Senior Technical Success Manager

Stackwatch deploys our flagship product, Kubecost, on-prem and in virtual private clouds across dozens of flavors of Kubernetes, cloud providers, and hardware, and to our own hosted and SaaS products. We're looking for a Technical Success Manager to delight our users—Kubernetes users, development teams, and Finance leadership alike—and keep their needs at the top of our priorities. As a member of our growing Technical Success team, you’ll have the opportunity to be our customers' trusted product advisor, mapping technical solutions to business value, leading product onboarding and enablement, and increasing customer satisfaction and loyalty. Working closely with Product & Engineering to act as the voice of the user, you will collaborate on innovative solutions, tracking & submitting feature requests, and drive the future of our product roadmap, making a meaningful impact on our users’ Kubernetes adoption journey. And as part of the Customer Success organization, you’ll collaborate closely with Customer Success Management, Sales, and Technical Success leads to build a world-class Customer Success organization. We’re looking for someone who is as passionate about cloud infrastructure, our product, and users as we are.

Backed by leading VCs and software executives and founded by ex-Google cloud engineers and PMs, Stackwatch empowers teams to efficiently operate Kubernetes at scale. Starting with our flagship product Kubecost, we build tooling and intelligence to manage cost, performance, reliability and other infrastructure operability challenges. Our team is fully distributed, and we’re dedicated to building a vibrant, remote-first company culture that focuses on kindness and collaboration while achieving outsized results. We recently raised our Series A —this is an amazing opportunity to join a startup with significant traction!

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Flex and strengthen your Kubernetes, Cloud, and Infrastructure Monitoring muscles.
• Leverage your customer-facing experience and drive to directly impact the customer experience.
• Design and execute custom onboarding programs that will ensure our customers are able to achieve their goals with Kubecost products.
• Drive implementations to completion through proactive engagement and close collaboration with Product & Engineering.
• Track and report issues, and participate in issue triage and prioritization alongside the Product team.
• Work side-by-side with Product and subject matter experts to answer questions and resolve issues.
• Collaborate with Customer Success Management on a repeatable renewal and expansion pipeline.
• Monitor the overall health of our customers, tracking relevant metrics and escalating when necessary.
• Leverage your technical background to understand high-level engineering and infrastructure concepts as they apply to our product features.
• Play a key role in building the foundation of our Success team through major projects like mapping the customer journey and developing periodic review cadences and scripts.
• Embrace ambiguity and take on responsibilities outside your normal duties and/or comfort zone.
  
  

Our ideal candidate has:

• A healthy dose of both technical and customer-facing experience.
• 3+ years of deep, hands-on Kubernetes experience (nobody is too technical for this position!).
• 1+ years of experience with at least one of the main cloud providers (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Experience with or a general understanding of the following projects: Helm, Prometheus, Thanos, or Grafana and ability to quickly learn
• A proven track record of delighting customers, both big and small.
• Familiarity with the SaaS customer journey and a proven track record of successfully managing a portfolio of 30-50 enterprise accounts.
• Demonstrable clarity of thought and top-notch organizational skills.
• Flexibility, adaptability, and a positive, solution-oriented mindset.
• An appetite to constantly be learning and working with emergent, exciting technology.
• Impeccable communication abilities (written, verbal, and presentation) and unassailable judgment.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to talk to a variety of stakeholders—both technical and executive.
  
  

Compensation

• We evaluate our pay scales on a semiannual basis to ensure competitiveness with the upper end of the market for comparably-sized companies, and maintain equitable and transparent compensation policies and processes. Placement within the range will be based on skillset and experience.
• The range for this position is: $155k-$200k
• The equity compensation for this position is: .05%-.11%
  
  

Our Values:

Launch & learn—We are resourceful, biased toward action/experimentation, and value a growth mindset.

Strive for excellence, get results—We aim high & take pride in our work, but maintain focus on progress, not perfection.

Welcome diversity—We celebrate and embrace our differences! Aside from being an Equal Opportunity Employer, we place a high value on inviting new perspectives & a broad range of backgrounds and experiences; we are inclusive and seek to create a psychologically safe environment for all teammates; we disagree respectfully.

Celebrate contribution—We maintain a deep commitment to making open source contributions; we are community-oriented; we give and take feedback with grace.

Love the user—We are curious about the end user experience & sensitive to their needs, no matter who the end user of our work is.

Empowered Responsibility—We take ownership & believe in autonomous decision-making through transparency, flexibility & data.

Be am awesome communicator— We write and speak directly & clearly with empathy, precision, and candor ; we give & receive feedback gracefully; we make generous assumptions about our teammates’ intentions and listen with the desire to understand.

Value-adds:

Read about our culture, current policies, and benefits at handbook.kubecost.io

🏥 100% paid health insurance for employees and for dependents

🦷 75% paid dental and vision insurance for employees, 25% paid for dependents

💻 $3000 equipment stipend every three years to trick out your remote work setup

🖇 Shared office space reimbursed up to $400/month

🗓 Take what you need PTO (we mean it, and we model it!)

🎉 11 company-paid holidays

🐣 12 weeks paid new parent leave

🌴 1 month paid sabbatical after 3 years

✈️ Company-sponsored opportunities to travel and gather with your teammates at events, all-hands retreats, co-working weeks, and more

🫶 up to $500 per year reimbursement for wellness-related expenses like gym memberships, workout equipment, therapy, meditation classes & more!

Stackwatch is an equal opportunity employer. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. We welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions.