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At a glance
What you'd actually do: Own a portfolio of enterprise MongoDB customers, run business reviews, manage technical health, and drive retention, revenue realization and expansion.}
Pay
$81k–$160k base
$81k-$160k base salary range (U.S.)
Where you work
Hybrid: New York City; must live near New York, NY
Selling to
developers and enterprises
How you'd sell
Mostly outbound (cold calls, emails)
Experience asked
5+ years
Degree
Preferred, not required
Your game plan for this job
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Full job description
Our Customer Success team is the linchpin of the post-sales customer relationship. By combining deep business and technical savvy, Customer Success keeps MongoDB at the center of our customers’ technology strategy, and ensures every customer can realize the full potential of their investment.
We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York for our hybrid working model.
The Role
As a Customer Success Manager, you are the trusted advisor helping customers navigate their journey on MongoDB. You’ll be responsible for maximizing customer lifetime value and success for a portfolio of accounts, acting as a strategic connector between your customers and the right resources at the right time to achieve their unique business goals. You’ll drive customer retention, revenue realization, and advocacy. You’ll build deep relationships, understand customer needs inside and out, and seamlessly navigate account team and internal resources to deliver real, measurable impact where your customers need it most.
Key Responsibilities
Customer Advisory
Proactively identify risks and ensure deployment health by advising on best practices and operational strategies. Deliver optimal solutions to critical customer challenges, accelerating time-to-value and guiding customers to achieve their business goals through their MongoDB deployments
Conduct comprehensive customer business reviews, analyzing technical health and operational performance while translating insights into value-based outcomes. Partner with technical and business leaders to align on objectives and champion mutual success plans that foster growth and retention
Account & Portfolio Management
Own elements of the account plan that drive customer maturity and lifetime value, retention, and revenue realization. Proactively manage a portfolio of customers across various stages of the journey, creating and executing strategies to maximize value realization, advocacy, and long-term success
Track and report progress against key business outcomes, forecast revenue retention and realization to senior leadership for business predictability, and identify new opportunities to expand customer impact, collaborating with presales teams to support growth
Maintain meticulous hygiene in internal systems to ensure a single source of truth for customer insights and accurate territory analysis. Leverage AI-driven tools to streamline daily workflows, improve productivity, and optimize customer success outcomes
Internal Collaboration & Customer Advocacy
Amplify the voice of the customer within MongoDB, leveraging customer insights to inform MongoDB’s product roadmap and coordinate across Sales, Product, Services, Support, and Training teams to drive customer health, satisfaction, and value realization
Connect customers with the right internal resources, including Marketing programs and Executive Sponsor engagement, while contributing learnings from customer interactions to strengthen team success and maximize customer value
What You Will Bring
Relevant Experience: 5 to 7+ years in a technical customer-facing role (e.g., Technical Customer Success, Solutions Architecture/Engineering, Professional Services/Implementation, Technical Account Management) for a deeply technical, ideally consumption-based, product
Accountability: 3+ years experience being accountable for customer health and revenue realization for a defined book of business for Enterprise/High Tech customers
Communication: Excellent verbal and written skills with the ability to influence technical and business outcomes
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, STEM, or equivalent technical work experience
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 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 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, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
REQ ID: 2273493428
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:
