Team Manager Customer Success German Speaking

The Team Manager of Customer Success plays a pivotal role in guiding and cultivating a team of Customer Success Managers ensuring they excel in driving customer adoption retention and growth. As a mentor and leader they provide support through challenging customer situations while also spearheading strategic initiatives aimed at maximizing overall customer lifetime value.

What Youll Do

• Lead a team of employees to deliver customer retention and growth

• Coach and develop Customer Success Managers (CSMs) to excel in key metrics: onboarding adoption retention growth satisfaction and outcome management

• Mentor coach and provide feedback to the team while also managing performance and compensation evaluations and addressing escalated employee issues

• Play a major role in scaling Workivas Customer Success organization through hiring onboarding training and developing CSMs

• Update team with critical cross-departmental updates from Engineering Sales Marketing Professional Services and other groups

• Employ tools and processes to boost team capacity for retention and growth

• Ensure CSMs adhere to processes maintaining visibility into customer information and team performance

• Engage with CSMs to ensure they are accurately identifying the required business outcomes and determining the definition of success for every customer

• Continuously monitor customers to be proactive in the remediation of customer satisfaction concerns

• Prevent customer churn and lead escalations with CSMs serving as the point of contact for raising customer issues to management

What Youll Need

Minimum Qualifications

• 2 years of direct people management experience preferred including supervisory experience of supervisor and/or individual contributors

• 5 years related experience in Customer Success Customer Service Account Management or Sales

• Fluency in German and English

Preferred Qualifications

• Adaptable and flexible with the ability to work successfully in a fast-paced environment

• Exceptional customer-facing communication and interpersonal skills; adept at understanding and fulfilling customer needs

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills to drive valuable solutions and decisions

• Strong time management multitasking and deadline-oriented approach to managing multiple projects simultaneously

Travel Requirements and Working Conditions

• Willingness to travel with less than 20% travel expected for team and corporate meetings contributing to building strong relationships and representing the companys interests

• Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely as we embrace flexible work arrangements

Why Join Workiva

Workiva is the platform designed to bring confidence control and a competitive edge to the worlds most complex organizations. Our AI-powered platform unifies finance risk and sustainability on a single secure foundationensuring data is trusted traceable and ready to act on. With an unbroken path from source to output leaders gain confidence in their numbers visibility into current and emerging risks and the ability to move with speed and precision in a constantly changing world.

At Workiva youll bring technology to market that executives boards and regulators depend on. The work you do here helps organizations navigate uncertainty maintain trust and make decisions that stand up to scrutiny. If youre energized by meaningful challenges inspired by collaborative teams and motivated to help organizations turn uncertainty into advantage wed love to meet you.

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