Full-Time

Senior Customer Success Manager

Posted on 5/7/2026

Samba TV

Samba TV

201-500 employees

Delivers TV audience measurement and insights

Compensation Overview

$140k - $150k/yr

New York, NY, USA

In Person

Category
Customer Experience & Support (1)
Required Skills
Gainsight
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • Minimum 5+ years in Customer Success roles with minimum 2+ years serving as the direct client lead, preferably in enterprise B2B, SaaS, Ad-Tech environments.
  • Enterprise account management expertise – personal experience managing $1M+ ARR accounts and leading complex, multi-stakeholder engagements.
  • Executive presence and gravitas – comfortable presenting to and influencing C-level executives and boards on strategic initiatives and business outcomes.
  • Data analytics and business intelligence expertise – specific emphasis on Data Analytics, Cloud, Collaboration, or Identity solutions with ability to drive technical and business value conversations.
  • Commercial sophistication – experience with complex contract negotiations, multi-million dollar renewals, and strategic partnership development.
  • Cross-functional leadership – proven ability to influence and coordinate across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing teams without direct authority.
  • Deep domain knowledge in DaaS, SaaS, and IaaS business models (TV and Streaming), including data collaboration, identity resolution, and cloud ecosystems.
  • Scaling expertise – experience managing concurrent portfolios of 7+ enterprise accounts totaling $2M+ in ARR.
  • Process and systems thinking – demonstrated ability to design and implement scalable customer success operations and methodologies.
  • Bachelor's degree required; MBA considered a plus.
  • Customer Success or Account Management certifications (Gainsight, Totango, or equivalent) preferred.
  • Prior Senior CSM or above experience in Customer Success, Account Management, or related customer-facing functions.
  • Industry expertise in adtech/martech, television/media, or data analytics ecosystems.
  • Technical background with ability to engage in deep technical conversations with engineering and data science teams.
  • Consulting or professional services experience in enterprise technology implementations.
Responsibilities
  • Executive relationship management – serve as the Samba Client lead and strategic advisor for middle management to VP stakeholders across your book of business of 7+ accounts.
  • Cross-functional orchestration – lead complex, multi-quarter engagements involving Product, Engineering, Data, Legal, and Sales teams.
  • Strategic account planning – execute multi-year success plans aligned with client business transformation initiatives for your book of business.
  • Cross-departmental alignment – partner with Sales, Product, and Marketing leadership to ensure seamless customer experience and revenue optimization.
  • Data-driven insights – support reporting frameworks and business intelligence capabilities to drive strategic decision-making.
  • Drive expansion strategy – identify and execute systematic approaches to account growth, including whitespace analysis and expansion planning.
  • Renewal excellence – lead complex, high-stakes renewal negotiations and ensure predictable revenue retention.
  • Commercial partnership – collaborate closely with Sales leadership on enterprise deals, transitions, and strategic account development.
  • Executive Engagement: Conduct bi-annual strategic business reviews with 100% of Tier 1 accounts, including C-level participation.
  • Renewal Excellence: Maintain >98% gross dollar retention across Your portfolio.
Desired Qualifications
  • MBA considered a plus
  • Customer Success or Account Management certifications (Gainsight, Totango, or equivalent) preferred

Samba TV collects and analyzes TV viewing data to help advertisers, broadcasters, and content creators understand what people watch. It embeds its technology in about 35 million smart TVs across 20 brands, creating a large viewership database and a household identity graph. The system works by using a proprietary multi-source panel from participating TVs to gather viewing activity, then turning that data into insights and analytics that clients can use to plan ads, optimize content, and measure performance. What sets Samba TV apart is the size and scope of its data: it claims the largest end-to-end viewership dataset and identity graph in the industry, with a panel hundreds of times larger than typical measurements and broad brand partnerships, while offering privacy controls for viewers who opt in or out. The company aims to provide data-driven, actionable insights to improve advertising effectiveness and content delivery across the global smart TV market.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$75.7M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2008

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Secured $60M venture debt in May 2026 to fund AI tools and acquisitions.
  • Partnerships with Disney, TikTok, Snap, and MediaTek expand global reach.
  • Appointed Jaya Aswani as CTO and Katie Soo to board in 2026 for AI scaling.

What critics are saying

  • Nielsen's $1.6B acquisition by Vista in 2023 bundles offerings undercutting Samba.
  • Google's Privacy Sandbox deprecation erodes Samba's household identity graph advantage.
  • $60M debt repayment forces dilutive raises if acquisitions underperform by 2028.

What makes Samba TV unique

  • Samba TV's patented ACR technology, invented in 2011, integrates across 24 top Smart TV brands.
  • Proprietary multi-source TV panel is 100 times larger than legacy measurement systems.
  • Samba Knowledge Graph uses first-party data from 48 million TVs and billions of web users.

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6 month growth

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1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

-7%
TV Tech
Dec 8th, 2025
Samba TV Secures New Funding of up to $60 Million

Samba TV secures new funding of up to $60 million. SAN FRANCISCO - Samba TV has announced that it has secured new financing from Horizon Technology Finance Corporation, an affiliate of Monroe Capital, with an initial venture debt facility of $30 million, and up to $30 million more to support future growth. Samba TV said it will use the capital to accelerate the AI transformation in media and advertising, driving adoption of its advanced agentic advertising solutions. The financing will also support its efforts to expand its global operations and strategic partnerships, as a unified, cross-platform measurement source for global DSPs, SSPs and major platforms like TikTok and Snap. In addition, Samba reported that it "is now capitalized to continue its track-record of strategic acquisitions of technology companies." "The traditional advertising playbook is obsolete and Samba is delivering Agentic AI infrastructure the industry needs to execute with unified, real-time infrastructure to optimize every screen," said Ashwin Navin, CEO and co-founder of Samba TV. "This growth capital provides the strategic flexibility and firepower to aggressively execute our AI product roadmap, scale our global partnerships, and opportunistically execute on M&A opportunities when they present themselves. We chose to partner with Horizon because of their deep understanding of the technology landscape and their ability to provide sophisticated, non-dilutive capital solutions that align with our long-term vision." "The media and advertising sector is at a critical inflection point, and Samba has established itself as an indispensable global leader," said Mark Solovy, managing director and co-head, Technology Finance Group at Monroe Capital, the parent company of Horizon. "Samba TV's proprietary data, advanced AI platform, and its deep integration with the world's leading media platforms represent the exact kind of durable, scalable business model we seek to invest in. We are thrilled to provide the growth capital to support Ashwin and his team as they capitalize on this massive market opportunity."

Axios
Dec 8th, 2025
Samba TV raises $60M venture debt for acquisitions and AI measurement tools

Samba TV has secured up to $60 million in venture debt to fund acquisitions and develop AI-powered measurement tools, CEO Ashwin Navin told Axios. The funding reflects intensifying competition in the media measurement industry as advertisers demand real-time, cross-platform insights to optimise campaigns across television and digital channels. The venture debt will enable the company to scale its operations and expand its capabilities in tracking viewer behaviour and advertising effectiveness across multiple platforms.

MrWeb Ltd
Sep 5th, 2025
Daily Research News Online

Media intelligence firm Samba TV has announced a partnership with smart TV chipset supplier MediaTek, to launch 'Samba AI with MiraAware', an AI solution offering TV manufacturers, platforms and advertisers real-time, contextual intelligence for CTV content.

Digital IT News
Sep 4th, 2025
Samba AI Powers EdgeAI on Connected TVs with MediaTek

Samba TV and MediaTek launched Samba AI with MiraAware, an edge AI breakthrough that delivers real-time contextual intelligence to connected TVs (CTV).

MarTech360
Jun 18th, 2025
Samba TV and InfoSum Join Forces to Deliver Scalable, Privacy-First Agentic Media Measurement

Samba TV, a global leader in AI-powered media intelligence, announced a strategic international partnership with InfoSum, the world's leading data collaboration platform and part of WPP.