Senior Customer Success Manager, Caper

Instacart Instacart · Consumer · Canada · Remote · Professional Services

Instacart is seeking a Senior Customer Success Manager to partner with retailers implementing their in-store AI solutions, such as smart carts and computer vision. This role focuses on driving adoption, ensuring value realization, and supporting the end-to-end deployment of these AI technologies within retail environments, from pilot to nationwide rollout.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own a portfolio of enterprise retail accounts using Caper's in-store AI solutions; build strong relationships with retailer stakeholders to drive adoption, expansion, and renewals.
  2. Serve as a trusted advisor to retail managers, directors, and cross-functional counterparts, providing strategic guidance on store operations, change management, and value realization.
  3. Support end-to-end deployments—from pilot design through regional or nationwide scale—partnering with product, engineering, sales, and field operations; contribute to success metrics, milestones, and risk mitigation plans.
  4. Maintain and refine playbooks, health scoring, and QBR cadences; forecast account health and surface voice-of-customer insights that inform product roadmaps and prioritization.
  5. Lead resolution of cross-functional escalations spanning hardware, software, and store operations; contribute to post-mortems and implement preventative improvements.

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, or Consulting for B2B technology
  • 3+ years supporting enterprise retail clients
  • Proven track record managing executive relationships and renewals for strategic accounts with significant annual contract value
  • Hands-on experience delivering or supporting in-store retail technology (e.g., POS, computer vision, smart carts, self-checkout, IoT) across multiple locations
  • Demonstrated success contributing to complex rollouts and programs, including pilot support, change management, and store operations readiness
  • Proficiency with CRM and success tooling (e.g., Salesforce, Gainsight) to manage health, forecasting, and QBRs
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Operations, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Willingness to travel up to 30% within North America

Nice to have

  • Experience with AI/ML or computer vision products in a retail environment
  • Background supporting hardware–software deployments and coordinating with field services or store operations teams
  • Analytical fluency with tools like Looker or Tableau
  • SQL proficiency to build/interpret dashboards and quantify ROI
  • Experience supporting programs scaling from pilot to 50+ store deployments and contributing to enterprise change management
  • Commercial awareness across renewals, SOWs, and expansion conversations
  • Comfort presenting to Director-level stakeholders
  • Track record contributing to product and engineering roadmap conversations via structured voice-of-customer feedback

What the JD emphasized

  • in-store retail technology
  • computer vision
  • AI/ML or computer vision products