Customer Success Lead

Numeral
San Francisco +1 more
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Geared toward candidates with a builder mentality and experience in high-growth startup environments comfortable with designing systems and processes from scratch. The role is hybrid and requires collaboration across multiple internal teams.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in building Customer Success functions in high-growth startups
    — “experience building or scaling Customer Success, Account Management, or Post-Sales functions in high-growth startup environments”
  • Individuals who have led teams and developed people in early-stage organizations
    — “You've hired, managed, and coached teams”
  • Candidates who can balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution in ambiguous settings
    — “You'll work directly with customers, design the systems and team that support them, and be the voice of the customer”

Things to consider

  • The role requires a hybrid work arrangement with in-office presence in San Francisco or Salt Lake City
    — “This role is hybrid (must be based in San Francisco or Salt Lake City)”
  • Candidates must be comfortable with cross-functional collaboration and influencing product roadmaps
    — “Work closely with Product, Engineering, Tax Operations, and GTM teams to surface customer feedback, influence roadmap priorities”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in designing and operationalizing Customer Success motions from scratch
    — “Build the Customer Success function: Design and operationalize the Customer Success motion from the ground up”
  • Emphasize your ability to create scalable systems and leverage automation for efficiency
    — “Create scalable systems & processes: Build processes that support a rapidly growing customer base”
  • Showcase your track record in improving customer adoption and satisfaction metrics
    — “You have a track record of improving adoption, retention, satisfaction, and account growth”
  • Demonstrate your capability to act as an internal advocate for customer needs and feedback
    — “the voice of the customer internally. Work closely with Product, Engineering, Tax Operations, and GTM teams”
  • Position yourself as an AI-first operator with a focus on automation and efficiency
    — “Bring an AI-first lens. Use automation and tooling to speed up onboarding, make support proactive”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • Built and scaled the Customer Success function
  • Improved customer retention and satisfaction
  • Developed and onboarded high-performing teams
Typical background
Experience in customer success or account managementTrack record of building and scaling teams

Skills & requirements

Required

Customer SuccessAccount ManagementStrategic PlanningTeam LeadershipClient Experience ImprovementAutomation

Preferred

GISOil And Gas Industry Knowledge

About the role

Original posting from Numeral via Ashby

ABOUT NUMERAL:

At Numeral, we're building the future of tax by bringing together AI agents, human expertise, and global compliance.

We’re the largest and fastest-growing AI-native tax solution. Today, we serve more than 3,500 global businesses, including companies like Supabase, Eight Sleep, and Graza. We’ve grown quickly across our core e-commerce and software segments, more than tripled our revenue every year, and expanded into new industries, including manufacturing, distribution, and wholesale.

Numeral has raised over $157M from Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Benchmark, Mayfield, Y Combinator, and many others.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Numeral is hiring a Customer Success Lead to build and scale the Customer Success function from the ground up. As one of our first dedicated CS hires, you'll shape how Numeral delivers a standout client experience and how we keep and grow customers at scale.

This is a builder role: part strategist, part operator, part entrepreneur. You'll work directly with customers, design the systems and team that support them, and be the voice of the customer across Product, Engineering, Operations, and GTM. The role is highly strategic but also deeply hands-on, requiring someone comfortable with building systems and processes, working directly with customers, leveraging automation for efficiency, and operating in ambiguity.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

  • Build the Customer Success function: Design and operationalize the Customer Success motion from the ground up. Help define segmentation, engagement models, health scoring, renewal workflows, and success playbooks.
  • Build organizational capabilities: Help hire, onboard, and develop our CSMs. Create the enablement, rituals, and reporting that let the team scale
  • Own the client experience: Own strategic customer relationships and ensure customers realize measurable value from Numeral’s platform and services. Partner with Sales to identify expansion opportunities.
  • Drive metrics: Drive retention, customer health, long-term satisfaction, and promote upsells while owning key metrics including Net Revenue Retention (NRR), Customer Success Qualified Leads (CSQLs), and ROI.
  • Create scalable systems & processes: Build processes that support a rapidly growing customer base across enterprise and mid-market accounts. Help implement metrics, reporting, workflows, and automation to improve efficiency and customer outcomes.
  • Partner Cross-Functionally: Act as the voice of the customer internally. Work closely with Product, Engineering, Tax Operations, and GTM teams to surface customer feedback, influence roadmap priorities, and improve the end-to-end customer experience.
  • Automate for efficiency: Bring an AI-first lens. Use automation and tooling to speed up onboarding, make support proactive, and make renewals predictable.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

  • Builder mentality: You have experience building or scaling Customer Success, Account Management, or Post-Sales functions in high-growth startup environments and are comfortable operating in an environment of ambiguity.
  • People leader: You've hired, managed, and coached teams. You know how to set clear goals, give real feedback, and grow a high-performing team while it's still being built.
  • Obsessed with client experience: You have a track record of improving adoption, retention, satisfaction, and account growth.
  • Strategic and hands-on: You can think strategically while also rolling up your sleeves to solve operational challenges, work directly with customers, and build processes from scratch.
  • Automation-minded operator: You've implemented scalable workflows, defined CS metrics, and you're excited about using AI to do more with less.
  • Strong communicator: You build credibility with customer executives and work well with technical and operational teams.

NICE TO HAVES:

  • Experience in Fintech, SaaS, financial infrastructure, tax, compliance, or finance workflows
  • High-growth startup environments (Series A–C+)
  • Exposure to both high-touch enterprise and scaled mid-market customer motions

LOCATION:

  • This role is hybrid (must be based in San Francisco or Salt Lake City)

WHAT WE OFFER:

  • Competitive salary and equity - you'll share directly in the company's success
  • Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Wellness perks like Headspace and the Peloton One App
  • 401(k) to help you build long-term financial security
  • Lunch and snacks when you're in the office
  • Regular team offsites and company events as we grow
  • A culture built on ownership - your work matters and people will see it!

Source: Numeral careers (Ashby)

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