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Coperniq

Solar contractor CRM and workflow platform

Customer Success Manager

Full-Time
$90k - $120k/yr+ Equity
Mid
Remote in USA
Remote
Company Does Not Provide H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • Build trust quickly with customers through strong communication.
  • Manage several customer relationships in an organized manner.
  • Learn complex software and understand operational workflows.
  • Investigate problems proactively before customers complain.
  • Operate with ambiguity and take ownership without a detailed playbook.
  • Apply strong problem-solving skills and investigate product issues directly.
  • Work closely with founders, engineers, and customers in a fast-moving startup environment.
Responsibilities
  • Own customer onboarding and go-live from handoff through successful implementation.
  • Drive product adoption through workflow coaching, health checks, quarterly business reviews, and proactive customer engagement.
  • Learn each customer's business and configure Coperniq around real-world workflows.
  • Monitor account health and churn risk and intervene before issues become cancellations.
  • Handle customer escalations and coordinate with Product, Engineering, and Solutions Engineering when needed.
  • Own renewals and de-escalations for assigned accounts.
  • Turn customer feedback into clear, actionable inputs for the product team.
  • Identify expansion opportunities when customers are receiving strong value from Coperniq.
  • Build processes, playbooks, and systems that will scale the Customer Success organization.
Desired Qualifications
  • Prior experience in Customer Success, implementation, account management, or a similar customer-facing role.

About the company

Coperniq provides a software platform for solar and energy contractors to manage leads, contracts, and sales pipelines in one central system. It also offers a white-labeled owner portal where solar customers track energy use, savings, and support. The product automates workflows, offers real-time monitoring, and integrates with proposal tools, accounting software, and hardware. Its goal is to help residential, commercial, and industrial solar installers grow their business by reducing soft costs and shortening project timelines.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$4.1M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2019

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What believers are saying

  • Coperniq shipped major API upgrades through August 31, 2026, showing active product velocity.
  • March 4, 2026 renames and archived-record support improve enterprise adoption and integration stability.
  • July 27, 2026 utility endpoints expand addressable workflows from sales into permitting and operations.

What critics are saying

  • No fresh financing surfaced after Initialized's $4M seed on November 7, 2023.
  • Solar installers face brutal software switching costs; Coperniq must displace spreadsheets and Salesforce hacks.
  • If utility and hardware integrations stall, Coperniq becomes a thin CRM with low retention.

What makes Coperniq unique

  • Coperniq sells a solar ops OS across sales, projects, service, and AI agents.
  • Its API and UI now unify accounts, opportunities, workflows, utilities, and notes.
  • White-labeled homeowner portals and monitoring tie contractors to recurring post-install service.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Flexible Work Hours

Stock Options

Paid Vacation

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

↑ 11%

1 year growth

↑ 5%

2 year growth

↑ 17%
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