Customer Success Manager (Remote, United States CST/EST Preferred)

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Who We Are

M-Files is redefining how work gets done. Our context-first document management system offers purpose-built business use cases, spanning universal and industry-specific workflows, to enable secure collaboration, automate processes, and ensure governance.

Unlike traditional systems, M-Files organizes content around the context of your business, connecting documents to related people, projects, and transactions. With our unique metadata-driven architecture, organizations can model content in line with their business processes, unify information across silos, and apply AI at scale. The result is greater productivity, reduced risk, and smarter, faster decisions for over 6,000 customers in 100+ countries. 

At M-Files, our Guiding Principles unite us across diverse cultures and personalities:
- Make It Happen – We set bold goals, take ownership, learn from mistakes, and relentlessly pursue results.
- Help Others – We lead with kindness, assume good intentions, hold one another accountable, and celebrate wins together.
- Love Customers – We put customers and partners at the heart of everything, delivering value with respect, fairness, and speed.

To learn more about us we encourage you to visit our  company page .

To learn more about how we became a Certified Great Place to Work visit,  Working at M-Files | Great Place to Work .

Summary of the Role

As a Customer Success Manager , you will serve as a trusted advisor to M-Files customers and play an important role in driving customer engagement, adoption, utilization, value realization, retention, and long-term success.

You will build relationships with customer stakeholders and executive sponsors, develop success plans aligned with their business objectives, and help customers realize measurable value from their M-Files investment throughout the customer lifecycle.

This is a highly collaborative role, partnering closely with Sales, Professional Services, Customer Support, Product, and Marketing to proactively address customer needs, mitigate risk, identify growth opportunities, and deliver a consistent, high-quality customer experience.

We are open to considering more experienced Customer Success professionals based on the strength and depth of the applicant pool and alignment with the needs of the team.

Key Responsibilities

Customer Success & Account Management
- Build trusted-advisor relationships with customer stakeholders and executive sponsors, understanding their business objectives and guiding them toward measurable value from M-Files throughout their lifecycle.
- Co-create customer success plans by defining goals and success criteria, tracking progress through regular business reviews, and adjusting plans as customer needs evolve.
- Drive adoption and ROI by understanding customer pain points, coaching customers toward best practices that shorten time to value, and demonstrating relevant product capabilities.
- Own customer health metrics such as NPS, adoption/consumption, engagement, and renewal risk, using those insights to guide proactive account actions.
- Serve as the voice of the customer internally by surfacing feedback, success stories, and product requests to help shape the product roadmap and build referenceable customer advocates.

Retention, Growth & Risk Management
- Identify and mitigate risks to customer outcomes, coordinating with Support, Professional Services, Product, and Sales to resolve escalations and protect renewals.
- Proactively identify renewal and retention risks and coordinate appropriate mitigation efforts.
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