Cresta

FoundingCustomerSuccessManager,APAC

APAC (Remote) Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Founding Customer Success Manager, APAC at Cresta. Skills: Foundational Customer Success Ownership, Regional Customer Journey & Adoption Strategy, Renewal, Expansion & Value Realization, Executive Engagement & Stakeholder Management, Cross-Functional Collaboration & Customer Advocacy, Builder Mindset & Regional Scale. Owning and scaling the post-sales customer experience across the region. Serving as the primary strategic partner for APAC customers”

What You'll Achieve.

Ensuring they realize measurable business value from Cresta’s AI platform; accelerate time to value and product adoption; Ensure customers are enabled to become increasingly self-sufficient over time; ensuring value is clearly demonstrated; Deliver clear, measurable customer outcomes that support high renewal and expansion rates; Built repeatable Customer Success processes and playbooks used across the region; Influenced product and GTM strategy through consistent customer feedback and regional insights; Laid the foundation for scaling Customer Success in APAC as the team and customer base grow

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Identify friction points and regional nuances that impact onboarding, adoption, or retention

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

4–6 years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, or a similar customer-facing role in B2B SaaS, Experience managing complex, high-value customer relationships with executive stakeholders, ability to translate data, product capabilities, and outcomes into clear business value narratives, Comfort working autonomously in ambiguous environments and building processes from scratch, Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level presentations and QBR facilitation, organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple accounts, stakeholders, and priorities across time zones

Nice to Have

Experience in contact center technology, AI-driven platforms, or productivity SaaS, Background supporting customers across APAC markets, Familiarity with Customer Success metrics such as NRR, GRR, adoption, and time to value, Prior experience as an early or founding hire in a region or function, Comfort collaborating with technical teams on configuration, integrations, or data-driven insights

What You'll Do.

Owning and scaling the post-sales customer experience across the region

Serving as the primary strategic partner for APAC customers

Ensuring customers realize measurable business value from Cresta’s AI platform

Defining how Customer Success operates in a new market

Managing complex customer relationships directly

Developing the playbooks

and feedback loops that allow Customer Success to scale in APAC

Partnering closely with Sales

and Data Science to align customer outcomes with Cresta’s growth strategy

Own the end-to-end customer lifecycle for APAC accounts

from onboarding through renewal and expansion

Act as the primary trusted advisor for customers

aligning Cresta’s capabilities to customer business objectives

Develop and execute success plans that clearly define outcomes

Establish Customer Success best practices for the region

including engagement cadence

Design and continuously improve the APAC customer journey to accelerate time to value and product adoption

Identify friction points and regional nuances that impact onboarding

Build repeatable onboarding frameworks and customer engagement models that scale across accounts

Ensure customers are enabled to become increasingly self-sufficient over time

Own renewals for APAC customers

proactively managing risk and ensuring value is clearly demonstrated

Partner with Sales to identify and support expansion opportunities

including upsell and cross-sell motions

Translate product usage

and outcomes into compelling value narratives for executive stakeholders

Align renewal and expansion conversations to customer priorities and regional business drivers

Build and maintain multi-threaded relationships across customer organizations

from frontline users to executive sponsors

Lead executive-level QBRs and EBRs

Navigate complex stakeholder dynamics and drive alignment across regional and global customer teams

Partner closely with Sales

and Data Science to deliver a seamless customer experience

Serve as the voice of APAC customers in internal planning

and prioritization decisions

Surface regional use cases

and customer feedback to influence product and GTM strategy

Configure and implement the Cresta platform for customers as needed

Build early CS processes

and tooling that enable scale beyond individual accounts

Identify opportunities to standardize workflows

and customer communications

Help define what “great Customer Success” looks like in APAC as the team grows

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Data Science to align customer outcomes with Cresta’s growth strategy; Partner closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Data Science to deliver a seamless customer experience; Serve as the voice of APAC customers in internal planning, roadmap discussions, and prioritization decisions; Surface regional use cases, market insights, and customer feedback to influence product and GTM strategy; Comfort collaborating with technical teams on configuration, integrations, or data-driven insights

Communication Scope

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level presentations and QBR facilitation

Process & Methodology

Develop and execute success plans that clearly define outcomes, milestones, and measurable value, Build repeatable onboarding frameworks and customer engagement models that scale across accounts, Build early CS processes, documentation, and tooling that enable scale beyond individual accounts, Identify opportunities to standardize workflows, reporting, and customer communications

Full Job Description

Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices, automate conversations and inefficient processes, and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun, the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO, Ping Wu, the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform, & co-founder, Tim Shi, an early member of Open AI. We’ve assembled a world-class team of AI and ML experts, go-to-market leaders, and top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Sequoia, and former AT&T CEO John Donovan. Our valued customers include brands like Intuit, Cox Communications, Hilton, and Carmax and we’ve been recognized by Forbes and Bain Consulting as one of the top private AI companies in the world. Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the workforce with AI. The future of work is here, and it's at Cresta. Role Overview: Cresta is expanding its global footprint and establishing its Customer Success presence in APAC. As the Founding Customer Success Manager, APAC, you will be responsible for owning and scaling the post-sales customer experience across the region. You will serve as the primary strategic partner for APAC customers, ensuring they realize measurable business value from Cresta’s AI platform while helping define how Customer Success operates in a new market. This role combines hands-on account ownership with foundational building. You will manage complex customer relationships directly, while also developing the playbooks, processes, and feedback loops that allow Customer Success to scale in APAC. You will partner closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Data

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