Banyan Infrastructure
Head of Customer Success
About 2 months ago
About the Job
Banyan Infrastructure is on a mission to unlock the trillions of dollars needed to finance the renewable infrastructure revolution. We are a dynamic fintech company providing a cutting-edge software solution that empowers banks, funds, and other financial institutions globally to efficiently invest in sustainable projects and achieve their net-zero targets. Join us in building the future of green finance.
Why consider this opportunity?
Banyan is growing rapidly and seeking Head of Customer Success to lead our emerging CS team to deliver best-in-class value for our customers. This is an exciting opportunity to build and lead a team integral to bringing Banyan’s mission to fruition and delivering real impact and value to communities around the world.
Our team is made up of bright, mission-driven individuals. We are passionate about using technology to solve sustainability challenges for our planet. We value learning, curiosity, and collaboration. We are committed to building a supportive team that values difference and is always willing to help each other succeed.
This role reports to the CEO and is hybrid based in our San Francisco office with the flexibility to adjust on an ad hoc basis. We will prioritize candidates located in the San Francisco Bay Area who are able to come into the office regularly.
What you’ll do:
- Set the vision and strategy for customer success. Build and execute plans to achieve that vision
- Develop scalable success processes. Establish best-practice playbooks that drive onboarding and engagement in product to set customers up for success
- Build and lead the Customer Success organization to support Banyan’s rapid growth. Provide leadership and knowledge to set the team up for success. Establish OKRs and manage the customer success and implementation teams against organizational goals
- Define optimal customer lifecycle, map out the customer journey to identify peak points of usage and satisfaction, and oversee customer feedback process
- Establish customer success functions for our domestic and global customers. Build and nurture relationships with customer leadership and key personnel, serve as the primary point of contact. Interface with engineering to effectively manage incidents and issues
- Develop a deep understanding of where Banyan can deliver business value to our customers and collaborate with internal teams to align the overall strategy and product accordingly
- Define and measure customer success metrics. across our customer base and ensure we are measuring and improving them
What you’ll need:
- 10+ years experience leading B2B SaaS Customer Success organizations and working with C-level executives
- Experience establishing, managing Customer Success and Implementation systems, best practices, KPIs, and playbooks
- Leadership and people management skills:
- You have a strong management presence and leadership ability, with the presence and clarity required to inspire and motivate your team.
- Experience hiring, developing, and leading a Customer Success team for high growth B2B SaaS companies with a track record of success.
- Willingness to lead by example and serve as a player/coach.
- Cultural and emotional intelligence to collaborate in a diverse environment with global reach.
- Strong data driven problem solving skills
- Passion for customers and understanding their needs.
- Compelling verbal and written communication and presentation skills to easily explain and discuss complex concepts with a wide variety of audiences.
- Attention to detail and organizational skills to manage multiple work streams and deliver high-quality output on time and in full
- Experience with Enterprise Software, Financial Services, and/or FinTech platforms. Project Finance knowledge, Renewable Energy or Climate Solutions are a huge plus.
- Enthusiasm for Banyan’s mission and strong values alignment.
We are unable to provide H1B visa sponsorship for this role.
How we'll support your growth and success:
Ongoing opportunities to learn including:
- Opportunity to work on broader strategic customer strategy (geographic expansion, organization structure, compensation, etc.)
- Work closely with the founders, executives, and cross-functional teammates
- Work on a meaningful product that will accelerate clean infrastructure deployment around the world
- A collaborative and supportive team of smart, passionate people who are all focused on a common goal
Compensation
- $240,000 - $275,000 base salary plus incentives and equity
Our benefits package is designed to allow team members to be their best selves, in and out of the workplace. We offer 100% paid health benefits for employees through a Health Reimbursement Account (HRA), 401K with 6% match, at work meal offerings via MealPal and commuter benefits program. We prioritize your well-being and growth through professional development, parental leave program and a flexible time off policy. Our headquarters is centrally located between Bart and Caltrain in San Francisco, CA at 2nd & Folsom.
Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. We'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. We believe diverse perspectives and backgrounds are critical to building great technology. Our goal is to cultivate an environment where people feel valued and respected. So, however you identify and whatever background you bring, please apply if this role would make you excited to come to work. Banyan is an equal opportunity employer.
About the Company

Banyan Infrastructure
<p class="p1"><strong>Unlocking capital for renewable infrastructure</strong></p> <p class="p1">Banyan Infrastructure combines financial and technological innovation to accelerate the deployment of solar, wind and other critical infrastructure around the globe. The Banyan Platform oversees and automates the complex and time consuming contractual management of these small distributed assets. Our solution de-risks these assets for lenders, decreases overhead costs, and increases the ability to refinance these projects at a lower cost of capital. This gets more clean-tech installed faster at lower costs.</p> <p class="p1"><strong>Why join us?</strong></p> <ul class="ul1"> <li>Our Founders, Will and Amanda, know this space. Amanda is a Mechanical Engineer turned McKinsey consultant turned investment banker and Harvard Business School grad. Will was at Oracle during web 1.0 and the first dot.com boom then shifted to the start-up up world including Twilio and Revel Systems.</li> <li>Our small team has over 100 years of engineering experience across large companies and start-ups including Oracle, Raytheon, Salesforce, Mixbook, Twilio, StubHub, Ebay, Revel systems, and Eveo, as well as Fidelity Investments, and American Express.</li> <li>Following a triple, triple, double, double model (or triple, triple, triple). Recently announced a partnership with Dalrada Energy Services to improve ESG banking transparency</li> <li class="li1">Series B led by Energize Ventures, a venture capital firm that aims to scale sustainable innovation through climate software</li> <li class="li1">Series A investors include Ulu Ventures, a venture capital firm that actively seeks and funds women and diverse founder teams, and VoLo Earth Ventures, which faces the climate crisis head-on by providing comprehensive, first-in funding and hands-on leadership to grow, propagate, and capitalize on climate solutions.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Life at Banyan Infrastructure</strong></span></em></p> <p class="p1"><strong>Diversity and Inclusion</strong></p> <p class="p1">We believe diverse perspectives and backgrounds are critical to building great technology. Our goal is to cultivate an environment where people feel valued and respected. We encourage, celebrate, and promote a diverse workforce.</p> <p class="p1">At present our team affiliates or identifies with over a dozen different countries and cultures. We promote inclusion by openly discussing and learning about different backgrounds, gender-neutral restrooms, and flexible time-off and work policies that support different lifestyles and life practices.</p> <p class="p1">We have a goal of 50% women on our engineering team. Currently we are at 30%. Our organization is 50+% female today. We have also recently started our first ERG, Banyan Ladies, for all those who identify as female. We look to add more groups as our team grows.</p> <p class="p1"><em>CONNECT WITH OUR TEAM DURING YOUR HIRING PROCESS: </em>As part of our commitment to an inclusive workplace, we are happy to offer prospective employees the chance to connect with team members who come from underrepresented backgrounds. It's a way to get a better sense of our team and what it might be like to work with us.</p> <p class="p1">If you're interested in connecting with our team, be sure to bring this up during one of our introductory calls!</p> <p class="p1"><strong>Perks & Benefits Highlights</strong></p> <ul> <li class="p1">GENEROUS VACATION: Banyan has an unlimited vacation policy and encourages our employees to use it. One teammates recent adventure was a two week trip to Mongolia.</li> <li class="p1">FREE FOOD: We use MealPal to provide free lunch for everyone on days in the office. We also keep snacks and drinks on hand in the office.</li> <li class="p1">GYM/FITNESS: We have a corporate membership with a gym close to the office. Membership is valid at their other locations as well.</li> <li>BEAUTIFUL OFFICE: Our office is modern and clean. We have a roof top patio, large breakroom/kitchen, large mommy room, lots or windows and natural light, and plenty of conference rooms and phone rooms. We are located walking distance from SalesForce Park, Oracle Park, and the Yerba Buena Gardens.</li> <li class="p1"><span style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">PET FRIENDLY: </span>We are a dog-friendly office. Our unofficial mascot is Katsu, our Chief of Staff's dog.</li> </ul> <p>Additional support and benefits include: Parental leave, flexible hours, health insurance, commuter flex spending, 401k w/match, and team activities.</p>
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