Customer Success Manager II

Akamai Technologies, Inc; Garching bei München; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Customer Success Manager in the Bayern region to strengthen relationships, drive product adoption and secure renewals for DACH customers. You will partner with Integrated Account Team and cross-functional groups to maximize value realization.

Your role focuses on proactive engagement, risk mitigation and expansion opportunities, with success measured by sustained adoption and profitable growth across the portfolio.

Qualifications

• Relatable Customer Success experience.
• Solid understanding of internet & cloud computing, content delivery & cyber security technologies.
• Excellent organisational, problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Proven ability for developing long‑term, strategic client relationships incl. c‑level, with customer facing experience.
• Be performance driven with a growth mindset, always taking the initiative.
• Exceptional listening, communication and presentation skills with fluency in both German and business English.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary trusted point of contact for key customer stakeholders, building relationships and customer success.
• Drive day-to-day account ownership, leading internal and external meetings, handling escalations and QBRs.
• Lead Value-Based Outcomes and Success Planning to help customers adopt Akamai products and achieve business goals.
• Monitor customer health and usage to identify risks, secure renewals and uncover expansion opportunities.
• Partner with the Sales team on renewal activities.
• Manage customers in the DACH Region, in person and virtually.

Skills

Customer Success

Account management

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Communication

German

English

Job description

Are you passionate about building relationships and ensuring customer success

Do you love collaborating with teams to solve complex problems?

Join our highly skilled Customer Success Team!

As our Customer Success Manager, you will serve as the primary point of contact, driving product adoption and strengthening customer relationships to boost renewals and growth. By understanding customer goals and guiding them through success milestones, you will ensure value realization. Leveraging data and proactive engagement, you'll mitigate churn and uncover expansion opportunities, with success measured by sustained adoption, high renewal rates, and profitable growth.

Partner with our Security, Delivery, and Compute customers

As a Customer Success Manager to high-value customers, you will serve as their trusted advisor collaborating with the Integrated Account Team and across Akamai divisions, solving complex challenges and maximising partnership value. Your relationship-building skills, strategic leadership and initiative will drive customer outcomes, ensuring value realization while encouraging customers to renew and expand their use of Akamai products and services

As a Customer Success Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Being the primary trusted point of contact to key customer stakeholders, building relationships and customer success.
• Being the day to day account owner driving regular internal and external meetings, handling customer escalations, QBRs, and more.
• Leading & orchestrating Value-Based Outcomes and Success Planning to help customers adopt and operationalize Akamai products, achieving their business goals.
• Managing customer health and usage to identify risks, securing renewals and identifying expansion opportunities
• Partnering with the Sales team on renewal activities.
• Managing customers in the DACH Region, in person and virtual.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have relatable Customer Success experience.
• Have solid understanding of internet & cloud computing, content delivery & cyber security technologies.
• Demonstrate excellent organisational, problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Have proven ability for developing long‑term, strategic client relationships incl. c‑level, with customer facing experience.
• Be performance driven with a growth mindset, always taking the initiative.
• Have exceptional listening, communication and presentation skills with fluency in both German and business English.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day. Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone. Our focus is simple: Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform. At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

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