Customer Success Team Lead - French speaking (Paris)

Salary Competitive

Are you looking for a big challenge and the opportunity to shape and lead a high-performing Customer Success team?

Do you bring both hands-on experience with customer onboarding and engagement, and the leadership mindset to coach others and improve how a team operates? Then you have some of the key qualities we’re looking for in our next Customer Success Team Lead.

The opportunity and what we offer

Formalize is on an expansive journey with strong market traction across Europe. As our new Customer Success Team Lead, you will balance hands-on customer work with team leadership responsibilities for our French CS team. You will play a key role in managing strategic accounts, coaching the local CS team, and aligning day-to-day operations with our broader customer success goals.

We are currently exploring the French market and evaluating the potential for a local office in the future. While we are not opening a Paris office in the immediate months, this may happen later in the year. In the meantime, we are speaking with candidates based in France or open to relocating to one of our existing offices. Furthermore you will:

  • Be part of a fast-growing international SaaS company
  • High level of trust and autonomy
  • Be part of a social, diverse and international team

Responsibilities

  • Manage the customer relationship from onboarding to renewal, acting as the primary contact for strategic accounts.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to compliance, IT, and security stakeholders to ensure customers realize the full value of the Formalize platform.
  • Deliver proactive support through training, workshops, and strategic check-ins tailored to customer needs.
  • Drive feature adoption and engagement, with a focus on high-value modules such as NIS2 and DORA, and monitor account health using usage data and feedback.
  • Collaborate with Sales during renewal cycles and identify opportunities for upsell or cross-sell.
  • Provide structured feedback to Product and CS Operations based on recurring customer pain points or feature requests.
  • Maintain accurate records of customer interactions and success metrics.

Qualifications and about you

  • 2-4 years of experience in B2B SaaS or GRC, in a similar customer facing position
  • Connect effortlessly with multiple clients and build lasting relationships simultaneously while maintaining attention to detail and follow-through.
  • Strong communicator, collaborator and problem solver
  • Familiarity analyzing customer behavior and usage data to and usage data to proactively address risks and uncover growth opportunities.
  • Structured, diligent and dedicated
  • Native in French and professional fluency in English
  • Able to work fulltime in one of our offices
  • You thrive in an environment where you contribute to maintaining a high momentum

About Formalize

Formalize is a tech company founded in 2021 with offices in Aarhus, Copenhagen, Milan and Madrid. Currently we are a team of +150 people from 14 nationalities operating in multiple European markets and are one of the fastest growing SaaS scale-ups.

Our journey started within the whistleblowing compliance sector, highlighted by the award-winning Whistleblower Software by Formalize, laying the foundation of our success story.

This initial chapter has been within whistleblowing compliance and meeting those regulations. Along the way we established strong partnerships and a base of satisfied customers. Our commitment was recognized through the best customer support, which earned us reputation as a customer-centric pioneer. But now, we extended our expertise to a larger compliance universe including data compliance, risk and privacy.

Formalize helps companies to effortlessly navigate and stay ahead in the ever-changing landscape of compliance. Our platform adapts to regulatory changes, continuously adapting to meet, and foresee, the evolving needs of our users - ensuring businesses remain compliant and confident in their operations.

Traits that describe our culture and employees:

  • We are all very goal oriented and hardworking
  • We are responsible, and we like accountability
  • We are connecting, and we like to build meaningful relationships
  • We are optimistic and like to laugh and have a positive atmosphere
  • We like to dream big and to have clear visions for the future

Test in the recruitment process

In the recruitment process, we use talent profiles. You will therefore receive a link to the test after sending your application.

Experience shows that it provides the best experience for both candidates and us as a company. It's not about answering right or wrong, but whether one's talents match the context you will work in. We want to hire a colleague who really thrives and flourishes with us, and therefore we are looking for the employee who will be a good fit with Formalize in relation to

  • Fit between the person and work tasks
  • Fit between the person and the colleagues in the team
  • Fit between the person and the management

We know that when this is staged optimally, you thrive and succeed much better in your job.

Recruitment Process

  • Send application and upload relevant information
  • Completion of Talent test
  • 30 minutes online interview with recruitment screenment
  • 45 minutes online interview with our hiring manager
  • 30 minutes cultural interview with one of our current Customer Success Managers

Apply by attaching your resume and other relevant information and you will hear from us soon!

We will hold interviews and hire on an ongoing basis. For more information or questions please contact the responsible recruiter in the Talent team.

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

New tech gear
New tech gear

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Pension plan
Pension plan

Healthcare insurance
Healthcare insurance

Paid holiday
Paid holiday

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Working at
Formalize

Formalize is a tech company founded in 2021 with offices in Aarhus, Copenhagen, Milan and Madrid. Currently we are a team of +120 people from 13 nationalities operating in multiple European markets and are one of the fastest growing SaaS scale-ups. Our journey started within the whistleblowing compliance sector, highlighted by the award-winning Whistleblower Software by Formalize, laying the foundation of our success story. This initial chapter has been within whistleblowing compliance and meeting those regulations. Along the way we established strong partnerships and a base of satisfied customers. Our commitment was recognized through the best customer support, which earned us reputation as a customer-centric pioneer. But now, we extended our expertise to a larger compliance universe including data compliance, risk and privacy. Formalize helps companies to effortlessly navigate and stay ahead in the ever-changing landscape of compliance. Our platform adapts to regulatory changes, continuously adapting to meet, and foresee, the evolving needs of our users - ensuring businesses remain compliant and confident in their operations.

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