Customer Success Manager

Sparta Commodities
Houston, TX
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Best suited to mid-level professionals with oil & gas or commodities experience who thrive in customer-facing SaaS roles.

Best fit for

  • Customer Success professionals with oil & gas or commodities domain knowledge.
    — “Some knowledge of, or experience in, oil & gas, commodities, or trading
  • SaaS account managers comfortable with AI and automation tools.
    — “Comfortable using AI and automation tools in your day-to-day work
  • Proactive relationship-builders who can influence stakeholders.
    — “Strong communicator, comfortable building relationships and influencing stakeholders

Things to consider

  • Position requires managing client portfolios across diverse industries.
    — “including hedge funds, oil majors, refiners, vessel owners and trading companies
  • Role involves shaping processes in a growing team.
    — “plenty of room to shape the role and grow with it

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate how you've used client insights to shape product roadmaps.
    — “Feed client insight back to the Product team to help shape the roadmap
  • Highlight experience building customer success cultures in past roles.
    — “Help build a company-wide culture centered on customer success
  • Showcase analytical approaches to measuring client value.
    — “you like understanding what drives client value
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Mid

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

Skills & requirements

Required

Customer Relationship ManagementProduct KnowledgeSales And Upselling

Preferred

Experience In Commodities TradingFamiliarity With AI And Automation Tools

Stack & domain

Customer SuccessAccount ManagementData IntelligenceSaas ProductAI And Automation ToolsCommunicationTeamworkProblem-solvingInfluenceAnalytical ThinkingOil & GasCommoditiesTrading

About the role

Original posting from Sparta Commodities via Ashby

We Are Sparta

Sparta is the next-generation commodity trading platform.

We give trading desks the clarity, control, and collaboration they need to move faster and trade smarter.

In February 2025, we secured $42 million in Series B funding. Now we’re scaling up across the business, and it’s an exciting time to join.

Our people are the driving force behind everything we do. At Sparta, you’ll be trusted to take ownership, backed by a team who wants you to succeed. You’ll be challenged, supported, and given room to grow. Because building something this ambitious takes everyone at their best.

At Sparta, your work has reach. From improving our platform, to powering smarter decisions for our customers, to changing how commodity trading is done around the world.

And because we’re growing fast, you won’t just build your career. You’ll accelerate it, with a level of ownership and impact you simply don’t get at bigger, more bureaucratic companies.

Customer Success Manager

We're looking for a Customer Success Manager to join our growing CS team in Houston, reporting to our VP of Customer Success. You'll own a portfolio of clients — including hedge funds, oil majors, refiners, vessel owners and trading companies — and be responsible for their onboarding, adoption, retention and growth. As part of a small, global CS team, there's plenty of room to shape the role and grow with it.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Own onboarding, training and support for your client portfolio, driving product adoption and account health.
  • Build strong relationships with clients, understanding their workflows and challenges.
  • Partner with Sales to spot cross-sell and upsell opportunities, and manage renewal risk.
  • Feed client insight back to the Product team to help shape the roadmap.
  • Maintain and improve our Customer Success processes and tools.
  • Help build a company-wide culture centered on customer success.

About You

  • Some knowledge of, or experience in, oil & gas, commodities, or trading — you understand the world our clients operate in.
  • Experience in a customer-facing role such as Customer Success or Account Management — ideally supporting a data, intelligence, or SaaS product.
  • Comfortable using AI and automation tools in your day-to-day work, and curious to find smarter ways of doing things.
  • Strong communicator, comfortable building relationships and influencing stakeholders.
  • Analytical and process-minded — you like understanding what drives client value.
  • Proactive and comfortable with ambiguity — happy to figure things out and get stuck in.
  • High level of integrity and alignment with Sparta's values.

Sparta Commodities is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and promotes diversity within its workforce. We are determined that no-one will ever receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, race, veteran status or any basis covered by appropriate law.

Source: Sparta Commodities careers (Ashby)

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