**Experienced Customer Success Manager – Venture Capital and Startup Collaboration**

At blithequark, we're revolutionizing the way investors and founders collaborate, making better, forward-facing decisions together. As a full-time team of product builders, investors, and optimists, we're rebuilding investor relations from the ground up. With backing from 8VC and Spark Capital, along with other leading software VCs and angels, blithequark is a trusted resource for many of the top venture capital firms in the world. **Join Our Mission** We're seeking a passionate and self-driven Customer Success Manager to join our team. As a key member of our Customer Success team, you'll play a critical role in ensuring that our customers derive maximum value from blithequark, driving overall platform adoption, customer retention, and contract renewal. You'll become a trusted advisor to some of our most important customers, deeply understanding their business, goals, and needs in order to implement best practices and drive increased platform utilization. **What You'll Do** As a Customer Success Manager at blithequark, you'll be responsible for: * Cultivating long-term relationships with customers and connecting with key stakeholders across the business, from senior executives to power users * Developing a deep understanding of the customer's business requirements, challenges, and goals in order to drive successful outcomes, including increasing customer lifetime value and collaborating with customers to provide references and testimonials * Proactively managing relationships throughout the customer lifecycle, from deployment and adoption to growth and contract renewal * Driving platform utilization across customer teams and providing best practice recommendations to help further platform adoption * Owning renewals and upsells for your assigned book of customers, proactively identifying and addressing churn risk, and accurately forecasting future revenue growth * Leading recurring Partnership Reviews to align on business priorities, review product usage and insights, and provide an overview of our Product Roadmap and relevant upcoming enhancements * Being a champion for our customers with our Product and Engineering teams, ensuring their voices and needs are heard and prioritized **What You'll Bring** To succeed in this role, you'll need: * 7+ years of relevant experience in a client-facing role, ideally within customer success or account management * A track record of developing strategic relationships with customers, identifying business goals, and driving value realization in order to ensure customer retention and reference-ability * Experience managing and closing renewals and upsells * Strong executive presence and ability to successfully navigate all levels of customer organizations * Experience presenting to C-level executives and an ability to influence internal and external decision-makers * Ability to work in a high-growth environment with a willingness to tackle projects and work independently * Strong time management and prioritization skills, a natural empathy for customers, and excellent written and verbal communication abilities * Passion for technology, startups, entrepreneurship, and/or venture capital is a plus **Why Join blithequark?** At blithequark, we offer a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing company that's revolutionizing the way investors and founders collaborate. We're committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where team members can thrive. Here are some benefits you can expect: * **Competitive compensation**: We aim to pay at or above the market rate for your experience and qualifications. * **Flexible vacation**: Take time off when you need it! We trust our employees to know what's best for them. * **Paid parental leave**: 12 weeks of paid leave for all new parents in the USA. Internationally, we match parental leave standards in your area. * **Complete transparency**: Everyone has full access to business metrics and financial information about the company. * **Regular offsites**: We fly the whole team out to an exciting destination to plan, bond, and innovate. * **Equal opportunity employer**: We're committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where team members can thrive. **How to Apply** If you're a passionate and self-driven individual who is excited about the opportunity to join blithequark, we encourage you to apply. Even if your experience doesn't perfectly align with the job description, we seek out diverse and creative perspectives. Team members who love to learn and collaborate in an inclusive environment will thrive with us.