Senior Customer Success Manager; m​/f​/d

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.

• 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.

• 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 and basic German skills.

• Open‑door culture with short communication paths and flat hierarchies.
• Personalized onboarding plan (buddy system) and education programs.
• Personal development options in a fast‑growing environment.
• Extensive social benefits (flexible working hours, digital meal vouchers, bike leasing, pension plan, etc.).
• Many extras like free drinks, fresh fruit, or cool team events.

Digital Realty is the leading provider of carrier and cloud‑neutral data‑centre services by delivering the full spectrum of data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions. Platform

DIGITAL®, the company’s global data centre 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 centre 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.

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,…