Founding Scaled Customer Success Manager

Outset; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Outset is transforming qualitative research with AI-powered user interviews. As the Founding Scaled Customer Success Manager, you will own adoption, retention, and growth across a 100-200+ account portfolio in our Scaled segment and build the systems that make scaling possible.

You will determine signals, automate analysis, and collaborate with RevOps, Marketing, and Engineering to shape an efficient operating model.

Responsibilities

• Own adoption, retention, and expansion outcomes across a portfolio of 100-200+ Scaled accounts, from onboarding through renewal
• Keep usage and adoption high in a deliberately lower-touch model - leverage programs, automation, and self-service before reaching for a calendar invite
• Monitor account health and usage signals to catch risk and expansion opportunities early, and prioritize where your direct time actually changes the outcome
• Run renewals across a mixed model of actively managed and auto-renewing accounts, partnering with our broader CS team on commercial approach
• Build and run one-to-many programs: onboarding cohorts, office hours, webinars, in-product guidance, documentation, and templated success plans

Job description

Outset invented a better way to do research: AI-powered user interviews.

Global brands like Hubspot, Microsoft, Uber and Nestle use Outset to achieve deeper, qualitative insights about their users at unprecedented speed and scale.

The research industry is massive (>$140B and growing) and ripe for disruption. Incumbents are outdated, slow, and burdened by high-cost services. That's our opportunity.

Outset is backed by top Silicon Valley investors and raised a $30M Series B in December 2025- less than six months after our Series A- led by Radical Ventures with participation from M12 (Microsoft's venture arm), 8VC, Y Combinator, and Adverb Ventures.

The raise follows a breakout year, with our business growing 8x as enterprise customers across industries adopt our category, AI-moderated research, as the new standard for understanding people.

We're a tight-knit team serving some of the world's largest enterprises.

As the Founding Scaled Customer Success Manager, you'll own adoption, retention, and growth across a mature portfolio of 100-200+ accounts in our Scaled segment - and you'll build the systems that make covering a book that size possible.

You'll determine the right signals, automate analysis and follow-ups, and design an operating model that gives customers an excellent experience. Roughly 70% of your time will be portfolio management; the other 30% will be building the infrastructure and process behind it - working closely with RevOps, Marketing, and Engineering.

This is a foundational hire. The health scoring, playbooks, and operating cadences you build will be the ones the team runs on for years, and you'll help define what "Scaled" means at Outset as the segment grows.

Responsibilities

• Own adoption, retention, and expansion outcomes across a portfolio of 100-200+ Scaled accounts, from onboarding through renewal
• Keep usage and adoption high in a deliberately lower-touch model - leverage programs, automation, and self-service before reaching for a calendar invite
• Monitor account health and usage signals to catch risk and expansion opportunities early, and prioritize where your direct time actually changes the outcome
• Run renewals across a mixed model of actively managed and auto-renewing accounts, partnering with our broader CS team on commercial approach
• Build and run one-to-many programs: onboarding cohorts, office hours, webinars, in-product guidance, documentation, and templated success plans