Customer Success Manager
About Puppy Sphere:
Welcome to Puppy Sphere, we are a high-growth startup redefining the wellness category through puppy therapy! We’re on a mission to bring people together in welcoming spaces where the gentle power of puppies helps them slow down, boost their mood, and return again and again.
As North America’s original puppy yoga company, we’ve built a community of over 400,000 people, making puppy therapy part of their everyday wellbeing ritual. We’ve partnered with global brands including the NBA, TikTok, and Google to bring the gentle power of puppies to even more workplaces, events, and communities!
If you’re excited by growth, impact and care deeply about people, animals, and raising the bar in everything you do - we’d love to hear from you!
Job Description:
This is a full-time, hybrid role located in Toronto for the position of Customer Success Manager at Puppy Sphere.
We are looking for a Customer Success Manager to lead our Customer Experience and help turn first time Puppy Sphere visitors into returning customers. This role manages our CX reps, oversees our support platform, and ensures customers receive warm, thoughtful support. It also plays a role in converting inquiries into bookings and helping customers return through class packs, memberships, and future visits.
This is a full-time, hybrid role located in Toronto. We have one in office day per week.
Availability to work some weekends and weeknights necessary.
On-target earnings: $65,000–$75,000+ CAD
$55,000 CAD base salary + uncapped commission
Job Requirements:
Customer Experience Operations
- Lead the Customer Experience department
- Manage CX representatives, including scheduling, training, and hiring as we scale
- Ensure fast, thoughtful responses to customer inquiries
- Respond to tickets and customer conversations when needed
- Collaborate with Operations to equip onsite teams with the tools, resources, and guidance needed to deliver a seamless guest experience
- Identify and support training needs to ensure staff feel confident handling guest interactions and feedback onsite
CX Systems & Tools
- Own our customer support platform (Gorgias)
- Improve workflows, automation, and ticket routing
- Write and improve macros for customer support
- Implement AI tools to improve efficiency and response times
Customer Retention
- Re engage past customers and encourage return visits
- Guide customers toward class packs and membership
- Support lifecycle programs, including the Loyalty Program, that increase repeat visits
- Identify opportunities within customer conversations to encourage repeat visits, class packs, memberships, and private event bookings.
Private Events & Revenue
- Qualify private event inquiries
- Close lifestyle private events and class buyouts
- Identify upsell opportunities within customer conversations
Customer Insights
- Track trends in customer questions and feedback
- Turn insights into recommendations that improve the customer journey
Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years experience in customer success, support, hospitality, or operations
- Experience managing a support platform (Gorgias, Zendesk, or similar)
- Strong written communication skills
- Highly organized and comfortable managing multiple priorities
- Comfortable working in a fast paced startup environment
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in hospitality, events, or wellness businesses
- Experience with lead qualification or sales conversations
- Experience improving automations or workflows in support platforms
- Comfortable analyzing customer trends and data
Our Puppy Sphere Values:
- We create happiness.
- We care.
- We adapt.
- We show up.
- We raise the bar.
Perks:
🚀 Join a fast-growing startup with upward mobility.
🏡 Remote work flexibility around the world.
⏱️ Flexible working hours, we trust you to manage your own time.
💸 Uncapped commission.
☀️ 10 paid vacation days per year.
❤️🩹 3 wellbeing days per year.
🏝️ Annual Team Retreat.
🧘 Unlimited complimentary puppy yoga classes for you, family and friends.
🎟️ Attend networking and unique invite-only events in your city and beyond.
✨ Opportunity to work with celebrity clients and industry giants.
We’re so grateful for your interest in joining the team here at Puppy Sphere! Due to the high number of applications we receive, we may not be able to personally reach out to everyone, but please know we truly appreciate the time and effort you’ve taken to apply 🤍