Key Takeaways

  • 75% of U.S. employers use automated applicant tracking systems to screen resumes before a human reviews them (Harvard Business School & Accenture, 2021)
  • The most common ATS failures are missing keywords, incompatible formatting, and incorrect file types
  • ResumeGeni scores your resume across 8 parsing layers — modeled on the same steps enterprise ATS platforms like Workday, Greenhouse, and Taleo use to evaluate candidates

How ATS Resume Scoring Works

Applicant tracking systems parse your resume into structured data — extracting your name, contact info, work history, skills, and education — then score how well that data matches the job requirements. Many ATS rejections happen because the parser couldn't extract critical fields, not because the candidate wasn't qualified.

LayerWhat It ChecksWhy It Matters
Document extractionFile format, encoding, readabilityCorrupted or image-only PDFs fail immediately
Layout analysisTables, columns, headers, footersMulti-column layouts break field extraction
Section detectionExperience, education, skills headingsNon-standard headings cause sections to be missed
Field mappingName, email, phone, dates, titlesMissing contact info is a common cause of immediate rejection
Keyword matchingJob-specific terms, skills, certificationsKeyword overlap affects recruiter search visibility and ATS scoring
Chronology checkDate ordering, gap detectionReverse-chronological order is expected by most ATS
QuantificationMetrics, numbers, measurable outcomesQuantified achievements help human reviewers and some scoring models
Confidence scoringOverall parse quality and completenessLow-confidence parses get deprioritized in results

Frequently Asked Questions

Is ResumeGeni free?
Yes. ResumeGeni is currently in beta — ATS analysis, scoring, and initial improvement suggestions are free with no signup required. Full guidance and saved reports may require a free account.
What file formats are supported?
PDF, DOCX, DOC, TXT, RTF, ODT, and Apple Pages. PDF and DOCX are recommended for best ATS compatibility.
How is the ATS score calculated?
Your resume is processed through an 8-layer parsing pipeline that extracts structured data the same way enterprise ATS platforms do. The score reflects how completely and accurately your resume can be parsed, plus how well your content matches common ATS ranking criteria.
Can ATS read PDF resumes?
Yes, but not all PDFs are equal. Text-based PDFs parse well. Image-only PDFs (scanned documents) and PDFs with complex tables or multi-column layouts often fail ATS parsing. Our analyzer will flag these issues.
How do I improve my ATS score?
Focus on three areas: use a clean single-column format, include keywords from the job description naturally in your experience bullets, and ensure all sections (contact, experience, education, skills) use standard headings.

ATS Guides & Resources

Built by engineers with 12 years of experience building enterprise hiring technology at ZipRecruiter. Last updated .

Head of Customer Success

Confiant · Confiant HQ

About Confiant

Confiant is cybersecurity built for advertising. We secure the ad economy from the inside out, providing real-time intelligence and precise controls that detect and block malvertising, scams, disruptive creatives, and compliance risks before they reach users. By disrupting the business models of bad actors, Confiant empowers digital media to enforce standards, ensure quality, and uphold trust across the ad economy. We protect what matters most — revenue, reputation, and relationships — securing the foundation that allows good advertising to thrive.

The Role

We're hiring a senior leader to own the entire customer journey from trial onboarding to day-to-day support through complex technical escalations and strategic account health.

This is a hands-on, high ownership leadership role at the intersection of cybersecurity and ad technology. You'll build systems that don't yet exist, operate with significant autonomy alongside our founders, and lead a team that blends customer empathy with deep technical investigation.

Responsibilities

Team Management

  • Build cohesion across Customer Success, Technical Escalation, and Sales Engineering into a single team with shared culture and accountability

  • Develop a high performing team through structured coaching, clear career paths, and hiring and onboarding programs that scale with the business

  • Set and track team wide goals across retention, customer health, and operational performance, driving accountability at every level

Customer & Revenue

  • Own the full customer lifecycle from pre-sales trial through long term retention, ensuring a seamless and high quality experience at every stage

  • Drive strategic account reviews, executive relationships, and proactive outreach programs that protect and grow revenue

  • Define the metrics, processes, and playbooks that keep customers successful and the team operating at a consistent standard

Technical Operations

  • Oversee the end-to-end resolution of complex customer issues, from initial escalation through root cause analysis and systemic fixes

  • Set and enforce operational SLAs, surface patterns across incidents, and partner with Product and Engineering to address underlying gaps

  • Build the tooling, documentation, and institutional knowledge that raises the team's technical capabilities over time

Cross-Functional Leadership

  • Shape company-wide strategy as a senior voice on the leadership team, bringing a customer centric perspective to business decisions

  • Drive alignment across Product, Engineering, and Sales to ensure customer needs are reflected in roadmap priorities and operational commitments

  • Lead the organizational response to major incidents and escalations, coordinating communication and decision-making across functions

Requirements

  • 10+ years in customer-facing roles in B2B/Enterprise SaaS, with 5+ years managing teams of 5–15 across support, success, or technical operations

  • Comfort operating as a player-coach: strategic enough to build systems, hands-on enough to step into escalations and customer situations directly, and self-aware about where you naturally sit on that spectrum

  • Proven experience setting clear performance expectations, running performance management, and coaching team members across varying skill levels, preferably across a wide direct span while simultaneously owning operational work

  • Track record of building escalation tiers, setting SLAs, and holding teams accountable

  • Experience managing or closely partnering with a pre-sales/solutions engineering function

  • Strong interest in cybersecurity and ad tech domain and significant background in a technically complex product domain where customer issues require deep cross-functional investigation.Strong technical fluency: able to read threat reports, understand attack chains, and hold substantive conversations with engineers

  • Proven ability to operate in founder-led environments where processes need to be built from scratch

  • Demonstrated success managing up to senior leaders and C-suite; able to translate strategic intent into structured execution

  • Commercial literacy: comfortable with renewal dynamics, contract language, and client-facing business conversations

  • Strong communication: you own the customer communication playbook and cross-functional strategy documents. Your communication is clear, credible, and calibrated to the audience. You exercise empathy and directness in equal measure

Nice to Haves

  • Deep familiarity with the ad tech ecosystem (SSPs, DSPs, publishers, ad networks); direct experience at or with an SSP, DSP, or ad tech solutions provider strongly preferred

  • Experience in cybersecurity: malware analysis, threat intelligence, incident response, or security operations

  • Experience as the first or second senior CS hire at a company of 30–200 employees

  • Experience inheriting a team in transition and making honest, timely talent decisions

  • Familiarity with customer health scoring models and data-driven proactive intervention

  • Experience building and scaling cross-functional teams into a cohesive structure

Benefits

  • Fully Remote

  • Unlimited Paid Time Off

  • Sabbatical

  • Stock Option Plan

  • Exceptional Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision)

  • FSA & Commuter Benefits

  • Employee Sponsored Disability & Life Insurance

  • 401(k) Plan with Automatic Employer Contribution

  • Enhanced and Extended Family Leave

  • Learning & Development Budget

  • Yearly Office Supply Stipend

  • Free Global Co-Working Membership