Customer Success Manager
United StatesCustomer SuccessRemote
Summary
Own a portfolio of Enterprise AI accounts, driving adoption, revenue growth, and inference outcomes. Bridge technical implementation with commercial strategy for hyper-growth customers.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Strategy and Adoption: Get into the weeds of what customers are building. Create plans that help customers use OpenRouter to its full potential, whether building AI agents or coding tools.
- Revenue and Outcome Ownership: Own revenue lifecycle for Enterprise accounts. Lead commercial talks, drive expansions, and help customers grow usage across product lines.
- Strategic & Tactical Execution: Present ROI analyses to CTOs and dive into API documentation to help engineers optimize model routing. Translate between strategic and technical contexts.
- Value Realization: Define and track "Success Criteria" for every customer. Turn abstract AI goals into concrete ROI metrics.
- The Feedback Loop: Act as the data-focused voice of the customer for GTM, Product, and Engineering teams. Distill learnings and friction points into roadmap priorities.
Requirements
- AI-Native DNA: Previously worked at an AI-first company (LLM labs, AI infrastructure, or high-growth GenAI apps). Understand nuances of tokens, latency, context windows, and model routing.
- Technical Platform Expertise: Background in technical SaaS or API-first platforms. Comfortable talking to developers and product managers.
- Revenue Focused: Proven track record of owning a quota. Comfortable navigating procurement, legal, and executive stakeholders.
- Playbook Builder: Build systems and guides that scale to thousands of customers.
- Strategic Agility: Zoom between 10,000-foot market view and tactical implementation details.
- Commercial Grit: Proactive mindset on renewals and expansions.
- Analytical Rigor: Use data to analyze usage trends, predict churn, and identify upsell opportunities.
Skills
AI infrastructureLLMAPI platformsSaaSModel routingToken optimizationROI analysisQuota ownershipEnterprise account managementUsage analytics