Customer Success Engineer

Kenyan Edu; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ISO stock options

Job summary

Hightouch in North America is seeking a Customer Success Engineer to help customers maximize value from the platform. The role is technically focused and requires reading API documentation and understanding how SaaS integrations work.

You’ll engage with users through Intercom, Slack, calls and email, collaborating with Technical Account Managers, Solutions Engineers, Marketing, Engineering, and Operations to improve the customer journey.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in a customer-facing role (not necessarily technical).
• Technical background through experience or education.
• Conversant in SQL or willing to learn the basics and a few advanced topics.
• Strong discovery and interpersonal skills.
• Intellectual curiosity, ambition and humility.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to adapt to an ever-changing work environment.
• Thorough understanding of the technology industry and its players.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with users to ensure they get maximum value from the platform across Intercom, Slack, phone, and email.
• Read API documentation and understand how SaaS tools (CRMs, ESPs, ERPs) interact with the product.
• Collaborate across the organization with Technical Account Managers, Solutions Engineers, Marketing, Engineering, and Operations.

Skills

Customer-facing

SQL

Technical background

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Adaptability

Industry knowledge

Job description

Headquarters: Remote (North America)

About Hightouch

Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform powered by the industry-leading Composable CDP.

With complete brand context, customer data, and performance history in one place, every marketer finally has the power to build and ship end-to-end campaigns themselves.

Teams move faster, stay on brand, and get AI marketing that actually works.

Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, Hightouch enables marketing teams to analyze performance, brainstorm ideas, and generate creative at a speed and quality that wasn't previously possible.

Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Customer Data Platforms, Hightouch is trusted by leading enterprises like Domino's, Spotify, Aritzia, Cars.com, Ramp, and PetSmart.

At Hightouch, our mission is to help our customers leverage data and AI to grow their businesses. The team is ambitious, impact-driven, efficient - and we believe humility, kindness, and compassion are essential to our success. If you're energized by velocity, obsessed with raising the bar, and want to build alongside people who care deeply about each other and our customers, we'd love to meet you.

About the Role

The Customer Success Engineering role is demanding and requires strong organizational skills and an ability to multitask. You’ll work directly with all users to ensure they can get the most value from the platform. This may include answering questions in Intercom, Slack, on the phone, or through email. The nature of the work is technical and requires an understanding of how to read API documentation, how the standard suite of SaaS tools work (e.g. CRMs, ESPs, ERPs, etc...), and the basic building blocks of customers use data.

The Customer Success Engineering role is also designed to provide broad exposure across the organization, including tight collaboration with Technical Account Managers, Solutions Engineers, Marketing, Engineering, and Operations. The role is perfect for strong team players that want to have impact across the company and with our customers.

About You

The ideal candidate is hungry to learn, excited to cross-functionally collaborate, driven to deliver optimal customer experiences, and is excited to learn from and teach others. Hightouch is still a startup, which translates to pitching in across the organization and wearing many hats as we grow. You will be excited for an opportunity that allows you to be an important member of an exceptional company, be willing to ask questions when you’re unsure, and take initiative when you’re passionate about a topic/solution/process.

Finally, you’ll need to be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, willing to challenge the status quo, and a strong team player. Everyone at Hightouch plays an important role in our growth and this position is at the forefront of our efforts to drive an exceptional for every user. We’re of the firm belief that keeping customers promises is how we’ll win and we’re excited for this role to play an integral part of the customer journey.

Requirements

• 2+ years in a customer-facing role (Note: Doesn’t necessarily need to be technical)
• Technical background either through experience or education
• Conversant in SQL or willing to learn the basics and a few more advanced topics
• Strong discovery and interpersonal skills
• Intellectual curiosity, high ambition, and humility.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to adapt to an ever-changing work environment
• Thorough understanding of the technology industry and its players

The salary range for this position is $85,000-$110,000 per year, which is location independent. We also offer meaningful equity compensation in the form of ISO options and offer early exercise and a 10-year post-termination exercise window.

E-Verify Statement

Hightouch participates in E-Verify. After you join the team, we'll verify your eligibility to work in the U.S. by submitting information from your Form I-9 to the Social Security Administration and, if needed, the Department of Homeland Security. This process happens post-hire only - we never use E-Verify to pre-screen applicants.