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 Opportunity
The Customer Success Manager is responsible for the general health of the MariaDB customer base, expanded usage and reduced customer churn. In addition, the chosen candidate will help to close new and expanded sales in allocated territories. This role will be measured in terms of retention rate and customer health with additional bonus opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary point of contact between our strategic customers and internal stakeholders, and be a key member of our Customer Success organization
- Foster and grow customer relationship by acquiring tribal knowledge of a customer's organization and identify our champions
- Articulate the value of our open source database/SaaS cloud platform, while driving customer engagement and adoption
- Guide post-sale support activities such as customer onboarding, adoption, advocacy, reviews/updates and retention
- Coordinate and engage different internal technical teams to solve customer issues
- Report on customers’ wants and needs to Product Management team in order to improve the product
- Work cross-functionally with strategic and technical colleagues to accomplish customer goals
- Qualify opportunities through follow-ups (within company SLAs and best practices playbook)
Qualifications
- 2-3 years of experience as a customer-facing CSM in an entrepreneurial, fast-growing startup-like environment
- Direct experience with SaaS products, solutions or ecosystems
- Adept at driving results and outcomes while solving complex business problems
- Experience in a solution-sales/cloud technology environment
- Experience with prospecting and relationship management using tools such as Salesforce.com, Catalyst...
- Excellent presentation, organizational and communication skills (both written and verbal)
Bonus Experience and Skills
- Bilingual (English + 1+ European languages)
- Knowledge and understanding of databases
- Track record working effectively with internal, partner and customer teams
- Meets/exceeds MariaDB’s functional/technical depth for this role
Location
London, England Office – Hybrid (2 x per week onsite, Tues & Thurs)
What’s in It for You?
Impact the world of technology by pushing the boundaries of technology and business models, working at MariaDB. Be part of a game-changing organization that encourages outside-the-box thinking, values empowerment, and is truly shaping the future of the software industry. You’ll be collaborating with high-caliber colleagues around the world, offering unparalleled learning and growth opportunities. We provide a very competitive compensation package, additional benefits and a massive degree of flexibility, freedom, and more. We provide a very competitive compensation package, 25 days paid annual leave (plus holidays), a massive degree of flexibility and freedom, and more.
Salaries for candidates outside the U.S. will vary based on local compensation structures.
How to Apply
- If you are interested in this position, please submit your application along with your resume/CV via Greenhouse.
- MariaDB does not sponsor work visas or relocation.
- MariaDB is committed to providing accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.
- MariaDB will not accept agency resumes without a prior contractual agreement with HR. Please do not forward resumes to any recruiting alias or employee directly. MariaDB is not responsible for any unsolicited resumes.
- MariaDB is an equal opportunities employer.
What We Do
MariaDB frees companies from the costs, constraints and complexity of proprietary databases, enabling them to reinvest in what matters most – rapidly developing innovative, customer-facing applications. MariaDB uses pluggable, purpose-built storage engines to support workloads that previously required a variety of specialized databases. With complexity and constraints eliminated, enterprises can now depend on a single complete database for all their needs, whether on commodity hardware or their cloud of choice. Deployed in minutes for transactional or analytical use cases, MariaDB delivers unmatched operational agility without sacrificing key enterprise features including real ACID compliance and full SQL. Trusted by organizations such as Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens – MariaDB meets the same core requirements as proprietary databases at a fraction of the cost. No wonder it’s the fastest growing open source database. Real business relies on MariaDB™.
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