Who We Are
We started our company to help others launch and run their own businesses, at any stage. The way we help is by keeping it simple and supporting entrepreneurs one step at a time. Put simply: our mission is to enable anyone to start, run, and grow their business while avoiding the common pitfalls that derail hopeful entrepreneurs. No more having to wade through forms, taxes, or ongoing state compliance.
We are a remote company based in Austin, Texas. We have team members from Florida to Oregon and all points in-between. Take pride in your work knowing that it shapes how people all across the country reach their goal of starting, running, and growing their business.
If the idea of helping people and working with a genuinely caring, supportive team excites you, then you’ve come to the right place.
The Role
ZenBusiness is seeking a highly experienced Senior Salesforce Administrator to join our growing Business Systems team. This role goes beyond traditional administration—you will be a systems architect for scalable customer operations, owning the design, automation, and integration of Salesforce across our ecosystem.
You will play a critical role in scaling Customer Success operations, enabling proactive customer engagement, lifecycle management, and support efficiency, while also supporting Sales and Marketing where needed.
This role operates in a Service-oriented, 100% Lightning, Unlimited Edition Salesforce environment, deeply integrated with internal platforms and third-party systems via modern iPaaS tooling.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with Product, Engineering, Data, and Business teams to design and automate scalable customer lifecycle workflows (onboarding, engagement, retention, renewals).
- Partner with Customer Success and Operations teams to replace manual processes with automation-first solutions.
- Build systems that enable proactive engagement, segmentation, and lifecycle visibility.
- Build and maintain integrations between Salesforce and internal/external systems using Workato or similar iPaaS tools.
- Ensure integrations are reliable, scalable, and well-monitored.
- Implement AI and automation to streamline workflows, improve productivity, and reduce manual effort.
- Identify high-impact use cases and rapidly deliver automation solutions within Salesforce and integrated systems.
- Integrate telephony and chat platforms with Salesforce to unify customer interaction data.
- Triage and fix Production issues.
- Translate business needs into efficient system configurations and automation.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience administering and scaling Salesforce environments.
- Strong experience with Customer Success and lifecycle management workflows (beyond just Sales).
- Hands-on experience with iPaaS tools (Workato preferred) and building/maintaining integrations.
- Proven ability to design and implement end-to-end business process automation.
- Experience integrating Salesforce with telephony, chat, or customer engagement platforms.
- Familiarity with AI capabilities within Salesforce and/or external automation tools.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce data architecture, governance, and deduplication
- Strong data skills with the ability to query/analyze data (SQL or similar)
- Expert-level understanding of Salesforce Lightning configuration, Flow (record-triggered, scheduled, screen flows) and platform capabilities.
- Strong knowledge of security, access controls, and compliance best practices.
- Experience working in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience scaling Customer Success operations in a SaaS company (onboarding, retention, renewals).
- Demonstrated success implementing automation-first strategies.
- Deep experience with Workato or similar iPaaS platforms at scale.
- Experience with AI-driven operational workflows.
- Salesforce certifications (Advanced Admin, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, etc.).
- Experience with Salesforce DevOps Center and
- Experience thriving in high-growth startups where systems must scale rapidly.
Remote Culture. A great company culture leads to happy employees, and happy employees lead to happy customers. We provide our employees with good salaries, benefits, equity, and interesting challenges that have a positive impact.
Let’s stay connected! We believe in staying connected, and we have a weekly “All Hands” meeting every week. We also have a social committee that hosts frequent events. We’ve held a virtual talent show, costume competitions, monthly lunch and learn series, Hackathons and more!
Benefits. The company offers various benefits to employees and their dependents, including medical, vision, dental, disability, and life insurance, as well as parental and military leave. Other benefits include an employee assistance program, 401k + match, annual bonus, pet insurance, and RSUs. Paid parking* and 10 paid holidays are also provided.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. We believe in diversity, equity & inclusion. At ZenBusiness, every voice counts no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, location, or background. We celebrate the diversity of our teams, knowing that our products, services, and customers thrive best when we lean into and celebrate our differences.
Please check out our careers' page to learn more about our culture, benefits, and open opportunities.
*applicable to in-office employees
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