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Founding Customer Success Manager at Othello

Join Othello, one of the fastest-growing AI startups in the country, as their first Customer Success hire. Having reached $7M ARR in just six months with a roster of Fortune 500 clients, Othello is scaling rapidly and needs a builder to design the post-sale engine from scratch. You will own the entire customer relationship for public enterprise accounts, working directly with the founders to turn pilots into permanent partnerships. If you have 4+ years of startup CS experience and want to define the playbook for a generational AI company in NYC, this is your seat.

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Location

New York City, United States

Compensation

$120k-$180k + Equity

Company

Othello

Role overview

As Othello’s first Customer Success hire, you will build the entire post-sale function from scratch for a company adding new public enterprise customers weekly. You will design onboarding processes, define health metrics, and drive expansion strategy. Working directly with the founders, you will ensure our largest pilots convert and scale into long-term partnerships.

Othello.ai is a real-time AI sales coaching platform that helps sellers perform better while calls are still happening. It listens to live phone and video conversations and provides reps with in-call guidance, such as discovery questions, objection handling, competitive positioning, product answers, and recommended next steps, all in under a second.

What you will do

  • Design and execute the end-to-end onboarding and adoption process for all new enterprise and public company accounts.
  • Own the full post-sale relationship, managing check-ins, tracking account health, and leading renewal and expansion conversations.
  • Act as the primary internal voice for customer needs, feeding critical insights back to the product and sales teams.

Who this is a fit for

  • Has 4+ years of experience owning the entire customer lifecycle and revenue outcomes at a high-growth SaaS startup.
  • Was ideally a founding member of a CS team (first 10 hires) and thrives in environments without existing playbooks.
  • Based in New York City and excited to work full-time in-office to collaborate closely with the founding team.

Why this role is remarkable

  • Build the entire customer success function from the ground up, moving from a blank page to a scalable enterprise playbook.
  • Join a rocket ship that reached $7M ARR in just half a year, selling into Fortune 500 and elite tech companies.
  • Work directly with the founders in a high-impact role where your fingerprints will be on every major account and renewal.

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