Head of Global Onboarding Operations
Global Onboarding Domain Manager: drive consistent, value‑driven onboarding at scale, lead teams, and partner across Product, CS, Sales, and Operations for measurable impact.
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The Opportunity
We're looking for a Head of Global Onboarding Operations to join our Global Operations team and own the health, performance, and future evolution of our global onboarding experience.
As the Head of Global Onboarding Operations, you'll be responsible for ensuring every new customer receives a consistent, efficient, and value-driven onboarding journey, regardless of region. Rather than managing day-to-day onboarding delivery, you'll focus on identifying opportunities to improve customer outcomes, operational efficiency, and commercial performance through data, customer insights, trend analysis, and strategic initiatives.
Working closely with Regional Onboarding teams, Product, Customer Success, Sales, Revenue Operations, Enablement, and Engineering, you'll shape the future of onboarding by creating scalable global processes, optimising tooling, and influencing the product roadmap. Success in this role is measured not just by how onboarding performs today, but by how you continually improve it for tomorrow.
If you're a strategic, customer-obsessed leader who enjoys solving complex operational challenges and delivering measurable business impact, we'd love to hear from you.
What You’ll Do
Strategic Enablement & Revenue Impact: Lead the four core pillars of the onboarding domain — Measure performance through metrics, Understand root causes and trends, Improve customer adoption and time-to-value, and Influence the future onboarding experience across Product and Operations.
Process Optimisation: Design, improve, and standardise onboarding processes across regions. You will create scalable workflows, frameworks, documentation, and governance models to eliminate inefficiencies, build team productivity, and balance global consistency with local market nuances.
Tooling & Systems Ownership: Own and optimize the onboarding tooling stack so teams operate effectively at scale. You'll partner with Operations, Product, Data, and Engineering to enhance system capabilities, reduce manual effort, improve visibility into customer health, and automate workflows.
People Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team in alignment with Phorest’s values.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a key partner across Onboarding, Customer Success, Sales, Product, Operations, Data, and Enablement. You will advocate for regional needs, align initiatives with global strategies, support Premium & Enterprise paths, and ensure a seamless customer journey.
Data, Insights & Continuous Improvement: Define and track KPIs, build business cases, and run Domain Business Reviews to give leadership complete confidence in domain health. Use data-driven insights to reduce customer effort, accelerate live dates, increase CSAT, and drive feature activation.
What You Bring
Ideally 8+ years prior experience in onboarding, customer operations, or customer success programmes within a SaaS environment.
3+ years of proven people leadership experience, with a track record of developing and coaching high-performing teams.
Strong strategic and operational thinking with the ability to balance high-level framework creation with hands-on execution in a fast-paced environment.
A data-driven mindset with strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, using customer and operational data to spot trends and drive measurable results.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with a track record of influencing cross-functional teams (Product, Sales, CS, Operations) without direct authority.
Experience driving operational excellence, process optimisation, and continuous improvement across complex global environments.
Strong commercial awareness and deep understanding of SaaS customer lifecycle metrics (CSAT, churn, time to value, feature activation).
Confidence with executive presentations and leading structured business reviews to influence strategic decision-making.
High level of ownership and accountability, with a collaborative growth mindset focused on supporting and developing teams.
- Department
- Operations
- Locations
- Ireland, UK, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
We believe you will like it here
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Innovation at Scale
Phorest is at the forefront of technological innovation. Join us and work on cutting-edge projects that challenge you to think outside the box and bring your boldest ideas to life.
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Meaningful Impact
Your work at Phorest will impact millions of users in the beauty industry. From small salons to large enterprises, your contributions will shape how businesses operate and thrive.
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Collaborative Environment
We believe in the power of collaboration. You'll be part of a diverse and inclusive team that fosters a culture of learning and growth.
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Flexibility
We understand the importance of work-life balance. With flexible work arrangements, you can excel in your career while maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
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We Grow Our Own Timber
At Phorest, your development matters. We provide ample opportunities for skill enhancement, career advancement, and attending industry events like ShipitCon.
A Culture Built by Our People
Our culture is what makes Phorest, Phorest. When we ask the team what they enjoy most about working here, culture comes up every single time.
It's something everyone plays a part in shaping. We're warm, we're real and we look out for each other. We want every person who joins us to feel welcome, supported and able to do their best work from day one.
As a certified B Corp, we hold ourselves to high standards, not just in what we build, but in how we treat people and the world around us.
About Phorest
Phorest is more than a software company. We’re a community of people united by a shared mission to help build a stronger and more resilient Beauty industry. While our platform supports salons around the world, it’s our people who bring that mission to life every day.
Founded in 2002, Phorest has grown into a place where people can do meaningful work, learn from one another and make a real impact. We believe in developing our own talent, supporting personal and professional growth and creating an environment where everyone has the space to thrive. Collaboration, mentorship and continuous learning are at the heart of how we work.
At Phorest, we’re driven by purpose, grounded in our values and proud to play a part in shaping the future of the industry, together with the community we serve.