by connecting them with talented pro bono professionals. We partner with major funders (read more here) to provide unlimited access to Catchafire to tens of thousands of nonprofits ready to invest in the growth of their organizations and the impact of their service.
Catchafire has delivered over $236M in services to nonprofits, has facilitated over 1.2M hours of volunteering with over 60,000 matches, and we’re tracking to deliver $1B annually in services within 5 years. We have achieved ~40+% year over year revenue growth over the past several years and are poised for accelerated revenue and impact growth by scaling our foundation business.
Our mission is simple: catalyze positive social change by building a stronger nonprofit sector fueled by talent abundance. Here are some ways to get to know us better:
- Read our 2022 Impact Report
- Get to know some of our Nonprofits more deeply
- Get to know our Nonprofit programming through our webinars
Catchafire is a remote-first workplace. We provide accommodations to help with home office set up. All roles are remote full time (unless stated in job description), with the expectation that the employee is willing and able to travel periodically as deemed necessary and beneficial.
Catchafire is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We are also welcoming to any reasonable accommodations that can be made for candidates in our hiring process.
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide sponsorship for employment at this time.
About the Role and the Department
As the Customer Success Manager, you will partner with our Sales and Implementation teams to build and sustain long-lasting success with our Foundation Partners (our primary customers) who help bring Catchafire to thousands of organizations and deliver on our critical mission to transform and strengthen the nonprofit sector.
You will work collaboratively with Catchafire teammates across Sales, Marketing, Events & Engagement, and Product. The person best suited for this role is naturally organized, passionate for working with customers, has excellent interpersonal and communication skills, has exceptional attention to detail, is comfortable working in fast-paced environments and is revenue and impact growth oriented. You have a desire to learn about program design and implementation, the sales lifecycle, customer management, marketing strategy, and tech and product development.
Responsibilities of the Customer Success Manager
- Work closely with the Sales team during the pre-sale phase to set the partnership up for success
- Responsible for working towards achieving scalable and sustained growth by proactively engaging with customers to ensure the success of our programs, leading to a high customer lifetime value
- Collaborate with Sales throughout the partnership lifecycle to influence renewal and upsell opportunities
- Provide reporting and data-driven insights to customers while communicating risk and areas for growth within their partnership
- Be a product expert in order to provide effective consultation on program and product utilization to our customers
- Be a partner expert in service of informing and helping internal departments understand foundation customer needs, trends, and opportunities
- Spearhead internal cross-functional improvement projects relating to overall program success and partnership experience; identify opportunities for improvement and serve as a connector among these departments
Competencies
- Mission-aligned: Understands and communicates Catchafire's mission. Aligns individual goals with the broader mission. Seeks opportunities to contribute meaningfully to Catchafire's objectives.
- Customer-driven: Demonstrates a growing understanding of customers. Able to effectively communicate with customers and address routine inquiries. Shows willingness to learn from customer feedback and adapt approach accordingly.
- Collaborative: Actively engages in team activities. Communicates effectively with team members. Seeks input from others and contributes to collaborative efforts. Demonstrates a growing understanding of team dynamics.
- Takes Initiative: Takes on tasks proactively when identified but requires some direction. Shows an increasing ability to identify opportunities for improvement. Seeks guidance when faced with challenges.
- Revenue growth orientation: You know how to lead your clients to outcomes that will drive impact and revenue growth. You are always thinking about what will maximize long-term value and drive this revenue growth in concert with our mission.
- Goal-oriented: You are driven by outcomes and able to codify larger objectives into small-scale actionable steps
- Agile: Agility is the capacity to adapt rapidly and effectively adapt to changing circumstances.
Experience / Background
To be successful in this role you must meet most, if not all, of the following needs:
- Min 4+ years of relevant work experience working on client or customer-facing, account management or business development teams
- Experience growing revenue and working on new partnerships or existing partnerships
- Comfort pulling, analyzing, and visualizing data
- Strong communication skills
- Acumen with presentation, spreadsheet, data, and task management tools
- Excellent creative problem-solving and critical thinking ability
- Goal oriented
- Ability to work across different departments and functions in a collaborative manner
- Experience in nonprofit and/or philanthropy OR experience working in the tech space working with enterprise clients (understanding of the philanthropy landscape is a plus, but not required)
- Track record executing in a fast-paced, agile environment - comfortable juggling multiple priorities simultaneously
Compensation & Benefits
- The salary range for this position is commensurate with experience and geography dependent - OTE 135K with about 60/40 split
- A fully remote work environment with a one-time work-from-home stipend to help you set up your space
- Professional development stipend,
- Unlimited PTO and 50 hours of paid time off to volunteer.
- 401K, medical, vision, and dental insurance
Top Skills
What We Do
CATCHAFIRE is a community of individuals seeking to support and strengthen the social good sector by matching professionals who want to donate their time and talent to nonprofits who need those skills.
As a for-purpose social enterprise and Public-Benefit Corporation, Catchafire is committed to providing transformational volunteer experiences that will help create an empathetic, inclusive, and loving world where people use their talents in service of our shared humanity. We are creating a new type of business model– one that demonstrates that you can focus on a social mission and build a successful business at the same time.
Our goal is to transform the social good ecosystem by enabling organizations to save time, money, and resources and connect with talented and passionate individuals who have the potential to become long term advocates. We facilitate high impact engagements connecting a vast network of professional volunteers to nonprofits and social enterprises who join our service through a financial commitment funded by a grantmaker or through their existing funds. These engagements result in not only critical work completed, but often also provide an opportunity to develop new and existing skills and ultimately, strengthen an organization’s ability to deliver on its mission long-term. Through our work, we hope to create a more collaborative and equitable environment where all organizations have access to high quality talent and where skilled professionals have a deeper understanding of the people and work of the social good sector.
Ultimately, all of our work serves our mission: creating a world where it is commonplace to serve for the greater good.
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