Sign up to access all features of our service.
  • Job search
  • Favorites
  • Create a CV
    New
  • Salaries
  • Subscriptions

Founding Customer Success Manager

Krea

About Krea

At Krea, we are building next-generation AI creative tools.

We're dedicated to making AI intuitive and controllable for creatives - our mission is to build tools that empower human creativity, not replace it. We believe AI is a new medium that allows us to express ourselves through various formats - text, images, video, sound, and even 3D. We're building better, smarter, and more controllable tools to harness this medium. We recently took this a step forward with the launch of Krea 2, our first foundation model, built completely from scratch for aesthetic diversity and stylistic control.

We've raised over $83M and are backed by world-class investors such as a16z, Bain Capital, and Abstract. We work full-time and in-person at our waterfront office in San Francisco. We care about creativity: our team includes musicians, designers, visual artists, and engineers.

This Role

We're looking for a Founding Customer Success Manager to help our customers get real value from Krea, from first onboarding to deep, long-term adoption. You'll work closely with creative teams, guide them through workflows, and be the connective tissue between customers, product, and sales.

What You'll Do

  • Own post-sale customer success: onboarding, adoption, renewals, and expansion
  • Help customers integrate Krea into their creative workflows and daily work
  • Drive product adoption across our core customer profiles
  • Communicate new feature and product updates (we ship weekly)
  • Track usage and customer signals to help customers get more value
  • Identify expansion opportunities and own the renewal process end-to-end, from forecasting risk to closing the deal
  • Program manage webinars and workshops in partnership with our creative leads, from planning content through execution
  • Share customer feedback with the product and marketing teams and help shape what we build

What We're Looking For

  • Experience in Customer Success or Account Management
  • Commercially minded, with a track record of renewing and growing customer accounts
  • Product-focused mindset, with experience in onboarding and implementation
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills - you're great at building and maintaining relationships
  • Proactive, ownership-driven attitude and comfort working in an early-stage environment

Nice To Have

  • A creative background (e.g.: account manager at a creative agency, or a startup working with designers, artists, or studios)
  • Strong understanding of creative workflows

What We Offer

  • Team: Work alongside a world-class team building the future of AI creative tooling
  • Impact: Significant scope and company-wide impact
  • Competitive compensation: generous salary & equity packages
  • Health & wellness: 100% health & 99% dental/vision insurance premiums covered for employees, health FSA accounts, & long-term disability coverage
  • Time off: Flexible PTO policy
  • Financial planning: 401k with a 4% company-sponsored match
  • Meals in the office: breakfast, lunch, dinner - you name it, we'll cover it
  • Transit: Ubers covered to & from the office
  • Sponsorship: We're open to sponsoring international visas where we can (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3).
  • And more!

Please note the above benefits & perks are for full-time employees

Krea
Vacancy posted 5 days ago
Similar jobs that could be interesting for youBased on the Founding Customer Success Manager in San Francisco, CA vacancy
  •  ...Salesforce. About the Role Every customer success team is told to drive adoption in a...  ...migrated, live, and growing. This is a founding role. We've built the early foundation...  ...4+ years in customer success, account management, or solutions consulting at a... 
    Suggested
    Work from home

    Lightfield

    San Francisco, CA
    6 days ago
  •  ...Founding Customer Success Manager We're looking for a Founding Customer Success Manager to own and grow our most strategic accounts. Reporting directly to the VP of Sales, you'll be the first dedicated post sales professional at Recall.ai, responsible for making sure... 
    Suggested
    Work at office
    Relocation package

    Recall.ai

    San Francisco, CA
    2 days ago
  •  ...FOUNDING MARKETING LEAD - SAN FRANCISCO / ONSITE We’re working with an early-stage, high-growth AI business that’s already getting real...  ...paid ads across Google, LinkedIn, Reddit, and emerging channels Manage spend and optimise towards CAC:LTV Drive SEO and GEO... 
    Suggested

    Searchability®

    San Francisco, CA
    1 day ago
  •  ...people dread. You pick a real situation, like disagreeing with your manager or starting a conversation at a party, rehearse it with a...  ...feels like to replay a conversation in your head Why join now A founding role with shares in the company You work directly with Jonathan... 
    Suggested
    Full time
    Remote work

    Quippy App, Inc.

    San Francisco, CA
    3 days ago
  •  ...Founding Marketing Lead About Trellis Trellis builds and deploys AI...  ...enablement, launch strategy, customer marketing, partnership announcements...  ..., partnerships, and customer success to turn complex products and...  ...and co-marketing campaigns. Manage website and product content,... 
    Suggested

    Trellis Company

    San Francisco, CA
    3 days ago
  •  ...Combinator (F26), live on the App Store, and growing. We're hiring a Founding Marketing Lead to work directly with the founder and own how...  ...in tools or other people to expand what you can do. You've managed real acquisition spend and are comfortable with funnels, cohorts... 

    Quippy

    San Francisco, CA
    3 days ago
  •  ...agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion...  .... With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-...  ...leadership teams, driving success in a fast paced regional model...  ...make the world better than we found it. And for that, you’ll be... 
    Permanent employment
    Full time
    Contract work
    Temporary work
    Work at office
    Local area
    Remote work
    2 days per week

    DocuSign

    San Francisco, CA
    4 days ago
  • $40k - $100k

     ...Founding Account ExecutiveErgo is AI revenue infrastructure: the unified context layer for revenue teams. We ingest every customer interaction — calls, meetings, email, Slack, and more — and put that context to work across the bottom of the funnel, solving everything... 

    Ergo (YC W25)

    San Francisco, CA
    5 days ago
  • $320k - $400k

     ...Founding Enterprise Account Executive FERMÀT is the leading commerce AI platform that...  ...experiences. Our technology powers the customer journeys behind enterprises like GNC, Backcountry...  ...the account, building the ROI case, managing security review and procurement, and... 
    Long term contract
    Relocation

    FERMÀT

    San Francisco, CA
    5 days ago
  •  ...ChatbaseChatbase is the AI agent platform powering millions of customer conversations for 12,000+ of the most recognizable brands and companies...  ...provide value to each of them.About the RoleThis is a founding AE role reporting directly to the Head of GTM. You'll carry a sales... 
    Work at office

    Chatbase

    San Francisco, CA
    5 days ago
  • $300k

     ...down in the field. We’re hiring our Founding Account Executive to help build our sales...  ..., demos, follow-up, closing, and customer handoff. You’ll work directly with the founders...  ...Run discovery with home service owners, managers, and technicians Demo Noso clearly... 
    Second job
    Night shift

    NOSO LABS(YC S25)

    San Francisco, CA
    2 days ago
  • $110k - $150k

     ...THE OPPORTUNITY Hedge is hiring a founding Account Executive to own the full commercial cycle from qualified agency conversation...  ...expansion, referenceability, and a repeatable sales playbook WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE First 30 days: master Hedge's product,... 

    Hedge Specialty

    San Francisco, CA
    4 days ago
  •  ...Founding Account ExecutiveCarbon Trail is the AI-powered platform...  ...a strong base of enterprise customers. Now, we're looking for our first...  ...Outreach: You'll create and manage multi-channel sequences (email...  ...Driven: You are motivated by success—and the personal and... 
    Remote work

    Salesfolks

    San Francisco, CA
    2 days ago
  • $70k - $240k

     ...platforms in the world. We’re looking for a founding Account Executive to supercharge our go...  ...founders, product, engineering, and customer success. Lay the Foundation: Help design...  ...the product and GTM motion. Know how to manage a full sales cycle: prospecting → demoing... 
    Work at office

    Reacher

    San Francisco, CA
    4 days ago
  •  ...Join Ltv.aiAt LTV.ai, we're redefining customer engagement for e-commerce brands by automating...  ...prospects.Collaborate closely with the founding team to refine messaging, build...  ...to ensure a smooth handoff and long-term success for every account you bring on.Leverage... 

    LTV Inc

    San Francisco, CA
    5 days ago
  •  ...Founding Account ExecutiveTerac helps teams reach faster research breakthroughs through...  ...companies.What You'll DoFull-Cycle Sales: Manage inbound leads, run demos, and close...  ...will be the primary driver of revenue.Customer Success: Own the post-sale relationship. Onboard... 
    Work at office
    Relocation package

    Terac

    San Francisco, CA
    5 days ago
  • $125k - $150k

     ...Founding Account ExecutiveTitle of Role: Founding Account ExecutiveLocation: San Francisco...  ...to closing, targeting business banking customers and decision-makers.Identify, qualify, and...  ...with the business banking or treasury management space.Prior experience at a startup or as... 

    Recruiting from Scratch

    San Francisco, CA
    1 day ago
  • $160k

     ...Founding Account ExecutiveHelium is building self-improving software — AI that continuously creates and tests new software experiences...  ...~70% of inbound leads and drive 50%+ revenue lift for most customers.Sales has been founder-led so far. We need a killer closer to... 
    Full time
    Work at office
    Relocation
    Visa sponsorship

    Helium

    San Francisco, CA
    5 days ago
  • $160k - $190k

     ...Founding Account ExecutiveLocation: San Francisco (Hybrid: 3 days in SoMa) Type: Full-TimeThe...  ...above all else. We value being successful, not looking successful.We're looking for...  ...across enterprise sales, partnerships, customer strategy, market positioning, founder-led... 
    Work at office
    Shift work
    Weekend work

    BLOK

    San Francisco, CA
    5 days ago
  • $200k - $250k

     ...Enterprise Account Executive. This is a founding role - you'll partner directly with the...  ...influence both product direction and commercial success. The platform helps businesses...  ...moments. Act as a trusted advisor to customers and deliver actionable product feedback... 

    Clera

    San Francisco, CA
    3 days ago
  •  ...Bluejay's Founding AE OpportunityBluejay is building the simulation, evaluation, and observability layer for voice + text AI agents. We...  ...evaluation frameworks that show off where Bluejay winsClose with clear success criteria and set the foundation for expansion and retentionYou... 
    Contract work

    Bluejay (yc X25)

    San Francisco, CA
    5 days ago
  • $200k - $250k

     ...of pricing: agentic pricing management. We see many brilliant companies...  ...That expert is you. You lead customer engagements end-to-end: guide...  ...pricing experience from our founding team who have run 150+...  ...prospecting to signature. ~ Proven success carrying and exceeding a... 
    Work experience placement

    Mondrio

    San Francisco, CA
    1 day ago
  • $300k - $350k

     ...companies that "just works" out of the box. We can guarantee our customers that the numbers are correct, because we own every system that...  ...Role We'll be launching the product soon. We're hiring two founding account executives to own the sales cycle from first... 
    Contract work
    Work at office
    Flexible hours

    SYNTHETIC

    San Francisco, CA
    3 days ago
  • $9 per hour

    # Founding Account ExecutiveBuild relationships with the executives...  ...signed contract.* Build and manage your own pipeline in a market...  ...cycle, with a track record of success in highly relationship driven...  ...unglamorous work. Hard work, humility, customer obsession, and pride in a job... 
    Contract work
    Work at office
    Relocation

    Lantern

    San Francisco, CA
    4 days ago
  • $133.5k - $160k

     ...leader in Intelligent Content Management. Our platform enables...  ...new AI-first era of business. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work...  ...content management and empower our customers to completely transform workflows...  ...the evolution of Customer Success at Box—from driving adoption... 
    Live in
    Work at office
    Shift work
    3 days per week

    Box

    San Francisco, CA
    4 days ago
  •  ...Nango is hiring a Founding Growth & Marketing Lead for an in-person role in San Francisco. You will work directly with the founders to turn experiments into awareness and demand, starting hands-on with room to grow a team. You’ll own growth across channels, refine... 

    Jobleads-US

    San Francisco, CA
    2 days ago
  •  ...access to the APIs their users rely on. More than 700 paying customers use Nango today, including ServiceNow, Monday, Replit, Ramp....  ...and other leading developer-tool companies. We are hiring a Founding Growth & Marketing Lead to make Nango known among developers... 

    Jobleads-US

    San Francisco, CA
    2 days ago
  • $120k - $160k

     ...Description Job Description Founding Content Marketing Lead...  ...involved in execution. The successful candidate will define the organization...  ...that drive brand awareness, customer engagement, and pipeline...  ...engaging content. Build and manage a strategic editorial calendar... 
    Full time
    Visa sponsorship
    Flexible hours

    HireNow Staffing

    San Francisco, CA
    a month ago
  •  ...Founding Field Marketer Nango connects agents to 1,000 APIs so they can act & learn. More than 700 paying customers use Nango today, including ServiceNow, Monday, Replit, Ramp. We are a...  ...handling the details behind it. You manage budgets carefully and prove an idea... 

    Nango

    San Francisco, CA
    5 days ago
  • $100k

     ...The RoleWe're hiring a founding Account Executive: the first person whose full-time job...  ...essentially you will be the sole owner of net-new customer acquisition.Your first months are about...  ...You view the pipeline as yours to grow, manage and also fix if things are broken. To... 
    Full time
    Live in
    Remote work

    Magnetic

    San Francisco, CA
    5 days ago

Do you want to receive more vacancies?

Subscribe and receive similar vacancies to Founding Customer Success Manager. Be the first to apply!