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Customer Success Manager
MongoDB is seeking a passionate and ambitious Customer Success Manager to join our team. This role is ideal for individuals who thrive in ambiguous environments, operate autonomously, and maintain a strong customer-centric approach while helping to build our program. As a main point of contact for MongoDB end users, you will leverage your technical and account management skills, acting as an account team leader across Sales, Professional Services, Solutions Architects, and more.
About the Role
In this hybrid role, based in Munich, you will serve as a strategic advisor to customers, guiding them on MongoDB best practices and overall technology strategy. This includes running enablement sessions, advising on optimization strategies for technical environments and spend, and recommending product features to accelerate customer value and growth. You will also be instrumental in collecting customer feedback to inform internal teams, including Product, Professional Services, and Leadership, on product and go-to-market enhancements. Furthermore, you will de-escalate and resolve critical customer issues, acting as the link between customers and product engineering to develop innovative solutions and influence the future product roadmap. Building and executing account plans to mitigate risk and drive growth, leading in-person executive business reviews, and contributing to strategic internal projects to build the Customer Success program are key responsibilities. You will also document customer interactions, provide feedback on customer account health signals, manage relationships with Sales Leadership, forecast churn and growth, and play a role in interviewing and onboarding new team members.
What You'll Do
- Serve as a strategic advisor to customers, providing guidance on MongoDB best practices and technology strategy.
- Collect customer feedback to inform internal teams on product and go-to-market improvements.
- De-escalate and resolve critical customer issues, acting as a liaison between customers and product engineering.
- Build and execute account plans to mitigate risk and drive growth.
- Lead executive business reviews for strategic customers.
- Contribute to strategic internal projects to enhance the Customer Success program.
- Document customer interactions in internal systems (Gainsight, Salesforce.com).
- Provide feedback to leadership on customer account health signals.
- Manage relationships with Sales Leadership and Account Executives.
- Forecast expected churn and growth to senior leadership.
- Assist in interviewing, onboarding, and ramping new team members.
About MongoDB
MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB's unified database platform, the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. With offices worldwide and over 60,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.
Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. To drive personal growth and business impact, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups to fertility assistance and generous parental leave, we value our employees’ wellbeing and support them along their professional and personal journeys.
Key skills/competency
- Customer Success Management
- Account Management
- Technical Acumen
- Client Services
- Strategic Advisory
- Problem-Solving
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Account Planning
- Customer Advocacy
- Relationship Management
How to Get Hired at MongoDB
- Tailor your resume: Highlight your 5+ years in customer success or account management, emphasizing your technical aptitude and customer advocacy.
- Showcase your entrepreneurial spirit: Detail instances where you've built new processes or improved existing ones to serve customers better.
- Demonstrate technical curiosity: Mention any experience with databases, cloud, or infrastructure technologies, and express eagerness to learn MongoDB.
- Prepare for a hybrid model: Confirm your ability to work from Munich and contribute to a collaborative team environment.
- Express your client-centricity: Emphasize your passion for acting as an extension of customer teams and driving their success.
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