Customer Success Manager

Tokyo
Remote OK
Full-time
October 18, 2024

Note: While 100% remote, this position gives preference to candidates living near the Greater Tokyo area.

Who We Are:

Alpaca is a fast-growing series B fintech company that’s raised over $120 million in funding.
Alpaca is an API-first stock and crypto platform that enables developers and businesses across the world to build trading algorithms, applications, and brokerage services.
Our globally distributed team consists of developers, traders, and brokerage specialists, and is backed by a group of prominent investors and highly experienced industry angel investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Eldridge, Positive Sum, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

And, of course, we are very enthusiastic about open-source contributions as well as community building.

The Alpaca Team:

We have 150+ globally distributed (remote) team members who love to work from their favorite places in the world. We have team members based in the USA, Canada, Hungary, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Philippines, Nigeria, UK, and more! We love candidates who have a passion for making a global difference in financial services and technology, by impacting local communities and becoming a part of our hyper-growth company.

Your Role:

As a Customer Success Manager at Alpaca, you are the front line in our pursuit of enabling financial markets access for everyone on the planet. You’ll work with our partners (customers) from launch through renewal, ensuring they have a positive experience leading to successful outcomes. Reporting to the VP, Sales and Success, this role supports Alpaca’s B2B offerings -- you will help customers to launch trading apps and open financial services to everyone on the planet.

Things You Get To Do:

Act as primary contact for B2B/enterprise customers, accountable for driving healthy and constant relationships with key contacts throughout the customer lifecycle - from app launch to renewal.
Ensure customer satisfaction, retention, and success.
Manage escalations, internally and externally, with a focus on customer empathy
Maintain regular contact with customers to understand their business priorities, monitor their progress to achieving key results, and constantly identify and mitigate risk (relationship, commercial, etc.)
Work with partners to accurately forecast growth, and to identify and monitor progress towards shared goals
Drive adoption of Alpaca features (new and existing) among our Live Partners
Identify and disseminate best practices and pitfalls
Represent the partner internally to ensure Alpaca across multiple groups (marketing, product, operations, etc.)
Maintain positive relationships, internally and externally, to drive overall success and overcome obstacles
Provide internal communication and reporting on overall account status, health, and risk.
Develop a success strategy for ensuring customer success
Identify areas, and consider solutions for, improvement/optimization within Alpaca
Ad-hoc duties and responsibilities as assigned

Who You Are (Must-Haves):

4-6 years experience in a customer success role, managing customer relationships
US region hours
Understanding of and experience with key technology concepts, such as SaaS and APIs
Exposure to, or employment with, large and small companies
A dedicated interest in Alpaca's mission, to enable financial services access to everyone on the planet
Ability to work remotely and independently, and to self-manage time and obligations
Flexibility to jump in where/when needed to help drive Alpaca's growth
Desire to learn
Ability to manage customer relationships, across various-sized companies

Who You Might Be (Nice-to-Haves):

FinTech experience is a plus, especially with broker-dealer business
Startup mindset for a fast-paced, high-growth environment
Experience working with international B2B clients
Multi-lingual in English, Spanish and Portuguese

How We Take Care of You:

Competitive Salary & Stock Options
Benefits: Health benefits start on day 1. In the US this includes Medical, Dental, Vision. In Canada, this includes supplemental health care. Internationally, this includes a stipend value to offset medical costs.
New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card
Work with awesome hard-working people, super smart and cool clients and innovative partners from around the world

Alpaca is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

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About Alpaca

Alpaca, founded by two Japanese, is a US-headquartered fintech startup providing API access to stock and crypto trading.

While being regulated as a financial service in various countries, Alpaca builds a global investment platform from the ground up by using the latest technologies. The series-B company is backed by a number of notable VCs including YC and has raised more than $100m to date.