Customer Success Manager - French Speaking

ComplyAdvantage
Lisbon, Portugal
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for French-speaking professionals who manage mid-market B2B accounts and coordinate cross-functional teams.

Best fit for

  • French-speaking candidates with mid-market B2B experience and a track record of managing client relationships
    — “Ideally have 2-4 years in a similar or adjacent customer facing role, with proven experience working with mid-market accounts in a B2B environment”
  • Individuals who thrive in hybrid environments and can manage multiple stakeholders across departments
    — “working with the various stakeholders, e.g. their technology team, compliance & risk teams”
  • Candidates who can act as a bridge between clients and product teams by translating feedback into actionable insights
    — “Play a primary role in shaping the product roadmap based on customer feedback”

Things to consider

  • Hybrid work requires at least two days per week in the office in Lisbon
    — “hybrid approach that requires employees to be in the office for two days a week”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience managing C-suite stakeholders and aligning solutions to business goals
    — “Be comfortable working with C-Suite stakeholders, to understand their objectives and align our solutions to meet their needs”
  • Demonstrate skills in coordinating across teams and managing complex client onboarding processes
    — “Ensure that an implementation plan is in place for each new customer and take responsibility for a successful onboarding process, working with the various stakeholders”
  • Showcase a proactive approach to minimizing churn and increasing adoption within client organizations
    — “Provide proactive support to our clients by helping them to increase adoption, improve utilization and take responsibility for minimizing churn and ensuring renewal”
  • Demonstrate your ability to create training and marketing materials for new features and clients
    — “Support/drive new feature roll outs, including formal and informal training of customers and the internal sales/marketing teams”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • managed customer portfolios
  • increased product adoption
  • minimized churn
Typical background
2-4 years in customer facing rolesB2B experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Customer Success ManagementCustomer Relationship ManagementProduct TrainingCross-sell/upsellProduct Feedback

Preferred

Project ManagementStart-up Experience

Stack & domain

Customer SuccessProject ManagementApisCloud PlatformsCommunicationProblem-solvingCollaborationTechnologyFinance

About the role

Original posting from ComplyAdvantage

We are looking for a French speaking Customer Success Manager to help us build our SaaS-based anti-money laundering solutions, which empower organisations to fight financial crime! We are building cutting-edge solutions that help create a safer world and stop money from ending up in the hands of criminals. You will join the customer success team, where you will be charged with nurturing relationships with a portfolio of our customers. You will be a trusted advisor to our clients helping them to get the best results from using the platform while feeding back ideas to the product development teams.

As a Customer Success Manager, you will 

Manage a portfolio of strategic French-speaking customers throughout the entire lifecycle, from onboarding and training to adoption and ongoing success

Be the dedicated contact and own the overall relationship with your clients 

Ensure that an implementation plan is in place for each new customer and take responsibility for a successful onboarding process, working with the various stakeholders, e.g. their technology team, compliance & risk teams

Provide proactive support to our clients by helping them to increase adoption, improve utilization and take responsibility for minimizing churn and ensuring renewal

Provide ongoing support to our clients, responding to their queries and coordinating across the various ComplyAdvantage teams to solve their problems

Drive cross-sell and upsell, expanding contract revenue in conjunction with the sales/account management team

Play a primary role in shaping the product roadmap based on customer feedback

Support/drive new feature roll outs, including formal and informal training of customers and the internal sales/marketing teams, drafting client communications, etc.

Actively contribute towards market development work, e.g. working with marketing to create high quality collateral/content and working with the product team to define future requirements

Function as the voice of the customer and provide internal feedback on how ComplyAdvantage can better serve our customers

About you:

Have a true passion for customers – fanatical about getting them the right outcomes and becoming their advocate

French language proficiency at a native or near-native level

Be comfortable working with C-Suite stakeholders, to understand their objectives and align our solutions to meet their needs

Understand your client’s business and drive value towards positive business outcomes 

Politely and confidently handle objections from clients, working collaboratively towards mutually beneficial outcomes 

An interest in technology and a basic grasp of tools like APIs and cloud platforms will go a long way here.

Be a proactive self-starter that is self-directed and able to solve problems and execute independently

Have strong process management skills, you will be able to manage a varied workload with multiple deadlines 

Possess strong relationship management skills and the ability to coordinate across teams and build consensus

Ideally have 2-4 years in a similar or adjacent customer facing role, with proven experience working with mid-market accounts in a B2B environment 

Ideally have previous project management experience and have worked in a start-up previously 

What’s in it for you?

Equity as we want you to have a part of what we are building

Unlimited Time Off Policy- A work-life balance and focus on our well-being are critical to keeping us performing at our best

We embrace a hybrid approach that requires employees to be in the office for two days a week. We strongly believe that this approach fosters collaboration and enables the building of meaningful relationships

You will also get a new starter budget to kit out your home office

Opportunity to work on innovative projects with smart-minded people keen to share their knowledge and continuously improve

Annual learning budget (prorated based on start date) to drive your performance and career development

The base salary for this role is €40,000-50,000 per year + bonus, equity and benefits. The actual pay may vary based on factors such as location, experience, and skills.

About us:

Our mission is to empower every business to eliminate financial crime. 

By harnessing AI, a unified platform, and an extensive partner ecosystem, we help customers turn compliance into a catalyst for growth, operational resilience, and enduring regulatory trust.

More than 3,000 enterprises across 75 countries rely on our end-to-end platform and the world’s most comprehensive financial crime risk intelligence. With full-stack agentic automation, we help organizations automate up to 95% of KYC, AML, and sanctions reviews, cut onboarding times by 50%, reduce false positives by 70%, and handle 7x more work with the same staff.

ComplyAdvantage is headquartered in London and has global hubs in New York, Lisbon, Singapore, and Cluj-Napoca. It is backed by Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Goldman Sachs, and Andreessen Horowitz. Learn more about compliance re-engineered for the age of AI at complyadvantage.com.

Source: ComplyAdvantage careers

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