Senior Customer Success Account Manager (German Speaking)

At Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C), we are leading a high-growth, AI-powered global sales team—one that is deeply connected to our partners and driven by customer success. By uniting our Small Medium Business, Corporate, Strategy, and Partner teams, we are unlocking the largest customer opportunity, backed by the industry’s most significant investments. Leveraging the power of AI and our extensive partner ecosystem, we are redefining how businesses of all sizes adopt technology to drive growth and innovation. SME&C is more than a sales organization—it’s a culture of innovation, opportunity, and inclusivity. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, high-performing, and customer-obsessed team where collaboration, connection, and continuous learning fuel everything we do. If you thrive in a fast-paced, digital-first environment and are eager to make a meaningful impact, explore how SME&C can be the next step in your career. Together, we are shaping the future of business.   

Are you a cloud loving person that has Cloud and IT (information technology) Service Management blood running in your veins? Do you want to be that key person that helps our customers achieve the most out of the Microsoft products and services they use? Do you get your energy from making your customers succeed in making their strategic and transformational cloud projects real?

As a CSAM, you are the primary delivery lead and a partner for our more strategic customers, empowering them to achieve more by accelerating their business value across our Digital Cloud platforms. By leveraging your business acumen, industry perspectives, customer knowledge, and technical expertise you will be responsible for the end-to-end post sales delivery and support orchestration across the Microsoft and Partner ecosystem to align the right resources at the right time to achieve customer outcomes. Check out the CSAM role in the Customer Success Unit at Microsoft! Be ready to make impact! This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, leverage your delivery management capabilities and deepen your cloud and industry expertise. This role is flexible in that you can work up to (50%- 75%) from home.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

• Customer Relationship Management: You will develop relationships and influence with key customer stakeholders, that build joint accountability of their defined outcomes and long term trust.
• Customer Success Leadership and Customer Strategy and Growth: You will align planning and execution to priorities that have been agreed on between the customer and Microsoft unlocking tangible customer value.
• You will bring operational rigor to planning and delivery, leveraging resources and investments optimally, to achieve accelerated consumption and usage outcomes.

• Customer Success Leadership - Delivery and Program Management: You will lead the delivery of program planning,  execution and customer-facing delivery reviews, and engagement with key customer stakeholders to address agreed-upon customer outcomes and account priorities that deliver ongoing customer success.
• You will initiate conversations with customers to connect customer objectives and the current Microsoft portfolio of work in the customer account and ensure alignment  of Microsoft technology and services with the customer goals and objectives.

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science or related field AND several years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Business, Sociology, Psychology, Computer Science, or related field AND several years customer success, solution delivery, practice management, customer-facing consulting, or portfolio management experience
  • OR equivalent experience
• Multiple years relevant work experience within customer industry
• Fluency in English and German languages
• Microsoft or competitor equivalent (e.g., AWS) certification in relevant technologies (e.g., Azure, 365)
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation certification or equivalent service management certification
  • Project Management Institute (PMI) or equivalent Project Management certification
  • Prosci or equivalent certification

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.