Customer Success Manager - Aerospace & Defense

About Lumafield:

Lumafield was founded in 2019 to upgrade manufacturing.


We are engineers with deep experience across the product development cycle, from initial ideas to shipping hardware, across industries and specializations, who became frustrated by the cost and complexity of modern manufacturing. So we decided to upgrade it.


Engineers make million-dollar decisions every day, and they need tools that give them the greatest possible insight into their products. By offering unprecedented visibility into products, as well as AI-driven tools that highlight problems and generate quantitative data, Lumafield promises to revolutionize the way complex products are created, manufactured, and used across industries. We started with industrial CT scanning, which for us was the most valuable but underutilized tool in the manufacturing toolbox, enabling us to rapidly inspect essential components non-destructively.


We rebuilt the whole system, from X-ray capture, to computer vision analysis, to web-based collaboration, to the entire business model, making the most advanced manufacturing tech more accessible to every industry. Our company, like our platform, is designed for upgrades. We're building for greater intelligence, autonomy, and speed. For deeper vision, operational excellence, and powerful insights. And then we'll upgrade it all again.


Lumafield is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, and has an office in San Francisco, CA.


About the role:

Lumafield is seeking a Customer Success Manager (CSM) with experience in Aerospace and/or Defense spanning manufacturing, quality, and engineering to drive outcomes and strategic growth for our customers in this sector.

Working at the intersection of advanced industrial technology and customer strategy, CSMs will lead business reviews, develop and execute on mutual customer success plans, and drive net revenue retention through account growth.

The CSM will own the complete customer lifecycle from post-sale onboarding through renewals and expansion, serving as the advisor and trusted partner for stakeholders, helping build advocacy within their accounts, and ensuring customers achieve business value from our products.
This role requires the technical depth to understand engineering analyses, as well as the business acumen to translate technical success into measurable business value and lead conversations with executive stakeholders at customer organizations.

What you'll do:

• Serve as the primary point of contact and trusted advisor for your customer accounts, coordinating cross-functional collaboration across Lumafield teams including Application Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Product Management, and Finance
• Partner with customers to ensure Lumafield's technology is successfully integrated into defense program lifecycles, tracking milestones from initial deployment to long-term adoption.
• Identify, track, and quantify business impact, demonstrating ROI of Lumafield's products and services
• Proactively manage renewals and expansion potential within your portfolio
• Build strong customer relationships through mutually valuable touchpoints such as business reviews, success/ goal planning, product roadmap reviews, and adoption check-ins
• Help build and improve a scalable customer success function, including data-driven decision making, and standard processes and playbooks

About you:

• Engineering B.S. degree or similar
• Proven track record of managing high-touch relationships within the DoD ecosystem, including understanding of how civilian engineers at warfare centers or logistics commands adopt new technical solutions
• 10+ years of experience, which can include technical experience in engineering or manufacturing, and client facing experience, such as in account management, consulting, or program management
• Familiar with the business models, products, and manufacturing processes in aerospace and defense
• Knowledge of common standards such as AS9100
• Excellent verbal and written communication that flexes to be effective across levels of an organization
• Ability to independently create and deliver executive level presentations
• Organized and are ready to dive head first into a rapidly scaling startup environment

$140,000 - $160,000 a year

The base salary range listed here represents the anticipated low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. All full time employees receive an equity grant.

Lumafield offers both competitive cash and equity compensation, as well as a health & wellness stipend, 401k, parental leave, flexible PTO, commuter benefits, company wide events and more!


Lumafield is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, because the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. Do you feel like your skills don't meet every single requirement listed? We encourage you to apply anyway - If you're excited about our technology, the opportunity, and are eager to learn more we'd love to hear from you!


In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, genetic information or veteran status.


Reach out if you want to be a part of what we are building.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.