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Customer Success Manager, Academia

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Prolific

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Location:
United States, San Francisco

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Category:
Sales

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Contract Type:
Not provided

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Salary:

100000.00 - 150000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

As an Academic Customer Success Manager at Prolific, you will develop existing relationships with academic researchers and proactively source new relationships with key stakeholders across US institutions. Your primary goal will be to drive adoption and increase revenue by identifying and engaging potential customers through outreach, meeting them face-to-face, developing deep insights into their institutional and research needs, and expanding Prolific’s reach within target institutions. You will identify opportunities to engage new researchers and teams, facilitate feature adoption, and support studies on-site. Working closely with colleagues across the business, you’ll ensure that customer feedback is relayed to internal teams, playing a key role in Prolific’s growth within the US academic market.

Job Responsibility:

  • Define and implement strategies to achieve product usage, revenue growth, and customer satisfaction goals through key customer retention and expansion
  • Cultivate relationships with high-potential academic customers, proactively sourcing and developing new contacts within target institutions via 1:1 outreach, networking, events, and marketing initiatives
  • Engage wider buying committees within academic institutions (e.g., procurement, finance, IT) to explore committed contract opportunities
  • Develop and execute initiatives to increase Prolific's visibility and awareness at selected academic institutions in the USA
  • Manage bid responses for projects and Statements of Work (SOWs) within your named account list
  • Advocate for customer needs internally, and maintain feedback loops between Customer Success and Product R&D teams
  • Collaborate with UK-based Academic colleagues to manage and grow the overall Academic book of business

Requirements:

  • Experience working with academic researchers, higher education institutions, or public sector organizations
  • Proven track record of exceeding expectations against commercial targets in a customer-facing role in a B2B technology company (customer success, sales)
  • Demonstrated ability to build and manage a network of contacts within academia, starting from cold outreach
  • Great listening and communication skills, ability to build strong relationships with customers
  • Proven track record of initiating and leading successful growth and retention initiatives, working with a cross-functional team
  • A desire to grow and learn fast
  • Energized when speaking face-to-face & running workshops
  • A personal interest in research
What we offer:
  • competitive salary
  • benefits
  • remote working
  • impactful, mission-driven culture
  • equity
  • opportunity to earn a cash variable element, such as a bonus or commission

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 11, 2025

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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