Founding Customer Success
Job Description:
Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid - In-office 4 days/week, WFH Wednesdays)
Salary: $120K - $180K
Equity: Competitive
Visa Sponsorship: Available
Position Type: Full-time
About the Role:
We're looking for a Founding Customer Success Manager to ensure our AI executive assistant is not just meeting, but exceeding customer expectations. This is a foundational role in a small, agile team, reporting directly to company leadership and working closely with the go-to-market team. You'll play a key role in driving customer trust and shaping the future of our AI assistant by feeding customer insights back into the product.
Your job will be to act as a detective, uncovering trust gaps and proactively engaging with customers to ensure they're getting the most out of their experience. You'll work directly with customers to help them interface with our AI-powered tool, tracking usage through in-house customer health metrics, and troubleshooting to meet their needs.
As a key member of a small team, you'll also be involved in product improvement, helping scale processes to increase the share of customer meetings managed through the AI assistant.
What You'll Do:
- Customer Success Leadership: Own customer relationships, ensuring our AI assistant is meeting their expectations, identifying trust gaps, and helping them get maximum value.
- Detect Trust Gaps: Use customer health metrics to proactively detect where users may have lost trust or confidence, reach out to understand root causes, and resolve issues quickly.
- Feedback Loop: Work closely with the Product team to communicate customer insights and collaborate on product improvements to better serve customer needs.
- Onboarding & Training: Guide customers through the adoption of our AI assistant, helping them maximize its utility and ensuring smooth implementation.
- Scalable Processes: Help design and implement scalable customer success processes that will allow us to manage AI agents more efficiently over time, reducing reliance on a large human team.
- Be a Builder: Act as a translator between the customer and the product, identifying areas where AI agents can be improved and sharing these insights to drive product evolution.
What Were Looking For:
- 2+ years in customer-facing roles, particularly in Customer Success at a recognized productivity startup (e.g., Notion, Slack, Retool, Asana, ClickUp, Coda).
- Prior experience as an Executive Assistant is highly valued.
- Experience in a Sales or GTM Engineering role (high EQ technical background) is a plus
- Ability to communicate effectively with the Product team to relay customer insights.
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Familiarity with customer health metrics and data analysis to track usage and proactively address customer needs.
- Strong problem-solving skills when dealing with customers and their challenges.
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Ability to work autonomously and collaborate cross-functionally with a focus on delivering results.
- A deep interest in how tools like AI-driven assistants can improve productivity and change workflows.
- Excited to work at a Series A startup, shaping the future of AI in customer success.