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VP, Customer Success

interface.ai · San Francisco, CA · 2 wk ago
On-siteManagement$319k–$364k/yrFull-time

About the role

Interface.ai is building the AI infrastructure for financial services — bringing agentic AI and conversational AI to the credit unions and community banks that serve everyday Americans. We are in production, generating real revenue, and on a mission that actually matters: democratizing financial wellness for the millions of people who've never had a private banker. Backed by $30M in Series A funding and already cash-flow positive, we are at the inflection point — proven product, paying customers, and a team ready to scale. The next chapter is building the engineering organization that can take us there.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own NRR across the full customer portfolio — set the retention and expansion targets, build the operating cadence to hit them, and be directly accountable to leadership for the number.

  • Lead, develop, and grow a team of CSMs and Senior CSMs; set clear performance expectations, build a coaching culture, and create career paths that attract and retain exceptional post-sales talent.

  • Define and own the CS operating model — the health scoring framework, account segmentation, coverage ratios, renewal cadence, escalation protocol, and QBR methodology that the team executes against every quarter.

  • Build the playbooks, templates, and repeatable processes that take CS execution from bespoke and relationship-dependent to systematic and scalable — without losing the white-glove experience our strategic accounts expect.

  • Serve as the executive sponsor on the highest-complexity and highest-risk accounts; step in personally on at-risk renewals, executive escalations, and strategic expansion conversations where the relationship requires VP-level presence.

  • Own the hiring plan for the CS organization — define the headcount model, write and refine the hiring profiles, build the interview process, and close candidates who raise the team's collective bar.

  • Partner with Sales on expansion pipeline and renewal strategy; co-own the commercial relationship for existing accounts and ensure CS is a consistent source of qualified expansion signals for the AE team.

  • Synthesize account health signals, product feedback, and churn risk patterns into structured input for Product and Engineering that influences the roadmap, not just fills a backlog.

  • Define and implement the tooling and data infrastructure the CS team needs to operate effectively — CRM hygiene standards, health dashboards, renewal forecasting, and escalation workflows.

  • Represent Customer Success at the leadership level — contribute to company OKRs, report on retention and expansion metrics in leadership reviews, and advocate internally for what customers need to be successful.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Communications, or a related field; MBA or equivalent executive experience a plus.

  • 10+ years in B2B SaaS, with at least 3 years in a leadership role managing a Customer Success team with direct ownership of NRR, retention targets, and headcount.

  • Demonstrated experience building or rebuilding a CS organization — not just inheriting a mature team, but designing the structure, process, and playbook from a relatively early stage.

  • Track record of driving measurable NRR improvement: has grown net revenue retention across a portfolio through a combination of churn reduction, expansion growth, and systematic account health management.

  • Proven executive presence — has built and maintained C-suite relationships at enterprise accounts and is comfortable representing the company at the VP and C-level with credit union or financial services buyers.

  • Strong commercial acumen: understands renewal mechanics, expansion motion, and the commercial levers available to a CS leader — not just the relationship side of the role.

  • Background in CCaaS, conversational AI, contact center software, or financial services strongly preferred; candidates who combine enterprise SaaS CS leadership with financial services vertical experience will be prioritized.

  • Data-driven and AI-native operator — uses portfolio metrics (NRR, GRR, health scores, time-to-value) and AI tooling to drive account coverage decisions, surface at-risk patterns at scale, and build a CS team that treats data and AI as operating tools, not aspirational ones.

  • Skilled recruiter and talent developer: has a track record of hiring strong CSMs, developing them into Senior CSMs or team leads, and building a team culture that retains high performers.

Benefits

  • 100% paid health, dental & vision care

  • 401(k) & financial wellness perks

  • Discretionary PTO + paid parental leave

  • Mental health, wellness & family benefits

  • A mission-driven team shaping the future of banking

WHY INTERFACE.AI

  • Series A $30M raised

  • Cash-flow positive — we're not burning cash hoping the product works. It works.

  • Clients are live, revenue is real, and the mission — bringing intelligent financial services to everyday Americans — is one you can explain to your family without a slide deck.

  • You'll work directly with Bruce Kim (Co-Founder) and Srinivas Njay (CEO) — founders who understand engineering deeply and give their VP the authority and trust to actually run the function.

  • We offer top-of-market base, significant early-stage equity, comprehensive benefits, and a modern SF office that's worth showing up to.

  • The team we're building is small enough that your judgment shapes everything.

  • The market we're in is large enough that what you build will matter for a long time.

Compensation Range

$319K - $364K

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