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title: 'Scaled Customer Success Manager at Cartesia'
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# Scaled Customer Success Manager at Cartesia

- **Company:** Cartesia
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cartesia/6cc199f2-1bb6-4c95-b25c-7885cf2fbe8c

## Job description

## ABOUT CARTESIA

Our mission is to architect AI that learns from and interacts with the world like humans do.

We're pioneering the model architectures that will make this possible. Our founding team met as PhDs at the Stanford AI Lab, where we invented State Space Models or SSMs, a new primitive for training efficient, large-scale foundation models. Our team combines deep expertise in model innovation and systems engineering paired with a design-minded product engineering team to build and ship cutting edge models and experiences.

We're funded by leading investors at Index Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, along with Factory, Conviction, A Star, General Catalyst, SV Angel, Databricks and others. We're fortunate to have the support of many amazing advisors, and 90+ angels across many industries, including the world's foremost experts in AI.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

We're hiring our first Scaled Customer Success Manager to build the foundation for how thousands of customers succeed with Cartesia. Our customers range from scrappy AI startups shipping their first voice agent to rapidly growing companies building production-grade voice experiences. As our customer base grows, we can't just keep adding headcount to keep up. Success needs to scale through thoughtful systems, great customer programs, and product expertise.

You'll own the post-sales experience for a large portfolio of customers, helping them onboard successfully, adopt our platform, and grow over time. You'll partner closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing to improve the customer journey while building the playbooks, automations, and lifecycle programs that make Customer Success a force multiplier for the company.

## YOUR IMPACT

- Own the customer journey from onboarding through renewal for a growing portfolio of startup and SMB customers.
- Help customers realize value quickly by driving product adoption and successful onboarding.
- Build repeatable onboarding, education, and lifecycle programs that scale from hundreds to thousands of customers.
- Monitor customer health, identify risks early, and proactively improve retention.
- Partner with Sales to identify expansion opportunities driven by customer adoption and usage.
- Become a trusted product expert, helping customers adopt best practices and get the most out of the platform.
- Create scalable customer assets including playbooks, documentation, webinars, office hours, and enablement content.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to bring customer feedback into roadmap discussions and improve the overall product experience.
- Continuously improve Customer Success operations through automation, AI, and better systems.

## WHAT YOU BRING

- 3–6 years of experience in Customer Success, Technical Customer Success, Account Management, Solutions Consulting, or a similar customer-facing role at a high-growth B2B SaaS company.
- Experience managing a scaled portfolio of customers while maintaining strong customer outcomes.
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to prioritize across many customers and competing initiatives.
- Strong product intuition and customer empathy— you enjoy understanding customer goals and helping them succeed.
- A data-driven approach to Customer Success. You're comfortable using product usage data, customer health signals, and CRM insights to prioritize your work.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
- High ownership and comfort operating with ambiguity. You proactively identify problems and drive them to resolution.
- A builder mindset. You enjoy creating playbooks, improving processes, and designing systems that scale beyond your own portfolio.
- Commercial awareness and an understanding of how adoption drives retention and expansion.
- Comfortable using AI tools to automate repetitive work and spend more time solving customer problems.

## NICE TO HAVE

- Experience with developer tools, APIs, AI products, infrastructure software, or technical SaaS platforms.
- Experience supporting technical buyers such as engineers or product teams.
- Experience building customer education programs, lifecycle campaigns, or self-service onboarding experiences.

Even if you don't meet every qualification above, we'd still encourage you to apply. We care much more about your ability to learn, build, and create exceptional customer experiences than checking every box.

Note: Cartesia participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with Form I-9 information to confirm employment eligibility after hire.

## MORE DETAILS

🏢 In-office policy: We’re an in-person team based out of offices in 🇺🇸 San Francisco, 🇬🇧 London and 🇮🇳 Bangalore. We love being in the office, hanging out together, and learning from each other every day.

🌎 Visa sponsorship: We provide visa sponsorship support and assess each circumstance on a case-by-case basis. However, visa sponsorship is dependent on many factors, including the role you are applying for, and the location you are going to be based, and so we can't always guarantee success. Your Recruiter will work with you to understand your visa sponsorship needs from the first call.

🚢 We ship fast. All of our work is novel and cutting edge, and execution speed is paramount. We have a high bar, and we don’t sacrifice quality or design along the way.

🤝 We support each other. We have an open & inclusive culture that’s focused on giving everyone the resources they need to succeed.

## OUR BENEFITS (US EMPLOYEES ONLY)

💰 Compensation Competitive base salary alongside attractive equity package.

🩺 Health Insurance Fully covered medical insurance along with dental and vision for you and your family.

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Parental Leave 9 weeks paternity & 12 weeks maternity leave

🏦 401(k)

🚆 Commuter Allowance A monthly stipend to help you get to and from the office.

🏖️ Flexible PTO Take as much time as you need to recharge your batteries.

🍲 Meals & Snacks Lunch, dinner and plenty of snacks, provided daily.

🦖 Your own personal Yoshi

## OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Cartesia is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.

## About Cartesia

## Company Overview

- **One-liner**: Cartesia builds next-generation foundation models using state space models (SSMs) to deliver ubiquitous, interactive, real-time AI that runs wherever you are.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A-II; total funding $191M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Karan Goel (CEO), Albert Gu (Chief Scientist & Co-founder), Brandon Yang (Co-founder), Arjun Desai (Co-founder)

## Core Business

- **Primary industry/industries**: Artificial Intelligence – foundation models, real-time voice AI, multimodal AI
- **Target customers**: B2B – developers and enterprises building real-time AI applications in healthcare, robotics, gaming, customer service, localization, recruiting, finance, and more.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Build the next generation of AI: ubiquitous, interactive intelligence that runs wherever you are.”

## Products & Services

- **Sonic**: The world’s fastest generative voice API – a streaming text-to-speech API that supports laughter and emotion, designed for real-time voice agents (SaaS / API).
- **Ink**: Likely a multimodal generation product (text-to-image or visual) – part of Cartesia’s broader SSM platform.
- **Agents**: A framework or tool for building real-time AI agents using Cartesia’s foundation models.
- **Core foundation models**: State-of-the-art SSM-based models for text, audio, video, images, and time-series data (research-backed platform).

## Market Standing

- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $191M  
  - Seed Round (Dec 2024): $27M  
  - Venture Round (Nov 2025): $100M  
  - Series A (Mar 2025): $64M (latest round)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Index Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA, A* Capital, and more.
- **Growth Signals**:  
  - 88 employees with +6.5% monthly headcount growth  
  - 34 active job postings (+17.2% monthly, +9.7% quarterly)  
  - Website traffic up +73.2% year-over-year (380k monthly visits)  
  - Team hails from Stanford, CMU, Meta, Scale AI, Cruise, and other top AI labs

## Competitive Advantages

- **Pioneering SSM Architecture**: The founding team invented State Space Models (SSMs) at Stanford AI Lab – a subquadratic alternative to transformers that enables higher quality and far more efficient inference for real-time, multimodal AI.
- **Speed & Efficiency**: Sonic (voice API) is marketed as the world’s fastest generative voice API, critical for latency-sensitive applications.
- **World-class Backing**: Supported by top-tier VCs (Index, Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins) and NVIDIA, providing both capital and ecosystem access.
- **Research‑to‑Product Pipeline**: Direct lineage from academic breakthroughs to production-grade APIs, giving them a deep technical moat.

## Strategic Focus

- **Real‑time, Ubiquitous AI**: Expand from voice to broader multimodal capabilities, powering interactive AI that runs on edge and cloud.
- **Vertical Expansion**: Target high‑value use cases in customer service, healthcare, gaming, robotics, and localization.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across research, engineering, product, and go‑to‑market roles (34 current openings).
- **Open‑source & Community**: Maintain a developer‑friendly stance with a Discord community and free trial of Sonic.

## Why Work Here

- **Cutting‑edge AI Research**: Work alongside the original inventors of SSMs and contribute to foundational AI architecture.
- **Fast‑growing Startup**: 88 employees with rapid headcount growth and significant funding – offers ownership and impact.
- **Values‑driven Culture**: “Get the fundamentals right,” “Build to solve problems,” “Aim beyond what’s possible,” “Be honest,” “Have fun with it.”
- **Remote‑flexible**: Presence across 5 countries (US, UK, India, South Korea, Switzerland) suggests a distributed team with flexible working arrangements.
- **Engineering‑heavy**: 39% of staff in technical roles, 8% in research – strong emphasis on technical excellence.
- **Notable Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but a high‑caliber team (Stanford, Meta, Scale AI) and top investor backing indicate competitive compensation and a vibrant startup environment.

## Sources

1. [cartesia.ai](https://cartesia.ai/company/)
2. [LinkedIn – Cartesia](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cartesia-ai)
3. [CB Insights – Cartesia](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/cartesia)
4. [Lightspeed Venture Partners – Cartesia](https://lsvp.com/company/cartesia/)
5. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com – Cartesia Careers](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cartesia)

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