About us
GoCardless is a global bank payment company. Over 100,000 businesses, from start-ups to household names, use GoCardless to collect and send payments through direct debit, real-time payments and open banking.
GoCardless processes US$130bn+ of payments annually, across 30+ countries; helping customers collect and send both recurring and one-off payments, without the chasing, stress or expensive fees. We use AI-powered solutions to improve payment success and reduce fraud. And, with open banking connectivity to over 2,500 banks, we help our customers make faster, more informed decisions.
We are headquartered in the UK with offices in London and Leeds, and additional locations in Australia, France, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal and the United States.
At GoCardless, we're all about supporting you! We’re committed to making our hiring process inclusive and accessible. If you need extra support or adjustments, reach out to your Talent Partner — we’re here to help!
And remember: we don’t expect you to meet every single requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply!
The role
We are seeking a dynamic Customer Success Account Manager to join our Customer team for the DACH & Benelux market. You will manage a portfolio of DACH & Benelux based merchants (mostly Germany), driving their growth and contributing to the expansion of our international business.
What excites you
- Portfolio Management: Take full commercial ownership of a portfolio of our DACH customers (150+ customers; $3 million in ARR).
- Revenue Growth: Identify, cultivate, and secure opportunities to enhance customer engagement and increase transaction volume across the portfolio.
- Risk Mitigation: Mitigate risk including managing renewals and ensuring customer retention.
- Customer Reporting and Insights: Provide regular reports and updates on account performance and customer feedback. Identify and expose valuable insights to customers during Success reviews.
- Product Expertise: Gain in-depth knowledge of our payment solutions to effectively support customer onboarding, optimize usage scenarios, and demonstrate product value to drive customer success.
What excites us
- Proven track record in managing and growing a portfolio of accounts.
- Passion for helping customers.
- Strong listening and verbal communication skills: quickly understand customer needs or issues and deliver clear responses via video calls, emails, and in-person meetings.
- Experience prioritizing time between multiple important and urgent issues.
- Enjoy working cross-functionally and partnering with other teams on projects.
- Operational mindset with a focus on improving effectiveness and efficiency.
- Experience in working with DACH customers.
- Native German language (or professional level) and fluent English. Additional languages, specifically Dutch and/or French are a plus.
Base salary range: £76,800 - £115,200
Base salary ranges are based on role, job level, location, and market data. Please note that whilst we strive to offer competitive compensation, our approach is to pay between the minimum and the mid-point of the pay range (£76,800 - £96,000) until performance can be assessed in role. Offers will take into account level of experience, interview assessment, budgets and parity between you and fellow employees at GoCardless doing similar work.
- Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
- Work away scheme - gives you the option to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period
- Adaptive Working - allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle
- Equity - all permanently employed GCs get equity to help you make a valuable contribution
- Parental leave - to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
- Learning Budget - lead your own development with an annual learning budget
- Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)
We're an organisation defined by our values; We start with why before we begin any project, to ensure it’s aligned with our mission. We act with integrity, always. We care deeply about what we do and we know it's essential that we be humble whilst we do it. Working this way creates the GC magic- the reason we all love showing up to work.
Diversity & InclusionAs of April 2025, we had 806 employees (GeeCees) globally, with 524 based in the UK, 163 based in Latvia and 119 across our other offices.
To ensure that we're representative of the world around us - and to be able to review relevant benchmarks - we ask GeeCees to voluntarily disclose diversity data. This year, the proportion of GeeCees providing data increased to 88% (up from 79% in 2024). With regards to diversity within GoCardless, we can see GeeCees identifying as:
Asian, Black, Mixed or Other — 25%
Neurodiverse — 9%
LGBTQIA+ — 9%
Disabled — 1%
Average age — 33
Female — 45%
Male — 55%
We’re rooting for you during your application and GoCardless aims to provide reasonable adjustments to make our recruitment process as remarkable and accessible as we can. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you need extra support.
If you want to learn more, you can read about our Employee Resource Groups and objectives here
Sustainability
We’re committed to reducing our impact on the environment, leaving a more sustainable world for future generations. Check out our sustainability action plan here.
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Skills Required
- Proven track record managing and growing a portfolio of accounts
- Experience working with DACH customers (Germany focus)
- Native German or professional-level German
- Fluent English
- Strong listening and verbal communication skills (video calls, email, in-person)
- Experience prioritizing time between multiple important and urgent issues
- Operational mindset focused on improving effectiveness and efficiency
- Passion for helping customers and customer-centric attitude
- Additional languages (Dutch and/or French)
What We Do
GoCardless is on a mission to take the pain out of getting paid for businesses with recurring revenue. We’ve created a global bank debit network, to rival credit and debit cards. On top of it, we’ve built a platform designed and optimised for taking invoice, subscription, membership and instalment payments. We now process $13bn in transactions a year and we’re proud to count 50,000 businesses around the world as our customers, from small businesses to household names like TripAdvisor and the Guardian. Our recurring payments platform integrates with the applications businesses use every day, giving businesses more visibility over payments and saving them huge amounts of time on tasks like payment reconciliation. We partner with more than 150 billing and subscription software partners globally, including Xero, Sage, QuickBooks, Zuora and Salesforce. GoCardless has offices in London, Paris, Munich, Melbourne and San Francisco. We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors including Adams Street Partners, Accel Partners, Balderton Capital, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Notion Capital, Passion Capital, Salesforce Ventures Y Combinator.
