Renewal Success Manager - Japan

DeepL DeepL · AI Frontier · Tokyo, Japan · Customer Team

This role is a Renewal Success Manager for DeepL, an AI product company. The primary focus is on managing commercial renewals for existing customers, ensuring value realization translates into long-term commitment. Responsibilities include designing pricing models, negotiating contracts with legal and finance, and partnering with customer-facing teams. The role requires proven success in commercial renewals within a SaaS or AI organization and a strong commercial mindset.

What you'd actually do

  1. Strategically lead the renewals process for some of our most critical and most complex customer engagements aligning customer health and usage with our pricing models and growth oriented contracts.
  2. Design pricing models and multi-year agreement that reward adoption and pave the way for future expansion.
  3. Navigate the ‘procurement maze’, leading negotiations with legal, finance and ensuring all terms are aligned with our Deal Desk standards.
  4. Partner closely with Customer Success Managers, Account Executives and wider Go to Market organisation to ensure alignment on the customer journey.
  5. Maintain forecast accuracy for your region ensuring that "on-time" isn't just a goal—it’s the standard.

Skills

Required

  • Proven success in a commercial renewal role within a SaaS or AI organisation.
  • A commercial mindset and ability to tell a compelling value narrative for our customers.
  • Knowledge of LAER customer success framework, quota to cash and other pricing levers.
  • Strong collaboration with Customer Success, Account Executives and wider Go to Market organisations.
  • Highly structured approach and operational framework for renewal lifecycle.
  • Skilled at negotiating with procurement, finance, legal and other stakeholders from within customer organisations, protecting margins whilst fostering long term relationships.

What the JD emphasized

  • commercial renewal role within a SaaS or AI organisation