Location: Remote with Availability for frequent travel in Germany (up to 25%)
English- High level | German- Native level speaker | Polish: Professional working proficiency (spoken and written) preferred
Please send your resume in English
Accelerate Your Career in Cybersecurity!
Join Pentera and take your career to the next level in cybersecurity. As a leader in Automated Security Validation, we help businesses around the world safely emulate real-world attacks to uncover their vulnerabilities—just like the world’s best red teams. At Pentera, you’ll be at the forefront of cybersecurity innovation, working on advanced tools that challenge organizations' defenses and push the limits of security testing.
With over 350 team members and 1,100+ customers in more than 50 countries, Pentera is a growing company supported by top investors like Insight Partners, K1 and The Blackstone Group.
If you're looking to grow your skills, make a difference, and be part of an innovative team, Pentera is the place for you.
About the role:
We are looking to hire a Customer Success Manager based in Germany who will be responsible for maintaining and expanding Pentera’s relationship with a portfolio of high volume customers for the DACH region. This is a unique opportunity to shape and build a new model of Customer Success within Pentera, and help shape the Scale function going forward.
The ideal candidate would be experienced in Customer Success Management in the Cyber Security Industry, with a strong technical and commercial orientation and the ability to tailor solutions for various scenarios.
Passionate about delivering a great customer experience and well-versed in handling complex customer needs.
A positive and energetic person with the hunger to grow business and make an impact at an organization set on becoming the number one player in the Security Risk Validation space.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Operate as the lead point of contact for all matters specific to your accounts.
- Representing the company at customer accounts and voicing customers’ needs internally, ensuring customer expectations are met.
- Establish productive and close relationships with executive stakeholders at customer accounts, maintaining regular meetings with customers.
- Forecast and track key account metrics.
- Seek growth and sales opportunities within the portfolio of accounts.
- Take ownership of commercial activities with all assigned accounts.
- Develop a technical understanding of Pentera's product.
- Maintain close collaboration with our Sales team and Technical roles, facilitating opportunities while keeping our clients highly engaged.
- Clearly communicate the progress of monthly/quarterly initiatives to internal and external stakeholders.
- Manage ad-hoc queries from customer accounts.
- Maintain all information about customer activity within the CRM platform.
Requirements:
- English: high level, German- Native, Polish- fluent
- 4+ years of proven experience as a Customer Success Manager as part of a global organization, managing global accounts - a Must
- Experience in a Cyber Security company, preferably a startup a Must
- Experience in Renewals and relationship management- a Must
- Based in Germany
- BA/BSC preferred
- Demonstrable ability to communicate, present and influence key stakeholders at all levels of an organization, including executive and C-level.
- Strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proven ability to juggle multiple projects at a time, while maintaining sharp attention to details.
- Good interpersonal skills, people person.
- Motivation, flexibility, proactiveness, ability to work independently and as a part of a team.
We are an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to building a diverse and talented workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by applicable law. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds to join us!
Skills Required
- 4+ years of proven experience as a Customer Success Manager
- Experience in a Cyber Security company, preferably a startup
- Experience in Renewals and relationship management
- BA/BSC preferred
Pentera Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Pentera and has not been reviewed or approved by Pentera.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay ranges and third-party salary snapshots are presented for multiple roles (e.g., senior backend engineering and SDR/AEs), suggesting compensation is positioned as competitive and legible by role. Aggregate compensation-and-benefits ratings are described as strong, reinforcing an overall positive pay signal.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company matching is repeatedly listed as part of the package, indicating support for long-term savings. Retirement coverage is also referenced in “retirement plans” language in job-post style descriptions.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Company equity/stock options are explicitly included in the total rewards description, indicating ownership-based compensation beyond salary. Equity is framed as part of a broader “comprehensive total rewards package,” implying it is a standard component rather than an exception.
Pentera Insights
What We Do
Pentera is the leader for Automated Security Validation, allowing every organization to test with ease the integrity of all cybersecurity layers, unfolding true, current security exposures at any moment, at any scale. As a result, thousands of security professionals and service providers worldwide use our platform to guide remediation and close security gaps before they are exploited. We are a unicorn with more than 380 employees around the globe, with over 1,000 customers in production in more than 60 countries! Pentera has won various Industry Awards, including the Frost & Sullivan “Best Practices Award for Global Breach & Attack Simulation (BAS) Market Leadership 2022 and the 2020 Gartner Cool Vendor Award. We are backed by Top tier investors such as Insight Partners, K1 Investment Management, The Blackstone Group, and AWZ. Penterians are one team with a shared mission. Become a Penterian – change the way the world does cyber!
Why Work With Us
We believe that Penetration Testing (PT), as it stands today, is obsolete. Software and algorithms can do a better job at penetration testing and help businesses continually assess and improve their cyber risks using the threat-oriented approach.
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