Customer Success Associate - ESG & SaaS Career Growth in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
Work-Life Balance Signals: Worldly offers unlimited PTO, flexible time off, and a fully remote setup with a stated culture that actively encourages rest and exploration. The role does require cross-timezone meeting attendance, which can occasionally stretch working hours — something to clarify in the interview.
Compensation vs. Market: The $15,000–$25,000 USD annual range is significantly below Western market rates for a Customer Success Associate (which typically ranges $45,000–$65,000 USD in the US). However, it is deliberately benchmarked for APAC local markets and paid in local currency equivalent — meaning purchasing power in Vietnam or the Philippines is more competitive than the raw number suggests. Candidates should negotiate with local cost-of-living context in mind.
Skills Developed: This role builds a strong foundation in several high-demand areas:
- ESG & Sustainability Intelligence — a rapidly growing field as regulations like CSRD and SEC climate rules expand globally.
- CRM & SaaS tooling (HubSpot, Zoom, data platforms) — transferable across industries.
- Supply chain data management — niche but highly valued in retail, manufacturing, and compliance sectors.
- Customer-facing training delivery — a skill that opens doors to senior CS, enablement, or solutions roles.
Culture & Growth Signals: Worldly is a public benefit corporation with a clear mission — a green flag for purpose-driven professionals. The team spans 15+ countries, suggesting a genuinely global culture. The role has a defined path upward within the APAC CS team. A potential yellow flag: the data entry-heavy tasks may feel repetitive at entry level — but the training and customer-facing components add meaningful variety.
Location: Remote (China, Vietnam, Hong Kong, or Philippines)
Reports to: Regional Lead, APAC
About Worldly
Worldly is the world's most comprehensive impact intelligence platform — delivering real data to businesses on impacts within their supply chain. Worldly is trusted by 40,000 global brands, retailers, and manufacturers to provide the single source of ESG intelligence they need to accelerate business and industry transformation.
Through strategic and meaningful customer relationships, Worldly provides key insights into supplier performance, product impact, trends analysis, and compliance. When a company wants to change how business is done, we enable that systemic shift.
Backed by a dedicated global team of individuals aligned by values, Worldly proudly operates as a public benefit corporation with backing from mission-aligned investors.
About The Role
Worldly is seeking a Customer Success Associate to support the APAC Customer Success team across customer data operations, customer program delivery, training, and platform support. The role is responsible for managing customers' supplier lists and verifying data accuracy, supporting service cadences for customers in different subscriptions, delivering training to APAC customers, and handling platform/brand requirements enquiries. The role reports to the Regional Lead and works closely with other members of the Customer Success team across time zones.
The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, comfortable working with large data sets, a confident communicator in front of customers, and interested in retail supply chains and ESG reporting.
What You'll Do
1. Customer Data Operations
- Manage and maintain detailed record-keeping of customers' supplier lists; maintain and update supplier data by inputting text-based and numerical information from source documents within time limits on a recurring basis
- Compile, verify accuracy, and sort information according to priorities to prepare source data for platform import
- Review data for deficiencies or errors, correct any incompatibilities where possible, and check the output
- Import data to the Worldly platform on behalf of customers
- Send templated emails on behalf of customers
- Store completed work in designated locations and perform backup operations
- Respond to queries for information and access relevant files
2. Customer Program & Cadence Support
- Support facility list management, cadence setup & management, adoption emails, and reporting needs for ImpactService customers
- Independent service delivery to customers in Platform Access subscription
- Manage recurring customer deliverables (e.g., MWL updates) with CS Ninjas Team
- Manage email cadences in HubSpot for customer adoption programs
- Data/deck preparation for End-of-Cadence Meetings with assigned accounts
- Consolidate and visualize platform data into presentation materials
3. Training & Events
- Deliver training sessions and host office hours for APAC customers
- Manage training-related emails (e.g., invitation and follow-up emails)
- Handle training/office hours follow-up: surveys, uploading recordings to the guidance site, collecting and answering Q&A, analyzing survey results
- Report on training KPIs
- Schedule training and office hours sessions in the CS Zoom account
- Represent Worldly at industry events in APAC
4. Support & Ticketing
- Answer platform/brand requirements enquiries — deadlines, verification booking for Higg FEM and Higg FSLM, especially accounts-related
5. Translation & Localization
- Organize translation of training and guidance content
6. Team & Workflow Support
- Assist Regional Lead in overseeing and shaping the CS Support Ninja workflow
- Support onboarding, training & supervising CS Support Ninjas
- Support UAT testing of adoption, analytics, and supply impacts features
- Flexible to attend internal meetings in different time zones when required
We'd Like To See
- Large data handling experience (preferred); proficiency in data management tools like Excel, Google Sheets, etc.
- Accuracy and attention to detail — essential
- Propensity to problem-solve proactively and find solutions for potential problems or errors that have been identified
- Ability to concentrate for lengthy periods and perform accurately with adequate speed
- Confident presenter and communicator for customer-facing setup
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
It Helps If You Have
- Experience with HubSpot or other CRM technologies
- Experience with Slack
- 1+ years of technical SaaS environment product support experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Knowledge of retail supply chains
- Interest in ESG reporting & familiarity with Higg Index Tools
- Experience in customer service
- Fluency in English plus a regional language (e.g., Mandarin, Vietnamese)
What We Can Offer You
- Comprehensive benefits offerings — 100% employee premium covered by Worldly
- Growth opportunities
- Equipment stipends
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid company holidays
- Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses; healthcare and retirement matching
- Work-from-home stipend to get the supplies you need
- Flexible time off — our culture encourages team members to explore and rest to be their best selves
- Remote-friendly culture: culture committee, coffee chats, and a variety of interest groups
Life at Worldly
Our team is motivated to transform the way products are made. By helping our customers succeed in a new era of sustainable production, we can build technology that makes a difference on a planetary level.
Our team represents over 15 countries and brings unique experiences from technology to farming to the table. Surround yourself with kind, enthusiastic, and dedicated people who put collaboration and growth at the center of our shared goals.
Travel Notice
Roles at Worldly may require occasional travel to support business needs, including but not limited to team collaboration, customer engagement, or company events.
Equity Statement
We believe it's essential to reflect the diversity of those we strive to serve. True innovation happens when everyone has room at the table, including the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel. We're dedicated to building a culturally and experientially diverse team that leads and works with empathy and respect.
Compensation
Annual Salary: $15,000 – $25,000 USD
Annual Bonus Plan | Work-From-Home Stipends
*Final compensation figures will be determined based on a wide variety of factors, including experience and location. These factors will be evaluated and considered by Worldly throughout the entirety of this process.
**For candidates located outside the U.S., the salary range listed in USD will be paid in the local currency equivalent at the time of offer using the then-current exchange rate.