Head of Customer Success New York City | In-person | Early-stage healthcare AI company Build and lead the customer success function for a fast-growing healthcare technology business using conversational AI to improve how provider organisations manage patient access and administrative workflows. The Opportunity
The Opportunity
Our client is an early-stage healthcare AI company helping outpatient provider organisations handle high volumes of patient communication more efficiently. Its technology supports common front-office workflows such as scheduling, referrals, prescription requests, billing queries and patient outreach. The company has established meaningful early customer adoption and is now hiring a Head of Customer Success to own the post‑sale customer journey, protect retention and build a repeatable expansion motion. This is a hands‑on leadership role for someone who can operate strategically with senior customers while creating the systems and team needed for scale.
Why Join
- Join at an early stage, with clear market demand and the opportunity to shape a critical business function.
- Work on a high‑impact problem affecting provider efficiency, staff capacity and patient access.
- Partner closely with a technically strong founding team and influence product, deployment and go‑to‑market decisions.
- Use modern generative AI and workflow automation to improve complex healthcare operations.
- Build in person with a high‑ownership team that values speed, direct communication and collaboration.
What You Will Own
- Serve as the senior post‑sale partner for the company’s most strategic customers after launch, building trusted relationships with operational, clinical and executive stakeholders.
- Own net revenue retention across the customer base, including renewals, risk management, account growth and the identification of new use cases.
- Create account plans and success roadmaps that connect product adoption to measurable customer outcomes.
- Establish a structured operating cadence for customer reviews, internal account planning and cross‑functional handoffs.
- Act as the senior escalation point for complex customer, product and operational issues, working closely with engineering and deployment colleagues.
- Use product and account data to monitor adoption, identify risk early and drive proactive interventions.
- Build the foundations of a scalable customer success organisation, including processes, documentation, metrics and future hiring.
What We Are Looking For
- At least five years in customer‑facing, post‑sale roles supporting technical healthcare products, ideally within B2B SaaS.
- Experience managing or mentoring a customer‑facing team, alongside a willingness to remain highly hands‑on.
- A strong record of owning commercial customer metrics such as retention, net revenue retention, renewals and expansion.
- Confidence leading conversations with senior decision‑makers and translating technical capabilities into clear operational and business value.
- Enough technical fluency to triage issues, understand system dependencies at a high level and communicate effectively with engineers and non‑technical stakeholders.
- Strong project management instincts, with a track record of creating structure across multiple customers and workstreams.Experience in provider‑facing healthcare technology is strongly preferred.
You Will Thrive Here If
- You treat retention and expansion as the outcome of sustained customer value, not as separate commercial exercises.
- You create practical systems before perfect systems exist.
- You are comfortable defining processes from scratch and adapting them as the company grows.
- You can move between executive‑level account strategy and detailed problem‑solving without losing pace.
- You want to build and lead a team, while remaining close to customers and day‑to‑day execution.
What Is Offered
- Close partnership with the founding team and significant influence over the company’s customer strategy.
- Meaningful early‑stage equity.
- Company‑paid healthcare coverage, flexible time off and commuter support.
- Regular team lunches, off‑sites and company events.
- The opportunity to build customer success infrastructure that supports healthcare providers and patients at scale.
Interview Process
- Introductory conversation focused on the opportunity, your background and mutual fit.
- Practical working session based on the types of account, retention and growth challenges the role will own.
- Experience and culture discussion covering customer leadership, team management and operating style.
- Final in‑person stage in New York, including meetings with the team and practical customer scenarios.
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