Customer Success Manager - German Speaker

About the Position

As a Customer Success Manager (CSM) with a focus on German-speaking clients, you will serve as the primary post-sales relationship owner for an assigned portfolio of enterprise customers within Commvault’s Foundational Success tier. You will be responsible for driving customer adoption, value realization, retention, expansion, engagement, lifecycle progression, executive alignment, and customer advocacy.

Responsibilities

Strategic Customer Success Leadership

• Own customer relationships across assigned enterprise accounts
• Develop and execute customer success plans aligned to customer business objectives
• Drive customer adoption, operational maturity, and measurable value realization
• Conduct business reviews, operational cadence meetings, and customer governance sessions
• Proactively identify customer risks and develop mitigation strategies
• Drive customer lifecycle progression and customer advocacy

Revenue Retention & Expansion

• Own customer retention planning and execution strategies to maximize GRR
• Identify and influence expansion opportunities aligned to customer priorities
• Drive adoption and customer maturity activities that improve NRR readiness
• Partner with Sales and Renewals teams on expansion and renewal planning
• Use customer health data, adoption metrics, and engagement trends to forecast risks and growth opportunities

Program & Project Leadership

• Coordinate customer initiatives across TSMs, Support, Product, Engineering, and Services
• Manage customer success action plans, milestones, dependencies, and stakeholder alignment
• Lead customer escalations and facilitate resolution management
• Drive accountability across internal teams to improve customer outcomes

Executive Engagement & Customer Advocacy

• Build trusted relationships with technical, operational, and leadership stakeholders
• Present customer health, adoption progress, ROI, and operational recommendations
• Advocate for customer needs internally across cross-functional organizations

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Customer Success, Enterprise SaaS, Account Management, or related customer-facing roles
• Proven success managing enterprise customer relationships
• Strong customer success and stakeholder management capabilities
• Moderate technical understanding of SaaS, infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise platforms
• Strong project management and communication skills
• Experience influencing GRR and NRR outcomes
• Ability to communicate effectively across technical and executive audiences in German (Language is a MUST)

We Offer

• Opportunity to work with a leading company in the AI era
• Be part of a team that helps organizations stay ready for constant disruption
• Competitive benefits and career growth opportunities

About the Company

Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) delivers continuous recovery for the AI era. We help organizations stay ready for constant disruption by returning critical data, applications, identities, and AI systems to a clean, trusted state. Our purpose-built recovery solutions span cloud-native and hybrid environments, leveraging AI to enable resilience at enterprise scale.

Commvault is an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are always committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status and we will not discriminate against on the basis of such characteristics or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we work.

Commvault’s goal is to make interviewing inclusive and accessible to all candidates and employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to participate in the interview process or apply for a position at Commvault, please email [email protected]. For any inquiries not related to an accommodation, please reach out to [email protected].

Apply now to join our team and help drive customer success and value realization for our enterprise customers.