Manager, Customer Success

Manager, Customer Success About Kustomer Kustomer is the industry leading conversational CRM platform perfecting every customer experience. Built with intelligent tools such as AI and Automation, no code-configuration and a connected data platform that unifies data from multiple sources through a single timeline, Kustomer empowers businesses to operate with greater efficiency and deliver more personalized service to customers across any channel, making every interaction more meaningful and memorable. Today, Kustomer is the core platform for some of the leading customer service brands like Sweetgreen, Starz, Vuori, Resy and Cotopaxi. Kustomer was founded in 2015 by serial entrepreneurs Brad Birnbaum and Jeremy Suriel and has raised over $230M in funding backed by leading VCs. Meta announced its intention to acquire Kustomer in 2020 and completed the transaction in 2022. Kustomer joined Meta’s Business Messaging Group to transform the way people and businesses communicate through modern messaging channels. In 2023, Kustomer spun out from Meta as a standalone company backed by original partners, Battery, Redpoint and Boldstart Ventures, who have invested $60M. In 2025, Kustomer announced a $30M Series B led by Norwest, with continued support from Battery, Redpoint, and boldstart. This milestone reflects strong conviction in our vision and fuels our next chapter of growth: expanding our AI-native platform, accelerating product innovation, and scaling our exceptional team. Our Krew is made up of passionate and collaborative people who really care about what they do and the people they help. We look for people who are passionate about enhancing the customer service experience for everyone involved, as it's the core of what we do. We're growing our business with no plans of slowing down. We actively seek individuals who want to learn and be challenged every day. We have also transitioned to a remote friendly company, with Krew members located throughout the U.S. and U.K. coming together for Kamp Kustomer each year. ABOUT THE ROLE Kustomer is hiring a Manager, Customer Success to lead a Customer Success team at the forefront of AI-powered customer experience transformation. Customer satisfaction and retention are the heart of our mission, and Kustomer delivers this through intelligent automation, AI-native workflows, and seamless human + AI collaboration. As a Manager on our Customer Success team, you’ll lead a team of expert Customer Success Managers (CSMs) in helping customers to unlock measurable business impact from our AI-powered CRM platform. Your team will partner with enterprise customers to drive AI adoption, optimize automation strategies, and translate innovation into tangible outcomes such as improved resolution rates, reduced cost-to-serve, and elevated customer satisfaction. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing to ensure customer feedback informs our AI roadmap and that customers are continuously advancing in their AI maturity. This role plays a pivotal part in shaping how leading brands operationalize AI in customer experience. YOU'LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR: - Leading and developing a high-performing team of CSMs focused on driving customer retention, expansion, and AI adoption outcomes - Hiring and retaining exceptional team members. Coach and develop those team members to be able to handle larger and more complex books of business. - Driving KPIs across renewals, expansions, product adoption, AI utilization, and measurable automation performance - Acting as a strategic point of escalation for your team’s clients when needed, ensuring risk mitigation and catalyzing opportunities to action - Empowering your team to act as advocates for the customer, advising on complex problems within our organization and escalating when appropriate - Ensuring consistent processes/SLAs to collaborate with Product, Engineering, TAMs, Technical Support, and other teams - Owning ... (truncated, view full listing at source)