Customer Success Lead
Alethios · San Francisco, CA
First customer success hire, reporting to the CEO, owning study startup, go-live and ongoing study operations with researchers and sponsors. Builds tools and automations such as study-health dashboards, templated onboarding and AI-assisted reporting to scale the function, and feeds customer pain points back to engineering.
What you'll do
- Run study kickoff and onboarding with researchers and sponsors
- Monitor study health: enrollment pacing, compliance, data flow
- Own client communication cadence and build systems for updates
- Drive renewals and expansion of studies
- Build automated dashboards, onboarding flows and AI-assisted reporting
Requirements
- Product-minded: built workflows, automations or internal tools
- Reach for AI tooling by default
- Health-focused with eagerness to analyze data or a clinical/research background
- Well prepared for meetings and organized under pressure
- Creative problem solver able to invent processes
Nice to have
- Clinical credentials or health sciences background
- Experience building a function at an early-stage company
- Familiarity with HubSpot, Intercom, or IRB submission tools
Benefits
- Competitive compensation including equity
- 100% of healthcare and dental plan premiums covered
- Generous PTO
- Hybrid flexibility from San Francisco office
Skills
Outlined skills are listed as required.
Full original description
About Alethios
Alethios is a decentralized health research platform. We give researchers one place to build a protocol, manage participants, and integrate wearables and surveys, in real-time, so they can go from formulation to validation without the friction of traditional, site-based research. We're a mission-driven company, focused on lowering the barriers to human health research for both researchers and participants. And we're growing quickly: more studies, more researchers, more categories, every month.
We're looking for someone who cares about human health, sweats the details, builds things, and wants to be at a mission-driven company. This is the first hire in this function. You'll define what customer success means at Alethios, reporting directly to the CEO and working closely with Business Operations and Engineering.
The role
You'll own customer success end to end: study startup, go-live, and study ops. Day-to-day, that means working directly with researchers and sponsors to get their studies launched and run well.
The bigger opportunity is what you build while doing it. We launch 5 to 10 studies a month and that number is growing fast. The tools you create, such as automated study-health monitoring, templated onboarding, or AI-assisted client reporting, are what will take it substantially higher without growing the team. The best people here make themselves more leveraged every month, and this role is designed for that.
The work comes down to four things: relationship management, tool building, excellent follow-through, and both an instinct and an analytic approach for what makes a great study.
What you'll do
Run study kickoff and onboarding: offer input on protocol digitization and study decentralization
Monitor study health: enrollment pacing, participant compliance, data flow from surveys and wearables
Own the client communication cadence: status updates, mid-study check-ins, results walkthroughs. Build the systems that generate these updates
Coordinate with our distribution team on kit timing, client product receipt, and participant mailing
Drive renewals and expansion: a great first study should become a second
Build the machine: automated study-health dashboards, templated onboarding flows, self-serve client resources, AI-assisted reporting
Be the voice of the customer to engineering: feed pain points and patterns back into the product roadmap
Who you are
You're product-minded: you've built workflows, automations, or internal tools, and you reach for AI tooling by default
You're health-focused, with either a serious hunger to learn and analyze data or a clinical/research background
You prepare for every meeting: clients notice, and so do we
You're organized under pressure: multiple concurrent studies won't rattle you
You're creative: when the obvious process doesn't fit, you invent one that does
Nice to have
Clinical credentials or a health sciences background
Experience at an early-stage company where you built the function rather than inherited it
Familiarity with HubSpot, Intercom, or IRB submission tools
Benefits
We want our team to feel supported, in work and in life. Alethios offers:
Competitive compensation including equity that reflects the value and impact you bring from day one
Health benefits: we cover 100% of healthcare and dental plan premiums for employees
Generous PTO so you can recharge fully and show up at your best
Mission-driven work that directly lowers barriers to evidence generation and makes research more accessible
A dynamic team: small and collaborative, where every voice matters and cross-disciplinary thinking shapes the product daily
SF office with flexibility: this role is hybrid out of our San Francisco office