Full-Time

Customer Success Manager

Posted on 9/23/2025

Slope

Slope

11-50 employees

Offers B2B BNPL for SMEs

No salary listed

San Francisco, CA, USA

In Person

Category
Sales & Account Management
Requirements
  • 3–6 years of experience in customer success, account management, or B2B customer-facing roles
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills; you build trust quickly and enjoy problem-solving with customers
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment; organized and comfortable managing many moving parts
  • Experience with SMBs, marketplaces, or financial products is a plus but not required
  • A builder mindset: excited to create playbooks, not just follow them
Responsibilities
  • Own the end-to-end success of customers, from onboarding through ongoing relationship management
  • Manage a portfolio of customers, helping improve adoption, usage, and retention. Proactively identifying opportunities and risks within the portfolio
  • Work hand-in-hand with our credit team to facilitate underwriting and risk review / monitoring, balancing customer experience and support for a robust risk process
  • Act as the primary contact for customer needs, questions, and escalations from our support team
  • Partner closely with Sales, Product, and Risk to ensure customer needs are met and feedback is integrated into our roadmap
  • Develop playbooks and scalable processes for customer support and success
  • Tend to operational details related to servicing our customers and drive associated process improvements
  • Analyze customer behavior and provide insights that inform go-to-market strategy

Slope provides Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) financing for business-to-business (B2B) transactions, targeting small and medium-sized enterprises in wholesale and retail. How it works: merchants ship goods or provide services and, after delivery, Slope pays the merchant immediately and collects payment from the business buyer later, charging a 6% merchant fee. This arrangement removes the risk of bad debt and the burden of payment collections from sellers, helping them manage working capital and focus on growth. How Slope differs from competitors: it centers BNPL on B2B transactions rather than consumer purchases, takes on credit risk and collections on behalf of the seller, and uses merchant-funded payout to provide instant liquidity to merchants. What the company aims to achieve: to simplify access to capital for growing businesses and enable them to scale without traditional financing burdens.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$252.1M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Amazon partnership offers AI lending to 2 million US sellers via Seller Central.
  • $65M funding from J.P. Morgan scales operations and launches SlopeAI platform.
  • SlopeScore deployed on Walmart, IKEA, Samsung exposes AI to vast transaction volumes.

What critics are saying

  • Resolve erodes market share with non-recourse financing and 5x more buyers.
  • Balance undercuts 6% fees via immediate settlement and zero DSO.
  • SME defaults exhaust $175M JPMorgan debt facility amid 2026 slowdown.

What makes Slope unique

  • Slope delivers AI-powered BNPL exclusively for B2B transactions targeting SMEs.
  • SlopeScore uses sales velocity and inventory data for SMB cash flow underwriting.
  • Slope pays merchants post-shipment, eliminating bad debt and collection hassles.

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Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Remote Work Options

Professional Development Budget

Company Equity

401(k) Company Match

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

-4%

2 year growth

8%
Memesita
Dec 16th, 2025
Slope partners with Amazon to offer AI-powered lending to US sellers backed by JPMorgan

Slope, an AI-powered lending startup, is partnering with Amazon and backed by a JPMorgan Chase credit facility to offer streamlined financing to US Amazon sellers through the Seller Central platform. The deal, announced Tuesday, enables eligible vendors to apply for and receive lines of credit with rapid approvals. Slope's AI-driven risk assessment analyses business data beyond traditional credit scores, including sales velocity, customer reviews and inventory turnover, to determine creditworthiness. This approach aims to serve businesses often overlooked by conventional lenders. The partnership targets Amazon's over 2 million US sellers, many being small and medium-sized enterprises facing persistent funding gaps. JPMorgan Chase's backing provides the capital infrastructure whilst lending credibility to AI-powered lending models in the fintech space.

Pulse 2.0
Jul 29th, 2024
Slope Raises $65M for AI Payments

Slope, an AI-based B2B payments company, raised $65 million in a new funding round, bringing its total funding to $252 million ($77 million in equity and $175 million in debt). The funds will be used to scale operations. J.P. Morgan Payments, Y Combinator, and Saga participated in the round. Slope will join the J.P. Morgan Payments Partner Network and launch SlopeAI, an AI underwriting platform for financial institutions and wholesalers.

FinSMEs
Jul 17th, 2024
Slope Raises $65M in Funding

Slope, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a B2B payments platform, raised $65M in funding

FinSMEs
Jul 17th, 2024
Slope Raises $65M in Funding

Slope, a San Francisco-based B2B payments platform provider, raised $65 million in funding. The round was led by J.P. Morgan Payments, with participation from Y Combinator, Jack Altman, and Max Altman’s Saga fund. J.P. Morgan will also provide a debt facility. The funds will be used to scale operations. Slope will join the J.P. Morgan Payments Partner Network to enhance end-to-end payment experiences.

Finextra Research
Jul 17th, 2024
JP Morgan invests in B2B payments platform Slope

JP Morgan is making an equity investment in, and providing a debt facility to, AI-led business-to-business payments platform Slope.

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