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Customer Success roles are among the more OPT-friendly positions in tech and SaaS, with many employers regularly sponsoring H-1B visas after OPT. Your 12-month OPT window (or 24-month STEM extension if your degree qualifies) gives you real time to prove value and convert into long-term sponsorship.
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Our Team
Dandelion Health was founded in 2020 by experts in health tech, hospital systems, academia, and clinical AI. We are building the world’s largest AI training and clinical development platform. Today, we pride ourselves on our ability to make data access as easy as possible for AI developers, pharma, and medical devices, while raising the bar for patient safety and data quality. Tomorrow, we will be the place where any healthcare organization can go to build a responsible clinical AI product. Our culture is all about learning from data and improving, so we can help our clients improve health through AI. Meet the rest of our team here.
Our Data
We partner with health systems to safely and ethically make their de-identified patient data available to AI developers. Currently, the data is acquired from Sharp HealthCare, Sanford Health, and Texas Health Resources – with two additional U.S. health systems joining soon.
We have clinical data dating back to July 1, 2016. This data represents over 10 million patients and includes but is not limited to:
- Structured data (e.g., 100% of the EMR, including some claims)
- Unstructured text (e.g., clinical notes, radiology reports)
- Images (e.g., DICOM, pathology)
- Video
- Waveforms
- Continuous streaming monitoring data
Your Role
As a Strategic Customer Success Manager - Life Sciences, you will oversee Dandelion Health’s most important strategic life science accounts and ensure the successful implementation of partnerships. You will translate customer business needs into deliverables, quarterbacking execution across data science, engineering, and growth teams. Your goal is not only to deliver on the initial scope of work but also to identify opportunities for upselling and expand projects into long-term, multi-million-dollar partnerships.
You will own client communications, internal project plans, and engagement management end-to-end. By building strong executive and operational relationships with partners, you will ensure alignment on priorities, anticipate challenges, and deliver measurable outcomes. Internally, you will bring the voice of the customer into planning conversations and drive cross-functional alignment to meet customer goals.
You thrive in client-facing environments, can navigate technical and non-technical conversations, and are motivated to build lasting partnerships that drive both customer success and Dandelion’s growth.
You will report directly to the VP of Business Development.
Responsibilities
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Deliver and Expand Partnerships: Ensure successful execution of initial projects and proactively identify opportunities for upsell, cross-sell, and long-term expansion into multi-million-dollar partnerships.
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Translate Business Needs into Deliverables: Partner with customer executives to understand business objectives and convert them into impactful deliverables that create clear value.
-
Quarterback Engagements:
-
Lead end-to-end execution of strategic accounts, coordinating data science, engineering, and growth resources to deliver on time and at high quality.
-
Set clear priorities, track progress against deliverables, and escalate or resolve issues to keep engagements on track.
-
Act as the central point of accountability, ensuring all internal stakeholders are aligned and that clients receive a seamless, integrated experience.
-
Own Client Communications: Serve as the primary point of contact for strategic accounts, managing executive updates, project milestones, and issue resolution.
-
Support Complex Deals: Provide leverage for the growth team in structuring deliverables, implementation plans, and timelines for large, complex partnerships.
-
Drive Alignment: Ensure data integrity across tools (e.g., Salesforce, Jira) and maintain clarity for all stakeholders on account status, progress, and opportunities.
-
Inform Product Roadmap: Surface partner needs, feedback, and market insights to influence product strategy, ensuring Dandelion’s roadmap and features align with customer priorities and emerging opportunities.
Qualifications
Required:
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4+ years of consulting, strategic account management, or client-facing experience, ideally in life sciences, healthcare, or health tech.
-
Strong background in project management with proven ability to lead cross-functional engagements from start to finish.
-
Prior analytical experience, with the ability to bridge conversations between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
-
Exceptional communication skills, with experience engaging senior executives (VP and above) and translating complex work into business impact.
-
Demonstrated ability to upsell, cross-sell, and expand customer relationships into larger, revenue-generating partnerships.
-
Highly organized and goal-oriented, with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to anticipate and proactively resolve challenges.
-
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, early-stage environment where flexibility and ownership are critical.
-
Willingness to travel as needed for client meetings and industry events.
Preferred:
-
3+ years in life sciences or healthcare consulting, with strong emphasis on client engagement and project delivery.
-
Experience working with data scientists, healthcare analytics projects, and data products.
Team Benefits
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Remote work and flexible hours. Availability needed for meetings, which we try to keep to a healthy minimum.
-
Complete wellness benefits including healthcare, dental, vision, PTO, sick days and more. Ask for details.
-
Professional development days to build your skills.
-
Collegial work environment.
-
Academic bent towards inquiry and problem solving but start-up speed and flexibility.
-
Great balance of focus time to work on projects but easy to access team members to discuss issues and work collaboratively.
-
Dandelion is a mission-driven company that is focused on improving patient care.

Our Team
Dandelion Health was founded in 2020 by experts in health tech, hospital systems, academia, and clinical AI. We are building the world’s largest AI training and clinical development platform. Today, we pride ourselves on our ability to make data access as easy as possible for AI developers, pharma, and medical devices, while raising the bar for patient safety and data quality. Tomorrow, we will be the place where any healthcare organization can go to build a responsible clinical AI product. Our culture is all about learning from data and improving, so we can help our clients improve health through AI. Meet the rest of our team here.
Our Data
We partner with health systems to safely and ethically make their de-identified patient data available to AI developers. Currently, the data is acquired from Sharp HealthCare, Sanford Health, and Texas Health Resources – with two additional U.S. health systems joining soon.
We have clinical data dating back to July 1, 2016. This data represents over 10 million patients and includes but is not limited to:
- Structured data (e.g., 100% of the EMR, including some claims)
- Unstructured text (e.g., clinical notes, radiology reports)
- Images (e.g., DICOM, pathology)
- Video
- Waveforms
- Continuous streaming monitoring data
Your Role
As a Strategic Customer Success Manager - Life Sciences, you will oversee Dandelion Health’s most important strategic life science accounts and ensure the successful implementation of partnerships. You will translate customer business needs into deliverables, quarterbacking execution across data science, engineering, and growth teams. Your goal is not only to deliver on the initial scope of work but also to identify opportunities for upselling and expand projects into long-term, multi-million-dollar partnerships.
You will own client communications, internal project plans, and engagement management end-to-end. By building strong executive and operational relationships with partners, you will ensure alignment on priorities, anticipate challenges, and deliver measurable outcomes. Internally, you will bring the voice of the customer into planning conversations and drive cross-functional alignment to meet customer goals.
You thrive in client-facing environments, can navigate technical and non-technical conversations, and are motivated to build lasting partnerships that drive both customer success and Dandelion’s growth.
You will report directly to the VP of Business Development.
Responsibilities
-
Deliver and Expand Partnerships: Ensure successful execution of initial projects and proactively identify opportunities for upsell, cross-sell, and long-term expansion into multi-million-dollar partnerships.
-
Translate Business Needs into Deliverables: Partner with customer executives to understand business objectives and convert them into impactful deliverables that create clear value.
-
Quarterback Engagements:
-
Lead end-to-end execution of strategic accounts, coordinating data science, engineering, and growth resources to deliver on time and at high quality.
-
Set clear priorities, track progress against deliverables, and escalate or resolve issues to keep engagements on track.
-
Act as the central point of accountability, ensuring all internal stakeholders are aligned and that clients receive a seamless, integrated experience.
-
Own Client Communications: Serve as the primary point of contact for strategic accounts, managing executive updates, project milestones, and issue resolution.
-
Support Complex Deals: Provide leverage for the growth team in structuring deliverables, implementation plans, and timelines for large, complex partnerships.
-
Drive Alignment: Ensure data integrity across tools (e.g., Salesforce, Jira) and maintain clarity for all stakeholders on account status, progress, and opportunities.
-
Inform Product Roadmap: Surface partner needs, feedback, and market insights to influence product strategy, ensuring Dandelion’s roadmap and features align with customer priorities and emerging opportunities.
Qualifications
Required:
-
4+ years of consulting, strategic account management, or client-facing experience, ideally in life sciences, healthcare, or health tech.
-
Strong background in project management with proven ability to lead cross-functional engagements from start to finish.
-
Prior analytical experience, with the ability to bridge conversations between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
-
Exceptional communication skills, with experience engaging senior executives (VP and above) and translating complex work into business impact.
-
Demonstrated ability to upsell, cross-sell, and expand customer relationships into larger, revenue-generating partnerships.
-
Highly organized and goal-oriented, with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to anticipate and proactively resolve challenges.
-
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, early-stage environment where flexibility and ownership are critical.
-
Willingness to travel as needed for client meetings and industry events.
Preferred:
-
3+ years in life sciences or healthcare consulting, with strong emphasis on client engagement and project delivery.
-
Experience working with data scientists, healthcare analytics projects, and data products.
Team Benefits
-
Remote work and flexible hours. Availability needed for meetings, which we try to keep to a healthy minimum.
-
Complete wellness benefits including healthcare, dental, vision, PTO, sick days and more. Ask for details.
-
Professional development days to build your skills.
-
Collegial work environment.
-
Academic bent towards inquiry and problem solving but start-up speed and flexibility.
-
Great balance of focus time to work on projects but easy to access team members to discuss issues and work collaboratively.
-
Dandelion is a mission-driven company that is focused on improving patient care.
How to Get Visa Sponsorship in Customer Success
Apply before your OPT start date
Hiring managers need time to evaluate and onboard. Starting your search three to four months before graduation gives you runway to secure an offer before your OPT authorization begins, avoiding gaps in work authorization.
Frame your international background as an asset
Customer Success roles involve managing diverse client bases. Your cross-cultural communication skills and multilingual ability are genuinely valuable, especially at companies with global accounts. Lead with this in your cover letter and interviews.
Ask about H-1B sponsorship early but tactfully
Raise visa sponsorship after an employer shows interest, not in the first message. A clear, matter-of-fact question during a final-round interview signals professionalism and helps you avoid investing time in companies that won't sponsor.
Pursue roles with a defined career path
Companies with clear progression from CSM to Senior CSM or CS Manager are more likely to invest in long-term sponsorship. Stability in the role strengthens your H-1B petition narrative around specialty occupation.
Browse OPT-specific listings on Migrate Mate
Generic job boards mix OPT-friendly and non-sponsoring employers with no way to filter. Migrate Mate surfaces Customer Success roles from employers open to OPT, saving you hours of manual research and rejection.
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Do Customer Success jobs qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
It depends on your degree, not the job title. If you graduated with a STEM-designated degree such as Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, you can apply for the 24-month STEM OPT extension regardless of the role title. Customer Success positions at tech companies often satisfy the practical training requirement, but your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify and sign a formal training plan.
Are Customer Success roles considered specialty occupations for H-1B purposes?
Customer Success Manager roles at SaaS and tech companies generally qualify as specialty occupations when the position requires a bachelor's degree in a specific field such as Business, Communications, Computer Science, or a related discipline. Roles that are purely relationship-based with no degree requirement can face scrutiny. Look for job postings that specify a degree requirement, and make sure your degree field aligns with the duties described.
How do I find Customer Success employers who sponsor OPT?
Migrate Mate is the most direct way to find Customer Success roles from employers who are open to sponsoring OPT students. You can also cross-reference companies by searching USCIS LCA disclosure data to see which employers have filed Labor Condition Applications for similar roles. Prioritize companies in SaaS, enterprise software, and technology services, where CS sponsorship is most common.
What happens to my OPT if I'm let go from a Customer Success job?
You have a 60-day grace period after your employment ends to find a new position, transfer your OPT to a new employer, or prepare to depart the U.S. You don't need to file anything with USCIS immediately, but you should report the change to your DSO within 10 days. If you find a new Customer Success role within the grace period, your new employer simply verifies your valid EAD on Form I-9.
Can I work as a contractor or consultant in Customer Success on OPT?
Yes, OPT allows self-employment and contract work as long as the work is directly related to your degree field and you average at least 20 hours per week. However, for STEM OPT extension purposes, self-employment is not permitted. You must have a formal employer-employee relationship with a company enrolled in E-Verify. If you're on standard OPT and working contract Customer Success roles, keep detailed records of your work and its connection to your degree.
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