DACH Enterprise Customer Success Manager
TLDR
Own the full lifecycle and risk management for a portfolio of strategic enterprise customers, guiding adoption, outcomes, and cross-functional collaboration to realize value.
Manage the full lifecycle of a portfolio of enterprise customers.
Proactively identify and monitor account risk — including signals related to adoption gaps, disengaged stakeholders, unresolved issues, or environment instability — and take clear ownership of escalating and driving mitigation. When risk surfaces, you don’t hand it off; you lead the response, coordinate the right internal resources, and stay accountable until it is resolved.
Identify when customers are underutilizing capabilities that would meaningfully advance their stated goals, and guide them toward fuller adoption, because unrealized value is a risk to the relationship, not just a missed commercial opportunity.
Build and maintain close relationships with senior IT professionals managing highly complex environments and be their trusted advisor.
Through a consultative approach, guide your customers through how to optimize their experience with ControlUp, to get the highest ROI.
Work closely with sales, marketing, product, and other departments on customer requirements.
Be a customer advocate and the voice of the customer within ControlUp.
Build and maintain a stakeholder map for each account; proactively ensure that the value customers are realizing with ControlUp is being actively surfaced and communicated to the decision-makers, sponsors, and executive stakeholders who need to see it — not just day-to-day users.
Understand customer use cases and work processes to provide the best guidance on how to optimize product usage and unlock the most value.
Native German speaker with excellent communication skills.
High-level fluency in English (both written and spoken); other languages are a plus.
Experience in an EUC or similar software company (Ideally startup / SaaS experience)
Critical thinker, generally curious, problem solver
Proven experience in building multi-threaded stakeholder relationships in Fortune 100 companies
Positive attitude and very customer-centric; always willing to put the customers' needs first.
Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate product usage and technical outcomes into business value narratives that resonate with executive and business stakeholders — not just technical audiences
Excellent organization, note-taking, project management, and time management skills
Exceptional attention to detail, accuracy, proactivity, and the ability to anticipate needs.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Outreach.io, Chorus, Salesforce, Slack, Splunk, Zoom, Clari, Confluence, and/or EverAfter.
Working knowledge of VDI – Citrix \ VMware virtualization solutions.
Previous experience in SaaS and/or IT space.
Experience with the German C5 certification process is a huge plus.
Experience with the MEDDICC/MEDDPICC framework
Benefits
Paid Time Off
once a year, the entire global company comes together for a major offsite to reconnect in person.
ControlUp is redefining workplace management with its autonomous platform that seamlessly integrates digital employee experience and IT operations. Designed for modern organizations, it enables proactive management of IT environments, enhancing both efficiency and performance in the workplace.