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Relay

Enterprise PTT platform with GPS tracking

Enterprise Customer Success Manager

Full-Time
No salary listed
Senior
Raleigh, NC, USA
HybridHybrid role based in Raleigh HQ; three days on-site per week required.
Customer Experience & SupportCustomer Success

About the job

Requirements
  • Experience: 5+ years of experience in Customer Success, Account Management, or Sales, with a proven track record of managing complex, multi-site B2B accounts through a "Bottoms-Up, Tops-Down" motion.
  • Intellectual Curiosity & Self-Starter Mentality: You are a natural-born leader & learner who leverages AI to teach yourself the nuances of new industry segments quickly. You thrive in ambiguity and create success where a playbook might not yet exist.
  • The "Chameleon" Skillset: Ability to adapt your tactics and communication style to achieve desired advances across a multitude of stakeholders, from production line workers to C-suite executives.
  • Technical & Workflow Acumen: Curiosity and capability to master a sophisticated hardware+software platform. You must be able to articulate Relay’s advantages over legacy incumbents in terms of safety, connectivity, and various use case enablement.
  • Strategic Communication: Ability to frame complex risks and opportunities with logic and empathy. You are a master of discovery, gathering the intel that sets up the entire organization for future success.
  • Builder Mentality: You are someone who contributes to writing the playbook rather than just following one. You are motivated by "winning" through achieving big goals and seeing your cross-functional team succeed.
  • Travel Readiness: Ability and willingness to travel up to 40%.
Responsibilities
  • Enterprise "Headpin" Mastery: Lead the end-to-end execution of high-impact site deployments within target named accounts. You own the site-level experience, ensuring "Time-to-Value" is immediate and that every hurdle, technical, behavioral, or change management related, is cleared to manufacture a successful outcome. Establish the success criteria per proof of concept/pilot based on the Enterprise strategy and target value proposition. Orchestrate and progress all key milestones, ensuring highly proactive awareness of all performance indicators (positive or negative), leading internal escalation through to resolution, to successfully manufacture positive success stories at the site-level.
  • Organizational Mapping & Strategic Discovery: Expertly map the broad stakeholder landscape of an enterprise, from the line supervisor to regional leadership. You gather the market intelligence and "corporate leverage points" required to set the strategy for long-term account scaling.
  • Manufacturing Revenue Momentum: Use early success in 1-2 locations to "work the org map." You forge the credibility and trust needed to demonstrate Relay’s value, and earn initial introductions and access to the broader organization progressing “bottoms-up” growth.
  • Cross-Functional Advocacy: Your command over the experiences of headpin sites, is essential in conveying your ground-level learnings that directly shape our product roadmap and broader Go-To-Market strategy, ensuring we balance revenue growth with product readiness. You lead the site level success, overcoming hurdles in your way, through partnership & collaboration with cross-functional counterparts in Tech Support, Product & Solutions Engineering. You collaborate with Sales & Marketing on account strategy and case study development to position site-level success within the broader enterprise organization.
  • Proactive Field Presence: You define "proactive." When opportunity strikes, you are there. Whether it’s a meeting at a local facility with 3 days notice or a week-long immersion in a new plant, you are willing to jump on a flight to hover over pilots and lead successful outcomes.
  • Matrix Org Enablement: You are responsible for leading continued site success post initial site(s) conversion, particularly during the critical early stages of an Enterprise Multi-Site account strategy. This entails full life-cycle management of "headpin" sites, ensuring they remain healthy, high-utilization reference points that serve as the catalyst for broader expansion. You own the seamless "overlap-to-handoff" to Sales and CS reps, ensuring no detail is missed for the team that will scale & farm the logo once Enterprise leverage has been established.

About the company

Relay provides a digital Push-to-Talk (PTT) communication platform for active workers in the enterprise market, replacing traditional walkie-talkies. It works over mobile and desktop devices with a voice interface, allowing users to press a button and send live voice messages while also sharing GPS location and issuing emergency alerts. Relay differentiates itself by removing range limits and security concerns of radios through a cloud-based network, unifying voice, location, and alerts across devices, and offering software integrations and ongoing feature updates via a subscription. Its goal is to improve workforce efficiency and safety by delivering reliable, scalable, and easy-to-use communication for teams in dynamic work environments.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$84M

Headquarters

Raleigh, North Carolina

Founded

2015

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What believers are saying

  • Relay raised $36 million on September 30, 2026, funding hiring and global expansion.
  • Relay now serves about 10% of the Fortune 500 across industrial, hospitality, and healthcare.
  • TeamTranslate and 35-language support address frontline labor shortages, safety incidents, and shift miscommunications.

What critics are saying

  • Zello, Voxer, and AT&T Enhanced Push-to-Talk commoditize messaging before Relay’s AI monetizes.
  • International Paper-led financing signals customer concentration; losing one anchor account dents 2027 growth.
  • If integration-heavy hardware deployments stall, Relay becomes a niche device vendor, not infrastructure.

What makes Relay unique

  • RelayM launched June 17, 2025, shrinking rugged frontline hardware while keeping safety and translation.
  • International Paper led Relay’s September 30, 2026 round, validating industrial workflow credibility.
  • Relay spans hardware, AI translation, GPS, panic alerts, and enterprise integrations in one stack.

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Benefits

Health, dental & vision

PTO

Paid sick leave

401(k) with 3% match

Paid parental leave

Connection & wellness credit

Equipment & tools

Flexible work environment

Free snacks & fun times

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-1%

1 year growth

-1%

2 year growth

0%
Business North Carolina
Oct 1st, 2026
Relay raises $36M on big plans, CEO Chuang says.

Relay raises $36M on big plans, CEO Chuang says. 10/01/2026 Raleigh's smart walkie-talkie maker Relay expects to hire as many as 100 workers and expand globally after raising $36 million in financing, the company said this week. Relay uses artificial intelligence incorporated into its web of services, which include offering translations in 35 languages. The technology helps link a wide variety of users who work for about 50 companies in the Fortune 500, ranging from steel workers to restaurant hosts. The company launched in 2015 as a spinoff from communications provider Republic Wireless. "We needed the funding to fuel our rapid growth," says CEO and co-founder Chris Chuang. With one push, users are connected to back offices by voice and with location information, making the radios useful in emergencies or when dealing with customers who speak different languages. Relay has 300 employees, including 270 in the Raleigh area. It is expecting to add another 50 over the next few months, according to Chuang. Plans call for more "go-to-market" support and added product functions, he adds. Relay has cracked the Inc. 500 list for three consecutive years. Chuang wouldn't disclose revenues but says Relay is nearing profitability. Investors include Relay's customer International Paper, which was the lead investor, with other backing from Cerity Partners, Harmonic Growth Partners, Thayer Investment Partners and earlier backers G2 Venture Partners and Wind River Ventures. Relay is the latest in a series of wireless technology ventures for Chuang, who was a senior leader at Motricity and Bandwidth, then launched and sold Republic Wireless and spun off Relay as a separate company. Relay has now raised $90 million, including $42 million in 2024. PitchBook has estimated its valuation at about $370 million, Axios Raleigh reported.

DevCuration
Sep 30th, 2026
Relay raises $36M for frontline operational intelligence.

Relay raises $36M for frontline operational intelligence. International Paper is leading a $36M investment in Relay, one of the frontline-technology vendors already working inside the industrial environments the packaging company knows best. Relay announced the financing on September 30, 2026, with new capital from clients of Cerity Partners, Harmonic Growth Partners, and Thayer Investment Partners. Existing investors G2 Venture Partners and Wind River Ventures also increased their investments. The Raleigh company says the round brings its total capital raised above $90M. Relay did not disclose a formal round label or current valuation, which makes the lead investor more informative than a label would have been: International Paper is moving from customer evidence to capital commitment while Relay tries to turn voice, location, and shift activity into usable operational intelligence. What happened. Relay's September 30 announcement describes a significantly oversubscribed $36M financing. International Paper led the investment, while Cerity Partners clients, Harmonic Growth Partners, and Thayer Investment Partners joined as new investors. G2 Venture Partners, which led Relay's 2024 Series B, and Wind River Ventures put in additional capital. Relay says the money will expand its software and AI platform, including an insights and agentic layer that will let teams query shift data and act on it. The plan also covers worker-safety capabilities, integrations with enterprise systems, next-generation frontline hardware, expansion across industrial and hospitality markets, and hiring in product and go-to-market roles. Axios Raleigh reports that Relay has about 300 employees and expects to add roughly 100 people over the next year. The product starts where screens become awkward. Relay builds a familiar push-to-talk experience around connected hardware, cloud communications, real-time translation, location awareness, safety alerts, automated workflows, and integrations. That combination matters in factories, hotels, hospitals, casinos, warehouses, and other environments where a worker may be moving, wearing gloves, responding to noise, or handling a problem that will not wait for a form to load. The company's argument is that enterprise software has digitized plenty of management work while leaving frontline context trapped in speech. Relay's survey of 500 U.S. manufacturing professionals, conducted by Dynata, found that 57% said their most important operational communication happens aloud and in person. Only 17% said almost everything workers notice and flag reaches a system, log, or formal report, while 79% said communication breakdowns cause delays, rework, or missed handoffs at least a few times each month. Those figures are company-sponsored research, but they frame the workflow Relay is trying to own. Relay gives workers the behavior they already understand, then tries to make the exhaust useful. A radio message can become a translated communication, a safety record, a location-aware alert, or structured shift data that managers and software systems can revisit. The financing is aimed at pushing that design further, especially through an AI layer that can answer questions about shift activity and connect the answer to an action. Why a customer-led round matters. International Paper is not approaching Relay as an investor learning the product from a deck. Keith Townsend, Group Vice President for Packaging Solutions North America, said in the funding release that Relay had delivered dependable communication in loud industrial environments and helped improve shift transitions, operating processes, safety responses, maintenance alerts, and connections into operational systems. That does not turn one customer's experience into universal proof, but it changes the investment logic. A corporate customer can bring requirements, deployment friction, procurement knowledge, integration needs, and operational consequences into the capital relationship. Relay gets money from an organization that understands what happens when communication technology fails during physical work, and International Paper gets a closer seat at a vendor it considers part of a modern industrial stack. The rest of the syndicate broadens that market signal. Thayer brings hospitality relationships, while Harmonic specializes in expansion-stage companies and Cerity's venture practice works with corporate investment programs. Returning investors G2 and Wind River are backing another phase after Relay's $13M Series A in 2023 and $35M Series B in 2024. Scale has moved the assignment. Relay says its platform now reaches hundreds of thousands of frontline workers, nearly 10% of the Fortune 500, and almost 10,000 sites. The company reports processing more than 1B data points each week, supporting 35 languages, and maintaining 99% gross revenue retention and 130% net revenue retention among enterprise customers. These metrics have not been independently audited in the sources reviewed, but they describe a business whose challenge is moving beyond device replacement. Chris Chuang, Relay's CEO and co-founder, is positioning the company as a system of action for physical operations. The phrase earns its meaning only if Relay can connect a worker's fast, spoken observation to a reliable record and then to the enterprise system where maintenance, staffing, safety, or production decisions are made. Hardware durability, network reliability, translation quality, permissions, data governance, and integration depth all sit inside that promise. What the $36M has to prove. The easy version of the story is that AI is finally reaching frontline workers. The harder and more useful version is that Relay must preserve the speed and simplicity of a radio while adding enough structure for software to understand what happened without creating more work for the person holding the device. International Paper's participation gives Relay a demanding place to keep testing that proposition. As the company adds people, hardware, integrations, and an agentic layer, its most important output will not be the number of conversations captured. It will be whether a spoken warning, handoff, repair note, or safety signal reaches the right system soon enough to change the shift that produced it.

PR Newswire
Sep 30th, 2026
Relay raises $36M led by International Paper to digitise frontline operations with AI

Relay, a system for physical operations, has raised $36 million in new funding, bringing its total capital to over $90 million. The oversubscribed round was led by International Paper, with participation from Cerity Partners, Harmonic Growth Partners, and Thayer Investment Partners. The North Carolina-based company serves frontline workers who don't work at desks. Its platform combines cloud communications, AI, real-time translation, and automated workflows in hardware designed for industrial environments. Relay works with approximately 10% of the Fortune 500, serving hundreds of thousands of frontline workers across manufacturing, hospitality, and healthcare sectors. The company maintains 99% gross revenue retention and 130% net revenue retention among enterprise customers. The funding will accelerate platform development, worker safety solutions, enterprise integrations, and market expansion. Relay processes over one billion data points weekly from nearly 10,000 deployed sites.

PR Newswire
Jun 17th, 2025
Relay Unveils Relaym: 35% Smaller Device To Disrupt Traditional Hospitality Communications

An engineering marvel, RelayM offers comms and safety features, live translation of 30+ languages, and a market-leading approach to reliable connectivity, virtually eliminating dead zones.RALEIGH, N.C., June 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Relay is proud to announce the launch of RelayM™, our latest breakthrough in frontline communication technology, debuting at HITEC 2025. This powerful new addition to our product portfolio bridges the gap between Relay+™ and RelayX™. Based on the RelayX design, RelayM delivers enterprise-grade performance in a form factor that is 35% smaller, making it one of the smallest 5G devices in the market.Engineering Excellence in a Compact DesignRelayM is an engineering marvel. We challenged ourselves to deliver the core performance and functionality of RelayX in a dramatically streamlined package – optimized for the unique demands of hospitality environments. While RelayM is compact, it still integrates critical communication, panic, and location awareness into a single, simplified device. Building on the success of Relay+, RelayM offers an evolved design that enhances usability and effectiveness in day-to-day hospitality operations

PR Newswire
Jan 8th, 2025
New Study Reveals On-The-Job Language Translation For Frontline Workers Costs The Average Manufacturer Upwards Of Half A Million Dollars Per Year

The frontline communications innovator Relay found that prevailing approaches see bilingual employees serve as ad-hoc interpreters, compromising their own productivity and leading to widespread labor underutilizationRALEIGH, N.C., Jan. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Relay, the cloud-based communications platform designed to improve productivity and safety for frontline teams, today announced the findings of a new research study detailing the hidden costs of language barriers in the industrial sector