Customer Success Manager

Pillar; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary & Equity

401(k) Program

Unlimited PTO and Flexible Hours

Paid lunch, coffee, snacks

Job summary

A leading financial technology firm seeks a Customer Success Manager in New York to manage client accounts and drive adoption. You will build trusted relationships, oversee onboarding, and identify upsell opportunities. The ideal candidate has 3+ years in customer success or account management within high-growth B2B settings, strong communication skills, and an understanding of price risk in commodity-exposed industries. The company offers competitive salary and equity packages, along with unlimited PTO and flexible hours.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in customer success or account management at a high-growth B2B company.
• Understanding of commodity-exposed business price risk and hedging.
• Proven track record of managing renewals and identifying upsell opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for clients and build trusted relationships.
• Own post-sale experience from kickoff through full adoption.
• Manage renewals, including forecasting timelines and mitigating churn risks.
• Identify upsell opportunities using client performance data.
• Conduct regular business reviews with clients to align on goals and utilization.
• Relay client feedback and market insights to improve the platform.

Skills

Client Relationship Management

Consultative approach

Project Management

Communication

Tools

Salesforce

Gainsight

HubSpot

Job description

• Location: New York, NY (5 days/week in-office)
• Equity: Competitive Initial Equity Package + refreshers
• Experience: 3+ Years

About Pillar

Pillar is building the next-generation commodity risk management stack for the $10T physical economy. We combine real-time market data with AI-powered exposure modeling and automated trade generation to arm operators with precise protection from volatility. From instant execution to continuous monitoring, alerts, and recommendations, Pillar turns complex market risk into a fully managed, always-on hedging engine.

We were founded in 2023 by the youngest macro market‑maker at Barclays and a trading systems engineer at Coinbase, and have raised over $20M in capital from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Crucible Capital, Neo, DST Global and more.

The Role

Pillar's Customer Success Managers are the long-term partners to our clients. You'll own a portfolio of accounts end-to-end, driving adoption, value realization, retention, and expansion across commodity‑exposed businesses that depend on Pillar to manage their price risk.

This role sits at the intersection of relationship management, domain expertise, and commercial ownership. The right person can hold a credible conversation with a CFO about hedging strategy one day and troubleshoot an onboarding issue with a procurement team the next. You'll work closely with the executive team, AEs, and product to ensure clients are getting measurable value from Pillar and that Pillar is hearing clearly from the market.

What You'll Own

• Client Relationship Management: Serve as the primary point of contact for your accounts, building trusted relationships with both day-to-day users and executive stakeholders. Take a consultative and prescriptive approach to driving outcomes, not just managing check‑ins.
• Onboarding & Adoption: Own the post‑sale experience from kickoff through full adoption. Work cross‑functionally to ensure clients are set up correctly, understand the platform, and are actively realizing value from day one.
• Retention & Renewal: Own the renewal process end-to-end, including forecasting timelines, managing stakeholder alignment, and mitigating churn risk before it materializes. Monitor health signals proactively and quarterback escalations when needed.
• Account Expansion: Use client performance data and relationship depth to identify and execute upsell opportunities. You understand that growing your book is part of the job, not a secondary priority.
• Business Reviews: Plan and run regular business reviews to align on client goals, platform utilization, ROI, and mutual next steps. Be prepared to present to senior stakeholders and speak fluently about commodity risk outcomes.
• Feedback Loop: Serve as the voice of the client internally. Relay market insights, product gaps, and client feedback to the executive team and product org to continuously improve Pillar's platform and client experience.

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of experience in customer success, account management, or a client‑facing role at a high‑growth B2B company, ideally in fintech, financial services, or a platform that sells to finance or operations teams
• Understanding of how commodity‑exposed businesses think about price risk, hedging, and input cost volatility. You do not need to be a trader, but you need to be able to speak credibly to the problems Pillar solves
• Proven track record of owning renewals, managing churn risk, and identifying expansion opportunities within a portfolio of accounts
• Confident communicator: able to engage with and influence stakeholders at all levels, from day‑to‑day users to CFOs, with clear and direct communication
• Extreme sense of ownership. You track your accounts obsessively, follow through on competing workstreams, and do not let things fall through the cracks
• Strong project management skills; highly organized and comfortable managing multiple clients and priorities simultaneously
• Self‑directed and comfortable with ambiguity. Pillar is early and the CSM function is still being built. You see that as an opportunity to define it, not a reason to wait for direction

Nice to Have

• Prior experience in commodity markets, physical operations, energy, agriculture, or related industries
• Experience at an early‑stage or hyper‑growth startup
• Familiarity with CRM and customer success tooling (Salesforce, Gainsight, HubSpot, or similar)
• Professional‑level competency in multiple languages
• 💰 Competitive Salary & Equity
• 📈 401(k) Program
• ⌚ Unlimited PTO and Flexible Hours
• 🍣 Paid lunch, coffee, snacks (and dinner if you're staying late)