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Founding Customer Engineer

Pace · New York City · On-site

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About Pace

Pace turns operating procedures for carriers, brokers, and MGAs into agentic systems that execute complex workflows across documents, systems, and customer channels. Backed by Sequoia.

About the role

We're looking for a Founding Customer Engineer to own customer success after deployment. As the first hire in this function, you'll shape how it operates and help build it from the ground up. This is not a traditional support role. You'll work directly with customers to understand their systems, investigate agent behavior, and resolve product and integration issues with speed and judgment. You'll own outcomes end to end and step in wherever needed to keep customers successful.

More about this role

Pace is the AI operations partner for leading insurers. We combine AI agents with expert review to automate complex insurance workflows. Financial services companies spend nearly $400bn a year on outsourcing; we're changing that by working alongside some of the world's largest institutions.

We're looking for a Founding Customer Engineer to own customer success after deployment. As the first hire in this function, you'll shape how it operates and help build it from the ground up.

This is not a traditional support role. You'll work directly with customers to understand their systems, investigate agent behavior, and resolve product and integration issues with speed and judgment. You'll own outcomes end to end and step in wherever needed to keep customers successful.

You'll work across customers, Product, and Engineering. You won't ship core production code, but you'll go deep into logs, data, configurations, APIs, and agent behavior—and make scoped agent changes when that's the fastest path to a solution.

Own customer outcomes: Serve as the primary point of contact for a portfolio of customers, set clear expectations, and drive questions and escalations through...

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