Strategic Customer Success Manager

Prolific
Hybrid, SanFrancisco $180k – $240kPosted 21 February 2026

Job Description

<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(126, 140, 141); font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> Strategic Customer Success Manager</span></h1> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(126, 140, 141);">Team: Sales</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> </p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(126, 140, 141); font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em> Prolific</em></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Prolific is not just another player in the AI space — we are the architects of the human data infrastructure that is reshaping the landscape of AI development. In a world where foundational AI technologies are increasingly commoditized, it's the quality and diversity of human-generated data that truly differentiates products and models. Our Strategic Sales and Success team works with most of the world’s leading frontier AI model creators on one of their highest priority initiatives. </span></p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(126, 140, 141); font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The role</em></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As a Strategic Customer Success Manager, you will partner with frontier AI model creators who are making headline news every day, ensuring they achieve breakthrough value through our human data offerings. In this role, you will lead adoption, consumption, development, and value realization as a trusted advisor for AI research, program management, and business stakeholders. You will own the end-to-end success lifecycle, guiding customers from onboarding to maturity, expansion, renewal, and advocacy while collaborating with your counterparts on Prolific’s Services, Support, Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, Marketing, and other teams.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> </p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: rgb(126, 140, 141);">What you’ll bring to the role</span></em></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">6+ years in a customer-facing strategic or enterprise customer success (and/or leadership) role, ideally in a business where value is aligned with increased consumption</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Experience developing strategic success plans and orchestrating cross-functional dynamics to drive positive outcomes with customers</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Operational rigor and experience forecasting consumption to identify opportunities, mitigate risk, and measure growth</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Demonstrated success with navigating large organizations, driving adoption and expansion, and cultivating executive relationships/sponsorship</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Strong business acumen and ability to interface with senior customer stakeholders (C-Suite, VP, research leads) as well as technical teams (engineers, data scientists, product owners)</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Fundamental understanding of AI, machine learning, LLMs, or similar concepts—enough to speak credibly about research use cases and value levers</span></li> <li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span styl ... (truncated, view full listing at source)