Customer Success Manager Hybrid: Full Cycle/Digital Scale

Small Improvements • Austin, TX

1d • $70,000 - $75,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Customer Success Manager - Hybrid: Full Cycle/Digital Scale About Us We believe feedback at work should be simple, useful, and continuous. Small Improvements helps companies like Trivago, Blue Bottle Coffee, Whoop, and Zapier build feedback and performance processes that teams actually use, from day-to-day conversations to reviews, goals, and development. Our platform brings everything into one place, making it easier for teams to stay aligned, track progress, and turn feedback into action. We’re also thoughtfully incorporating AI to support this, helping teams write better feedback, surface insights, and reduce manual work, without adding noise or complexity. We’re a small, thoughtful team of 19, mainly based in Berlin with colleagues in the US. We care deeply about building a product that solves real problems for our customers while staying simple and human. About the Role In this role, your focus is split: 70% – Consultative Discovery & High-Touch Management Discovery Conversations: Participate in early conversations with prospective customers to understand how teams operate, what they’re trying to achieve, and where they need support. You’re focused on alignment and long-term success, not just initial fit. End-to-End Ownership: Own the customer journey from early conversations through onboarding and beyond, ensuring what is discussed is actually implemented and delivers value. Trusted Partner: Act as the primary partner for your book of business, helping customers connect their goals to outcomes, driving renewals, and identifying opportunities to expand impact. Customer Insight → Action: Surface patterns, challenges, and opportunities across your accounts and use those insights to influence both your approach and how we evolve as a company. 30% – Digital CS & Scaling Build from What Works: Take what you see working across your customers and turn it into scalable programs, resources, and workflows. We don’t start with automation; we build from proven patterns. Design for Coverage: Create digital experiences that support customers without a dedicated CSM, ensuring they still feel guided at the right moments. Scalable Knowledge: Turn common questions and friction points into clear, reusable assets (videos, guides, automated messaging) that reduce manual effort over time. Process Evolution: Partner with our US and Berlin teams to continuously refine how we drive retention, adoption, and growth across all segments. We’re likely a good fit if: You build meaningful, long-term relationships with customers and go above and beyond to partner with them, caring deeply about their success with our tool. You’re comfortable engaging with customers at all levels, developing trust, driving alignment, and translating goals into outcomes. You’re highly adaptable and self-starting, always looking for ways to improve how you work. You’re comfortable with risk and uncertainty, and thrive working with team members across different cultures, time zones, and countries. You think beyond individual accounts. You take what you learn from customer conversations and turn it into scalable programs, resources, and workflows that support customers without a dedicated CSM, ensuring they still feel guided and successful. You’re intentional about how you build for scale, starting with what works in practice and turning those patterns into repeatable, high-quality experiences. You think beyond day-to-day customer work. You bring a point of view on what you’re seeing across your accounts and use that to influence how we improve the product and overall customer experience. This role goes beyond customer happiness and renewals. You’re helping shape how we grow. You’re excited to work as part of a single Customer Team, without traditional handoffs between sales, implementation, and success. You’re comfortable owning the full customer journey while leaning into your strengths to create the most impact. We might not be a good fit if: You prefer strict boundaries between Sales, Implementation, and Customer Success. We operate as one Customer Team and share ownership of the full customer journey. You prefer staying in high-level conversations without getting involved in how ideas are implemented. In this role, you’ll help shape the approach and stay close to how it’s rolled out with customers. Your instinct is to automate before understanding what works in practice. We build for scale, but it starts with learning from real customer interactions and turning that into repeatable systems. You’re looking for a defined playbook for every scenario. We’re a small team, and how we work continues to evolve, and you’ll play a role in shaping that.

Requirements

• 2–3 years in Customer Success or Account Management in B2B SaaS: You’ve managed customers across the lifecycle and are comfortable owning both early conversations and long-term success.
• Outcome-Oriented: You focus on what customers are trying to achieve, not just how they use the product. You can connect workflows, behaviors, and business goals to real outcomes.
• Builder Mindset: You naturally look for patterns across your work and think about how to make things more efficient over time. You’ve taken something manual and turned it into a repeatable process or system.
• Comfort with Ambiguity: You’re comfortable figuring things out as you go, testing approaches, and refining based on what works rather than waiting for a defined playbook.
• Data-Informed Thinking: You use data to guide your decisions and tell a clear story, whether that’s helping a customer understand their progress or identifying opportunities to improve your approach.
• Tech Savvy: You’re comfortable working across tools like Vitally, HubSpot, and Intercom, and are excited to go deeper and use them to scale your impact.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Performance Management or HR Tech.

Responsibilities

• Participate in early conversations with prospective customers to understand how teams operate, what they’re trying to achieve, and where they need support.
• Own the customer journey from early conversations through onboarding and beyond, ensuring what is discussed is actually implemented and delivers value.
• Act as the primary partner for your book of business, helping customers connect their goals to outcomes, driving renewals, and identifying opportunities to expand impact.
• Surface patterns, challenges, and opportunities across your accounts and use those insights to influence both your approach and how we evolve as a company.
• Take what you see working across your customers and turn it into scalable programs, resources, and workflows.
• Create digital experiences that support customers without a dedicated CSM, ensuring they still feel guided at the right moments.
• Turn common questions and friction points into clear, reusable assets (videos, guides, automated messaging) that reduce manual effort over time.
• Partner with our US and Berlin teams to continuously refine how we drive retention, adoption, and growth across all segments.

Benefits

• Remote & Flexible: We are a remote-first company focused on results, not hours. You’ll have a flexible schedule to manage your life and work effectively.
• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage + an annual $1,200 wellness budget.
• Time Off: 21 days of paid vacation (increasing with tenure) + 10 public holidays.
• Growth: An annual $3,500 learning and development budget to help you level up your skills.
• Home Office: A $500 budget to get your remote workspace set up for success.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees