Campus Kaizen - Onboarding & Implementation Specialist

Cordance is dedicated to accelerating the growth of vertically focused business-to-business (B2B) software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies through acquisition and long-term tactical and financial guidance. We’re experienced operators and subject-matter experts with a passion for software and building businesses. We partner with founders to help them scale their businesses and realize their companies’ full potential.

We look for businesses with strong leadership and high potential for profitable growth, and work together to increase year-over-year revenue, company efficiency, and impact. Cordance envisions that all companies we work with achieve their full potential. We embrace what makes each company great and build on those foundations. We believe in elevating a company as it scales, delivering dignity to the organization and its employees, and sharing a passion for building a legacy.

About Campus Kaizen

Campus Kaizen, a business unit of Cordance, delivers Guardian Case Management — a purpose-built software platform for K–12 school districts and higher education institutions. Guardian centralizes sensitive case workflows including Title IX, HR, Bullying, Employee Relations, Behavioral Intervention Teams (BIT), Student Conduct, and more, replacing spreadsheets and disconnected systems with secure, compliant processes. Our platform enables districts and institutions to improve response times, strengthen documentation, and manage cases with greater transparency, consistency, and efficiency.

Position Overview

As an Implementation Specialist, you’ll be the bridge between our customers and our technology teams, ensuring that each customer’s onboarding experience is seamless, structured, and aligned with their business goals.

You’ll manage the end-to-end implementation process for new and expanding customers, working closely with sales, product, support, and success teams to ensure successful launches with measurable outcomes.

This is a hands-on role ideal for someone who enjoys translating business needs into action, solving complex onboarding challenges, and helping customers reach value quickly.  This role is accountable for delivering high-quality, on-time implementations that set the foundation for long-term customer retention and growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the full onboarding lifecycle — from requirements gathering to post-launch review — ensuring timelines, milestones, and deliverables are met.
• Partner with customers to identify use cases, workflows, and success criteria that guide system configuration and setup.
• Manage data imports, integrations, and configurations to ensure systems align with customer needs.
• Collaborate with internal product, engineering, and support teams to troubleshoot issues and optimize implementation processes.
• Identify recurring onboarding challenges and propose scalable, repeatable solutions to improve efficiency and quality.
• Track and report implementation metrics, customer satisfaction, and launch readiness across projects.
• Be a voice of the customer in internal discussions, influencing roadmap priorities and process improvements.
• Support customers through adoption and process alignment, providing practical guidance to help teams transition to new workflows and fully leverage the system as designed.
• Monitor and manage implementation scope to ensure projects stay aligned with agreed requirements, timelines, and outcomes.
• Proactively identify implementation risks and dependencies, escalating early and developing mitigation plans to protect timelines and outcomes.

Competencies

• Customer-Centric Execution: Drives implementations with a focus on customer outcomes and time-to-value. Anticipates needs, resolves blockers early, and builds trusted relationships through consistent communication and follow-through.
• Project Ownership and Delivery: Manages multiple customer implementations end-to-end with precision. Balances scope, schedule, and quality while maintaining accountability for milestones and customer satisfaction.
• Technical and Analytical Agility: Understands product functionality, integration workflows, and data mapping. Uses data and analytics to troubleshoot issues, optimize configurations, and inform improvement opportunities.
• AI Literacy: Understands AI basics and validates AI-generated technical steps or best practices.  Use AI for basic troubleshooting assistance, ensuring accuracy before advising customers.
• Systems and Process Thinking: Sees implementations as part of a connected ecosystem — linking product, data, and customer workflows. Identifies dependencies and designs scalable solutions that improve repeatability and quality.
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