Customer Success Operations Engineer
About this role
The era of pervasive AI has arrived. In this era, organizations will use generative AI to unlock hidden value in their data, accelerate processes, reduce costs, drive efficiency and innovation to fundamentally transform their businesses and operations at scale.
SambaNova Suite™ is the first full-stack, generative AI platform, from chip to model, optimized for enterprise and government organizations. Powered by the intelligent SN40L chip, the SambaNova Suite is a fully integrated platform, delivered on-premises or in the cloud, combined with state-of-the-art open-source models that can be easily and securely fine-tuned using customer data for greater accuracy. Once adapted with customer data, customers retain model ownership in perpetuity, so they can turn generative AI into one of their most valuable assets.
About the Role
We're looking for a Customer Success Operations Specialist to build and run the operating engine behind our Customer Success organization — and to make AI tools and AI-driven workflows the core building block of how that engine works, not an add-on to it.
This isn't a traditional "reporting and process" ops role. You'll be expected to design CS workflows around AI from the ground up: using AI to synthesize customer signals, draft and route communications, automate health scoring and QBR prep, and surface insights that used to take a CSM hours to find. You'll partner closely with CS leadership to identify where AI can replace manual, repetitive work and where it should augment human judgment — then build, test, and own those workflows end to end.
This is a great fit for someone who's naturally curious about AI tooling (LLM-based assistants, automation platforms, AI features inside CRM/CS platforms), comfortable prototyping quickly, and excited to shape how a growing CS org operates in an AI-first way.
What You'll Do
AI-Driven Operations (Core Focus)
- Design and own AI-powered workflows across the customer lifecycle — onboarding, health scoring, renewal risk detection, QBR prep, and escalation triage
- Evaluate, pilot, and implement AI tools (e.g., AI features within Gainsight/Salesforce, LLM-based assistants, automation platforms like Zapier/Workato) to reduce manual work for CSMs
- Build AI-assisted reporting and insight generation — using AI to summarize account activity, flag churn risk, and generate customer-facing or internal-facing drafts (renewal emails, QBR decks, health summaries)
- Create and maintain prompt libraries, playbooks, and guardrails so AI tools are used consistently, accurately, and safely across the team
- Continuously test new AI capabilities against real CS use cases and make recommendations on what to scale, adjust, or retire
Systems, Process & Reporting
- Own and maintain the Customer Success tech stack (CRM, CS platform, automation/AI tools), including configuration, data hygiene, and integrations
- Build and maintain dashboards that track health scores, renewals, churn/retention, NPS/CSAT, and the performance of AI-assisted workflows themselves
- Design, document, and continuously improve CS workflows and playbooks with AI as the default first step, not a bolt-on
- Partner with CS leadership to define and track key metrics (NRR, GRR, churn, time-to-value, AI-driven efficiency gains)
- Support CS forecasting, capacity planning, and account segmentation as the customer base grows
Cross-Functional & Enablement
- Act as the liaison between Customer Success, Sales, Product, and Data/IT on tooling, integrations, and AI adoption
- Train and enable CSMs on new AI tools and workflows, and gather feedback to iterate quickly
- Maintain data integrity across systems, since clean data is the foundation every AI workflow depends on
What We're Looking For
- 2–5 years of experience in Operations, Business Operations, Revenue Operations, Sales Operations, or Customer Success Operations (SaaS/tech environment preferred)
- Genuine hands-on experience using AI tools in a work context — e.g., building workflows with LLM-based assistants, using AI features inside a CRM/CS platform, or automating tasks with AI-enabled platforms (Zapier, Workato, Make, etc.)
- Comfort experimenting with new AI tools quickly, evaluating what works, and turning a rough idea into a repeatable workflow
- Hands-on experience with a CRM (Salesforce or HubSpot) and, ideally, a Customer Success platform (Gainsight, Totango, ChurnZero, Vitally, or similar)
- Strong analytical skills — comfortable building reports/dashboards and translating data into clear recommendations
- Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills; SQL experience is a plus
- A process-improvement mindset — you naturally look for ways to make things faster, cleaner, and more scalable, with AI as your default lever
- Strong project management skills and the ability to juggle multiple workstreams independently
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable working cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Data/IT, and CS leadership
- A high level of ownership, curiosity, and attention to detail
Nice to Have
- Experience building or configuring AI agents, custom GPTs, or automation flows for a business function
- Familiarity with prompt engineering basics and AI governance/guardrails in a business setting
- Experience with BI/visualization tools (Tableau, Looker, Power BI)
- Familiarity with customer health scoring models and renewal/forecasting methodologies
- Experience supporting a Customer Success org through a period of growth or scaling
Base Salary Range:
Submission Guidelines
Please note that in order to be considered an applicant for any position at SambaNova Systems, you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified.
EEO Policy
SambaNova Systems is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard basis of age (40 and over), color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, national origin/ancestry, race, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding), sexual orientation, and any other applicable status protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Benefits Summary for US-Based, Full-Time Employment Positions
SambaNova offers a competitive total rewards package, including the base salary, plus equity and benefits. We cover 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, and 77% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution. We also offer Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans in addition to Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care. Our library of well-being benefits available to you and your dependents includes a full subscription to Headspace, Gympass+ membership with access to physical gyms, One Medical membership, counseling services with an Employee Assistance Program, and much more.
Company at a glance
Welcome to SambaNova: Revolutionizing AI Capacity
At SambaNova, we're empowering developers, enterprises, governments, and data centers to unlock their full AI potential. Our full-stack infrastructure, from chips to models, enables lightning-fast performance, low power consumption, and high-efficiency computing.
Our Mission
To give every developer, enterprise, government and data center absolute sovereignty over their own data, models and AI infrastructure – to future-proof the AI workloads that will power and scale tomorrow.
Our Technology
We give our customers the optionality to experience SambaNova through the cloud or on-premise.
Samba Cloud delivers the fastest inferences on the largest open source models like Llama 4 and DeepSeek. Developers can get started building in minutes with our OpenAI compatible APIs. All customers start on the developer tier and when they need more capacity can scale into our enterprise tier.
SambaStack is our on-premise offering which includes the system, the platform, and foundation models. These components combine into a powerful technology stack that delivers unparalleled performance, ease of use, accuracy, data privacy, and the ability to power every use case across the world's largest organizations.
SambaManaged is a modular and ready-to-deploy AI cloud designed to deliver unmatched efficiency for data centers and cloud service providers. This solution allows organizations to quickly deploy advanced AI inference services—without the need for costly infrastructure upgrades or specialized expertise—in as little as 90 days.
At the heart of SambaNova innovation is the Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU). Purpose built for AI workloads, the RDU takes advantage of a dataflow architecture and a three-tiered memory design. The three tiers of memory enable the platform to run hundreds of models on a single node and to switch between them in microseconds. In 2023, SambaNova released its 4th generation RDU chip, the SN40L.
Top Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Basic life insurance
- Voluntary life insurance
- AD&D insurance
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending account
- Headspace subscription
- Gympass+ membership
- One medical membership
- Employee assistance program
- Equity
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