Customer Success Manager

Salary Range: 65000 to 75000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

What You'll Do

Be the Ultimate Customer Advocate
Act as the primary strategic partner for your customers, guiding them to achieve their institutional goals through effective use of Mongoose.
Lead onboarding and implementation for new customers, ensuring a smooth, structured rollout that drives early adoption and sets the foundation for long-term success.
Establish clear success plans during onboarding, aligning platform usage to customer goals and defining measurable outcomes from the start.
Own customer health by monitoring adoption, engagement, and performance trends—and proactively identifying risks and opportunities.
Conduct regular Mongoose Quarterly Reviews (MQRs) that go beyond updates to analyze performance, surface insights, and recommend actionable strategies that demonstrate measurable value.
Drive Strategic Value & Outcomes
Partner with customers to align Mongoose usage with key institutional priorities such as enrollment, retention, and student engagement.
Drive measurable improvements in customer outcomes by ensuring recommendations are implemented and results are achieved
Analyze conversation and engagement data to identify trends, diagnose challenges, and provide clear, strategic recommendations.
Help customers evolve their communication strategies using best practices, benchmarks, and emerging AI-driven insights.
Translate product capabilities into real-world impact, ensuring customers understand not just how to use Mongoose—but how to maximize its value.
Ensure onboarding success translates into momentum, driving early wins that build confidence and long-term engagement.
Fuel Growth Through Insights and Advocates
Identify and shape expansion opportunities by aligning Mongoose solutions to broader institutional needs across departments.
Collaborate with Account Managers to develop and execute account strategies that support retention and growth.
Gather and elevate customer insights, success stories, and outcomes to support marketing, product development, and thought leadership.
Collaborate for Seamless Success
Work hand-in-hand with Account Managers to align on customer strategies, retention plans, and expansion opportunities.
Partner with Product and Support teams to escalate customer challenges, share insights, and ensure swift resolution of any issues.
Collaborate with Marketing and Content teams to develop resources, best practices, and innovative ways to engage and educate customers.
Leverage Data for Impact
Use engagement data, ROI analysis, and conversation insights to drive proactive, data-informed customer strategies.
Maintain accurate and thorough documentation in HubSpot, ensuring all customer interactions and insights are captured.
Identify and share trends across your portfolio to inform internal teams and contribute to continuous product and experience improvement
 
A Note on Backgrounds:We deeply value experience from within higher education itself. If you've spent your career on a college or university campus—in admissions, advising, enrollment management, student affairs, alumni relations, or a similar function—we encourage you to apply, even if you haven't held a traditional customer or client success title. The empathy, institutional fluency, and stakeholder savvy you've built working in higher ed translates directly to the work we do, and we're committed to supporting the transition into a CSM role for the right candidate.

Why You'll Love it Here

You’ll join a team passionate about making meaningful connections in higher education and changing lives through smarter communication. We’re all about collaboration, growth, and doing work that truly makes a difference.

Over 4,000 teams across more than 950 higher education institutions partner with Mongoose to Make Every Message Count™. Our SaaS platform helps colleges and universities drive engagement at every stage of the student lifecycle, from admissions to alumni relations.

Our values define us, and we celebrate diversity in all its forms. If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications listed but believe you can make an impact, we encourage you to apply. We value diverse perspectives and are eager to hear what you can bring to our team.

We Offer

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
401K with company match: 100% of the 1st 3% and 50% of the next 2%
Flexible PTO
Competitive Leave Policies
13 paid holidays, including a week off between Christmas and New Year’s

At Mongoose, we believe that diversity drives innovation, and inclusion builds stronger teams. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. If you need accommodations during the application process, please let us know—we’re here to help.