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Senior Manager, Merchant Onboarding

Role overview

Summary

This role is for leading the Merchant Onboarding team at Loop, focusing on optimizing the onboarding experience for merchants. You will define strategies, manage team performance, and collaborate with various departments to enhance merchant integration into the platform.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in onboarding, implementation, or customer success, including 2+ years leading teams.
  • Hands-on experience applying AI to onboarding and team operations.
  • A track record of building high-performing teams and improving processes.
  • Strong data skills, with experience creating team metrics and making data-driven decisions.
  • Excellent cross-functional leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute a long-term vision and strategy for Merchant Onboarding that aligns with company goals.
  • Lead and develop a team of onboarding specialists, fostering a culture of collaboration, feedback, and accountability.
  • Audit and improve onboarding processes, delegating execution as needed and empowering your team.
  • Define and track key metrics, including time to value (TTV), time to launch (TTL), feature adoption, and customer effort score (CES).

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Team Leadership
  • Training And Development
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Problem Solving

About the company

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Loop

  • E-commerce & Marketplaces
  • Scaleup
  • 51–200
In a perfect world, Loop wouldn't exist. If we had our way, we'd live in a world where we're mindful about how we consume, we love every product we own, and we share values with the brands who create them. In reality, commerce isn't perfect and often breaks. Loop creates second chances. We're starting by revolutionizing the post-purchase experience. We've taken one of the most fragile commerce interactions - returns - and turned it into something consumers actually love, and that deepens our connection to brands and products. We take connection seriously on the inside, too. We're building a work experience that allows you to Be A Human First and prioritizes empathy and wellbeing. We view Loop as a special place in your career to shape the future of an industry and become a better person while doing it. You can grow faster here in a shorter amount of time - we'll give you space and trust you to fill it. Come help us build the future of ecommerce: www.loopreturns.com/careers

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Job description

Our merchants are the heart and soul of our business, and the Merchant Success Team at Loop exists to optimize the value of the Loop partnership to their business. This begins with the merchant onboarding experience and continues through ongoing support and strategic account management.
Loop is seeking a passionate and strategic leader to head our Onboarding team and drive a world-class onboarding experience for our merchants. As the Senior Manager, Merchant Onboarding, you will be responsible for defining and implementing the overall onboarding strategy, building a high-performing team, and ensuring seamless integration of new merchants into our platform. 
At Loop, we’re intentional about the way we work so that we can do our best work. We call this our Blended Working Environment. We work from our HQ in Columbus, OH, or one of our Hub or Secluded locations, and are distributed throughout the United States, select Canadian provinces, United Kingdom, and Australia. For this position, we’re looking for someone to join us in the United States, ideally in ET or CT.
What You’ll Do:
  • Develop and execute a long-term vision and strategy for Merchant Onboarding that aligns with company goals.
  • Lead and develop a team of onboarding specialists, fostering a culture of collaboration, feedback, and accountability.
  • Evolve team structure and capacity as the business grows.
  • Manage the onboarding budget, resourcing, and scheduling in partnership with the VP, Merchant Success.
  • Audit and improve onboarding processes, delegating execution as needed and empowering your team.
  • Evaluate and implement AI solutions, tools, and technology that improve onboarding efficiency and the merchant experience.
  • Build training, performance management, and recognition programs for the onboarding team, plus training and self-service resources for merchants.
  • Define and track key metrics, including time to value (TTV), time to launch (TTL), feature adoption, ACV launched, and customer effort score (CES), and use them to drive decisions.
  • Partner with Product, Product Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Finance, and Revenue Ops to align on adoption goals and bring merchant feedback into the business.
  • Build strong relationships with key merchants and partners, and serve as the executive point of contact for onboarding escalations.
  • Launch new onboarding and activation programs to support new products, services, and markets.

  • Your Experience:
  • 5+ years of experience in onboarding, implementation, or customer success, including 2+ years leading individual contributors, managers, and/or multiple teams.
  • Hands-on experience applying AI to onboarding and team operations, with a track record of introducing AI-enabled tooling, training your team to use AI effectively, and building workflows that save time and improve the merchant experience.
  • A track record of building high-performing teams and improving processes, expectations, and results over time.
  • Experience developing a long-term vision and translating it into initiatives aligned with company strategy.
  • Success implementing tools, training programs, and self-service solutions that scale onboarding operations.
  • Strong data skills, with experience creating team metrics and making data-driven decisions.
  • Excellent cross-functional leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
  • Openness to giving and receiving candid feedback.
  • A customer-first mindset and a commitment to creative, partnership-driven problem-solving.
  • #LI-ST1
    Loop Story
    Commerce should feel effortless. Every product adored, every order perfect, every customer loyal for life. But reality is messier: operations get tangled, margins grow thin, and trust is fragile. That’s where Loop steps in. We create confidence where commerce fails.
    We started by fixing returns and exchanges. Today, we’re building a connected commerce operations suite — powering everything from order tracking to fraud prevention, with hundreds of innovations in between. Grounded in data and insight, our platform helps merchants make smarter decisions with every transaction. Over 5,000 of the world’s most loved brands trust Loop to turn cost centers into growth engines. Our mission is simple: protect margins, delight customers, and help merchants build businesses that last.
    Life at Loop is rooted in our core values. We balance high empathy with high standards, knowing that work is better when we can show up authentically and resilience is built by facing challenges head-on. We expect you’ll grow quickly, learning skills that last far beyond your time here. Loop is a formative chapter in your career — a chance to shape the future of commerce and to leave better than when you arrived.
    Learn more about us here: https://loopreturns.com/careers.
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    Salary: 124000 - 174000 USD per year

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