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VP of Customer Engagement

Vapi
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 7/26/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/25/2026
Vapi (/ˈvɑːpi/)

  • We’re creating the shift to voice as humanity’s default interface
  • We’re the most configurable platform for deploying voice agents
  • We’ve grown to over 600k developers in two years, adding 2,000 every day
  • Try talking to Vapi now

Why We’re Hiring This Role

  • Vapi has rapidly scaled and unified pre-sales and post-sales into a single Customer Engagement Organization
  • We need a leader to own the full customer lifecycle, from initial engagement through long-term expansion
  • This role will turn customer engagement into a primary growth engine by driving usage, retention, and enterprise-wide adoption
  • You will lead a multi-disciplinary org across Agent Strategists, Agent Engineers, and Customer Support

What You’ll Do

  • 30 Days
    • Audit enterprise accounts and evaluate health using existing scorecards
    • Build deep fluency in the Vapi platform (latency, multi-assistant squads, CLI)
    • Align with Sales leadership on GTM strategy and immediate expansion opportunities
    • Identify at-risk accounts and implement retention strategies
  • 60 Days
    • Execute a unified engagement strategy across inbound and outbound motions
    • Lead technical and strategic teams to translate customer goals into production deployments
    • Strengthen post-sale support with engineering-led problem solving
    • Ensure seamless lifecycle ownership from pre-sale through expansion
  • 90 Days
    • Operationalize a data-driven Net Revenue Retention (NRR) engine
    • Build frameworks that drive 10x customer value and enterprise-wide adoption
    • Translate field insights into product roadmap inputs
    • Establish Customer Engagement as a core driver of revenue growth
Who You Are

  • Leader of leaders with 10 years across GTM, Solutions, or Customer Success in technical environments
  • Proven ability to manage and scale multi-disciplinary technical teams
  • Strong commercial instincts with a track record of growing accounts, not just supporting them
  • Deep technical fluency; able to engage credibly with both executives and engineers
  • Systems thinker who sees pre-sales and post-sales as a single continuum
  • Highly autonomous operator who builds playbooks from first principles

Why Vapi

  • Generational impact: Build the human interface for every business
  • Ownership culture: We empower builders, not managers
  • Kind team: High ambition, low ego
  • Tier-1 investors: YC, Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer

What We Offer

  • Real stake: We offer a competitive salary and excellent equity ownership
  • Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Team love: We love hanging out, and we do quarterly off-sites
  • Flexible time off: take what you need
  • More: catered meals, transportation, gym, and a $10k annual L&D budget

Salary : $10,000

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