Director, Customer Success and Community Engagement
Director, Customer Success and Community Engagement
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02-08-2025
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Job Description
Who we are
The problem: Every minute matters in fire response. As climate change amplifies the intensity of wildfireswith longer fire seasons drier fuels and faster windsnew ignitions spread faster and put more communities at risk. Today most wildfires are detected by bystanders and reported via 911 meaning it can take hours to detect a fire verify its exact location and size and dispatch first responders. Fire authorities need a faster way to detect confirm and pinpoint fires so that they can quickly respondpreventing small flare-ups from becoming devastating infernos.
About Pano: We are a 130 person growth-stage hybrid-remote start-up headquartered in San Francisco. We are the leader in early wildfire detection and intelligence helping fire professionals respond to fires faster and more safelywith the right equipment timely information and enhanced coordinationso that they can stop a new ignition before it grows. Pano AI combines advanced hardware software and artificial intelligence into an easy-to-use web-based platform. Leveraging a network of ultra-high-definition 360-degree cameras atop high vantage points as well as satellite and other data feeds Pano AI produces a real-time picture of threats in a geographic region and delivers immediate actionable intelligence.
Pano AI is on TIMEs list of the 100 Most Influential Companies of 2025! MIT Technology Review listed Pano as one of the top 15 climate tech companies to watch in 2024 and Fast Company named Pano AI one of the Top 10 most innovative companies in AI of 2023. Weve also been featured in the Wall Street Journal Bloomberg and CNBC News. Pano AIs dozens of government and enterprise customers span 16 states in the U.S. five states in Australia and BC Canada and we are currently monitoring over 30 million acres of land. Pano AI has raised $89M in venture capital funding from Giant Ventures Liberty Mutual Ventures Tokio Marine Future Fund Congruent Ventures Initialized Capital Salesforce Ventures and T-Mobile Ventures. Learn more at
The Role
Pano AI seeks a director to lead and scale the Community Engagement team which owns relationships with community organizations such as fire authorities and disaster management agencies. This team is high touch in communication and support with these community agencies and end-users and manages their entire lifecycle from initial identification to outreach onboarding and driving product engagement and feedback.
Following years of increasingly catastrophic climate disasters were now in the midst of one of the greatest paradigm changes in the past century with the entire disaster preparedness space being re-imagined and restructured. This critical role within Panos broader Customer Success organization will help empower and accelerate this change. Your team and you will help build and manage Panos ground game via establishing a network of engaged end-users who receive and respond to alert notifications from Pano stations.
Working with a cross-functional team of Customer Success Managers (who own the corresponding relationships with our paying customers such as utilities) sales account executives and product managers you will have ultimate responsibility for Panos engagement with the fire community. You will lead the teams growth set and measure performance against KPIs use data driven insights and technology to scale and present progress to company leadership. You will report to the Head of Customer Success.
This is an ideal job for an outstanding and experienced business leader with a passion for working with customers exceptional judgment and strategic thinking and a demonstrated ability to work with other cross-functional leaders in a fast-paced environment. The successful candidate will have stellar communication skills the ability to lead and grow a team with varying experience levels and a process driven mindset.
What youll do:
- Build and Lead a World-Class Team: Recruit mentor and grow both individual contributors and first-line managers to excel individually and as a team. Set clear performance expectations provide ongoing coaching and drive accountability.
- Measure Effectiveness and Scale the Team: Define and manage operational KPIs to track success. Improve efficiency and operations using data-driven insights technology (e.g. GenAI) and tools (e.g. Salesforce HubSpot).
- Drive Customer Experience and Outcomes: Define the fire community user journey from initial outreach to user support and deploy standardized playbooks at each stage. Support Sales Marketing and Government Affairs by developing closed-loop processes to surface case studies identify advocates and coordinate press events. Manage expectations of both internal teams and fire community users making thoughtful choices that balance business goals with community needs.
- Enhance Product Adoption and Act as Customer Advocate: Partner with Analytics and Product leaders to measure and drive engagement using insights to inform continuous improvement and new opportunities. Facilitate and track adoption of new product features contributing to feature refinement with Product and Engineering.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration and Executive Communication: Build and deliver presentations for senior leadership on progress against goals and identification of roadblocks. Collaborate with team leaders across functions to strengthen scalability and drive cross-functional initiatives.
What youll bring
- 8 years of professional experience in consulting customer success or other customer-facing experience with a strong preference for experience within a SaaS or enterprise software-related field
- 4 years in a leadership or management role ideally in an early-stage or growth company. You are a comfortable and confident team leader
- Comfort building and delivering presentations to VP and C-level decision-makers; strong executive presence and ability to synthesize data to inform decisions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong organization and attention to detail
- Outstanding business judgment while dealing with ambiguity and have a knack for getting things done in a matrix environment
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where constant change is the norm and the bar for delivering results is set high
- Empathy for the stakeholders we serve; passionate about climate adaptation and environmental issues public safety and technology for good. Background experience in the disaster management or fire community is not required but must be a quick learner to ramp up about this industry
- Travel expectations: Approximately 10% to 20% for customer meetings fire agency engagements customer press events and industry events
$150000 - $172000 a year
Final salary offered is based upon multiple factors including individual job-related qualifications education experience knowledge skills and addition to salary this position is also eligible for stock options. We offer comprehensive medical dental and vision insurance unlimited paid time off and matching 401k.
Pano is an equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and supporting our team-members regardless of where they come from. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status.
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