Starbridge · 2 months ago
VP, Customer Success
Starbridge is seeking a VP of Customer Success to define and lead their customer success strategy as they grow. The role involves owning the entire customer journey, managing a high-velocity team, and creating scalable systems to ensure customer satisfaction and measurable outcomes.
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Responsibilities
Own the customer lifecycle end-to-end ensuring every customer achieves measurable success with Starbridge
Build and lead the Customer Success organization, managing and mentoring a high-performing team of technical CSMs who deliver white-glove engagement and technical guidance
Develop scalable processes for onboarding, training, proactive adoption, and support, preserving Starbridge’s hands-on experience while enabling efficient growth
Design frameworks for best-in-class implementation, ensuring customers realize time-to-value quickly and consistently
Create the frameworks for a scalable support function that ensures customers get timely, high-quality help as we grow
Ensure ongoing value realization, helping customers continuously identify and adopt features that align with their evolving goals
Operationalize customer health and success metrics to predict adoption, surface risks early, and make outcomes measurable and repeatable
Partner cross-functionally with Product and Sales to ensure feedback loops are tight and customer insights drive roadmap and GTM priorities
Serve as executive sponsor for key enterprise relationships, bringing both technical fluency and business acumen to strategic conversations
Implement systems and tools to manage customer data, track engagement, and automate key workflows
Build customer community to drive network effects and evangelism within our customer base
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in Customer Success within high-growth B2B SaaS, including 4+ years managing teams
Proven success scaling a CS organization from early-stage (Series A–B) to growth stage while maintaining deep customer intimacy
Strong operator's mindset: you design systems and processes that make adoption predictable and repeatable
Experience implementing customer health models, adoption metrics, and success plans across varied customer segments
Comfort engaging at both strategic and tactical levels: you can jump into a customer Slack channel one day and present retention forecasts to the board the next
Excellent communication, leadership, and relationship-building skills: you inspire trust internally and externally
Empathy and a true customer-obsessed mindset — you see every decision through the lens of the customer journey
Preferred
Experience leading Customer Success for a technical or AI-driven product where customer enablement involves consulting or data workflows
Background in solutions engineering, consulting, or support, bringing strong technical curiosity and comfort with complex customer environments
Familiarity with customer success platforms and analytics tools (Amplitude, Salesforce)
Track record of building customer advocacy programs or user communities
Experience partnering with founders and executive teams at fast-scaling, early stage companies
Company
Starbridge
Starbridge provides a go-to-market intelligence platform designed for companies that sell to government and educational institutions.
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$52MKey Investors
Craft VenturesOwl Ventures
2025-10-21Series A· $42M
2025-02-03Seed· $10M
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