Founding Account Manager / Customer Success Manager at Agave | California | Rezi

Founding Account Manager / Customer Success Manager at Agave

Founding Account Manager / Customer Success Manager

Agave · California

3 days ago

Founding Account Manager / Customer Success Manager

Agave · California

4 days ago
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About the Role

Join a profitable, early-stage startup as our second dedicated account manager. You will report directly to a co-founder to grow and retain Agave's customer base. This is a career-defining role at a fast-growing company.

Responsibilities

  • Own customer lifecycle, including retention and renewal.
  • Build deep relationships with customer champions and economic buyers.
  • Drive on-time renewals at high rates.
  • Monitor account health and identify churn risks.
  • Execute retention strategies.
  • Act as the front line of defense for customer escalations.
  • Navigate difficult conversations and coordinate with Engineering and Product to resolve issues.
  • Turn detractors into promoters through exceptional service recovery.
  • Identify and close expansion opportunities with existing customers.
  • Run QBRs with key accounts to review ROI and identify opportunities.
  • Gather product feedback and advocate for customer needs.
  • Improve customer success processes, including playbooks, health scoring, and renewal workflows.
  • Join weekly sprint planning with Engineering to represent customer priorities.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of account management experience.
  • 2+ years managing customer accounts at a b2b SaaS company.
  • Experience managing a book of $1M+ ARR involving B2B SaaS accounts.
  • Proven customer success and expansion success, evidenced by retention rates, NRR/GRR metrics, and manager feedback.
  • Hands-on experience as an individual contributor.
  • Self-directed with an owner mindset and ability to work with minimal supervision.
  • Strong emotional intelligence (EQ) with the ability to listen and sell.
  • Consistent ability to deliver results.
  • Experience managing customer accounts in the construction tech industry (nice to have).
  • Experience at a startup, ideally Series B/C or earlier (nice to have).
  • Comfortable operating without established processes (nice to have).
  • Familiarity with accounting concepts and nuances (nice to have).

Skills

  • Account management
  • Customer success
  • Customer retention
  • Customer expansion
  • Relationship building
  • Process building
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Product feedback
  • Customer advocacy
  • SaaS
  • B2B sales
  • Negotiation
  • Problem-solving
  • Communication

Location

  • San Francisco, CA

Work Type

  • On-site
  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Minimum 2+ years of experience

Benefits

  • Healthcare coverage (90% paid by company)
  • 401k matching (100% up to 4%)
  • Annual performance bonuses
  • Relocation bonus
  • Breakfast and dinner stipends
  • Stocked kitchen with coffee, snacks, and drinks
  • On-site gym with Peloton, squat rack, Tempo, and Yoga setup
  • Visa sponsorship (H1B, TN, etc.)
  • Commuter benefits (pre-tax contributions and full Muni pass coverage)

About the Company

  • Fresh off a $15M Series A led by Accel, with total funding now over $20M.
  • Profitable and growing fast.
  • YC W22 company.
  • 500+ customers and $Xm ARR.
  • Profitable and cash-flow positive for 2+ years.