Customer Risk Manager

Salesforce.com Sàrl; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Customer Risk Manager in Zurich, Switzerland. This hybrid role blends on-site collaboration with remote work to drive risk mitigation and escalation management for key customers.

You will coordinate cross-functional teams, provide executive visibility, translate complex risks into strategic business outcomes, and prioritize actions with clear timelines.

A bachelor’s degree and proven multi-stakeholder leadership are required; familiarity with enterprise CRM tools is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience leading complex customer escalations and multi-stakeholder programs.
• Ability to translate technical concepts into business outcomes for executives.
• Strong written and verbal communication with cross-functional influence.
• Experience with enterprise CRM tools and collaboration platforms.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end escalation resolution by coordinating across Engineering, Product, Sales, and executives.
• Provide data-driven strategic recommendations to internal leaders and customer executives.
• Quantify business impact of risks to prioritize actions and timelines.
• Deliver clear status updates to customer leadership and internal stakeholders.
• Analyze incidents to identify systemic improvements across processes and products.
• Align matrixed teams to manage customer expectations transparently.

Skills

Escalation management

Account management

Technical consulting

Enterprise project delivery

Written and verbal communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Salesforce CRM

Slack & collaboration tools

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Salesforce platform

Reports & dashboards

Slack

Job description

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword - it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

At Salesforce, we help organizations transform how they connect with customers using trusted AI and data. As a Customer Risk Manager, you will lead critical risk mitigation and escalation management strategies to drive customer resolution, prevent attrition, and protect long-term partnerships.

In this role, you will serve as a strategic orchestrator during high-stakes customer scenarios. You will align cross-functional teams, provide executive-level visibility, and navigate complex business challenges to deliver successful outcomes. Whether advising internal leaders or engaging directly with customer executives, your work will turn sensitive customer challenges into long-term success.

The position is based in Zurich, Switzerland, and follows a hybrid working model, combining on-site collaboration with the flexibility to work remotely in line with Salesforce's hybrid work arrangements.

Key Responsibilities

• Escalation Orchestration: Drive end-to-end resolution of complex, high-visibility customer issues by aligning cross-functional teams across Engineering, Product, Sales, and executive leadership.
• Strategic Advisory: Serve as a trusted advisor to internal leadership and customer executives, providing data-driven recommendations and strategic resolution paths.
• Risk Quantification: Evaluate the business impact of customer risks to effectively prioritize resources, establish clear action plans, and accelerate resolution timelines.
• Executive Communication: Deliver clear, structured, and factual status updates to customer leadership and internal stakeholders.
• Systemic Improvement: Analyze incident trends and root causes to identify operational gaps and drive systemic enhancements across Salesforce processes and products.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Facilitate alignment across matrixed organizations to ensure customer expectations are managed transparently and effectively.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated experience in customer escalation management, account management, technical consulting, or enterprise project delivery.
• Proven capability to lead through complex, multi-stakeholder business challenges with steady leadership and clear judgment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of translating technical concepts into business outcomes for executive audiences.
• Ability to drive timely, decisive action and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Practical experience using enterprise CRM tools and collaboration platforms (e.g., Salesforce platform, reports, dashboards, and Slack).

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong commercial acumen with experience developing strategies that improve customer retention and business outcomes.
• Familiarity with the Salesforce product ecosystem, customer deployment patterns, and enterprise use cases.
• Experience utilizing enterprise AI tools to streamline workflows, analyze data, and accelerate issue resolution.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best , and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best . Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

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