Sr. Customer Success Manager at Mitek Systems in Remote

Mitek (NASDAQ: MITK) is a global leader in digital & biometric identity authentication, fraud prevention, and mobile deposit solutions. Our verified identity platform and advanced image capture solutions are built on the latest advancements in biometric recognition, artificial intelligence, computer vision and machine learning, and trusted by over 7,500 organizations worldwide. We are headquartered in San Diego, California, with operations in the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Mexico, and the Netherlands. Visit us at www.miteksystems.com.

We are Virtual 1st! Whether you choose to work remotely from your home office or in-person from one of Mitek’s offices, our practices, processes and tools are designed to enable your success. At Mitek, the Future of Work is about flexibility and preference wherever and whenever we are working. Because we care about our candidates, employees and customers, we include an in-person meeting as part of our hiring process. It’s one of the ways we live our mission to “Protect What’s Real.”

At Mitek, we believe that teams are more resilient, effective, and innovative when they benefit from a wide range of ideas, lived experiences, and perspectives. The strength of our organization is deeply rooted in the people who power it.​ We know that a workforce reflecting the richness of our communities and customers helps us better serve their needs.

Our Customer Success Managers are accountable for the operational aspects of the post-sales journey, ensuring smooth execution, adoption, and rapid response to customer needs. Acting as proactive, trusted advisors, they anticipate challenges, surface opportunities, and help drive satisfaction, renewal, and expansion.

Rooted in Mitek’s purpose—protecting what’s real in a world fraught with fraud and evolving threats—CSMs embody this mission in every interaction. They build trusted partnerships through a strategic, high-touch approach for our enterprise customers, while leveraging scalable, data-driven engagements to support our broader customer base.

Guided by Mitek’s guiding principles—One Team, Trust, Excellence, Ambition, and Innovation—our CSMs work cross-functionally with Sales, Professional Services, Product, and beyond to ensure customers achieve their goals with confidence and clarity, while driving long-term value and growth for both our clients and the business.

What You'll Need (Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities):

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in Customer Success, focused on enterprise accounts in a SaaS environment or related Customer experience.
• At least 3 years of hands on experience with identity verification or fraud detection technology, such as document authentication, biometric matching, liveness detection, or behavioral and velocity based risk signals
• Proven ability to map complex customer business processes to product capabilities, creating measurable business value.
• Demonstrated experience in leading change and driving digital transformation in enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of the SaaS customer lifecycle, engagement strategies, and best practices for managing strategic accounts.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence executives, build trusted advisor relationships, and align stakeholders.
• Strong organizational and time management skills; able to prioritize and manage multiple strategic accounts simultaneously while effectively navigating escalations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to prioritize with data and build insights to influence stakeholders
• Familiarity with reading technical documentation, release notes, or API specs well enough to explain functional changes to non technical stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel domestically up to 25% for customer and team collaboration

What Would Be Nice (Preferred Skills & Experience):

• Experience with Mitek technology or similar fraud detection and IDV analytics platforms.
• Working knowledge of Tableau or other BI tools to analyze and present customer and operational data.
• Knowledge of Totango or similar Customer Success platforms (e.g., Gainsight, ChurnZero) to manage accounts and drive engagement.
• Experience with regulatory or compliance frameworks relevant to identity verification, such as KYC, AML, or GDPR.
• Experience working with or managing a custom backend or non standard integration for an enterprise account.
• Prior experience presenting technical findings or incident postmortems to executive stakeholders, explaining what went wrong technically and what's being done about it.

What You Will Do (Essential Responsibilities):

• Manage strategic enterprise accounts: Build and execute success plans that define measurable business outcomes, ensuring alignment with customer goals and stakeholder engagement.
• Monitor customer metrics and account health: inclusive of model performance signals and integration stability to provide strategic recommendations that reduce risk and drive growth
• Partner with account teams: Work closely with Account Managers, Professional Services, Support, and Product to deliver a seamless, value-driven customer experience.
• Lead Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs): Facilitate executive-level discussions that align progress to business outcomes, showcase value, and shape future strategy.
• Drive adoption of new features and product releases: Partner with Product Marketing and Technical Writing to translate new capabilities into clear customer facing guidance, and proactively drive adoption across your account base rather than waiting for customers to discover functionality on their own. serving as the customer's trusted advisor on both fronts.
• Navigate complexity with confidence: Anticipate challenges in large organizations, uncover opportunities, and take decisive action to deliver additional value.
• Drive adoption and outcomes: Ensure customers realize maximum value from Mitek’s solutions, driving adoption, renewal, and expansion opportunities.
• Foster executive relationships: Build and maintain trusted partnerships with senior leaders and key stakeholders, serving as a strategic advisor.
• Lead escalations: Take point during high stakes issues, including technical escalations. Partner with Product and Engineering to surface the issue, help narrow down whether it looks like configuration, integration, or model behavior, and drive the right team to resolution while maintaining customer confidence
• Champion continuous improvement: Drive initiatives that enhance customer processes and strengthen Mitek’s internal operations for greater efficiency and impact.

Who You Are (Soft Skills & Attributes):

• Customer centric: Empathy, love for problem solving, and a genuine curiosity about the technical mechanics behind a customer's problem, not just the relationship around it.
• Able to roll up your sleeves and do the job yourself, whether that means digging into a technical root cause or drafting the QBR deck.
• Owns the executive relationship and the business outcome attached to it. Never out of your depth when the conversation turns technical. You can hold your own on identity verification and fraud mechanics, not just to translate someone else's expertise
• A self-starter who moves fluidly between a technical conversation with Engineering and a strategic conversation with a customer executive, without needing someone else to bridge that gap in either direction.
• Data driven, with the analytical instincts to spot a pattern before it becomes an escalation, and the executive presence to communicate it before it becomes a crisis.
• Flexible with a can do attitude, comfortable being pulled into a technical war room and an executive escalation call in the same day.

We take pride in enabling career growth in an environment of innovation and teamwork. Our commitment to all Mitekians is to do meaningful work that matters. Our culture is defined by delivering our best to our customers by providing high value solutions and impactful outcomes, by continuously challenging convention, and by caring for each other through collaboration and celebrating our successes. We are committed to creating competitive, equitable compensation & benefits programs and career development opportunities.

Benefit offerings – may vary based on geographic location

Wellness: Universal, supplemental, and private healthcare plan choices based on country specifics

Financial future: retirement/pension plan contributions, MTK stock plan participation

Income protection: life event & disability coverage

Paid time off: generous annual leave, company holidays, volunteer time off

Learning: e-learning license, tuition reimbursement, hackathons

Home office setup allowance

Additional/optional benefits: pet insurance, identity theft protection, legal assistance

We sincerely appreciate your interest in Mitek. We know your time is valuable and look forward to the potential of speaking with you further!