Enterprise Customer Success Manager

MariaDB is making a big impact on the world. Whether you’re checking your bank account, buying a coffee, shopping online, making a phone call, listening to music, taking out a loan or ordering takeout – MariaDB is the backbone of applications used everyday. Companies small and large, including 75% of the Fortune 500, run MariaDB, touching the lives of billions of people. With massive reach through Linux distributions, enterprise deployments and public clouds, MariaDB is uniquely positioned as the leading database for modern application development.

The Enterprise Customer Success Manager will be responsible for the long-term success, value, and retention of their customer portfolio utilizing our MariaDB database solutions. This role will strengthen and manage the partnership between customers and the company, interacting regularly to build relationships, drive adoption, and provide awareness to all available resources. Through collaboration, they will educate customers to achieve their business goals and maximize value from their investment with our MariaDB solutions. The Enterprise CSM is the primary point of contact for escalations and is responsible for working in collaboration with a team of Sales Engineers, Account Executives, and other cross-functional teams, focused on helping our customers achieve their business goals.

• Support and engage with customers throughout all stages of their customer lifecycle: onboarding, adoption, expansion, retention, and advocacy.
• Guide new customers through onboarding for MariaDB deployments, consulting on MariaDB best practices to ensure customers receive value.
• Formulate an ongoing meeting cadence with the assigned portfolio.
• Become a trusted advisor and advocate for customers within the company.
• Understand customers' data management strategies and effectively articulate additional improvements and/or new strategies leveraging MariaDB capabilities.
• Identify proactive opportunities to work with and provide value to customers.
• Proactively address customer experience issues early, collaborating with Technical Support to understand their customer's issue, and assisting as an escalation point of contact.
• Work with Sales Engineers and Professional Services to determine appropriate services for MariaDB upgrades, migrations, deployments, and/or maintenance.
• Conduct regular business reviews within accounts, showcasing value and learning about business goals and priorities.
• Encourage customer participation in company initiatives (Webinars, Roadshows, Product Feedback, etc).
• Responsible for measuring, managing, and improving customer health, engagement, and value realization.
• Coordinate with Account Executives to ensure the upgrade, migration, and/or growth of the customer portfolio.
• Articulate growth plans, expectations, and successes; documented and tracked within success plans.
• Effectively communicate customer needs to other parts of the business and act as a customer champion within the company.
• Work collaboratively and influence other departments to promote customer satisfaction and success.
• Manage and maintain customer portfolio in achieving the company's Net Retention goals.

• Always represent the company in a knowledgeable and professional manner.
• Possess a mix of technical acumen, intellectual curiosity, and interpersonal relationship-building skills.
• Experience supporting customers in the public sector. 
• Excellent time management and organization skills.
• Ability to develop and maintain C-Level relationships.
• Ability to deliver custom ROI analysis for your customer portfolio.
• Comprehensive understanding of customer success principles.
• Strong understanding of MariaDB features, architecture, and common use cases in enterprise solutions.
• Can speak to new features and quickly speak to new releases of MariaDB.
• High attention to detail.
• Proficient in identifying and understanding complex business needs as it relates to MariaDB.

Full-Time - Remote - US

Compensation

The annual anticipated U.S. base salary range for this full-time position is $70,000-75,000, plus $30,000-$32,000 bonus. Actual salaries may vary and fall outside of this range depending on factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, geographic location, skills, experience, and competencies. Salaries for candidates outside the U.S. will vary based on local compensation structures.

In addition, we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than the job description as posted. Salary is one component of MariaDB’s total rewards package.  We provide a competitive benefits package additional benefits includes health insurance, life, and disability insurance, funds toward professional development resources, Flexible Paid Time Off (FPTO), paid holidays, 401 (k), and parental leave, a massive degree of flexibility and freedom, just to name a few!

Salaries for candidates outside the U.S. will vary based on local compensation structures.

If you are interested in this position, please submit your application along with your CV/Resume through our ATS Greenhouse on our MariaDB Careers site.

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