Customer Success Manager

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. 

At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available location: Munich, Germany

What you'll do

You will be responsible for ensuring the success of Cloudflare’s Enterprise customers and managing all of their post-sale experiences. You will bring strong relationship-building experience, product knowledge, project management and organizational skills, as well as a high degree of empathy to ensure the customer’s satisfaction with Cloudflare’s services.

You will maintain a deep understanding of our solutions and present to customers about the most relevant features/functionality for their specific business needs. You will act as the primary point of contact for Cloudflare customers and will be "the face of the business". You will act as an internal escalation point for customer requests including: technical questions, contract questions, and other account-related questions. You will advocate for customers internally and balance the needs of the customer with the business needs of Cloudflare.

You will own your book of business and will be responsible for delivering results on KPIs including revenue retention. This is driven through demonstrating the value of the products and services provided to the customer’s business via quarterly reviews.

To success you will need to:

• Manage the customer lifecycle post-contract, identifying and communicating relevant features and functionality to support specific business needs.
• Foster strong relationships with customers and internal teams to find solutions to problems and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Lead retention efforts by demonstrating the value Cloudflare’s products and services provide, through all suitable interactions.
• Coordinate and execute business reviews, delivering insights and recommendations to ensure customer alignment with business objectives.
• Leverage customer data to uncover potential risks and expansion opportunities, supporting growth and long-term retention.
• Work collaboratively with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and other internal teams to resolve customer business issues to drive customer business outcomes.
• Communicate and escalate potential customer issues through the appropriate channels to ensure timely resolution.
• Triage and manage inbound inquiries, gathering necessary detail for internal follow-up.
• Identify areas for improvement with internal processes.

Required skills, knowledge and experience

• Strong communication skills in German and English (verbal and written)
• Bachelor's degree required, Master's degree is a plus
• 5+ years of experience in post-sales customer-facing roles in enterprise SaaS businesses, ideally in Customer Success Management
• Strong understanding of computer networking, application and network security, and “how the internet works”
• Strong relationship-building skills and experience working with high value enterprise-level customers.
• Strong organizational skills with a proven ability to prioritize and multitask in a dynamic environment, and to perform under pressure
• Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills.
• Experience with customer negotiations and handling difficult customer conversations
• High degree of empathy and a customer-centric mindset to ensure our customers’ success and satisfaction.

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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