Customer Success Manager — Japanese & Korean Speaking (Remote)
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Customer Success Manager — Japanese & Korean Speaking (Remote)
- Remote - Japan
- Remote
- Customer Experience and Success
- Full Time
Role Description
As a Customer Success Manager at Dropbox, you will own the post-sale customer strategy and relationship for a portfolio of customers. You will help customers realize measurable value from their investment while driving product adoption, retention, growth, and Net Revenue Retention (NRR).
You will serve as a trusted advisor throughout the customer journey, developing a deep understanding of each customer’s business priorities, technical environment, key stakeholders, and evolving needs. Using customer insights, product adoption signals, stakeholder relationships, and demonstrated business value, you will proactively set priorities, address risks, and identify opportunities to strengthen the customer’s long-term partnership with Dropbox.
You will develop strong technical fluency across the Dropbox platform and engage confidently with IT administrators on product capabilities, security, configuration, integrations, governance, and customer workflows. You will help translate customers’ business and technical requirements into practical use cases, recommendations, and actionable insights for internal teams.
You will partner closely with Sales and cross-functional teams to align on account strategy, navigate technical and commercial complexities, mitigate renewal risks, identify appropriate growth opportunities, and deliver successful customer outcomes.
The successful candidate is results-driven, commercially minded, technically savvy, and customer-focused. They are comfortable navigating complex customer organizations, taking ownership of customer strategy, and influencing both technical and business stakeholders. They bring strong Customer Success experience and a demonstrated ability to drive adoption, manage risk, support successful renewals, and deliver measurable retention and growth outcomes in a B2B SaaS environment.
Responsibilities
- Build strong relationships across customer organizations, serving as a trusted advisor to executive sponsors, business leaders, technical administrators, and other key stakeholders.
- Take ownership of the customer strategy across an assigned portfolio, setting priorities and proactively driving adoption, value realization, stakeholder engagement, retention, and growth.
- Develop strong technical fluency across the Dropbox platform and confidently engage with IT administrators on questions involving product capabilities, security, configuration, integrations, governance, and customer workflows.
- Understand customers’ technical environments and business requirements, helping translate them into practical use cases, recommendations, and actionable feedback for internal teams.
- Lead strategic customer engagements—including product education, use-case development, Success Business Reviews, and value-based renewal discussions—that connect Dropbox capabilities to business outcomes.
- Partner closely with Sales and cross-functional teams to develop account strategies, remove technical and commercial blockers, mitigate renewal risks, and identify appropriate expansion opportunities.
- Use customer feedback, product usage, business context, and stakeholder engagement to prioritize actions, represent the voice of the customer, and contribute to repeatable playbooks and best practices.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in B2B SaaS Customer Success, Account Management, Solutions Consulting, Professional Services, or a comparable customer-facing role, with experience driving product adoption and business value, managing ongoing customer relationships, and engaging technical stakeholders.
- Business and commercial acumen, with a willingness to develop the skills needed to own assigned customer renewals from 2027, including early renewal planning, commercial discussions, and coordination with Sales and relevant teams to support retention and identify appropriate growth opportunities.
- Technical aptitude and product curiosity, with the ability to learn SaaS products, customer environments, configurations, and workflows. Comfortable engaging with IT administrators, investigating unfamiliar technical questions, and translating product capabilities into practical guidance.
- Ability to build relationships across customer organizations, from technical administrators to executive stakeholders, and manage a portfolio across Japan and Korea. The initial allocation is expected to be approximately 80% Japan and 20% Korea, with flexibility to adjust based on business and customer needs.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use customer insights, usage data, and business context to assess customer health, identify renewal risks, prioritize actions, and recommend practical solutions.
- A proactive self-starter who can ramp up quickly, seek out information, navigate ambiguity, and take ownership of moving customer plans forward without close day-to-day direction. Able to build effective working relationships and collaborate with Sales, Product, Support, Legal, Finance, and other teams.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Fluent spoken and written Japanese, including business communication.
- Business-level Korean and English.
- Ability to engage customers in Japanese and Korean and collaborate with global teams in English.
- Willingness to travel for customer visits in Japan and Korea, and internationally for company offsites and sales kickoffs.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience owning or contributing to customer renewals and retention, with examples of identifying risk, coordinating mitigation plans, demonstrating customer value, and supporting successful renewal outcomes.
- Experience managing strategic customer relationships with multiple stakeholders, complex decision-making processes, and changing business priorities, ideally in Japan or Korea.
- Experience developing and presenting executive business reviews that connect product adoption and customer outcomes to business value and continued investment.
- Experience working with channel partners and navigating partner-led customer relationships.
- Familiarity with CRM, customer-success, health-scoring, or renewal-management systems, and experience using customer usage data or ROI analysis to guide retention and growth opportunities.
- Experience working with multiple SaaS products, and an interest in or familiarity with generative AI and related technologies.
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.
To learn more about why these skills matter and what the data shows about thriving through change, read this blog post from our Chief People Officer, Melanie Rosenwasser.
Compensation
Read more about our benefits here.
Company Description
Dropbox isn’t just a workplace—it’s a living lab for designing a more enlightened way of working. We’re a global community of bold visionaries and resourceful doers shaping the future of Dropbox and, in turn, the future of work. Our Virtual First model combines the autonomy of a distributed workplace with the power of human connection, creating space for meaningful work and lasting relationships. With a startup mindset and enterprise-level opportunities, we expect Dropbox employees to think critically, stay curious, and use modern tools, including AI, to improve how work gets done. Here, you can be who you are and grow into who you’re meant to be. You own your impact, helping make work more intuitive, joyful, and human for yourself and hundreds of millions of people worldwide. If you’re ready to push boundaries and challenge yourself, Dropbox is ready for you.
Team Description
The Dropbox Customer Experience and Success (CXS) Team shapes how more than 700 million users and 575k teams worldwide interact with our products. We turn insights into actions, bringing empathy and expertise to every touchpoint. Our team embraces resourcefulness and curiosity, pushing boundaries—and ourselves—to improve the customer experience and ensure our customers achieve their desired outcomes with our products, leading to increased customer lifetime value, retention, and growth. Every team member contributes their unique perspective as we collaborate across the organization to amplify the customer voice. If you're passionate about bringing joy, humanity, and simplicity to how people interact with Dropbox, join our Customer Experience and Success team.
Virtual First
Dropbox’s Virtual First way of working is designed to help people do their best work with flexibility, autonomy, and connection. Day to day, teams work remotely with nonlinear schedules and core collaboration hours that support deep focus and individual working styles. We prioritize asynchronous communication to improve clarity, respect deep work time, and reduce unnecessary meetings. While remote work is the primary experience for our employees, we also prioritize intentional, in-person connection. We bring teams together through regular team gatherings, on-demand workspaces, and Dropbox Neighborhood events in order to strengthen team cohesion, foster creativity, and enhance momentum. Virtual First is built to provide the same access to opportunity, growth, and impact for everyone, regardless of location.
This role requires travel to offsites and various other team gatherings (approximately 5-10% of the year or 2-3 days per quarter). We provide advance notice when possible and encourage candidates to discuss any accommodation needs during the interview process.
AI Fluency
- Ownership: You use AI responsibly by protecting data, applying sound judgment, and taking accountability for the quality and accuracy of your work.
- Experimentation: You explore new AI capabilities and apply them to improve workflows within approved tools and practices.
- Leverage: You use AI to enhance thinking, improve efficiency, and increase your impact and your team’s.
- Learning: You stay current on emerging AI tools and trends, continuously build your skills, and share what you learn with others.
Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work.
I feel trusted at Dropbox. Here, I’m free to make decisions, own my work end-to-end, and contribute to the company beyond my role.
Dropbox has transformed my career, and I feel empowered to make an impact every single day. I love working with exceptional people in an environment that supports growth, innovation, and disruption.
Every day at Dropbox brings new opportunities to push myself: to try something different and grow my skillset. I’m encouraged at every step.
I know I’m making an impact when our products make users’ lives easier.
Everyone I met during the interview process was working on solving real problems. That’s what attracted me to Dropbox.
Virtual First isn't just a policy
Virtual First defines how we work and what we create. By experiencing distributed work firsthand, we know how to make it more intuitive and human.
Committed to your growth
Dropbox is a global community where you can own your impact. From day one, you’re trusted to experiment boldly, sharpen your craft, and grow with the support of world-class teammates. With our start-up mindset and enterprise-level opportunities, you can be yourself while unlocking your potential.
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