Senior Customer Success Manager - German speaking

Customer Success Manager

The Customer Success Organization focuses on ensuring our customers are getting the most return out of their investment with One Identity. You will own the responsibility of working with our customers to ensure they get the most value possible, but you will not be alone. Your team of channel partners, account managers, solution engineers, support engineers and consultants are key resources you will leverage to make sure our customers are successful. As the CSM, you will own driving and measuring the customer's satisfaction and retention. The CSM will manage a portfolio of accounts throughout the customer lifecyclefrom deployment and adoption through value realization and renewalensuring satisfaction and long-term success, utilizing your German language skills.

You'll leverage your expertise to guide customers through their journey, maintain consistent engagement, and ensure they derive measurable value from One Identity solutions. You'll also surface up-sell and cross-sell leads to our partners and Account Managers for follow-up. CSMs support renewal contracting processes and are expected to stay informed on One Identity's evolving product portfolio, demonstrating the ability to quickly learn and communicate the value of new offerings.

Responsibilities

• Proactively manage named accounts and be accountable for engagement and satisfaction over the lifetime of the customer.
• Can develop and nurture relationships and adjust value and adoption messaging according to the levels and interests of customer stakeholders
• Coaches peers on strategic approaches, provide mentorship for Enterprise CSMs to help them grow their knowledge and provide premium customer experience
• Identifies and creates solutions to address CS needs, improve effectiveness and efficiency, and delivery to or exceed key customer metrics.
• Gather feedback and channel it to product and engineering teams along with the business value to the customer.
• Partner with the customer to build a joint plan for success, maintaining a detailed understanding of the customer's business to achieve high levels of customer satisfaction, engagement, and adoption of One Identity technologies.
• Monitor customer health scores and their related components while assisting customers to continually improve their scores.
• Facilitate Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) in collaboration with Account Management, using the Success Plan and business case to demonstrate impact, value delivered, and opportunities for growth.
• Actively monitor customer engagement signals and sentiment; log risks and opportunities in CRM and trigger internal playbooks where applicable.
• Support collaboration across Sales, Support, Product, Renewals, and Professional Services to ensure continuity and strategic alignment.
• Act as an escalation point for high-impact customer issues when necessary, ensuring appropriate teams within One Identity are engaged for quick resolution.
• Work within the wider CSM team to implement scalable programs and process improvements to drive efficiency of internal customer success processes and improve customer experience.
• Identify opportunities for cross & up-sell activities for the sales teams.
• Work the channel and sales account managers to jointly develop business and technical champions within the customer organization

Qualifications

• 6+ years' experience in customer success, technical account management, sales engineering, or similar role responsible for driving customer success and product/service adoption.
• German speaking is required for this role.
• 6+ years' experience in customer management within security and/or identity solutions, focusing on growth, adoption, retention, and issue resolution at both the business owner and senior executive levels.
• Ability to translate business requirements into business value, and work with sales and marketing to promote value-driven solutions
• Ability to manage executive relationships and discussions (VP/CxO)
• Skilled in bringing in a SAE/AE/ISR to see through upsell opportunities, whilst maintaining executive overlay and ensuring a positive customer experience
• Strong knowledge of Customer Success best practices, with experience in defining process and providing enablement programs to promote adoption in CS and across the company
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to establish milestones and keep success plans on task.
• Adept at handling internal and external escalations.
• Exceptional ability to communicate and foster positive business relationships, and comfortable facilitating change and being accountable for driving success with customers.
• Experience in leading, adopting and driving change internally or externally.
• Experience in identifying, translating and prioritizing customer issues and needs into business or solution requirements.
• Demonstrated success as a trusted advisor to senior executives in large organizations and ability to build success plans.
• An understanding of how organizations measure value realization and drive revenue. Experience in recurring revenue sales models and renewal processes is an advantage.

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Experience in transformational Customer Success projects or experience where products shift from On-Premises to SaaS.
• Previous Customer Success experience in a company with B2B Software.
• Consistent desire to continually improve processes
• Proficiency in customer success tools (e.g., Gainsight, Totango) and CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce) to manage customer health, success plans, and engagement tracking. Experience with AI prompting and leveraging AI tools to streamline processes.

One Identity enables organizations of all sizes to better secure, manage, monitor, protect, and analyze information and infrastructure to help fuel innovation and drive their businesses forward. With team members around the globe, we intend to continue to grow revenues and add value to customers.

When you join our team, you will have the opportunity to build and develop products at a scale few others can provide. Our product portfolio serves a large base of customers and we are addressing the strategic imperatives for enterprise businesses. Working with some of the most talented employees the industry has to offer, we provide enhanced career opportunities for team members to learn and grow in a rapidly changing environment.

Life at One Identity means collaborating with dedicated professionals with a passion for technology. When we see something that could be improved, we get to work inventing the solution. Our people demonstrate our winning culture through positive and meaningful relationships. We invest in our people and offer a series of programs that enables them to pursue a career that fulfills their potential. Our team members' health and wellness is our priority as well as rewarding them for their hard work.

One Identity is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: One Identity is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at One Identity are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. One Identity will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. One Identity encourages applicants of all ages.