Customer Success Manager, Switzerland

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Zürich, CHE
In-Office
Senior level
Cloud • Software
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The Role
Manages strategic Salesforce customers, serving as their primary success and technical contact. Coordinates Signature Success services, drives platform adoption, conducts quarterly reviews, advises on releases, manages risks, and advocates during high-severity incidents. Builds executive relationships, translates technical concepts into business outcomes, coordinates cross-functional teams, and supports renewals and expansion. Requires occasional after-hours coverage and three days per week in a local Salesforce office.
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Job Category

Customer Success

Job Details

About Salesforce

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.

For our customers who wish to get the most value out of Salesforce with an enterprise experience and the fastest support, delivered by our most skilled guides, they purchase our Signature Success Plan. Signature drives the right insights and people at the right time - which can make all the difference. When you have Signature, you unlock our deepest level of partnership, most skilled expertise, and tools to stay agile.
The Customer Success team within Signature Success is looking for a driven and customer-focused Customer Success Manager (CSM) to serve as a primary contact point for Salesforce’s highest-profile customers.
You will have responsibility for partnering with a small number of assigned accounts, maintaining a continual focus on the customer’s business goals to improve their overall technical and operational health and realise the maximum value out of their Salesforce investment. The Customer Success Manager maintains awareness of the customer's key events, needs, potential risks, and value drivers.
As a trusted advisor, the CSM will build a track record in customer success through superb communication with partners and extensive knowledge of the Salesforce platform to translate their business needs to solutions. You will forge relationships with your customers and account teams, develop a deep technical understanding of their Salesforce implementation, share standard methodologies, and adoption of proactive services. These activities will enable you to proactively set the customer up for success through optimization of the platform, with special care during critically important peak events.
As a CSM, you will occasionally act as a point of contact for any major incidents, owning the customer’s expectations and communications through the resolution of such incidents. The CSM acts as the technical main interface on behalf of our customers and works closely across both internal and external collaborators, including partners and ISVs, as required to address the customer needs.
The ideal CSM has an extraordinary focus on the success of the customer, is an exceptional communicator, exhibits professionalism, is dedicated to meeting and exceeding expectations, enjoys forming relationships, has excellent collaboration skills, and has the ability to learn new technologies quickly.
Your Impact

  • Serve as the single point of customer accountability responsible for the orchestration of all Signature deliverables, experience, renewal, and expansion.
  • Cultivate and maintain stakeholder relationships with the customer’s IT and business executive leadership, sponsors, and decision-makers within customer organisations that have purchased Signature.
  • Help your customers achieve their business goals and outcomes on the Salesforce platform by:
    • Coordinating the completion of the Signature Success catalog of services as required for your customer
    • Providing timely, proactive Salesforce feature guidance based on the areas of interest for your customer
    • Acting as an advisor to your customers for the adoption of new features of Salesforce’s annual release schedules and identifying potential challenges and risks to your customer's implementation
  • Communicate the value of Signature Success. Be accountable for ensuring all collaborators understand this value so that customers continue to renew Signature Success.
  • Act as an advocate for customers during the triage and resolution of high-severity cases to assist with the timely resolution of these issues.
  • Proactive Support & Enhancement: Conduct quarterly reviews, identify trends, and provide tailored release recommendations to ensure stability, performance, and feature enhancement.
  • Internal Relationship Building: Forge strong multidisciplinary relationships with Sales, Engineering, and Product Management to lead and coordinate customer relationships for success and revenue opportunities.
  • The CSM may be required to occasionally be available for some after-hour or weekend coverage depending on the customer’s need.
  • Evolution of Roles: Anticipate and adapt to role changes per evolving Salesforce needs.

Minimum Skills:

  • Experienced professional with 5+ years of relevant industry expertise in Technical Customer Success, SaaS platform use or project leadership, Consulting, Solutions Development, Technical and/or Solutions Architecture.
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills with demonstrated ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels of the organization, including executive and C-level.
  • Skills for analyzing technical concepts, translating them into business terms, and mapping business requirements into technical features.
  • Ability to explain complex technical concepts in business-friendly terms to customers, then explain customer needs to internal partners.
  • Knowledge of software development process and design methodologies.
  • Experience leading efforts of cross-functional teams to facilitate the resolution or disposition of customer needs or projects.
  • Proficiency in German (preferably Swiss German) or French and English

Preferred Requirements:

  • +2 years in the Salesforce Ecosystem.
  • Salesforce product certifications are a plus (Administrator, Service Cloud Consultant, Sales Cloud Consultant, Data Cloud Consultant).
  • Knowledge of Salesforce products and features, capabilities, best use, and how to deploy.
  • Salesforce Certified Agentforce Specialist
  • Degree or equivalent experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the strengths you'll need for the role (e.g. demonstrated behaviors in previous jobs, that align to role needs such as extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

This position will require you to work from your local Salesforce office 3 days a week.

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. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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Skills Required

  • 5+ years of relevant industry experience in technical customer success, SaaS platform use, project leadership, consulting, solutions development, or technical/solutions architecture
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills, including the ability to influence executive and C-level stakeholders
  • Ability to analyze technical concepts, translate them into business terms, and map business requirements to technical features
  • Ability to explain complex technical concepts to customers and communicate customer needs to internal partners
  • Knowledge of software development processes and design methodologies
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams to resolve customer needs or projects
  • Proficiency in German, preferably Swiss German, or French, and English
  • Degree or equivalent experience
  • At least 2 years of experience in the Salesforce ecosystem
  • Salesforce product certifications, such as Administrator, Service Cloud Consultant, Sales Cloud Consultant, or Data Cloud Consultant
  • Knowledge of Salesforce products, features, capabilities, best practices, and deployment
  • Salesforce Certified Agentforce Specialist certification

Salesforce Compensation & Benefits Highlights

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  • Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as robust, with strong medical, dental, vision, and mental-health support. Offerings include multiple plan options and confidential counseling through Lyra for employees and eligible dependents.
  • Parental & Family Support — Family benefits stand out, with substantial paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers. Additional resources include fertility assistance, adoption and surrogacy support, and subsidized backup care.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off programs are broad, featuring flexible or unlimited PTO for many salaried roles. Paid volunteer days and early PTO accrual for hourly employees further enhance overall time-away flexibility.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
72,000 Employees

What We Do

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where Humans with agents drive customer success together. Through Agentforce, our groundbreaking suite of customizable agents and tools, Salesforce brings autonomous AI agents, unified data from any source, and best-in-class Customer 360 apps together on one integrated platform to help companies connect with customers in a whole new way. Salesforce is democratizing AI agents for businesses of every size and industry so every company can embrace a workforce without limits. Our low code, open, and secure platform helps companies build and customize Salesforce fast so they can safely scale AI-powered work to every customer and employee experience and transform their business. Salesforce is proud to be the market leader, but we’re even more proud to lead in philanthropy, innovation and culture. Guided by core values of trust, customer success, innovation, equality, and sustainability, Salesforce is more than a business — we’re a platform for change.

Why Work With Us

There’s no typical day in the life of a Salesforce employee. You could be transforming our next AI innovation — or transforming your community. Closing deals — or closing your laptop for a day of Volunteer Time Off. Driving change for our customers — or driving change within one of our high-performing teams.

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