Director, Project Management

Backstory · Remote, United States

ai) is the leading AI answers platform for sales teams. With more than a decade of training AI models on billions of sales interactions, Backstory enables modern sales teams to ask questions and get the right answer in the moment directly within their existing AI workflows. Sales leaders from companies like OpenAI, IBM, Red Hat, Verizon, Palo Alto Networks, Iron Mountain, TransUnion, Randstad and others rely on Backstory to get trusted answers wrapped in real business context helping them orchestrate deals more effectively and drive revenue.
By connecting every signal to the right accounts and opportunities, Backstory shows teams exactly what is happening and what to do next. Customers across industries including enterprise, cybersecurity, data and analytics, and defense use Backstory to drive trillions in pipeline and revenue.
5000, Y Combinator Top Companies, and the Forbes AI 50, Backstory is based in San Francisco and backed by ICONIQ Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Akkadian Ventures and Mubadala Capital.
Were looking for a Director of Customer Success to lead our CS organization and own retention and consumption across our full customer base. Youll lead a team of one to two managers and around eight to twelve CSMs, and youll build the customer motions that put our deepest investment where growth is most likely while moving every customer toward deployed, production-grade use of Backstory.
Youll bring that instinct to every customer conversation, teach it to your team, and work closely with Sales, Professional Services, Technical Support, Studio and Product. Youll also lead by example by running CS on Backstory itself and showing customers what the platform makes possible.
\Drive gross retention, expansion and credit consumption, and lead customers onto the Backstory platform
Give leadership a weekly view of renewal risk, and run save motions with direct executive engagement
Run segmented customer motions

Run three coverage models: high-touch strategic, time-boxed emerging, and scaled, moving emerging accounts into strategic coverage within their renewal cycle
Own account alignment, book economics, capacity planning, and the playbooks that take accounts from data platform adoption to deployed use cases
Understand each strategic customers business, technical environment, and what our product can become for them
Hire, develop and retain managers and CSMs, with a bench ready for larger books and new segments
Own onboarding and ramp, career paths and performance standards
Own weekly renewal reviews, segment account reviews, monthly business reviews and quarterly planning
Maintain the metrics and dashboards behind them, and manage budget, staffing and process
Be our best customer

Run CS on Backstory, from account plans and health signals to renewal reviews and customer prep
Lead forums where CSMs share their platform workflows, and turn daily use into product input
Lead cross-functional partnerships

Own the Sales to CS relationship, from handoff standards to joint renewal and expansion planning
Coordinate with Professional Services, Technical Support and Studio on strategic accounts
Bring the customers voice into product and go-to-market planning, and support references, stories and Marketings advisory programs
12+ years in Customer Success, Account Management or post-sales leadership, including 5+ years leading teams and developing managers
A track record of owning retention and expansion outcomes in B2B SaaS
Experience building segmentation, capacity models, playbooks and metrics that scale, and running a function from data in Salesforce, Gainsight or similar
Hands-on experience designing success planning, EBR and value frameworks for enterprise customers, and translating product usage into outcomes executives care about
Strong product intuition: you learn a product quickly, spot patterns across customers, and turn them into credible product demand
Executive presence with C-level customer stakeholders and senior internal leaders, including negotiating and influencing on high-stakes decisions
A proven partnership record with Sales, Services, Support and Product
Strongly preferred:

experience leading customers through usage-based or consumption pricing, and tying variable consumption back to delivered value.


Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Backstory is backed by Y Combinator and Silicon Valley’s top investors, including ICONIQ Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Akkadian Ventures, and Mubadala Capital. Regular employees may be eligible for commissions or bonus programs (target included in OTE), equity, and benefits. These factors can include, skill set, training and experience, licensure and certifications, and location and metropolitan area.
We are committed to providing accommodations throughout the hiring process.