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title: 'Activation Specialist (London) at LangChain'
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# Activation Specialist (London) at LangChain

- **Company:** [LangChain](https://feeny.ai/companies/langchain)
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/langchain/3858b7f4-6762-47d0-9fb5-ea2610a5a099

## Job description

## About Us

At LangChain, our mission is to make intelligent agents ubiquitous. We build the foundation for agent engineering in the real world, helping developers move from prototypes to production-ready AI agents that teams can rely on. We began as widely adopted open-source tools and have grown to also offer a platform for building, evaluating, deploying, and operating agents at scale. With $125M raised at Series B from IVP, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, we’re at a stage where we’re continuing to develop new products, growth is accelerating, and all team members have meaningful impact on what we build and how we work together. LangChain is a place where your contributions can shape how this technology shows up in the real world. Today, our platform includes LangSmith (Observability, Evaluation, Deployment, Fleet, and Sandboxes), our open source frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, and Deep Agents), and the newly launched LangSmith Engine for autonomous agent improvement. We have 100M+ monthly open source downloads, 6,000+ active LangSmith customers, and 5 of the Fortune 10 use LangSmith in production (+ 35% of the Fortune 500 overall), including teams at Klarna, Clay, Coinbase, Workday, Lyft, Cloudflare, Harvey, Rippling, Vanta, LinkedIn, Monday.com, Nvidia, and Bridgewater.

## About the Team

The Customer Experience team helps customers adopt LangSmith and turn early momentum into lasting product usage. The team partners closely with GTM, Product, Engineering, and LangChain specialists to guide customers through onboarding, production readiness, and the practices required to build reliable AI applications.

## About the Role

We’re looking for an Activation Specialist to join the Customer Experience team. In this role, you’ll work with new customers during their first weeks on LangSmith, helping them move from signed contract to a working platform that is ready for agents in production. You’ll focus on activation milestones such as admin setup, user onboarding, traces flowing, evaluations in place, and customer teams feeling confident enough to keep building independently.

## What You’ll Do

- Own customer onboarding from kickoff through early activation milestones, including admin setup, SDK integration, first traced run, first evaluation, and LangGraph deployment.
- Guide customers through core LangSmith setup and production readiness topics, including security, org design, workload isolation, and integration questions.
- Partner with GTM teams, Product, Engineering, and LangChain specialists to unblock customers and coordinate support when deeper expertise is needed.
- Help customers build their first evaluation workflows, define what “good” looks like, and confirm they can debug a production trace independently.
- Route customers to the right resources and turn recurring onboarding questions into runbooks, documentation, and repeatable processes.
- Surface customer friction to Product and Engineering early and track activation metrics such as time to first trace, first evaluation, and production run.

## What You’ll Bring

- 2–4 years of experience in a customer-facing role such as support, customer success, account management, onboarding, or a similar function.
- A strong desire to work directly with customers and build productive, trusted relationships.
- Excellent organization and follow-through, with a track record of keeping customers and internal partners aligned.
- A proactive, industrious approach to learning new tools, solving problems, and rolling up your sleeves.
- Clear, friendly written and verbal communication skills.
- Curiosity about technology and AI, plus a willingness to get hands-on and learn technical concepts on the job.

## Nice to Have’s

- Customer onboarding experience at a SaaS company.
- Familiarity with enterprise readiness concepts such as SSO, SCIM, ABAC, and workload isolation.
- Exposure to developer tools, observability, evaluations, or AI/LLM workflows.
- Familiarity with analytics, BI tools or SQL.

Compensation Philosophy: We offer competitive compensation that includes base salary, variable compensation for relevant roles, meaningful equity, benefits, and perks. We are hiring for this role across a range of scope, and the compensation band reflects that. Your offer depends on what we learn about your impact, craft, leadership, and communication during the interview process. We will tell you early where you’re tracking and talk comp with you before offer stage. Team members in the EU, UK, and APAC receive locally competitive benefits aligned with regional norms and regulations.

## Benefits

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible vacation, a 401(k) plan, meals on in-office days in the US and more.

## About LangChain

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: LangChain provides an agent engineering platform and open source frameworks that help developers build, evaluate, deploy, and operate reliable AI agents at scale.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, unicorn)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with offices in New York, Boston, and Amsterdam)
- **Founded**: Early 2023
- **Founders**: Harrison Chase and Ankush Gola

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Agent Engineering
- **Target customers**: B2B – developers and engineering teams at enterprises (35% of Fortune 500 are customers) and startups
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Make intelligent agents ubiquitous” – develop tools that make it easy to build reliable agents that can use data and take actions.

## Products & Services
- **[LangSmith](https://www.langchain.com/)**: Commercial agent engineering platform offering observability, evaluation (LLM-as-judge, human feedback), and deployment. Includes LangSmith Engine for automated issue detection and root cause analysis. Supports Python, TypeScript, Go, and Java SDKs.
- **[LangGraph](https://www.langchain.com/)**: Open source framework for building production agents with low-level control, durable checkpointing, and support for human-in-the-loop, multi-agent swarms, and A2A/MCP protocols.
- **[LangChain](https://www.langchain.com/)**: Original open source framework for building agents quickly with templates and any model provider.
- **[Deep Agents](https://www.langchain.com/)**: Agent harness for autonomous, long-horizon tasks with built-in memory and concurrency.
- **[Fleet](https://www.langchain.com/)**: No-code agent builder that lets non-technical users describe tasks in plain language; agents act across daily tools with enterprise security.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $1.25 billion (unicorn status, per November 2025 Series B round)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $160 million (Seed: $10M led by Benchmark; Series A: $25M led by Sequoia Capital; Series B: $125M led by IVP). Annual Revenue (LinkedIn estimate): $8.5 million.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: IVP (lead Series B), Benchmark (lead Seed), Sequoia Capital (lead Series A). Customers include Zip, Vanta, Klarna, Workday, LinkedIn, Cloudflare.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 212 employees (+264.8% YoY, +9.9% monthly)
  - 1 billion+ monthly open source downloads
  - 1 billion+ events ingested per day on LangSmith
  - 35% of Fortune 10 are LangSmith customers
  - 6,000+ active LangSmith customers
  - Awards: Forbes AI 50, InfraRed 100, IA40, Enterprise Tech 30
  - Active job postings: 123 (monthly +4.2%, yearly +668.8%)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open source ecosystem**: LangChain and LangGraph are the most popular open source frameworks for building LLM agents, with a massive community (100M+ monthly downloads) that drives adoption and talent.
- **Full lifecycle platform**: Covers building (open source frameworks), evaluating (LangSmith), deploying (agent server), and operating (LangSmith Engine) – a vertically integrated solution.
- **Framework-agnostic**: LangSmith works with any agent stack (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) via SDKs, reducing vendor lock-in.
- **Enterprise trust**: Already embedded in Fortune 500 companies; strong security and compliance features for production AI.

## Strategic Focus
- **Agent reliability**: Investing heavily in evaluation and observability to make agents “reliably good” – the hardest problem in production AI.
- **Long-horizon autonomy**: Deep Agents and Fleet target autonomous, multi-step tasks that require memory and human collaboration.
- **Global expansion**: Offices in US, Europe, and India; hiring across sales, engineering, and customer success to serve a growing international customer base.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-moving, open source–first startup with a mission to shape how the world uses AI. Described as hiring “the best in the business” with a focus on engineering excellence.
- **Work policy**: Hybrid/office presence in San Francisco, New York, Boston, and Amsterdam. Remote roles may exist (not explicitly stated, but global hiring suggests flexibility).
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**:
  - Work on cutting-edge agent technology used by millions of developers.
  - High autonomy and impact – small team with big ambitions.
  - Strong alumni network from top tech companies (AWS, Datadog, HashiCorp, GitLab, etc.).
  - Recent departures include VP of Marketing (Diana Smith, Mar 2026) – indicates some churn, but overall rapid hiring.
  - Active job postings across engineering, sales, product, and consulting – strong growth trajectory.

## Sources
1. [langchain.com](https://www.langchain.com/) – Official website (products, stats, customers)
2. [langchain.com/careers](https://www.langchain.com/careers) – Careers page (awards, values)
3. [langchain.com/about](https://www.langchain.com/about) – About page (mission, history, funding, team)
4. [linkedin.com/company/langchain](https://www.linkedin.com/company/langchain) – LinkedIn profile (headcount, revenue, funding rounds, job trends, talent sources)

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