Senior Customer Success Manager (German Speaking)

About the role:

EMEA is Wise Platforms largest and most mature market. This role owns the operational relationship and volume retention for a portfolio of Tier 1 partners representing 10M GBP in annual revenue - some of the most strategically important and technically complex partnerships in Wise Platform globally.

You are a strategic architect and trusted operations and scalability advisor to partner leadership responsible for identifying and closing operational gaps internally that unlock organic revenue before they become blockers proactively.

This is not a reactive role.

Youll manage operational relationship of partnerships with complex product integrations (Cards MCA Correspondent send via API and Swift Correspondent receive) navigate high-level stakeholder alignment and influence Wises own Product and Servicing roadmaps to ensure the platform evolves to meet the needs of our most demanding partners.

Youll operate with significant autonomy represent the company with the senior partners stakeholders and build the frameworks and playbooks that scale the Wise way of working - not just for your own accounts but across the CSM organisation.

Commercial & Relationship Ownership

Own the end-to-end operational relationship for Tier 1 EMEA partners - acting as a trusted advisor to partner-side operational and executive stakeholders including senior leadership and product teams

Lead QBRs that frame operational performance in the context of commercial goals - shaping the partners growth narrative and roadmap alignment

Independently drive operational success strategy and plans for owned accounts partnering closely with the Account Manager to ensure operational roadmap aligns with commercial goals.

Systemic Problem Solving & Roadmap Influence

Proactively identify and close operational gaps that unlock revenue - e.g. new currency expansion Cards adoption or reducing defect/RFI/contact rates that limit partner scalability and growth;

Build data-backed business cases to secure buy-in from Product Servicing Compliance and Engineering - resolving structural/systemic gaps in the company that affect not just your accounts but the wider Wise Platform partner base;

Represent Wise Platform in cross-functional initiatives influencing the roadmap before problems surface for partners;

Incident Command & Crisis Management

Ability to act as incident commander for cross-regional high-severity incidents - coordinating tech commercial and operational stakeholders drafting partner communications and making the call on when/how to communicate with partners

Own post-incident follow-through: postmortem actions remediation reviews and translating incident learnings into reusable frameworks (runbooks comms criteria escalation playbooks)

Scaling the Function

Build frameworks and playbooks - for new products (e.g. metrics reporting or servicing flows on the new product) new markets or cross-team processes - that scale beyond your own portfolio

Mentor and support less senior CSMs helping them navigate operational blockers and develop their own account strategies

Contribute to the CSM orgs own scaling agenda - flagging and addressing systemic capacity issues (e.g. disproportionate incident load) to leadership with data to back it up

Data-Driven Operational Excellence

Own the core Service Level and Operational Scalability metrics for your portfolio: Payment Success Rate Contact Rate RFI Rate Defect Rate and Partner Health Score

Use advanced data analysis to identify non-obvious operational blockers and pitch API/process improvements with clear ROI framing for both partner and Wise

About you:

• Experience in customer success account/relationship management or operational leadership roles supporting Tier 1 enterprise clients - ideally in payments fintech or financial services

• Professional-level German proficiency (spoken and written) - required given the portfolio will include few German-speaking partners;

• Proven experience working with Tier 1 relationships with $5M ARR clients including executive-level stakeholder management

• Strong technical fluency - comfortable discussing APIs webhooks and payment rails in detail with partner engineering teams

• Experience leading incident/crisis response with external clients including comms strategy and de-escalation

• Advanced data analysis skills - SQL/Looker/Lightdash or equivalent - used to build business cases;

• Demonstrated negotiation and strong presentation skills; comfortable pitching roadmap changes to senior partner stakeholders.

Bonus points:

• Experience with regulatory frameworks affecting cross-border payments (AML KYC sanctions screening PEP/COAF-type reporting)

• Prior ownership of Tier 1 bank or major fintech relationships in EMEA specifically

• Additional language skills (French Portuguese) relevant to other Tier 1 EMEA accounts

• Experience working in business operations.

Because we believe that diverse teams build better products wed especially love to hear from you if youre from an under-represented demographic.

Additional Information :

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time

Experience: years
Vacancy: 1