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Customer Success Austin, Texas

Founding Customer Success Manager

Help Shopify merchants get set up, get results and stay with Spoks. Own customer chat and onboarding from day one, and build our customer success operation as we grow.

Austin, Texas Full-time Hybrid · 3+ office days/week
$80,000–$95,000Annual base salary · USD
+ Bonus and/or equity
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You'll make sure merchants who choose Spoks get real results. Guide new stores to their first campaigns and automations, help them when they get stuck and notice early when someone isn't getting what they need. When their emails make money, they stay.

This is hands-on customer success. Instead of a small book of large accounts, you'll help hundreds of Shopify merchants through chat, email and the occasional call.

What you will do

  • Own customer chat and onboarding. Answer questions, explain the next step and follow up until each issue is resolved.
  • Guide new merchants from install to their first campaigns and automations, and help them past the spots where they stall.
  • Own Fin, the AI assistant in our Intercom support tool. Keep its answers accurate, improve the information it draws from and step in when someone needs a person.
  • Follow new stores in our CRM and reach out when one is stuck, quiet or at risk of leaving.
  • Pass bugs to engineering with clear notes and keep customers updated.
  • Turn common questions into help articles, walkthroughs and onboarding emails, and share what confuses customers with the team.
  • When it helps, look over a merchant's campaigns or signup forms and suggest improvements.

Growing with the role

You won't start from a blank page. Fin already handles most chat and onboarding questions automatically, which leaves you free for the conversations that need a person and for building what comes next.

You'll build our customer success operation from the ground up: how we welcome new merchants, spot stores that need help, scale support with AI and measure whether customers get results. As we grow, you'll help hire and train support teammates. We're building toward 100,000 merchants with a lean team, and for the right person this role can grow into leading customer success at Spoks.

What you will bring

  • Experience helping customers or clients succeed, in customer success, support, onboarding, account management or client services.
  • Clear, friendly writing and confidence talking with people. You explain things simply and never make anyone feel silly for asking.
  • You learn new software quickly, stay patient when someone is frustrated and keep your promises.
  • You look for patterns. When the same question comes up three times, you fix the cause.
  • You use AI tools like Claude or ChatGPT to work faster, and you check their work. No coding needed.

Experience with Intercom, Shopify, Klaviyo or email marketing is a big bonus. If you've built email campaigns for a brand, worked at an ecommerce agency or run your own online store, tell us about it.

Hours and location

Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. Our office is in West Lake Hills, a short drive west of downtown Austin, with great parking.

Why Spoks

Help build the challenger.

Entrepreneurs need powerful marketing they can afford and use without becoming software specialists. We’re taking on Klaviyo and Mailchimp with email and SMS built for Shopify, a mobile app and AI that helps merchants get the work done.

Hundreds of paying stores already use Spoks, and we’re growing fast. Our goal is 100,000 customers with a lean team. You’ll work directly with our founder in Austin, own a meaningful part of that growth and have experienced colleagues in Norway and Poland to draw on.

Working at Spoks

This is a full-time role. We work hybrid, with at least three days a week together at our office in West Lake Hills, Austin.

  • 15 paid vacation days, 10 company holidays and 5 paid sick days each year.
  • Medical, dental and vision insurance.
  • A 401(k) employer match of up to 4% of eligible pay.
  • Annual offsites with the whole team. Next up: Norway, with fjords, good food and time together. Sauna and a dip in the ice-cold sea are optional.
  • Free lunch on office days, delivered by Uber Eats.
  • Your work computer and the equipment needed for the role.

Your compensation

$80,000–$95,000 annual base salary. Your offer within the range reflects the experience and skills you bring to the work.

Annual company performance bonus tied to net subscription ARR growth.

Bonus targets are agreed before the performance period. Equity may also be discussed as part of your offer.

Getting to know each other

How we hire.

  1. 01

    Intro call.

    A quick 5-minute Google Meet to say hello and check the basics.

  2. 02

    Video interview.

    30 minutes on Google Meet about your experience, the role and what you want to work on next.

  3. 03

    Meet us in person.

    An interview at our office in West Lake Hills. Meet the people you’d work with and talk through the work, compensation and fit.

  4. 04

    Decision.

    We’ll let you know our decision and the next steps.

Let’s get to know you

Apply for this role.

Your contact details, LinkedIn profile, PDF CV and a short introduction. Tell us how you help people.

Your application for Founding Customer Success Manager
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Questions?
Reach out to David.

Based in Austin, David is building Spoks’ US team. Reach out about a role, the company or what it’s like to work together.

David Isak Hansen, CEO and co-founder of Spoks

David Isak Hansen

CEO & Co-founder