Founding Customer Success Manager

OpenArt

$120K — $160K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in Customer Success or Account Management
  • Deep understanding of creative workflows
  • Experience with onboarding and implementation of products
  • Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills
  • Strong orientation towards process and systems development
  • Proactive approach with ownership mentality

Responsibilities

  • Own post-sale customer success including onboarding, renewals, and expansion
  • Engage with customers during the pre-sale process to showcase offerings
  • Assist customers in integrating OpenArt into their daily workflows
  • Drive product adoption among brand and marketing teams, agencies, and studios
  • Communicate updates regarding new features and enhancements
  • Monitor customer usage and signals to maximize platform value
  • Identify opportunities for account expansion and support upselling efforts
  • Gather customer feedback and collaborate with product and marketing teams
  • Design and refine scalable customer success playbooks

Benefits

  • Equity options
  • Performance bonus
  • Flexible working hours
  • Opportunity to shape customer success strategies
  • Potential for career progression in a growing company
Full Job Description
Founding Customer Success Manager

About the role

As our Founding Customer Success Manager, you will design and run how OpenArt supports its most important enterprise customers, before and after the sale.

Post-sales responsibilities will include onboarding, training, support, and revenue expansion. Pre-sales responsibilities may include demonstrations, security reviews, and proposals.

As the founding CSM, you'll help develop the playbook and systems for this critical function.

What You'll Do
  • Own post-sale customer success: onboarding, adoption, renewals, and expansion
  • Assist with pre-sale engagement with our largest and most important customers
  • Help customers integrate OpenArt into their creative workflows and daily work - from campaign visuals to character and IP development
  • Drive product adoption across our core customer profiles: brand and marketing teams, agencies, and studios
  • Communicate new feature and product updates
  • Track usage and customer signals to help customers get more value out of the platform
  • Identify expansion opportunities and support renewals and upsells
  • Share customer feedback with the product and marketing teams and help shape what we build
  • Design, document, and continuously improve scalable playbooks


What We're Looking For
  • Experience in Customer Success or Account Management
  • Strong understanding of creative workflows.
  • Product-focused mindset, with experience in onboarding and implementation
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills - you're great at building and maintaining relationships, and excellent at written communication
  • Process & systems orientation - you enjoy building scalable systems for high quality execution
  • Proactive, ownership-driven attitude


Compensation

Base: $120K - $160K
Offers equity and bonus.

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