CSA Team Lead at Supabase - Grow Into Tech Leadership in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
High-Growth, High-Impact Leadership Role: Supabase has raised $500M and operates across 55+ countries with 280+ team members. This is a Series C-stage company with strong market momentum — joining now at a Team Lead level offers meaningful upside via ESOP and the opportunity to shape a function as it scales.
Dual Mandate — People & Technical: This role is rare in that it combines deep technical credibility (PostgreSQL, schema design, web frameworks) with people management and GTM strategy. It's ideal for senior ICs ready to transition into leadership without abandoning technical depth. The skills developed here — pre-sales architecture, proof-of-value design, cross-functional advocacy — are highly transferable across SaaS companies.
Compensation Context: No salary range is disclosed, which can be a yellow flag. For a CSA Team Lead at a late-stage startup in the US/Canada, market benchmarks typically range from $170K–$230K+ USD total compensation (base + variable + equity). Candidates should clarify OTE structure and equity vesting during interviews.
Green Flags:
- Async culture, no micromanagement — strong autonomy signals
- 100% employee health coverage — rare and valuable
- Open-source DNA means internal tools and culture are developer-centric
- Annual education budget supports continuous skill growth
Watch For: The East Coast regional alignment may create schedule pressure. Clarify whether this role carries a quota or is purely a team management function, as the line between CSA and Sales is sometimes blurred at growth-stage companies.
Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.
We're seeking a Customer Solution Architect Team Lead to captain a high-performing team of Customer Solutions Architects and help drive the adoption of Supabase across a diverse range of customers: from agile startups building towards their first launch to established brands with highly scaled workloads. This role will support the East Coast region across the Americas.
As the CSA Team Lead, you will be responsible for both people management and customer outcomes — supporting team execution while developing repeatable best practices across pre-sales discovery, proof-of-value onboarding, and technical success.
What You'll Do
At Supabase, CSA Leads oversee a portfolio of high-value customers by empowering their team to deliver technical excellence and long-term customer success. You'll work directly with the team to:
Hire, coach, and grow a global team of CSAs who serve as trusted technical advisors to our customers.
Collaborate with Sales, Product, and Engineering to define and scale the CSA motion across the full customer journey — from discovery through adoption and renewal.
Create structured onboarding, training, and development plans for CSAs to level up in technical storytelling, Postgres optimization, and customer success strategy.
Ensure CSAs consistently deliver successful outcomes, unblock adoption, and drive value for paid Team and Enterprise accounts.
Work directly with strategic customers when needed — especially during complex escalations, architectural deep dives, or critical onboarding milestones.
Pre-Sales Discovery
Lead and review technical discovery led by CSAs to uncover business and technical objectives, set appropriate expectations of the Supabase platform, and define the criteria for success.
Guide CSAs in designing and presenting platform demonstrations tailored to high-value customers, helping them clearly articulate the value of the Supabase platform and team.
Collaborate with Growth team members to size deals, provide anticipated usage estimates, and identify potential workloads supported by the Platform.
Proof-of-Value Onboarding
Support your team in defining and executing proof-of-value scopes that balance business outcomes with low-friction onboarding.
Ensure CSA-owned timelines, success criteria, and engagement tactics result in a high proof-to-conversion success rate.
Build reusable onboarding flows (email sequences, docs, templates, webinars) that accelerate time-to-value for new customers.
Customer Success & Expansion
Help your team build detailed account plans focused on both short-term adoption and long-term expansion opportunities.
Provide ongoing technical coaching for CSAs conducting architecture reviews, schema design evaluations, and performance tuning for production workloads.
Partner cross-functionally to advocate for customer feedback, share emerging customer needs with Product & Engineering, and communicate roadmap milestones back to customers.
Trust & Platform Advocacy
Coach CSAs to act as internal and external champions of Supabase, building trust with customers through consistency, clarity, and deep product expertise.
Uphold a standard of excellence in customer engagement, ensuring Supabase becomes embedded in the way our customers build.
Preferred Experience
6+ years of experience in Solutions Architecture, Technical Account Management, or Database Engineering.
2+ years of people management or team leadership experience, ideally in a high-growth, technical startup environment.
Strong background with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), with a deep understanding of schema design, indexing, and query performance.
Hands-on experience building modern web applications using frameworks like React, Svelte, Vue, or Node.js.
Clear, confident technical communicator and storyteller. Must be able to distill complex technical topics into actionable outcomes for customers and team members alike.
Experience navigating stakeholder alignment, conflict resolution, and collaborative problem-solving across teams.
Familiarity with tools such as HubSpot, BigQuery, and internal BI dashboards.
What We Offer
Fully Remote
We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world.ESOP
Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we're building together.Tech Allowance
Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment — laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.Health Benefits
Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Your wellbeing and your family's health are important to us.Annual Off-Sites
Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. It's a highlight of our year.Flexible Work
We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when.Professional Development
Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning — courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.
About the Team
Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.
280+ team members
55+ countries
20+ languages spoken
$500M raised
500,000+ community members
We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it's in your project, we probably use it in ours too. We believe deeply in the open-source ecosystem and strive to support — not replace — existing tools and communities.
Hiring Process
We keep things simple, async-friendly, and respectful of your time:
Apply – Our team will review your application.
Intro Call – A short video chat to get to know each other.
Interviews – Up to four calls with:
Team Leads
Future teammates
Someone cross-functional from product, growth, or engineering (depending on the role)
Someone from our leadership/founding team
Decision – We may follow up with a final question or go straight to offer.
All communication is remote and we aim to move fast.
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