Customer Success Lead
At a glance
Senior Customer Success role at Perplexity. San Francisco · full-time · $265,000–$320,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Set how customer success works across enterprise, SMB, mid-market and API accounts, and own retention across the customer base
- Hire and develop CSMs, setting expectations through regular coaching, account reviews and renewal check-ins
- Create team playbooks for handoffs, onboarding, success plans, health scoring, executive reviews and escalations
- Help customers link product usage and costs to business outcomes, making the case for renewals and expansion
- Coordinate product-change communications and bring recurring customer friction into product planning
What you bring
- At least ten years in customer success, account management or another post-sale role at an enterprise software company
- At least five years leading customer success teams, including hiring and developing CSMs
- You have owned gross and net retention targets and can show how your team improved them
- You bring strong Salesforce skills, plus experience with forecasting and customer health tools
Who this fits
This is a hands-on senior leadership role: you’ll manage CSMs while staying involved with customers, strategic adoption work and high-stakes renewals. It suits someone who has built or rebuilt a customer success function and worked across both high-touch and scaled coverage models. The role is based in San Francisco and is hybrid.
From the employer
As Customer Success Lead at Perplexity, you’ll lead the team responsible for helping enterprises adopt Perplexity Computer and our API products, turning adoption into measurable business value. You’ll own the customer success strategy and operating model, lead CSMs across customer segments, and be accountable for gross and net revenue retention across the post-sale book, with expansion targets shared with Sales.
This is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll stay close to customers and the product while building the team, programs, and cross-functional partnerships that help us scale.
Responsibilities
Own gross and net revenue retention for the customer base, including renewal forecasting, risk management, and expansion targets shared with Sales
Set the customer success strategy, and coverage model across high-touch Enterprise, scaled SMB and Mid-Market, and technical API customers
Hire, coach, and develop CSMs across customer segments, establishing a regular cadence of 1:1s, account and renewal reviews, and a clear bar for performance and product expertise
Build the playbooks the team runs on, including Sales-to-CS handoffs, onboarding, customer success plans, health scoring, executive business reviews, and escalations
Partner with Applied AI and Enablement to build onboarding, workshops, champion programs, and scaled education that help customers reach first value and sustain adoption
Help customers connect adoption and consumption to business outcomes, understand usage and cost trade-offs, and build a clear case for renewal and expansion
Partner with Sales to identify self-serve customers ready to move to Enterprise and to plan expansion in named accounts
Work with RevOps and Finance on capacity planning, account assignment, book-of-business design, and accurate reporting in Salesforce
Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver a cohesive customer journey, with clear ownership and handoffs from onboarding through adoption, renewal, and expansion
Coordinate customer readiness and communications for product launches, migrations, pricing and usage changes, and incidents, partnering with Product, Marketing, Support, and Engineering on accurate guidance
Bring customer needs and recurring friction into product planning, and close the loop with customers on decisions and progress
Engage executive sponsors at our largest accounts and step in personally on strategic adoption efforts, high-stakes renewals, and escalations while building the team’s ability to own day-to-day execution
You may be a good fit if
You have 10+ years in customer success, account management, or post-sales roles at enterprise software companies
You have 5+ years leading CS teams, with a track record of hiring, coaching, and developing high-performing CSMs
You’ve owned GRR and NRR targets and can show how your team moved them
You’ve built or rebuilt a CS function during rapid growth, not only run an established one
You’ve run both high-touch and scaled or digital coverage models and know when each one fits
You can show how your team helped customers move from initial onboarding to sustained adoption and measurable business outcomes
You’re comfortable with usage and consumption data, and ideally have supported usage-based or API products
You have strong command of Salesforce, forecasting, and customer health tooling
You’re hands-on with AI products and can build enough product fluency to understand customer workflows, diagnose adoption barriers, and earn trust with business and technical stakeholders
You communicate clearly with executive buyers, administrators, and technical teams, including during sensitive product changes or escalations
You’re comfortable operating without an established playbook, using AI and automation where they improve execution and knowing where human judgment matters
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