Director, Customer Success Management

MongoDB
London, United Kingdom
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Candidates with extensive people management experience and a background in enterprise customer-facing roles will find this leadership-focused, hybrid work arrangement role in London.

Best fit for

  • Leaders with a history of managing enterprise teams and driving long-term business outcomes through data-informed strategies
    — “Experience leading leaders”
  • Individuals who have shaped customer success programs at an organizational or geographic level
    — “Experience setting org/geo-wide direction for customer success programs”
  • Candidates with a strong track record in cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management
    — “Experience as a CS leader managing executive level internal and external stakeholder relationships”

Things to consider

  • The role demands a strong focus on internal team development and external customer outcomes
    — “drive the recruitment, coaching, mentoring, and development within the region”
  • Candidates must be based in London for this hybrid working model
    — “We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in London for our hybrid working model”

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate your ability to lead and develop managers with a focus on long-term team and customer success
    — “passion for hiring, developing and retaining a team of managers”
  • Showcase your experience in designing customer success initiatives that drive retention and expansion
    — “Build Programs: Design and implement initiatives to enhance customer retention, expansion, satisfaction, and product adoption”
  • Highlight your track record of influencing executive stakeholders across multiple departments
    — “collaborating with, and influencing cross-functional executive stakeholders”
  • Emphasize your ability to communicate effectively to diverse internal and external audiences
    — “Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present to a diverse audience both internally and externally”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • recruited and developed a customer success team
  • designed and implemented customer success programs
Typical background
15+ years of experience in customer success or related roles

Skills & requirements

Required

People ManagementCustomer SuccessRetention StrategiesCustomer SatisfactionProduct AdoptionCross-functional Collaboration

Preferred

MongoDBNosql Databases

Stack & domain

MongoDBNosql DatabasesLeadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingTeam-buildingCustomer SuccessAccount ManagementClient Services

About the role

Original posting from MongoDB

We are seeking an experienced and results-oriented leader responsible for our UKI Customer Success team. In this role, you will manage managers and foster the growth and success of both our customers and team members.

As the Director of Customer Success for the UKI, you will drive the recruitment, coaching, mentoring, and development within the region, empowering our high-touch Customer Success teams to deliver exceptional value to customers, hone their skills, and advance their careers. Beyond talent development, you will be responsible for designing and executing strategies to boost customer retention and satisfaction, identify expansion opportunities, and enhance customer adoption of MongoDB. Your role will involve close collaboration with senior leaders across the go-to-market (GTM) ecosystem, including Sales, Solution Architecture, Product, Professional Services, Marketing, HR/Recruiting, and Customer Support.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in London for our hybrid working model.

We’re looking for someone with:

Bachelor's degree, technical degree preferred

7+ years people management experience

15+ years relevant experience and subject matter expertise in Customer Success, Account Management, Client Services, or similar customer-facing roles

10+ years experience working within or supporting large enterprises

Experience leading leaders 

A passion for hiring, developing and retaining a team of managers; your team’s success is your top priority

Experience setting org/geo-wide direction for customer success programs and allocating resources to drive operations in alignment with the strategy

Track record of leading fast-growing teams and using data to drive initiatives and inform decision-making processes that impact long-term company operations and success

Experience as a CS leader managing executive level internal and external stakeholder relationships; includes collaborating with, and influencing cross-functional executive stakeholders (Sales, Marketing, Support, Product, etc.) on strategic GTM and company-wide initiatives

Demonstrates ability to communicate a compelling vision and motivating a team to deliver excellent results in a fast paced environment

Experience with enterprise infrastructure technologies; familiarity with MongoDB or NoSQL databases is a plus but not required

The ability to navigate ambiguity with perseverance, positivity, and a clear point of view. 

An adaptable mentality. You thrive in an ever-changing environment and continuously seek to improve yourself, your team, and your processes

Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present to a diverse audience both internally and externally

Role Overview & Key Responsibilities

People Leadership: Recruit, mentor, and develop frontline up to Sr Manager-level leaders in the Customer Success team

Execution: Define and adhere to a set of analytical metrics to guide the team’s direction; achieve quarterly and long-term targets

Build Programs: Design and implement initiatives to enhance customer retention, expansion, satisfaction, and product adoption

Executive Presence and Communication: Cultivate and maintain relationships across MongoDB teams, organizations, and offices

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform 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 data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, 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 the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

Req ID: 3273572924

Source: MongoDB careers

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