
Founding Customer Success Manager
OpenHands
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $120,000 - $150,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Manage the entire customer lifecycle by facilitating the onboarding process, owning adoption and consumption, as well as contributing in the support management process
- Lead kickoff and success planning by identifying stakeholders and aligning them on goals, use cases, implementation path, and metrics
- Drive adoption across technical departments through regular check-ins and executive business reviews
- Identify risk signals early and run mitigation plans to prevent churn
- Coordinate technical onboarding and implementation in partnership with Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, and Product
- Build repeatable CS processes including, but not limited to, health scoring, playbooks, onboarding templates, and scalable comms
- Capture customer feedback and translate it into actionable insights to influence roadmap and prioritization
- Assist Sales team on renewals and expansions, surfacing additional teams/use cases and quantifying value
- Create customer-facing content such as best practices, rollout guides, and internal enablement materials, that accelerates time-to-value
- Assist in monitoring customer support requests, assessing severity and escalation management
Requirements
- 5 -10 years in Customer Success or Technical Account Management for B2B SaaS. Developer tools or infrastructure a plus
- Proven experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder accounts
- Former experience working with technical buyers and users (ex: engineering leaders, DevOps, security, platform teams)
- Comfort navigating product/engineering conversations such as deployments, integrations, security/compliance requirements, and evaluation criteria. You don’t have to code, but you must be technical!
- Excellent communication and executive presence. Able to lead meetings, run crisp programs, drive alignment, and not afraid to address issues head-on
- A builder mindset: you like ambiguity, enjoy creating processes from scratch, and iterate quickly
- Strong operational discipline: clear notes, success plans, and customer data hygiene
- Genuine excitement about AI/LLM-powered developer tooling and open source
Benefits
- Competitive compensation: $120,000 - $150,000 base salary plus equity and bonus
- Remote-first with flexible hours (core hours 12–4pm ET | 4–8pm UTC)
- Fully covered U.S. health, vision, and dental insurance
- Unmetered PTO + holidays
- Growth opportunities as a high level individual contributor on the Customer Success team
- A culture built on kindness, candor, autonomy, and learning
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
customer lifecycle managementonboarding processadoption and consumptionrisk mitigationhealth scoringplaybooksonboarding templatescustomer feedback analysisB2B SaaStechnical account management
Soft Skills
excellent communicationexecutive presenceleadershipalignmentproblem-solvingoperational disciplinebuilder mindsetadaptabilitystakeholder managementprocess creation