Senior Customer Success Manager (m/f/d)

About the Role

Step into a pivotal role where you'll shape the experience of some of the world's most demanding digital customers, including hyperscale technology customers, as part of Digital Realty's Customer Success team.

You will serve as the key operational connector between customers and internal experts, ensuring flawless service delivery and proactive issue management from onboarding to offboarding. Working in a dynamic, cross-functional environment, you'll drive operational excellence and innovation while fostering long-term customer trust and retention.

This role gives you the opportunity to actively shape customer success and make a direct contribution to ensuring the secure and trusted use of large-scale digital data ecosystems.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the full customer lifecycle for strategic accounts, delivering exceptional service aligned with contractual SLAs and demanding customer expectations.
• Serve as the trusted main point of contact towards dedicated customers for handling escalations, incidents, and operational challenges.
• Collaborate across multiple internal teams to streamline service delivery, proactively identifying and mitigating risks.
• Lead regular strategic reviews and engagement meetings to ensure ongoing customer alignment and satisfaction.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance audit quality, process efficiency, and operational transparency.
• Manage complex, multinational customer relationships with confidence, navigating diverse stakeholder needs and expectations.
• Maintain comprehensive and compliant documentation and reporting, ensuring confidentiality and professionalism.
• Support on-site audits and engagements, embedding yourself in the customer's operational reality to deepen connection and trust.

Your Profile

• A bachelor's degree in Business, IT, Engineering, or equivalent experience with demonstrated success in audit, compliance, or customer success roles.
• Minimum five years' experience managing demanding, complex customer accounts in data center, IT, telecommunications, or related industries.
• Strong technical understanding of data center infrastructure and IT environments, combined with a hands-on approach during critical situations.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with proven ability to influence and negotiate within matrixed organizations.
• Ability to work collaboratively across diverse teams and geographies to deliver seamless customer experiences.
• Resilience and courage to engage in difficult conversations and manage escalations with professionalism.
• Fluent English skills and basic German skills

What We Offer:

• Open-door culture with short communication paths and flat hierarchies
• Structured onboarding program with buddy support and access to training and development opportunities
• Personal growth opportunities in a fast-growing international environment
• Attractive social benefits including flexible working arrangements, above-standard pension contributions, mobile phone allowance, commuting support and comprehensive insurance coverage
• Additional benefits such employee discount programs, free drinks, fresh fruit and regular team events

A bit about us

Digital Realty is the leading provider of carrier and cloud neutral data centre services by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx™) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 28 countries on 6 continents. We've 3,500+ colleagues around the world who work together, come up with life-changing solutions and create connections that matter every day.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.