About the Role
As the Founding Customer Engineer, you will own the post-sales customer journey, focusing on deployment, adoption, and expansion. You will be responsible for transforming initial deployments into company-wide adoption across Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and SDR teams, driving significant expansion revenue.
Responsibilities
- Learn customer GTM motions and translate them into a Von deployment plan.
- Configure Von, including slash commands, AI fields, dashboards, Org Memory, and data source connections.
- Troubleshoot and resolve product issues.
- Drive product adoption through workflow-specific enablement.
- Identify and drive expansion opportunities across new teams and use cases, meeting revenue targets.
- Provide structured product insights to Engineering and Product teams.
- Build the repeatable deployment playbook for scaling the function.
Requirements
- 5+ years in a customer-facing role in B2B SaaS (Customer Success, TAM, Implementation Consulting, Solutions Consulting, Management Consulting, or similar).
- Proven ability to drive product adoption and change end-user behavior.
- Commercial instinct with experience carrying an expansion or upsell target, or direct account growth responsibility.
- Ability to communicate effectively with analysts and executives.
- Experience at an early-stage or high-growth startup is a plus.
- Familiarity with the GTM tech stack (Salesforce, call recorders, data warehouses, Slack, sales engagement tools) is a plus.
- Experience as a power user or early adopter of AI tools is a plus.
- Management consulting background with CRM transformations or GTM operations exposure is a plus.
Skills
- Customer Success
- Technical Account Management
- Implementation Consulting
- Solutions Consulting
- Management Consulting
- Client Outcome Ownership
- Fast Learning
- Business Acumen
- Technical Curiosity
- Complex Product Navigation
- Product Adoption Driving
- Commercial Acumen
- Communication
- GTM Tech Stack Familiarity
- AI Tool Proficiency
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Onsite
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- OTE up to $170k-$200k
Benefits
- Meaningful equity (0.1%-0.3%)
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Unlimited PTO
- Daily catered lunch
- Fully stocked kitchen
About the Company
- Von is building the intelligence layer for go-to-market teams, connecting to the entire GTM tech stack to provide decision-ready answers.
- Companies like Bloomreach, DemandScience, Qualified, DataGrail, and Cresta use Von for revenue operations.
- Backed by Lightspeed, Insight Partners, Google Ventures, and Peak XV.
