Manager, Customer Success
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 24, 2026. First seen by Alion on May 26, 2026. Syndigo scores A on the Alion truth index.
Syndigo gets great products chosen. Every choice in commerce, whether by a shopper, a search engine, a marketplace, or an AI assistant, is made on product data, and our software makes that data complete and trusted and moves it across the industry's largest two-sided commerce network: 15,000+ brands and 3,500+ retailers. Companies like AutoZone, Colgate-Palmolive, Dole International, Unilever, and Walgreens trust Syndigo to get their products chosen. Learn more at www.syndigo.com.
**This is a remote position for candidates located in Germany only**
The Manager, Customer Success (Brands) is accountable for customer retention, expansion, and advocacy across the Brands portfolio. This role owns the post-sales customer lifecycle, ensuring customers achieve ongoing value, renew successfully, expand adoption, and actively advocate for Syndigo. In this role, you will be managing a team of 8 Independent Contributors on the CSM team.
Success is measured primarily through Gross Revenue Retention (GRR), Net Revenue Retention (NRR), and Customer Advocacy.
HOW WE’LL BE WINNING TOGETHER DAY TO DAY
- Customer Retention & Growth (GRR / NRR)
- Own and drive GRR and NRR across the Brands customer base.
- Establish clear renewal readiness and risk management frameworks.
- Proactively identify churn and downsell risks and lead mitigation plans.
- Partner with Account Executives to drive and support renewals and expansion using customer health, adoption, and outcome insights.
- Customer Advocacy & Executive Relationships
- Build and scale the customer advocacy programme, including references, case studies, executive sponsorship, and event participation.
- Develop and maintain senior-level relationships with key customer stakeholders.
- Act as an executive sponsor for strategic accounts where appropriate.
- Represent the customer voice internally to influence priorities and decisions.
- Customer Adoption & Value Realisation
- Ensure strong post-go-live adoption, engagement, and value realisation across accounts.
- Oversee customer success motions including success plans, health scoring, QBRs, and executive reviews.
- Drive consistency and quality in customer engagement models while allowing flexibility for strategic customers.
- Customer Success Leadership
- Lead, coach, and develop Customer Success Managers.
- Define clear goals, responsibilities, and KPIs aligned to retention, growth, and advocacy.
- Build a high-performance CS culture with strong accountability and commercial awareness.
- Hire, retain, and develop top Customer Success talent.
- Cross-functional Partnership
- Partner closely with Sales, Product, and Support to ensure a seamless customer experience.
- Provide structured feedback to Product based on customer insights, adoption trends, and strategic needs.
- Act as a senior escalation point for high-impact customer situations.
- Measurement & Reporting
- Deliver executive-level reporting on:
- Retention and expansion performance
- Account health and risk
- Adoption and usage trends
- Customer advocacy pipeline
- Ensure Customer Success metrics are commercially relevant, actionable, and outcome-focused.
- Deliver executive-level reporting on:
WE SHOULD TALK IF THIS SOUNDS LIKE YOU
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Management, or equivalent experience.
- 4-5 years in Customer Success leadership roles, preferably within B2B SaaS.
- Proven track record of driving retention, expansion, and customer advocacy.
- Experience of leading and scaling Customer Success teams.
- Strong commercial acumen with hands-on experience supporting renewals and upsell motions.
- Data-driven mindset with the ability to interpret customer health, usage, and financial metrics.
- Strong people-leadership and stakeholder-management skills.
- Executive-level written and oral communication skills.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, outcome-driven environment.
- Willingness to travel approximately 15-25%.
We offer a competitive, globally aligned benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance. This includes generous paid time off, health coverage, and retirement plans tailored to local markets, along with learning opportunities through tuition reimbursement. Employees also benefit from programs like donation matching, volunteer time off, referral bonuses, and flexible perks such as Flex Fridays-helping you thrive both at work and beyond.
Your individual compensation within the budgeted salary range is determined based on your skills, education, experience, and internal equity. This position is commission-eligible.
Budgeted Salary Range (not including eligible commission):
€125.000—€156.398 EUR
Commission:
€27.279—€27.279 EUR
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
To achieve the best version of our organization, we know it takes new ideas, new approaches, new perspectives and new ways of thinking. A purpose we are 100% committed to cultivating. Diversity is woven into our fabric at Syndigo and it’s how we stay an industry leader, innovating technology solutions that equip our customers with everything they need to be successful!
All are welcome here and we invite you to join our team if you are ready to help us continue that growth!
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