We’re looking for a Customer Success Manager (Japanese Speaking) who is passionate about the Wise mission – money without borders. You’ll be a part of the Wise Platform team, leading the most impactful projects and programmes of work in order to expand our growing list of global partners, helping us deliver world class payment service solutions to our partners and their customers across the APAC region.

As a customer success manager your role is to offer excellent partnership experience to Wise Platform enterprise level clients. You will be an operational owner of the portfolio of partners like Standard Chartered, GMO Aozora, Moin, etc.

During your day-to-day you're expected to analyze the quality of partnerships from an operational standpoint, identify opportunities to automate and scale operational processes for our partners and for the internal teams who service our enterprise clients as well as deal with partner demands towards Wise operational processes.

This is how you will maximize the value partners receive from using Wise solution by reducing operational friction and defect.

You will be working closely with the Account Management team and Wise operational teams, which are global. You will also work with other functions, including product management, tech, legal, compliance, implementation and business development.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

Own and nurture operational relationships with partners and unblock the growth opportunities. This means being partners’ point of operational contact (escalations, operational friction patterns), managing stakeholders and conducting business review meetings, providing solutions to partners looking to improve the operational state and supporting them through the execution. Unblocking operational obstacles to growth.
Own operational success plans with partners to maximize the value partners get from Wise. This means analyzing the operational performance and being the driver of strategic operational improvements projects with partners and keeping our partners as well as internal teams accountable to follow the timelines on the plan.
Scale internal operations. This means looking into the data (on partner-level, regional and global), working closely with servicing teams to understand what are the key friction points caused by platform partnerships and how we can eliminate/ reduce these gaps by negotiating changes with partners, product, engineers and other stakeholders on a regional or global level. Take the lead on driving the cross-team projects implementing these changes.
Agree with partners on implementing the endpoints & webhooks. This means exploring what endpoints & webhooks exist and can be helpful and what should be created to help automate internal & partner’s support operational teams by sending the data via API to our partner. Negotiate such changes with a partner, as they need to do tech work on their end as well.
Analyze the quality of support we provide to our partners and their customers. This means understanding how well our responses solve the cases raised, what we can do to improve the resolution rate and reduce the amount of contacts by working with the internal teams for your partner and for the whole region in particular. Collecting feedback from assigned partnerships to identify key improvement areas.

Possess relevant experience (e.g., minimum 3 years) in the banking or fintech industry.
You have proven track of record completing the projects with measurable results, scaling internal costs and improving the processes (ready to share about at least 3 projects lead and delivered)
You are data-driven, able to collect and analyze data to prioritize the big wins for our partnerships and for scaling internal teams
You’re creative in finding solutions when you are blocked. You’ll have a number of ways to reach cross-team agreements that work for us, the partner and customers even when you receive a push back
You go above and beyond the call of duty, work independently without a script and solve complex customer problems working with other teams
You are an excellent communicator - have a proven track of negotiating changes with internal teams and/or external stakeholders.
You are fluent in Japanese as the role requires managing and supporting enterprise customers and key partners based in Japan, including conducting business review meetings in Japanese.

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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