Senior Customer Success Manager

MongoDB
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
On-site

Who this role is best for

Geared toward candidates with a technical background and experience managing high-value accounts, comfortable with driving customer outcomes and building new processes. This role is based in Dubai and requires a hybrid work arrangement with in-person executive reviews.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 7+ years in customer-centric technical roles and a track record of managing Forbes Global 2000 accounts
    — “7+ years experience working in Customer Success, Technical Account Management, Professional Services or other similarly customer-centric role for a technical product”
  • Individuals who can independently lead cross-functional teams and influence executive-level decisions
    — “you will be expected to take full ownership of your customer portfolio and make key decisions to drive effective customer outcomes”
  • Candidates with a history of creating new processes and advocating for customers internally
    — “you will be required to both deviate from established procedure and often build entirely new process or practices to ensure we best serve this customer segment”

Things to consider

  • Based in Dubai with a hybrid model, requiring in-person engagement for executive reviews
    — “we are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dubai for our hybrid working model”
  • Requires a high level of autonomy and decision-making, including involving executive teams in escalations
    — “deciding when to include our executive team or c-suite in customer escalations”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in designing and executing account plans for long-term growth
    — “Build and execute account plans to mitigate risk and drive growth 3+ quarters out across your portfolio”
  • Emphasize your ability to advocate for customers and influence internal teams
    — “this role should act as an extension of our customers team within MongoDB”
  • Showcase technical certifications and ongoing education in relevant fields
    — “Demonstrated continuing technical education (e.g., MongoDB DBA track, hyperscaler certifications)”
  • Demonstrate experience in resolving high-stakes technical issues and driving time-to-value
    — “Facilitate the resolution of high-stakes customer challenges while identifying strategic opportunities to expand MongoDB usage”
  • Include examples of leading enablement sessions or mentoring others in your resume or interview answers
    — “Act as a leader amongst your peers, running enablement sessions, product certifications”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • Guiding customers through the customer journey
  • Proactively identifying and mitigating technical risks
  • Facilitating resolution of high-stakes customer challenges
Typical background
7+ years experience in Customer Success, Technical Account Management, Professional Services

Skills & requirements

Required

Customer Success ManagementTechnical Account ManagementAccount ManagementCustomer Health And Revenue RealizationStrategic Advisory

Preferred

Database TechnologyCloud TechnologyInfrastructure Technology

Stack & domain

Customer SuccessTechnical Account ManagementProfessional ServicesCustomer-centric RoleTechnical ProductCustomer HealthRevenue RealizationCustomer PortfolioCustomer EscalationsCustomer IssuesCustomer ChallengesCustomer JourneyCustomer UsageCustomer EnvironmentCustomer SpendCustomer GrowthCustomer EnablementCustomer DeploymentCustomer RemediationCustomer Best PracticesCustomer OptimizationCustomer ExpansionCustomer MongodbCustomer DatabasesCustomer CloudCustomer InfrastructureCustomer Technical EnvironmentCustomer Technical StrategiesCustomer Technical SpendCustomer Technical GrowthCustomer Technical MongodbCustomer Technical DatabasesCustomer Technical CloudCustomer Technical InfrastructureCustomer Centric ApproachCustomer AdvocacyCustomer TeamCustomer ExtensionCustomer AutonomyCustomer OwnershipCustomer DecisionsCustomer Executive TeamCustomer C-suiteCustomer De-escalationCustomer ConflictCustomer Internal TeamsCustomer SalesCustomer Professional ServicesCustomer Tech ServicesCustomer Broader EcosystemCustomer Strategic GrowthCustomer Technical

About the role

Original posting from MongoDB

Individuals in the Customer Success Manager role have a passion for technology and the ambition to dive head-first into new challenges. We are looking for someone who can thrive with a high level of ambiguity and operate autonomously while maintaining a customer centric approach and helping to build the program. In this role you will also become a main point of contact for MongoDB end users by leveraging your technical and account management skills as well as acting as the account team leader across Sales, Professional Services, Solutions Architects, etc. 

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

Our ideal candidate will have

7+ years experience working in Customer Success, Technical Account Management, Professional Services or other similarly customer-centric role for a technical product (ideally consumption based)

4+ years experience being accountable for customer health and revenue realization for a defined book of business/portfolio of accounts for Forbes Global 2000 customers

A background and passion for advocating on behalf of your customers - this role should act as an extension of our customers team within MongoDB

A mind for technology - we’ll teach you about MongoDB and databases, but our customers and product are inherently technical and you should have an aptitude and curiosity to learn about those concepts

The ability to act with a high level of autonomy, you will be expected to take full ownership of your customer portfolio and make key decisions to drive effective customer outcomes; including deciding when to include our executive team or c-suite in customer escalations, how to de-risk or de-escalate customer issues and conflict and advocating to internal teams including sales, professional services, etc

An entrepreneurial mindset - you will be required to both deviate from established procedure and often build entirely new process or practices to ensure we best serve this customer segment

A team player approach and passion for collaboration - this role will work with some of our most strategic growth customers so must align closely to Sales, Professional Services, Tech Services, and the broader MDB ecosystem

Demonstrated continuing technical education (e.g., MongoDB DBA track, hyperscaler certifications)

Prior exposure to database, cloud, and infrastructure technology is a plus

On a given day in this role you will:

Work as a strategic advisor to your customer providing them with guidance on MongoDB best practices and their overall technology strategy; this could include running enablement sessions alone or with another internal MongoDB team members, advising the customer on strategies to optimize their technical environment or current spend with MongoDB, positioning and recommending product features and best practices to accelerate customers time to value and growth

Guide customers through the customer journey to accelerate their time-to-value from MongoDB, overseeing the technical success plan from committed ARR to active consumption. Includes advising customers on on their deployment health & strategies for operating and maturing their MongoDB environments

Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks for complex accounts by designing custom remediation plans and implementing best practices to pre-empt critical issues

Facilitate the resolution of high-stakes customer challenges while identifying strategic opportunities to expand MongoDB usage through optimized technical solutions

Collect feedback and identify roadblocks from customers to inform internal teams including Product, Professional Services, and Leadership on how MongoDB can build a stronger product and go to market organization

Act as the link between our customers and product engineering to develop new innovative solutions. You will be key in building the future roadmap of our product by acting as the Product team’s eyes and ears in this field

De-escalate and resolve critical customer issues and complaints by finding the best possible solution for both the customer and MongoDB; this could include anything from navigating a customer outage that has a financial impact on their business, to helping an application team devise a custom MongoDB solution or implementation for their critical application, no day is the same

Build and execute account plans to mitigate risk and drive growth 3+ quarters out across your portfolio

Lead in-person executive business reviews for strategic customers in your portfolio, including interfacing with C-suite executives and other technical leaders to align to business objectives and agree to a mutual success plan

Work on strategic internal projects to help build the Customer Success program; our expectation is that anyone in this role has strong business acumen and the ability to create and teach best practices, new process, and enablement to the broader organization

Document all customer interactions in internal systems, including Gainsight and Salesforce.com

Provide feedback and guidance to leadership on key signals within MongoDB Atlas that indicate healthy or unhealthy customer accounts; as our product evolves, we’ll need to be constantly adjusting our engagement strategies based on these signals, which you’ll be in the best position to identify and share back with internal teams

Manage the relationship with Sales Leadership and Account Executives in your territory, including reporting on business performance, training on best practices, and rolling out program updates to ensure sales people and leaders are abreast of best practices for interacting with Customer Success

Forecast expected churn and growth to your senior leadership team

Help interview, onboard and ramp new team members - as a more senior team member you will have an immediate role in who joins the team

Act as a leader amongst your peers, running enablement sessions, product certifications and being vocal in team meetings to ensure those around you grow

Fluent level of Arabic and English

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: 427024

Source: MongoDB careers

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