Founding Customer Success Manager
Krea
San Francisco, CA · Posted August 19, 2026
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About the job
ABOUT KREA
At Krea, we are building next-generation AI creative tools.
We're dedicated to making AI intuitive and controllable for creatives - our mission is to build tools that empower human creativity, not replace it. We believe AI is a new medium that allows us to express ourselves through various formats - text, images, video, sound, and even 3D. We're building better, smarter, and more controllable tools to harness this medium. We recently took this a step forward with the launch of Krea 2 https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-image-model, our first foundation model, built completely from scratch for aesthetic diversity and stylistic control, and with Krea 3 https://www.krea.ai/blog/introducing-krea-3 - our new image editing model.
We've raised over $83M and are backed by world-class investors such as a16z, Bain Capital, and Abstract. We work full-time and in-person at our waterfront office in San Francisco. We care about creativity: our team includes musicians, designers, visual artists, and engineers.
THIS ROLE
We're looking for a Founding Customer Success Manager to help our customers get real value from Krea, from first onboarding to deep, long-term adoption. You'll work closely with creative teams, guide them through workflows, and be the connective tissue between customers, product, and sales.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Own post-sale customer success: onboarding, adoption, renewals, and expansion
- Help customers integrate Krea into their creative workflows and daily work
- Drive product adoption across our core customer profiles
- Communicate new feature and product updates (we ship weekly)
- Track usage and customer signals to help customers get more value
- Identify expansion opportunities and own the renewal process end-to-end, from forecasting risk to closing the deal
- Program manage webinars and workshops in partnership with our creative leads, from planning content through execution
- Share customer feedback with the product and marketing teams and help shape what we build
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Experience in Customer Success or Account Management
- Commercially minded, with a track record of renewing and growing customer accounts
- Product-focused mindset, with experience in onboarding and implementation
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills - you're great at building and maintaining relationships
- Proactive, ownership-driven attitude and comfort working in an early-stage environment
NICE TO HAVE
- A creative background (e.g.: account manager at a creative agency, or a startup working with designers, artists, or studios)
- Strong understanding of creative workflows
WHAT WE OFFER
- Team: Work alongside a world-class team building the future of AI creative tooling
- Impact: Significant scope and company-wide impact
- Competitive compensation: generous salary & equity packages
- Health & wellness: 100% health & 99% dental/vision insurance premiums covered for employees, health FSA accounts, & long-term disability coverage
- Time off: Flexible PTO policy
- Financial planning: 401k with a 4% company-sponsored match
- Meals in the office: breakfast, lunch, dinner - you name it, we'll cover it
- Transit: Ubers covered to & from the office
- Sponsorship: We're open to sponsoring international visas where we can (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3).
- And more!
Please note the above benefits & perks are for full-time employees