Founding CSM — Lead Onboarding & Adoption for B2B SaaS

Cooper AI

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 100,000 - 140,000

Full time

8 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Salary + equity
Medical, dental & vision insurance
Monthly wellness stipend
401k with company match
Unlimited PTO
Company lunches 5x per week
Offsites and team events

Job summary

Cooper AI is seeking a Customer Success Manager in San Francisco to own onboarding, activation, and ongoing post-sale success for a growing B2B SaaS customer portfolio. You’ll partner with customers to drive adoption and retention, while shaping playbooks and processes with cross-functional teams.

You’ll thrive in ambiguity as a founding hire, build scalable customer-success motions, and contribute to product and go-to-market strategies with strong ownership and communication skills.

Qualifications

  • 4-7 years of Customer Success experience in B2B SaaS.
  • Experience owning onboarding, activation, adoption, and retention.
  • Track record of building or improving customer-success processes and playbooks.
  • Strong analytical instincts; using usage data to identify risks and opportunities.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder-management with technical and non-technical customers.
  • Consultative, customer-obsessed approach with ownership mentality.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous founding-hire environment.
  • Curiosity and the ability to partner with technical teams.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end onboarding and activation for every new customer.
  • Build and iterate scalable onboarding, activation, and account-health playbooks.
  • Manage relationships across a portfolio of existing customers as post-sale contact.
  • Monitor product usage, adoption, and account health; flag changes and coordinate internal response.
  • Drive retention by helping customers realize ongoing value from Cooper.
  • Partner with Account Executives on handoffs and with Sales Engineering on activation needs.
  • Use feedback to improve internal processes and inform product/go-to-market teams.
  • Bring structure to a new function while staying close to customer outcomes.

Skills

Customer Success
Onboarding
Activation
Account Health
Retention
Stakeholder management
Analytical
Communication
Ownership
Ambiguity tolerance
Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Salesforce
HubSpot
Mixpanel
Amplitude

Job description

Cooper AI is seeking a Customer Success Manager in San Francisco to own onboarding, activation, and ongoing post-sale success for a growing B2B SaaS customer portfolio. You’ll partner with customers to drive adoption and retention, while shaping playbooks and processes with cross-functional teams.

You’ll thrive in ambiguity as a founding hire, build scalable customer-success motions, and contribute to product and go-to-market strategies with strong ownership and communication skills.

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