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Katie Lesslie

The Brokerage Inc.
Dallas,TX
1
Certification
8
years of professional experience

Dynamic customer success and technical account professional with extensive experience in SaaS platforms, offering sixteen years of expertise in customer-facing roles. Managed a portfolio of over 30 mid-market SaaS accounts, achieving a 15% increase in onboarding success, a 20% reduction in churn, and elevating customer satisfaction to 93%, while driving product adoption by 12%. Skilled in leveraging proactive strategies to address customer needs, enhance engagement, and foster lasting relationships through effective communication and problem-solving.

Work History

Webmaster and SEO Manager

2 Years 1 Month
The Brokerage Inc. | 09.2024 - Current
  • Serve as primary point of contact for agency partners, agents, and internal teams at a Health FMO Brokerage, translating platform integrations and technical use cases for non-technical audiences to drive adoption across the agent portal.
  • Led the GoHighLevel CRM implementation project: standardized funnel templates, automated workflows, custom fields, tag taxonomies, and pipelines connecting website and campaign activity to CRM data used for customer/agent engagement tracking.
  • Developed an Airtable/API-powered reporting integration in the broker link portal, rolled out to the company's 50 largest agency partners, eliminating 6 hours of manual monthly report generation and reducing manual distribution by 62%.
  • Built AI-assisted workflows (Claude, MCP) and cross-system integrations (Airtable, Zapier, webhooks, form-to-CRM pipelines) to accelerate campaign builds and reduce manual turnaround time.
  • Managed cross-functional projects between IT Security and third-party API vendors, scoping requirements, coordinating resources, and tracking timelines to deliver functionality on schedule

Retention Manager

8 Months
Goosehead Insurance Agency | 01.2024 - 09.2024
  • Managed retention conversations on at-risk policies, collaborating with multiple carriers to identify competitive solutions that reduced customer lapses.
  • Developed understanding of insurance customer lifecycle, enabling insight into how policyholders evaluate risk, compare carriers, and make renewal decisions.
  • Earned Texas P&C General Lines License, gaining hands on knowledge of property casualty product lines, carrier comparison, policy structure and renewal dynamics.

RESTAURANT ONBOARDING SUCCESS MANAGER

1 Year
Yelp | 01.2019 - 01.2020
  • Owned onboarding and account management for a portfolio of 30+ mid-market SaaS accounts, serving as the primary point of contact and building tailored success plans around each customer's goals, configuration needs, and expectations, increasing on-time onboarding success by 15%.
  • Proactively monitored account engagement and health throughout the customer lifecycle to identify risk early and resolve it before escalation, reducing churn by 20% and protecting recurring revenue.
  • Identified and closed upsell and cross-sell opportunities within the existing account book by understanding each customer's evolving goals and matching them to additional product value, contributing to overall account growth.
  • Gathered and acted on customer feedback, creating account websites and multi-platform content to close adoption gaps, and surfaced recurring customer pain points to internal teams, growing product adoption and raising customer satisfaction scores to 93%.

CUSTOMER SUPPORT SPECIALIST

1 Year
Yelp | 01.2020 - 01.2021
  • Managed a high volume of multi-channel support cases to drive issue resolution, improving customer satisfaction and reducing churn risk.
  • Identified upsell and cross-sell opportunities during customer interactions, flagging qualified leads to account teams and contributing to account growth alongside support resolution.
  • Collaborated cross-functionally with internal teams to build SOPs and training resources, creating repeatable, scalable processes to help the support organization grow.
  • Drove software adoption up 12% by supporting internal teams in running webinars for account launches and expansions.

OFFICE ASSISTANT

2 Years
Sargenti Architects | 01.2021 - 01.2023
  • Prepared construction permit applications through compliance research with county ordinance policies, facilitating timely project completion.
  • Coordinated with city personnel and architects on submittal requirements, building codes, and permit regulations, ensuring adherence across multiple corporate projects.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Communications

Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | 01-2012

Deans List Recipient 2008

Skills

SEO Optimization
CRM expertise
SAAS Adoption & Onboarding
AI Automation
Customer Account Management
Project management
Marketing Campaign Development
Customer Success & Retention
Renewals & Account Expansion
Trusted Advisor Relationships
Customer Support
Customer Relationship Building

Certification

Texas P&C General Lines License, 2024

Timeline

Webmaster and SEO Manager

The Brokerage Inc.
09.2024 - CurrentRead More

Retention Manager

Goosehead Insurance Agency
01.2024 - 09.2024Read More

OFFICE ASSISTANT

Sargenti Architects
01.2021 - 01.2023Read More

CUSTOMER SUPPORT SPECIALIST

Yelp
01.2020 - 01.2021Read More

RESTAURANT ONBOARDING SUCCESS MANAGER

Yelp
01.2019 - 01.2020Read More

Arizona State University

Bachelor of Science from Business Communications
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Katie Lesslie