What are the responsibilities and job description for the Customer Success Manager position at Digital Realty?
Job Description
Position Title: Customer Success Manager
Location: Dallas, TX; Ashburn, VA; Charlotte, NC; Atlanta, GA; Miami, FL; Los Angeles, CA; Seattle, WA; Hillsboro, OR; San Francisco, CA
Your Role
As a Customer Success Manager, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of operational service for assigned strategic customers, serving as a key customer-facing representative of Digital Realty. You will coordinate across Operations, Implementation Services, Sales, Finance, subregional and cross-functional teams to protect customer health, deliver against contractual commitments, resolve service issues, and create a seamless post-sales experience centered on customer success in this non-commission role.
What You’ll Do
Digital Realty brings companies and data together 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 25 countries on six continents.
To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter .
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.
Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.
Health and Safety
Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee’s total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below.
Compensation range: $95,000 - $130,000 annually. This compensation range represents the Company’s good faith belief as to what it will pay as a salary for this position at the time of this posting.
Benefits: For this role, Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more.
Position Title: Customer Success Manager
Location: Dallas, TX; Ashburn, VA; Charlotte, NC; Atlanta, GA; Miami, FL; Los Angeles, CA; Seattle, WA; Hillsboro, OR; San Francisco, CA
Your Role
As a Customer Success Manager, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of operational service for assigned strategic customers, serving as a key customer-facing representative of Digital Realty. You will coordinate across Operations, Implementation Services, Sales, Finance, subregional and cross-functional teams to protect customer health, deliver against contractual commitments, resolve service issues, and create a seamless post-sales experience centered on customer success in this non-commission role.
What You’ll Do
- Own overall post-sales customer health across client engagement, service management and SLA attainment, financial health including aged debt and churn risk, and product utilization and awareness.
- Lead regular customer service reviews, using reporting aligned with contractual requirements and Digital Realty standards, and communicate organizational, product, system, process, and policy changes.
- Track contractual SLA performance, review and validate potential service penalties, and coordinate customer communication during and after Red events so key internal and customer stakeholders remain appropriately informed.
- Partner with Implementation Services to support post-sales onboarding for new deployments and introduce customers to Digital Realty products and services.
- Document enhanced customer operational requirements in Customer Playbooks and ensure relevant internal teams understand and act on those requirements.
- Identify at-risk renewals and potential churn, and drive awareness and coordinated action across accountable internal functional teams.
- Coordinate post-RFS customer audits through successful completion and close the loop on customer listening posts and survey detractors with timely follow-up.
- Manage service-related escalations and complaints from recording through escalation, resolution, and confidential handling.
- Identify and drive service improvements through accountable functional teams and process owners while contributing to the Operations Management Team and Global Customer Success community.
- Follow applicable Quality Management, Environmental, and Health and Safety responsibilities while modeling customer focus, teamwork, ownership, delivery, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant customer relationship experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a customer-facing role within a service organization, preferably in utilities, data centers, IT, or telecommunications.
- Experience in service management, ideally supporting complex or international customers; ITIL qualification and experience are preferred.
- Experienced-level product and technical knowledge, problem-solving capability, cross-functional collaboration, and stakeholder management appropriate for strategic, less-complex customer accounts.
- Ability to work effectively with Operations, Implementation Services, Sales, Finance, segment teams, customers, and potential integrators in a matrixed environment.
- Working knowledge of Digital Realty products, services, value propositions, and mission-critical infrastructure components, with the ability to build and maintain that knowledge.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to break complex issues into manageable components, identify underlying causes, and distinguish critical details from less relevant information.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, verbal, listening, reporting, and organizational skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and sensitively across stakeholder levels.
- Ability to travel approximately 20% of the time.
Digital Realty brings companies and data together 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 25 countries on six continents.
To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter .
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.
Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.
Health and Safety
Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee’s total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below.
Compensation range: $95,000 - $130,000 annually. This compensation range represents the Company’s good faith belief as to what it will pay as a salary for this position at the time of this posting.
Benefits: For this role, Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more.
Salary : $95,000 - $130,000