Founding Customer Success Manager
Krea is hiring a Founding Customer Success Manager in San Francisco, United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Krea.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this customer service role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- Krea mentions visa sponsorship in this posting.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include customer success, account management and onboarding.
- Level classifies it as a mid-level role.
- Level lists 13 other open roles at Krea.
AI in this role
Founding Customer Success Manager helping creative users adopt and get value from next-generation AI creative tools.
About Krea
At Krea, we are building next-generation AI creative tools.
We're dedicated to making AI intuitive and controllable for creatives - our mission is to build tools that empower human creativity, not replace it. We believe AI is a new medium that allows us to express ourselves through various formats - text, images, video, sound, and even 3D. We're building better, smarter, and more controllable tools to harness this medium. We recently took this a step forward with the launch of Krea 2, our first foundation model, built completely from scratch for aesthetic diversity and stylistic control, and with Krea 3 - our new image editing model.
We've raised over $83M and are backed by world-class investors such as a16z, Bain Capital, and Abstract. We work full-time and in-person at our waterfront office in San Francisco. We care about creativity: our team includes musicians, designers, visual artists, and engineers.
This role
We're looking for a Founding Customer Success Manager to help our customers get real value from Krea, from first onboarding to deep, long-term adoption. You'll work closely with creative teams, guide them through workflows, and be the connective tissue between customers, product, and sales.
What you'll do
Own post-sale customer success: onboarding, adoption, renewals, and expansion
Help customers integrate Krea into their creative workflows and daily work
Drive product adoption across our core customer profiles
Communicate new feature and product updates (we ship weekly)
Track usage and customer signals to help customers get more value
Identify expansion opportunities and own the renewal process end-to-end, from forecasting risk to closing the deal
Program manage webinars and workshops in partnership with our creative leads, from planning content through execution
Share customer feedback with the product and marketing teams and help shape what we build
What we're looking for
Experience in Customer Success or Account Management
Commercially minded, with a track record of renewing and growing customer accounts
Product-focused mindset, with experience in onboarding and implementation
Strong communication and interpersonal skills - you're great at building and maintaining relationships
Proactive, ownership-driven attitude and comfort working in an early-stage environment
Nice to have
A creative background (e.g.: account manager at a creative agency, or a startup working with designers, artists, or studios)
Strong understanding of creative workflows
What we offer
Team: Work alongside a world-class team building the future of AI creative tooling
Impact: Significant scope and company-wide impact
Competitive compensation: generous salary & equity packages
Health & wellness: 100% health & 99% dental/vision insurance premiums covered for employees, health FSA accounts, & long-term disability coverage
Time off: Flexible PTO policy
Financial planning: 401k with a 4% company-sponsored match
Meals in the office: breakfast, lunch, dinner - you name it, we'll cover it
Transit: Ubers covered to & from the office
Sponsorship: We're open to sponsoring international visas where we can (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3).
And more!
Please note the above benefits & perks are for full-time employees
How we rate this
Founding Customer Success Manager at Krea rates 60 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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Skills and AI tools this role asks for
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Pay
- Typical customer service job
- $98k
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Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where customer success was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where account management was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where onboarding was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where retention was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where customer support was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Customer Success, Account Management, Onboarding, Retention, and Customer Support. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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