Senior Customer Partner Success Manager

Ripple Ripple · Fintech · South Africa · Customer Success

This role is a Senior Customer Partner Success Manager at Ripple, focusing on driving the success of financial institutions using Ripple's payment and custody solutions in South Africa and Africa. The role involves developing strategic account plans, managing renewals, identifying cross-sell opportunities, and acting as a liaison between customers and internal Ripple teams. It requires a deep understanding of web3, financial services, customer success, and account management, with a strong emphasis on building relationships and understanding customer needs to improve their value and potential.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop a deep understanding of each customer's current technical solutions, organization, internal decision-making, aspirations and needs.
  2. Serve as an advisor/Ripple advocate with customers, enabling them to better experience the potential of Ripple and participate in developing new and ground-breaking solutions.
  3. Develop strategic account plans, manage contract renewals, identify and lead cross-sell opportunities
  4. Lead all aspects of customer-facing delivery responsibilities for both business and technical work-streams in conjunction with Ripple’s Customer and Partner Engineering (CPE) team
  5. Be the voice of Ripple’s customers within the Ripple organization, ensuring that feedback and insights gained are proactively disseminated, inculcated, and acted upon by Ripple

Skills

Required

  • customer facing role experience
  • financial institutions experience
  • FinTech or crypto organization experience
  • English fluency
  • multi-stakeholder management
  • blockchain technology understanding
  • crypto markets understanding
  • digital asset custody models understanding
  • cross-border payments infrastructure understanding
  • relationship building
  • cross-functional team management
  • interpersonal skills
  • coaching others
  • self-motivated
  • proactive
  • remote work capability
  • fast-paced environment adaptability

Nice to have

  • French fluency

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of experience in a customer facing role at financial institutions and/or a FinTech or crypto organization
  • Solid understanding of blockchain technology, crypto markets, digital asset custody models and cross-border payments infrastructure
  • Experience working in or with African financial markets is highly preferred