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VP, Customer Engineering & Success

CircleCI · San Francisco, CA · On-site

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About CircleCI

Deliver production-ready software at AI speed. CircleCI helps modern teams validate, test, and ship every change with intelligent automation. Backed by 500 Global, IVP and Sapphire.

About the role

Reporting to the Chief Revenue Officer, the VP of Customer Engineering & Success leads CircleCI’s full technical customer journey, from pre-sales technical wins through adoption, support, renewal, and expansion. You’ll unite field engineering, technical success, digital success, and support engineering into one connected motion, so customers get a consistent and expert experience no matter how they engage with us. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Experience in DevOps, CI/CD, developer tools, or platform engineering companies
  • Background leading organizations through a merger of functions (for example, combining pre-sales engineering and post-sales success teams under one leader)
  • Experience with consumption- or usage-based pricing models and the adoption and expansion motions that go with them
  • Experience building or scaling a professional services or paid technical advisory offering
  • Experience using AI and automation to scale customer engagement, support deflection, or health monitoring
  • Customer success leadership in a high-growth or post-restructure environment where you built new motions from the ground up
More about this role

Customer Engineering & Success is where CircleCI’s customer relationships are won, deepened, and renewed. The organization brings together the technical teams that help customers succeed with CircleCI at every stage, from the first proof-of-concept through enterprise-wide adoption and long-term partnership. It includes four groups:

  • Field Engineering , which partners with Sales on technical discovery, solution design, and proofs-of-concept, and advises high-touch accounts after the sale.
  • Technical Success Management , which guides strategic, enterprise, and commercial customers to adoption, value, and expansion.
  • Digital Customer Success , which serves SMB customers through a scaled, data-driven engagement model.
  • Support Engineering , which resolves complex technical issues for customers around the world, around the clock.

The team works across North America, Europe, and Japan and serves engineering organizations at companies of every size. CircleCI processes more than a million builds a day, so this team sees how the world’s best engineering teams ship software. It turns that insight into better outcomes for customers and a stronger product. Its work drives retention,...

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