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Krea

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.

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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.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ 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

Customer SuccessAccount ManagementOnboardingRetentionCustomer Support

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Questions you could be asked

  1. Tell me about a project where customer success was part of your work. What did you do?
  2. Tell me about a project where account management was part of your work. What did you do?
  3. Tell me about a project where onboarding was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where retention was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. 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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