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Customer Success Manager

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$89K - $148K/yr

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Customer Success Manager

New York, NY · Remote

$105K - $130K/yr

The core mission of the Customer Success Manager: Drives customer satisfaction, retention, and expansion with our current enterprise customers. Serves as a strategic advisor, ensuring they're seeing ...

Customer Success Manager

New York, NY · On-site +1

$105K - $130K/yr

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Customer Success Manager Department: Customer Success Location: US Remote About Aria Systems Aria provides a cloud-based monetization platform for subscription- and usage-based businesses. Aria ...

About the Role The Customer Success Manager, FatTail, is responsible for ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction, retention, and commercial expansion across the North America FatTail customer ...

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Lead the Way as a Customer Success Manager! Are you passionate about helping customers, building strong relationships, and turning great service into long-term retention and growth? Join ECAM as a ...

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How much do founding customer success manager jobs pay per year?

As of Jun 15, 2026, the average yearly pay for founding customer success manager in the United States is $83,064.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $59,500.00 and $99,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a Founding Customer Success Manager?

A Founding Customer Success Manager is typically one of the first hires responsible for building and leading the customer success function at a startup or early-stage company. This role involves establishing processes, onboarding and supporting customers, gathering feedback, and working closely with product and sales teams to ensure customers achieve their desired outcomes. Founding Customer Success Managers often help define the company’s customer experience strategy, set up best practices, and may eventually grow and lead a team as the company scales.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Founding Customer Success Manager, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Founding Customer Success Manager, you need a deep understanding of customer lifecycle management, strong problem-solving abilities, and experience with SaaS platforms or similar environments, often supported by a bachelor's degree. Familiarity with CRM tools like Salesforce or HubSpot, as well as customer engagement software, is typically required. Exceptional communication, adaptability, and a proactive approach to building processes are vital soft skills for this foundational role. These competencies are crucial because they drive customer retention, shape company processes, and help establish a scalable customer success function in a startup environment.

What is the difference between Founding Customer Success Manager vs Customer Success Manager?

AspectFounding Customer Success ManagerCustomer Success Manager
CredentialsRelevant experience in customer success, startup background preferredSimilar experience, often with industry-specific knowledge
Work EnvironmentEarly-stage startup, high level of responsibility, shaping customer success strategyEstablished company, focused on maintaining and expanding customer relationships
Employer & IndustryStartups, SaaS, tech companiesVariety of industries, including SaaS, tech, and services

The Founding Customer Success Manager typically works in startups or early-stage companies, taking on a broader role in shaping customer success strategies. In contrast, a Customer Success Manager usually operates in established organizations, focusing on managing ongoing client relationships. Both roles require similar skills and experience, but the scope and environment differ significantly.

What unique challenges and opportunities can I expect as a Founding Customer Success Manager at an early-stage startup?

As a Founding Customer Success Manager at an early-stage startup, you'll face the challenge of building processes and systems from the ground up, often with limited resources. You'll collaborate closely with product, sales, and engineering teams to shape the customer journey and provide feedback that influences the company's direction. This role offers significant career growth opportunities, as your contributions can directly impact the company's success and potentially lead to leadership positions as the team grows. Expect a dynamic, fast-paced environment where adaptability, initiative, and strong communication skills are essential.
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Infographic showing various Founding Customer Success Manager job openings in the United States as of June 2026, with employment types broken down into 67% Full Time, and 33% Part Time. Highlights an 92% Physical, 2% Hybrid, and 6% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $83,064 per year, or $39.9 per hour.

Customer Success Manager

Aveva

Houston, TX • Hybrid

$89K - $148K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, PTO

Posted 4 days ago


Job description

AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.

Salary Range:

$89,300.00 - $148,900.00

This pay range represents the minimum and maximum compensation that the position offers, and final compensation can vary within the range depending on work location, job experience, skills, and relevant educational attainment and/or training.

Job Title: Customer Success Manager (CSM)

Location:Philadelphia, PA/ Houston, TX

Employment Type: Full time (Hybrid -2-3 days onsite)

Customer Success Managers (CSM) are the customer's primary contact to help them realize more proven value faster by achieving their business goals by leveraging AVEVA technology.

  • They accelerate the customer's time-to-value in their use of our tools and foster higher levels of adoption and deployment leading to greater ROI and customer satisfaction.

  • CSMs manage a set of accounts by creating success plans and executing against them.

  • They regularly check-in with the customer, understand the customer's industry, business, and goals.

  • They build a strong relationship toward becoming a trusted advisor, and service their transactional business needs in an efficient and frictionless manner.

  • They help the customer optimize the utilization of their existing and available products to ensure best practice adoption.

  • They work in tandem with the Account Manager and hand off qualified opportunities for expansion.

  • They act as the customer advocate internally to ensure timely and positive outcomes.

  • They collect information and provide feedback to drive product improvements that lead to greater automation, self-service, usability and customer empowerment.

Responsibilities:

As part of the Customer Success organization, the Customer Success Manager is responsible for managing existing accounts, ensuring the customer's success and their perceived value of the AVEVA software set.

The Customer Success Manager will focus on these key areas for a defined customer portfolio as the CSM strives to become a trusted partner and consultant for those customers.

  • Onboarding - establishing relationships, educating the customer on AVEVA resources and services, set expectations, identify business goals and objectives, and accelerate deployment readiness

  • Deployment - work with the Delivery Services Team or AVEVA partners to define architecture, identify and prioritize the PI rollout, recommend AVEVA Services or Support, define the Enterprise Roadmap, define and manage the 'Services' budget, and request, quote, coordinate AVEVA Services and Resources

  • Adoption - understand customer's business and operations, define Success Plan, educate and consult on AVEVA use cases of value to customer, leverage workshop services, drive adoption for strategic AVEVA software (Cloud, synergy Sales plays, etc.)

  • Expansion - identify new business opportunity and team up with Sales to generate business revenue, leveraging both on deep expertise of customer's business and frequent contacts.

Essential Qualifications:

  • 4+ years of relevant experience in the process manufacturing and/or services industry in similar roles.

  • Ability to work well with cross-function and geographically distributed teams

  • Strong multi-tasking ability with a keen sense of prioritization

  • Strong relationship management and organizational skills

  • Experience with project and program management methodology and techniques

  • Strong presentation skills on AVEVA core technologies, business initiatives and services OR similar products (PI System, PIMS, Industrial Applications, Industrial IT)

  • 'Out-of-the-box' thinking that will enable delivery of solutions and services tailored for individual customer profiles and situations

  • Ability to think strategically, as well as tactically

  • Strong communication and presentation skills

  • Effective use and understanding of CRM systems, Office 365, SharePoint, PowerBI, Salesforce, and Workday.

  • 2+ years of experience with AVEVA software products working knowledge and/or similar products (PI System, PIMS, Industrial Applications, Industrial IT)

  • Travel to customer sites and AVEVA offices might be expected (10% - 20% annually)

Commercial at AVEVA

Our Commercial team, comprised of over 2,000 dedicated colleagues, is the backbone of our customer relationships and business growth. From industry experts and solution architects to sales, support, success managers, and business operations, everyone shares a common goal: to deeply understand our customers' needs and deliver tailored solutions.

If you're passionate about driving growth, tackling complex business challenges, and fostering strong customer relationships, you'll find success and fulfilment in our Commercial team.

Find out more: https://www.aveva.com/en/about/careers/


USA Benefits include:

Flex work hours, 20 days PTO rising to 25 with service, three paid volunteering days, primary and secondary parental leave, well-being support, medical, dental, vision, and 401K.


It's possible we're hiring for this position in multiple countries, in which case the above benefits apply to the primary location. Specific benefits vary by country, but our packages are similarly comprehensive.


Find out more: aveva.com/en/about/careers/benefits/


Hybrid working

We work in a hybrid way at AVEVA. Most roles are based at a local AVEVA office, with an expectation of being on-site 50% of your working hours to support collaboration and connection. Some positions are fully office-based depending on the nature of the work, and certain roles that support specific customers or markets may be remote. The working arrangement for this position will be confirmed during the hiring process.


Hiring process

Interested? Great! Get started by submitting your cover letter and CV through our application portal. AVEVA is committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities. Please let us know in advance if you need reasonable support during your application process.


Find out more: aveva.com/en/about/careers/hiring-process


About AVEVA

AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software with more than 6,500 employees in over 40 countries. Our cutting-edge solutions are used by thousands of enterprises to deliver the essentials of life - such as energy, infrastructure, chemicals, and minerals - safely, efficiently, and more sustainably.


We are committed to embedding sustainability and inclusion into our operations, our culture, and our core business strategy. Learn more about how we are progressing against our ambitious 2030 targets: sustainability-report.aveva.com/


Find out more: aveva.com/en/about/careers/


AVEVA requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a drug screening and comprehensive background check before they start employment. Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may, subject to those laws, include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, credit check. Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third-party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.


AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business. AVEVA provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify your recruiter. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.