Manager, Customer Success | Remote on West Coast

Posted 6 Days Ago
4 Locations
Remote
66K-198K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Software • Automation
The Role
Lead the West Coast Customer Success function for strategic enterprise accounts. Manage and develop CSMs, hire team members, build customer success processes, oversee forecasting and account-health reviews, and drive adoption, retention, and expansion. Maintain executive customer relationships and collaborate with Sales, Product, Support, TAMs, Renewals, and global Customer Success leaders to improve customer journeys and scalable operating models.
Summary Generated by Built In

The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination.

n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, we’re changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact.

Since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown into a diverse team of over 260 - working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit and with our centre of gravity in Berlin. Along the way, we’ve:

  • Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders

  • Earned 190K+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projects

  • Backed by top investors, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our SAP's recent strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuation


That’s the company we’ve built. Now we’d love to see what you can build. If you’re applying, try n8n out - whether you’re technical or not - and share a screenshot of your first workflow with us. The easiest place to start is here: app.n8n.cloud/register.

We’re in a defining moment of an incredible journey. Come and build with us.

This is a remote role working West Coast hours, and we are looking to hire people based in one of the following states: Washington, California, Colorado, Texas
🎯 Your main goal will be to build and lead a high-performing Customer Success function on the West Coast, helping n8n’s most strategic enterprise customers drive adoption, retention, and expansion while scaling the team and operating model for our next stage of growth.

To make that happen, you’ll combine hands-on customer leadership, deliberate people development, and strong operational execution:

LEAD OUR MOST STRATEGIC ENTERPRISE ACCOUNTS
  • Partner with CSMs to navigate complex customer challenges and develop strategies for our largest and highest-risk enterprise accounts.

  • Build trusted executive relationships with key customers and step directly into customer conversations when additional leadership is needed.

  • Stay hands-on with strategic accounts while the West team scales, including personally owning customer relationships where needed.

BUILD AND DEVELOP A HIGH-PERFORMING WEST COAST TEAM
  • Hire and onboard the remaining CSMs needed to build out the West Coast Customer Success team.

  • Coach and develop your team through structured 1:1s, clear development plans, and deliberate skill-building.

  • Create a high-accountability, supportive environment where people receive clear feedback and can continuously raise the bar.

DRIVE OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
  • Establish and run a consistent operating cadence across forecasting, account health, and structured risk reviews.

  • Build repeatable Customer Success motions across onboarding, QBRs, adoption, retention, and expansion.

  • Use customer and team insights to identify risks early, raise issues proactively, and continuously improve how the team operates.

SHAPE THE CUSTOMER JOURNEY WITH CROSS-FUNCTIONAL PARTNERS
  • Partner closely with Sales, Product, Support, TAMs, Renewals, and GTM leaders to deliver a strong end-to-end customer experience.

  • Collaborate with Customer Success leaders across US East, EMEA, and Scaled CS to evolve shared playbooks and ways of working.

  • Contribute to global CS initiatives and help build scalable methodologies as n8n’s Customer Success organization continues to grow.

REQUIREMENTSMust-haves
  • 👥 People leadership: You have 2–3+ years of people management experience, with a strong track record of hiring, developing, and retaining Customer Success talent.

  • 💼 7-10 years of experience in Customer Success, Professional Services, Account Management, or other customer-facing roles, including supporting large, complex, high-risk enterprise customers.

  • 💻 Tech industry experience and relevant Enterprise subject-matter expertise: You’ve worked in an enterprise IT or technology environment and understand the needs and expectations of technical buyers and customers.

  • 📊 Operational discipline: You’re comfortable running forecasts, account-health cadences, and structured risk reviews to keep a complex book of business on track.

  • 🛠️ Builder mindset: You thrive in environments where not everything is already defined and are willing to roll up your sleeves to solve problems directly.

  • 🤝 Low-ego collaboration: You enjoy working within a shared direction, partnering closely with peers, and improving existing processes.

Nice-to-haves
  • 🚀 High-growth leadership trajectory: You’ve progressed from a senior CSM role into first-line leadership and have demonstrated strong potential to take on increasing scope.

  • 🤖 Automation and AI familiarity: You’re familiar with n8n or the broader automation and AI tooling ecosystem.

  • 🏗️ Leadership across environments: You’ve held Customer Success leadership responsibilities across more than one company and have seen different approaches to scaling teams.

Why join us?

At n8n, you’ll have the opportunity to shape an important new leadership layer in our US Customer Success organization and build the West Coast team around some of our largest and most technically sophisticated enterprise customers. You’ll have real influence over how we evolve our customer journey, operating model, and CS playbooks as the company scales rapidly, without having to start from zero.

You’ll join a collaborative, remote-first environment where leaders are expected to stay close to customers, develop great people, experiment, and turn what works into scalable systems. As n8n continues to grow globally and build its position in AI-powered automation, you’ll help define what world-class enterprise Customer Success looks like here.

Sound like a challenge you’re excited to take on?

Apply now and help us build the future of automation.

n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work.

Our company language is English.

You care about diversity and inclusion? We do too! Check out our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives at n8n (https://www.notion.so/n8n/Diversity-inclusion-and-belonging-n8n-c1bec2fff536422d868b1a438d990e35).

Location disclaimer: If you see multiple job postings for the same role, it is most likely because we're hiring remotely for this role and posting in different locations to make sure every potential candidate can see the role. Please apply to the location you're the most likely to work from in the future.

Benefits
  • Competitive compensation 💸 – We offer fair and attractive pay.

  • Ownership 💪 – Our core value is to “empower others,” and we mean it—you’ll get a slice of n8n with equity.

  • Work/life balance 🏖️ – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge:

    • Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are.

    • US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are.

  • Health & wellness 🩺 –

    • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*

    • US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families—plus a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage.

  • Future planning 💰 –

    • Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.*

    • US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.

  • Financial security 🛡️ –

    • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*

    • US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones.

  • Career growth 📈 – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills.

  • A passionate team 🤩 – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it!

  • Remote-first 🌏 – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid—please check the job description.

  • Giving back 🤝 – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about.

  • Transparency 🙏 – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang.

*Country and/or State specific details provided in your employment agreement.

Skills Required

  • 2–3+ years of people management experience, including hiring, developing, and retaining Customer Success talent
  • 7–10 years of experience in Customer Success, Professional Services, Account Management, or other customer-facing roles
  • Experience supporting large, complex, high-risk enterprise customers
  • Experience in the technology industry and enterprise IT environments
  • Understanding of technical buyers’ and customers’ needs and expectations
  • Experience running forecasts, account-health cadences, and structured risk reviews
  • Builder mindset and willingness to solve undefined problems directly
  • Collaborative, low-ego approach to working with peers and improving processes
  • Progression from senior Customer Success Manager into first-line leadership
  • Familiarity with n8n or the broader automation and AI tooling ecosystem
  • Customer Success leadership experience across more than one company
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The Company
HQ: Berlin
61 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Free, open and self-hostable workflow automation tool. n8n is the leading low-code automation tool, enabling you to connect anything to everything. With n8n, for the first time, people can move beyond simple integrations to build multi-step workflows that combine both 3rd party APIs and your own internal tools to create easy-to-use automations. Thanks to its fair-code distribution model, n8n will always have visible source code, be available to self-host, and allow you to add your own custom functions, logic, and apps. n8n is supported by a fast-growing and passionate community of thousands of people building a powerful and extendable workflow automation tool. n8n is privately held, with funding from Sequoia, Felicis Ventures, Firstminute Capital, Harpoon Ventures, and others. Individual investors include Eventbrite's Kevin Hartz and Supercell's IIkka Paananen. n8n was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berlin.

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