
Customer Success Associate
Vestd
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £34,000 per year
About the role
- Supporting startup and scaleup customers through onboarding, scheme setup and the early stages of their Vestd journey, ensuring they feel confident and supported from day one
- Working directly with founders and leadership teams to understand their business context, growth plans and equity-related challenges, and tailoring support accordingly
- Providing a high-quality, responsive customer success experience across tickets, calls and proactive outreach
- Helping customers adopt Vestd’s platform effectively, encouraging self-serve where appropriate while knowing when hands-on support is needed
- Building trusted relationships with customers, acting as a consistent point of contact during key growth moments such as fundraising, hiring bursts or scheme changes
- Identifying risks to engagement or retention early and working collaboratively to address them
- Spotting opportunities to add value through upgrades, referrals or expanded usage, and partnering with the Growth and Equity Consulting teams where needed
- Developing a strong understanding of equity schemes, fundraising mechanics and the needs of early-stage businesses, and communicating complex concepts in a clear, human way
- Feeding customer insights back into Product, Growth and Marketing to help improve Vestd’s offering and customer experience
Requirements
- Experience working with customers in a B2B, SaaS or professional services environment, ideally supporting growing or founder-led businesses
- Comfortable engaging with startup founders, senior leaders or first-time equity users, with the confidence to ask good questions and build trust
- Minimum 3 years experience in a commercial environment
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex or unfamiliar concepts clearly and calmly
- A customer-first mindset, combined with commercial awareness and an understanding of how customer outcomes link to retention and growth
- Highly organised, able to prioritise effectively in a fast-moving environment
- Customer relationship-building skills
- Curiosity and willingness to develop expertise in equity, share schemes and startup finance over time
- Work collaboratively with team members from different departments (sales, product, marketing)
- Confident working remotely, managing your own workload and staying connected to a distributed team
Benefits
- This job remote-first, although attendance is required twice yearly at our in-person get-togethers
- A flexible environment to help you achieve the best work/life balance
- Equity, of course! (After the qualifying period)
- Monthly recognition scheme, where we celebrate our folk
- Support with home working equipment*
- A personal training and development budget to keep your career and professional growth on track
- Private medical insurance (after the qualifying period)
- Team retreats are held twice a year. They can include an overnight stay and focus on fun and team cohesion
- Great team ethos, connect through regular team and company socials.
- 25 days annual leave plus one extra day per year of service (up to five days)
- Employer contribution pension scheme (after the qualifying period)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Soft Skills
customer relationship-buildingstrong written communicationstrong verbal communicationhighly organisedcommercial awarenesscuriositycollaborative workconfidenceability to explain complex conceptscustomer-first mindset