Customer Success Manager (2x Openings)
Palo Alto, CA - USA
Job Summary
Volta is the category-defining fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform from capital to clusters to software under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100 people across London Palo Alto and New York with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.
About The Role
The Customer Success Manager owns the relationship with customers running large-scale AI workloads on Voltas compute platform. You will be the primary point of contact for onboarding adoption and ongoing success working closely with service operations and support to make sure customers get real value from Voltas infrastructure.
This is a relationship-first role: you will be the steady trusted presence customers turn to as they scale their use of Voltas platform.
What You Will Be Doing
Own the customer relationship from pre-contract engagement and solution alignment through onboarding production operations renewal and expansion.
Partner with customers and internal teams during pre-sales to understand customer requirements shape solutions validate technical feasibility and support contract negotiations.
Maintain a detailed understanding of each customers MSA SLAs technical requirements and commercial commitments.
Guide customers through onboarding and handover including acceptance milestones and production readiness.
Lead SLA and business reviews monitor account health and proactively surface risks opportunities and required actions.
Serve as the first line of defense when uptime or SLA performance is at risk coordinating across engineering networking data-center operations support and external partners.
Understand the drivers of service issues (e.g. GPU compute network storage hardware and facility failures) and communicate clearly through resolution and root-cause analysis.
Advocate for customer needs internally translating feedback into product and engineering priorities.
Build repeatable onboarding escalation SLA-management and customer-success playbooks as Volta grows.
What You Bring
7-10 years of experience in Customer Success Technical Account Management Solutions Architecture or a similar customer-facing technical role.
Experience managing SLA-driven contract-backed relationships with AI companies hyperscalers cloud providers or large enterprises.
Strong understanding of AI infrastructure including GPU clusters compute networking storage and training and inference workloads.
Technical depth to investigate service issues diagnose likely causes of downtime and work effectively with engineering teams.
Experience interpreting MSAs and SLAs and supporting technical or commercial contract negotiations.
Strong communication and relationship-building skills across technical teams business stakeholders and senior executives.
A proactive organized and data-informed approach to account health operational risk and SLA management.
Comfort building processes and working through ambiguity in an early-stage startup.
Location
This role is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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At Volta we believe people do their best work when they feel supported trusted and able to grow. Were building a company where you can make an impact keep a healthy balance between work and life and build a career youre proud of.
As a global team we do our best to provide great benefits wherever youre based. While some benefits vary by country due to local regulations we believe looking after our people is simply the right thing to do.
Competitive salary based on the work you do here not your previous salary
Equity in Volta giving you the opportunity to share in the companys long-term success
Retirement/pension contributions
Comprehensive health wellbeing and insurance benefits
Generous number of vacation days each year
Background Checks
All offers of employment at Volta are conditional on the satisfactory completion of pre-employment screening which includes confirmation of your right to work verification of your employment history and a criminal record check where this is permitted by local law. Screening is carried out by Zinc an accredited third-party provider after an offer is made and all information is handled confidentially and in accordance with applicable data protection law.
Volta is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and make employment decisions based on skills qualifications experience and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race colour religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age disability veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.
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