About us

Owkin is an AI company on a mission to solve the complexity of biology. It is building the first Biology Super Intelligence (BASI) by combining powerful biological large language models, multimodal patient data, and agentic software. At the heart of this system is Owkin K, an AI copilot and its new LLM fine-tuned on biology called Owkin Zero, used by researchers, clinicians, and drug developers to better understand biology, validate scientific hypotheses, and deliver better diagnostics and therapies faster.

Position is based in our Paris offices or remotely in France, UK or Germany.

Please submit your CV in English

About the role:

As a Customer Success Manager (CSM), you will be the primary strategic partner for our external clients (pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, academic institutions, etc.). You will manage the lifecycle of our flagship product K Pro with one or more customers, ensuring they achieve measurable scientific and business impact.

In addition to being a relationship manager; you are a "Scientific Orchestrator" who bridges the gap between complex AI capabilities and real-world drug research & development workflows.

The Senior Customer Success is a key architect in the success of our most strategic client engagements, reporting to the Director of Customer Success and Project Management. You’ll work directly with the OWKIN Research & Technology teams and Medical and Biology Experts on the delivery and value proposition of our product.

In particular, you will deliver:

1. Strategic Account & Value Management

• Strategic Account Ownership: Own a portfolio of high-value or enterprise Biopharma accounts. Build deep, trusted relationships with key stakeholders, including senior executives.

• Drive Value Realization & Planning: Act as a strategic advisor, ensuring clients realize the full ROI of K Pro. Develop comprehensive account and success plans aligned with customer business goals, demonstrating and tracking ROI and use cases unlocked by the platform.

• Executive Communication: Run Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) and strategic check-ins with client senior stakeholders and executives. Translate K Pro's value and performance metrics into tangible business impact and strategic recommendations.

• Operational Delivery: Lead the delivery and integration of the platform within client environments, and potential delivery of custom additional services, tailoring "AI Skills" and orchestration layers to specific therapeutic areas (e.g., Oncology, Immunology).

2. Customer Retention, Growth & Health

• Manage Renewals & Retention: Own the commercial health of your accounts, driving high Net Revenue Retention (NRR) and successful contract renewals.

• Identify Expansion & Growth: Partner with the Sales team to identify and execute upsell/cross-sell opportunities, including bespoke agentic AI customizations, and scope high-impact use cases during early engagement phases.

• Proactive Health Monitoring: Track platform adoption, Customer Health Scores, and usage metrics (including CLV) to proactively identify and intervene when risks or expansion opportunities appear.

• Lead Escalation Management, acting as the ultimate point of contact to handle complex, high-risk situations, navigate conflict, and drive effective resolution.

3. Onboarding & Adoption Leadership

• Onboarding & Enablement: Lead the successful onboarding for complex customers and users on the K Pro platform. Drive product adoption and usage maturity, ensuring user adherence and collaborating with them to identify high-value use cases.

• Guide Measurable Outcomes: Guide customers toward achieving measurable business outcomes (ROI, KPIs).

• Orchestrate Trials: Orchestrate product trials with internal and external stakeholders and translate insights gained into refining product and delivery.

4. Scientific & Product Advocacy (Voice of Customer)

• Product Feedback Loop: Conduct regular workshops and collect/synthesize customer feedback (Voice of Customer) to identify feature gaps. Translate these into actionable feedback for Product and Engineering teams, influencing the product roadmap.

• Use-Case Development: Collaborate with clients to define, document, and champion high-value use cases for both customer engagement and internal knowledge sharing.

• Customer Advocacy: Turn satisfied customers into powerful case studies, references, or champions.

• Support Go-to-Market: Support pre-sales discussions, organize trial periods/pilots, and demos with potential customers.

5. Cross-Functional Collaboration & Leadership

• Internal Advocacy: Work closely with Sales (for expansions), Product (for feedback and roadmap influence), and Support/Engineering (for issue resolution). Act as the internal advocate for customer needs.

• Mentorship & Best Practices: Mentor junior CSMs and help define processes, playbooks, and best practices across the Customer Success team. Lead cross-CS projects or initiatives as needed.

• Data-Driven Action: Leverage data and performance tracking (NRR, CLV, adoption metrics) to drive strategic decisions and prioritize actions across the account portfolio.

About you:

At Owkin, we hire for potential and values. We are looking for "Owkinautes" who embody our values (The 4 C's):

• Care: For our team, our partners, and the patients waiting for better treatments.

• Collaboration: Seamlessly working across scientific and technical silos.

• Creativity: Finding novel ways to apply AI to the hardest problems in biology.

• Curiosity: An insatiable drive to learn and iterate.

We are looking for someone with:

• Masters degree or BS in computer science (machine learning, applied mathematics, computer science, software engineering) or life sciences (MD, PharmD, biology, bioinformatics, biological engineering…)

• Expertise either in the customer success management, project management or delivery of high-impact scientific research / technological products or consulting engagements or

• Experience in a product owner role within the medical/pharmaceutical/biotech industry.

• Ability to create and develop trust-based relationships with our clients and teams.

• Experience in Biostatistics / Machine Learning / Deep Learning algorithms & methodologies or complex data delivery is a plus.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Highly organized and meticulous about details.

• Capable of tackling complex problems logically and effectively.

• Excited to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

• Passionate about the intersections of Healthcare and AI.

• Fluent in English, Fluent in French is a plus.

• As our clients are based across Europe and in the USA, occasional travel may be required.

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What we offer

• Flexible work organization

• Friendly and informal working environment

• Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds

Recruitment Process & Security

• Please complete the form and submit your CV.

• Owkin is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.

• Owkin is a great place to work. As a coveted workplace we are, unfortunately, vulnerable to recruitment phishing scams. We urge all job seekers and candidates to be wary of potential scams. Most of these have individuals posing as representatives of prominent companies, including Owkin, with the aim of obtaining personal, sensitive, or financial information from applicants. These scams prey upon an individual’s desire to obtain a job and can sometimes “feel” like a genuine recruitment process. Some red flags are identified below. Should you encounter a recruitment process that claims to be for Owkin but is not consistent with the below, please do not provide any personal or financial information:

• Legitimate Owkin recruitment processes include communication with candidates through recognized professional networks, such as LinkedIn.

• Communication is always through an official Owkin email address (from the @owkin.com domain), over the phone or through our applicant tracking system (Greenhouse).

• The Owkin talent team do use platforms such as LinkedIn and Job Teaser, however if you have any concern or doubt about this contact, please ask for them to send an email from @Owkin.com.

• The Owkin talent team will not solicit personal data from candidates during the application phase including, but not limited to, date of birth, social security numbers, or bank account information;

• Legitimate Owkin interviews may be conducted over the phone, in person, or via an approved enterprise videoconferencing service (Google Meets). They will not occur via Signal, Telegram or Messenger

• Owkin offers of employment are based on merit and only extended once a candidate has interviewed with members of the talent and hiring team. Offers will be extended both verbally and in written format.

If you think that you have been a victim of fraud,

• Check the identity of the talent team on LinkedIn

• Check our senior team on our website https://owkin.com/team/

• Check the existence of the position on our website: https://www.owkin.com/careers#current-opportunities

• Notify Owkin's recruitment unit at this address [email protected]

• contact the following authorities:

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  • [US] https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/