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Founding Customer Success

$120k - $150k

Oscar

Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. This range is provided by Oscar. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range $120,000.00/yr - $150,000.00/yr Founding Customer Success Manager | YC-Backed | On-Site in San Francisco (Startup Experience Required) Location: San Francisco, CA (On site only) Type: Full-time Compensation: Base Salary: $120,000 to $150,000 Bonus: $20,000 to $40,000 Equity: Competitive and meaningful (discussed during process) About the Company We are hiring on behalf of a Y Combinator backed startup based in San Francisco, building powerful tools at the intersection of data infrastructure and observability. Backed by leading investors and technical founders, the product is already in the hands of engineering teams solving complex problems across the modern data stack. We are now hiring a Founding Customer Success Manager (CSM) to ensure those customers succeed. This is a high impact, hands on role for someone who is ready to own relationships with technical buyers like Heads of Engineering, CTOs, and Data Platform Leads, drive retention and expansion, and lay the foundation for a scalable customer success function. What You Will Do Serve as the first full time customer success hire reporting directly to the leadership team Onboard new technical customers and ensure smooth handoff from sales with fast time to value Develop deep knowledge of each customer's stack and use case, acting as a trusted advisor Proactively manage adoption, engagement, and renewals Partner with sales on expansion opportunities and upsell paths Build and iterate on customer success playbooks, onboarding flows, and support resources Collect and share customer feedback with product and engineering Represent the company in onsite customer sessions, business reviews, and key account strategy meetings Who We Are Looking For We are looking for someone with strong customer facing experience in technical SaaS who thrives in early stage startups and wants to build, not just maintain. Startup experience is required. Must Have Experience: 3 to 6 years in Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, or Post Sales roles at early stage SaaS startups Experience working with technical users in areas like data infrastructure, developer tools, or APIs Ability to manage onboarding, training, QBRs, and renewals with minimal support Experience working with mid market and enterprise clients Strong written and verbal communication skills, including live technical conversations Comfortable working cross functionally with Sales, Product, and Engineering Based in or relocating to San Francisco. This is an onsite role Bonus Points For: Experience at a Y Combinator backed startup Background in data engineering, observability, or developer tooling Familiarity with tools like Looker, dbt, Airflow, Segment, Snowflake, or Postgres Experience building customer education content or CS tooling stack Why This Role Is Special You will be the first CSM, laying the foundation for how the company supports and grows its user base You will have direct access to the founding team and real input on product You will work onsite in San Francisco with a tight knit, high output technical team Product market fit is real and your work will drive the next phase of growth Competitive salary, equity upside, and the chance to shape an elite GTM function Oscar Associates Limited (US) is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Seniority level Seniority level Entry level Employment type Employment type Full-time Job function Job function Business Development, Information Technology, and Sales Industries Blockchain Services, Data Infrastructure and Analytics, and Technology, Information and Internet Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Oscar by 2x Get notified about new Customer Success Specialist jobs in San Francisco County, CA . 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