Dropbox

Customer Success Manager

Dropbox$142K — $193K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in B2B SaaS Customer Success or Account Management with portfolio management experience.
  • Proven track record of impacting customer renewals and retention with measurable results.
  • Strong ability to identify customer risks and develop proactive mitigation strategies.
  • Experience building relationships with executive-level stakeholders in large organizations.
  • Demonstrated business acumen linking product adoption to customer objectives.
  • Excellent analytical skills to assess customer signals and inform decisions.
  • Collaborative experience navigating complex customer situations across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across customer organizations.
  • Own a portfolio and manage customer health, adoption, and retention risk proactively.
  • Execute Mutual Success Plans aligning Dropbox solutions with customer goals.
  • Lead customer renewals by strategizing and managing interactions effectively.
  • Facilitate Success Business Reviews to showcase value and strengthen stakeholder alignment.
  • Collaborate with Sales and cross-functional teams to enhance account strategies.
  • Utilize customer insights to prioritize interventions and enhance retention efforts.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan with company matching.
  • Generous paid time off and holiday leave policies.
  • Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.
  • Flexible work hours and remote work options.
Full Job Description
Role Description

As a Customer Success Manager at Dropbox, you will own the post-sale relationship for a portfolio of customers, with a focus on helping them realize measurable value from their investment while driving product adoption, retention, and Net Revenue Retention (NRR).

You will serve as a trusted advisor throughout the customer journey, developing a deep understanding of your customers' business priorities, desired outcomes, stakeholders, and evolving needs. You will use customer insights, product adoption signals, stakeholder relationships, and demonstrated business value to proactively identify opportunities, address risks, and strengthen the customer's long-term relationship with Dropbox.

You will partner closely with Sales and cross-functional teams to align on customer strategy, navigate more complex commercial situations, identify growth opportunities, and deliver successful customer outcomes.

The successful candidate is results-driven, customer-focused, and comfortable navigating complex customer organizations. They bring strong Customer Success fundamentals along with demonstrated experience influencing or owning renewals, mitigating customer risk, and delivering measurable retention outcomes in a B2B SaaS environment.
Responsibilities
  • Build and maintain strong relationships across customer organizations, serving as a trusted advisor to business leaders, executive sponsors, administrators, and other key stakeholders throughout their journey with Dropbox.
  • Own a portfolio of customers and proactively manage customer health, adoption, value realization, stakeholder engagement, renewal readiness, and retention risk.
  • Develop and execute Mutual Success Plans that connect Dropbox solutions to customer priorities, desired outcomes, and measurable business value.
  • Own customer renewals across your portfolio, including developing renewal strategies, assessing renewal likelihood, identifying and mitigating risks, leading customer renewal conversations, coordinating cross-functional actions, and driving each renewal to an outcome.
  • Lead strategic customer engagements, including Success Business Reviews and value conversations, that demonstrate outcomes, uncover changing business needs, strengthen stakeholder alignment, and reinforce the customer's case for continued investment.
  • Partner closely with Account Management/Sales and cross-functional teams to develop and execute account strategies that support customer retention, successful renewals, and appropriate growth opportunities.
  • Use product usage, customer sentiment, business context, stakeholder engagement, and other customer signals to prioritize actions across your book of business and proactively address accounts requiring intervention.
Requirements
  • 4+ years of experience in B2B SaaS Customer Success, Account Management, or a comparable post-sale customer-facing role, with demonstrated success managing a portfolio of customers.
  • Recent experience directly managing or materially influencing customer renewals and retention, with the ability to provide measurable examples of renewal, retention, or churn-reduction outcomes.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify customer risk, diagnose underlying causes, build mitigation plans, and take proactive action to improve retention outcomes.
  • Experience building and maintaining strategic relationships across multiple levels of a customer organization, including executive and senior-level stakeholders.
  • Strong business acumen and demonstrated ability to connect product adoption and usage to customer objectives, measurable outcomes, and business value.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience using quantitative and qualitative customer signals to assess health, prioritize a portfolio, and make informed decisions.
  • Demonstrated ability to navigate complex customer situations and collaborate cross-functionally with teams such as Sales, Product, Support, Legal, and Finance.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience in a Customer Success model where CSMs have direct accountability for or significant influence over renewal rate, gross retention, or recurring revenue outcomes.
  • Experience managing strategic or enterprise customer relationships with multiple stakeholders and complex decision-making processes.
  • Demonstrated experience successfully retaining at-risk customers facing challenges such as declining adoption, budget pressure, competitive threats, organizational change, or product consolidation.
  • Experience developing and presenting executive-level business reviews and value narratives that connect customer outcomes to continued investment.
  • Experience working across a portfolio of SaaS products or solutions and quickly developing the product and technical knowledge necessary to advise customers effectively.
Durable Skills

AI fluency means using these tools to amplify human judgment, not replace it. We believe people with these skills will thrive as work and technology continue to evolve:
  • Awareness: Understand yourself and others.
  • Judgment: Evaluate information and make decisions in complex situations.
  • Adaptability: Learn, adjust, and stay effective through change.
  • Connection: Communicate, collaborate, and build trust.

Compensation

US Zone 1

This role is not available in Zone 1

US Zone 2

$142,700-$193,100 USD

US Zone 3

$126,800-$171,600 USD

About Dropbox

Dropbox is a publicly traded cloud storage and file sharing services company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2007, Dropbox provides cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software. The company's cloud storage allows users to store and share files, photos, and videos. Dropbox has over 700 million registered users across 180 countries. The company has additional offices in New York City, Dublin, London, Paris, Sydney, and Tokyo.
Learn more about Dropbox
Size
2,667 employees
Market Cap
$8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$256.3 million
Founded
2007
5 Year Trend
+20.6%
Revenue
$1.9 billion
NASDAQ

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