Founding Head of Customer Success

New York, New York

pikl.ai
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Job Title: Founding Customer Success Manager

Location: NYC

In Office: 3 days per week, midtown

About Pikl: Stealth Mode, AI start-up

Stage: Seed Stage

Investors: Well capitalized from institutional VCs, based in NYC & SF.

Team Size: 7. Team is based in NYC and Argentina.


About the Role:

As our Founding Customer Success Manager, you'll wear many hats and play a critical role in defining how we serve and grow with our customers. You'll lead customer onboarding, provide hands-on support, gather and relay feedback to our product team, and help shape the future of our customer experience from the ground up.


We are a team of 7, currently in stealth mode. Our founder is a second time founder, who previously scaled a large venture backed hiring business.


We are a seed stage business with tier one institutional VCs, in NYC, backing us.


What You'll Do:

  • Own the entire post-sales journey: onboarding, training, support, expansion, and renewals
  • Build deep relationships with our customers, becoming a trusted advisor and internal advocate
  • Act as the voice of the customer: gather feedback, spot patterns, and work with product/engineering to improve our platform
  • Spend time deeply understanding our customers processes, and the best way to automate the way they
  • Lead proactive outreach around new features, best practices, and product education
  • Jump in to solve problems - whether that's on Zoom, email, or even visiting customers on-site
  • Create and document playbooks, help center articles, and processes as we scale
  • Help define and build the customer success function from scratch
  • Manage the support inbox

What We're Looking For:

  • 3-6+ years in Customer Success, Account Management, or Support - in an early-stage SaaS or tech startup
  • Self motivation - someone who will run through brick walls on their own to achieve goals
  • We are looking for examples of things you've actually done and accomplished yourself, not just things you've been a part of
  • Someone curious who is regularly learning
  • A true generalist with a bias for action - you're just as comfortable on a call with a customer as you are writing up feedback for the product team
  • Strong communicator and relationship builder
  • Scrappy, resourceful, and energized by the ambiguity of an early-stage startup
  • Willing to travel to visit customers and lead discovery when needed
  • Passionate about building from the ground up and delivering amazing customer experiences
  • Dive in, now not how must be your mindset

Bonus Points If You:

  • Have worked with AI, HR tech, or staffing platforms
  • Have experience using tools like Linear, Hubspot
  • Enjoy mapping out customer journeys and building scalable systems

Why Join Us:

  • Shape the future of customer success at a fast-growing startup
  • Work closely with founders and directly impact product roadmap and customer outcomes
  • Competitive salary, equity, and benefits
  • Ground-floor opportunity with lots of room to grow
Date Posted: 09 May 2025
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