About the Role
As a Customer Success Manager, you will own the operational strategy and execution for a portfolio of high-value banking and fintech partners on Wise Platform. Your focus will be on driving continuous improvement in payment solution delivery, ensuring partners remain operationally stable and poised for growth.
Responsibilities
- Own the operational strategy for improving partner performance and volume retention.
- Execute strategy by collaborating with Wise operational teams, product, tech, legal, compliance, implementation, and business development.
- Ensure Wise Platform Partners receive maximum value, operational stability, and readiness for growth.
- Lead operational initiatives with Wise teams to unblock growth opportunities.
- Drive operational performance analysis and smooth straightforward processing for partners.
- Address operational concerns and act as the final escalation point.
- Identify and resolve recurring friction patterns.
- Manage stakeholders and conduct business review meetings.
- Propose and support solutions to improve partners' operational state.
- Remove operational obstacles hindering partner growth.
- Partner with Account Managers to drive retention targets by improving transfer success, reducing operational issues, lowering contact rates, and enhancing scalability.
- Use data insights to track performance, proactively address risks, and implement initiatives to improve key retention metrics.
- Own operational success plans and data-driven business reviews, including Quarterly Business Reviews.
- Hold partners and internal teams accountable to timelines.
- Present data analysis and progress updates to partners.
- Own incident resolution and communication, acting as the liaison between partners and internal teams during service disruptions.
- Drive fixes that address the root cause of incidents and resolve recurring issues affecting broader operations.
- Advocate for partner needs by providing feedback to internal teams and influencing product roadmaps.
- Optimize internal and external processes using data-driven insights.
- Develop trusted relationships with senior stakeholders at partner organizations.
- Influence partners to implement endpoints and webhooks to automate support operations via API.
- Analyze the quality of servicing provided to partners and their customers.
- Identify and raise key improvement areas in procedures and SLAs.
Requirements
- At least 5+ years in Fintech/Banking.
- Experience working with enterprise banking clients or large companies in the payments or financial services industry.
- Experience driving projects to improve customer experience and achieve tangible measurable results.
- Deep operational expertise in cross-border payments, including knowledge of payment rails (ACH, wire, RTP), reconciliation processes, and technical implementation of API-based solutions.
- Data-driven decision-maker with the ability to collect, analyze, and interpret large datasets.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with experience influencing C-level executives.
- Experience working cross-functionally with internal teams (e.g., Product, Compliance, and Engineering).
- Technical fluency with APIs, webhooks, and system integrations.
- Exceptional communication skills, able to explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Autonomous and adaptable, comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
- Provide examples of unblocking solutions with product and engineering teams by articulating data.
- Provide examples of overcoming pushback.
Skills
- Cross-border payments
- Payment rails (ACH, wire, RTP)
- Reconciliation processes
- API-based solutions
- Data analysis
- Stakeholder management
- APIs
- Webhooks
- System integrations
- Communication
- Project management
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
About the Company
- Wise is a global technology company building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
- Wise is on a mission to make people's and businesses' lives easier and save them money when sending money internationally, spending abroad, or making/receiving international payments.
- The company is creating an entirely new network for the world's money.
Equal Opportunity
- Wise is people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice.
- Teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
- Wise has a truly international team and celebrates differences.
- Inclusive teams help live values and ensure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards the mission and able to progress in their careers.
