Founding Customer Success Manager (French speaker)

Beam; London; Hybrid; NOK 571,000 - 952,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous EMI-qualifying share options

Therapy & coaching access

Pension with employer contribution

Healthcare cover

Sabbatical after 3 years

WellBeam budget for wellbeing

Gym membership (London)

Parental leave enhancements

Cycle & Tech schemes

Job summary

Beam is shaping AI for social impact and is seeking a Customer Success Manager to drive pilots to value and grow partnerships across EU markets. You will spend significant time with frontline users, build champions, and translate feedback into product signals.

You’ll manage a portfolio, lead adoption initiatives, and negotiate expansions while shaping how Beam’s customer success operates in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• Fluency in English and French with strong communication, presentation and negotiation skills.
• Willingness to travel regularly across the EU and partner with diverse stakeholders.
• Demonstrated growth through account management or customer success in a software product.
• Diplomatic approach to building relationships across government, social care providers and partners.
• Creative problem solving with a growth mindset to unlock value for customers.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships from frontline teams to senior stakeholders across councils and government.
• Drive adoption through training and proactive engagement with frontline teams and managers.
• Show impact with concise updates and reports highlighting partnership value.
• Identify and secure expansions, develop proposals, and lead contract negotiations.
• Represent the voice of the customer to inform product roadmap.
• Help build Beam's customer success function as a foundational team member.

Skills

Relationship builder

Multi tasker

Results-driven

Negotiation

Diplomacy

Growth mindset

Discovery techniques

English & French fluency

Travel readiness (EU)

Software product experience

Job description

At Beam, we’re building AI that serves society.

We're a global team of ambitious, hardworking problem solvers, applying fast-moving startup energy to work that makes the world a better place. If you want to apply your talent to the biggest problems society faces, Beam is the place for you.

You’ll be part of a high-performance culture where you'll make a huge impact, rapidly progress your career, and truly enjoy your work.

Over 100,000 frontline workers already use Beam to take notes, provide live interpretation and handle phone calls, so they can focus on the people who need them most. This is just the beginning.

About the role

As Customer Success Manager, you’ll ensure our pilots deliver meaningful impact for customers, before leading the transition into long-term partnerships and expanded contracts. You’ll then manage and grow a portfolio of accounts, helping frontline teams get increasing value from Beam’s products as we scale.

This is a broad, hands-on role. You’ll spend significant time with users - particularly social workers - driving adoption, building champions and understanding how Beam can best support their work. You’ll combine this with data and customer feedback to solve problems, demonstrate impact and shape our product roadmap.

You’ll also play a key role in evaluating pilots, proactively identifying opportunities for expansion and leading contract negotiations. As one of the first members of a new customer success function, you’ll have real ownership in shaping what great customer success looks like at Beam.

You’ll be

• Building strong relationships - from front-line teams to senior leadership across Local Councils, Central Government departments, charities and private sector social care providers
• Driving adoption - through both organised training and proactive engagement with front-line teams and managers
• Demonstrating the impact of our work - through clear, concise updates and reports, you’ll be showcasing how impactful our partnerships can be
• Identifying and securing expansions - proactively identifying opportunities, developing proposals and leading contract negotiation
• Acting as the voice of the customer - sharing feedback which drives our product roadmap
• Helping build the customer success team - we’re a new team, and you’ll be at the forefront of designing how customer success at Beam works

You are

• A natural relationship builder - quickly building rapport and establishing trust to develop meaningful relationships with both senior stakeholders and front line teams
• A strong multi tasker - you’re incredibly organised, comfortable with multi tasking and can switch between different activities with ease
• Results-driven - you thrive working towards ambitious individual KPIs
• A confident negotiator - you have a strong track record managing upsells, with the skills to efficiently and effectively close expansion deals for a new product
• Adaptive and resilient - you thrive in a dynamic environment and are optimistic about overcoming obstacles while maintaining motivation

You'll need

• Fluency in both English and French – you have expert-level spoken and written proficiency in both languages and are confident communicating, presenting and negotiating with stakeholders in either language.
• Willingness and availability to travel regularly across the EU – you’re comfortable with regular international travel as required by the role.
• Demonstrable experience of driving growth through excellent partner or account management in a startup, leading corporate or in the public sector. Ideally, you’ll have experience in customer success for a software product
• A strong sense of diplomacy - you know how to appropriately build relationships with stakeholders across Government and social care organisations
• A creative, growth mindset - when there’s a bottleneck, you bring solutions and novel ideas for experimentation that deliver value for customers
• Incredible discovery techniques - strong listening and questioning skills to uncover critical information, identify decision makers, and understand client problems where Beam can help

Perks

• Generous EMI-qualifying share options
• Access to therapy, coaching, classes & content - powered by Oliva
• Your own financial well-being coach, through Bippit
• Generous Holiday - 25 days with 3 additional days over the Christmas period + bank holidays
• Work remotely up to 6 weeks a year
• Eligible for a 6-week sabbatical after 3 years in service
• Nursery scheme through Gogeta
• Healthcare cover through Benenden Health
• Enhanced parental leave: Primary Caregiver leave 18 weeks and Secondary Caregiver leave 4 weeks
• £200 WellBeam budget for activities enhancing wellbeing and professional development
• Annual membership to Shoreditch Exchange gym (London office only)
• Pension scheme where we contribute 3% of your salary and you contribute 5%.
• Free subscription to the Calm meditation app
• Discounted bike and accessories with Cycle scheme, and tech products with Tech scheme

About Beam

Our team of 200+ embraces a hybrid working approach, enjoying 2-3 days of vibrant collaboration in our beautiful Shoreditch co-working space, fully equipped with rooftop views, an onsite barista and kitted out gym.

We’ve picked up an armful of awards for our work, including one from our former Queen. We've also been named by WIRED as one of London's 10 hottest startups and by LinkedIn as a Top 15 UK Startup. Meanwhile, we've been covered in the media literally thousands of times, including the likes of The FT, BBC, TechCrunch, Forbes and The Guardian.

We’re also proud to be backed by some of the world's leading tech investors and entrepreneurs, including the founders of Booking.com, Calm, Shazam and Dropbox.

Start your journey to a more impactful career today. We're excited to hear from you.

Reasonable adjustments:

Beam is committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and supportive work environment for all employees. This policy extends to our hiring practices.

We recognise that some candidates may need additional support during their hiring process to give them the best chance of being a success. To ensure that all candidates have an equitable opportunity during their process, we are committed to providing reasonable adjustments where required.

If you require a reasonable adjustment to be made during your process, please let your Talent Partner know. We encourage you to share this information, but there is no obligation to do so.

Please be reassured that any reasonable adjustment requests will not be taken into account when making a decision about your candidacy.