{"id":36404,"date":"2026-05-22T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/job\/senior-specialist-customer-success\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:01:29","slug":"senior-specialist-customer-success","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/job\/senior-specialist-customer-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Specialist, Customer Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Responsibilities<\/p>\n<p>\tAs a Customer Success Sr. Specialist for Services, you will support the development and delivery of strategic priorities within the region. The candidate will focus on ensuring the priority customers and segments they work with experience positive change through more effective use of Services network products. The candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams including Network Services, Account Management, Sales, Product, Technical Account Managers and support\/delivery teams to realize the full value proposition of Mastercard Network Products on behalf of the customer.<\/p>\n<p>The three areas of primary responsibility include: 1) customer engagement, 2) growing the business, and 3) technical and program readiness.<br \/>\nCustomer Engagement:<\/p>\n<p>\tEngage with stakeholders to study the viability of proposed solutions and understand cyber threats in financial and payment sectors<br \/>\n\tIdentify optimization opportunities for customers with the goals of driving customer value and enhanced strategic goals through our products<br \/>\n\tArticulate key performance indicators related to cost, performance and optimization and the insights associated with them<\/p>\n<p>Growing the Business:<\/p>\n<p>\tLeverage Mastercard Services\u2019 offerings to achieve customer goals and realize value propositions of Mastercard products<br \/>\n\tIdentify opportunities for additional Mastercard products to create greater value potential for customers and enhance impact of Network Product offerings<br \/>\n\tAbility to evaluate business models, partnerships, and agreements ensuring product business cases are financially viable and supported by solid data<\/p>\n<p>Technical &amp; Program Readiness:<\/p>\n<p>\tDevelop training materials, thought leadership, and customer-facing playbooks that can be scaled internally and externally to support customer priorities and Customer Success value proposition<br \/>\n\tTranslate complex technical capabilities into effective solutions that address customer needs in a clear and customer-centric manner<br \/>\n\tGather and report customer feedback on product gaps and pain points. Use stakeholder insights to refine value propositions and improve products<\/p>\n<p>All About You:<\/p>\n<p>\tExperience managing clients or internal stakeholders<br \/>\n\tLogical, structured thinking, and affinity for numerical analysis<br \/>\n\tExperienced at leveraging insights from market analysis, customer engagements, and identified opportunities to inform strategic decisions, drive innovation, and sustain competitive advantage<br \/>\n\tKnowledge and understanding of payments technology or cybersecurity (threat intelligence or risk management) and application of that knowledge to address customer\/market needs in these areas are a plus<br \/>\n\tExperience using tools and technology to provide data analytics and business intelligence on cyber threats, fraud, risk and vulnerability<br \/>\n\tProven ability to translate complex technical capabilities into effective solutions that address customer needs in a clear and customer-centric manner<br \/>\n\tExperience in analyzing customer metrics and leveraging data to drive customer success initiatives that contribute to mutual profitability and growth<br \/>\n\tExperience in identifying \u201cnext opportunity\u201d for customers to further enhance the strength and value of the partnership for both parties<br \/>\n\tExperience in creative thinking and development of innovative solutions to complex customer challenges<br \/>\n\tEnthusiastic individual who works seamlessly with a diverse high performing team, nurtures a winning and inclusive culture, and a focus on development at the individual and team level<br \/>\n\tExperience working with at least some of the following: large and emerging Technology, Financial Services, Acquirers\/Processors, Service Providers, and\/or digital platform partners<\/p>\n<p>Apply via company website ( https:\/\/www.mastercard.com ) or<\/p>\n<p>careers.mastercard.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_promoted":"","_job_location":"","_application":"http:\/\/careers.mastercard.com","_company_name":"Mastercard","_company_website":"https:\/\/www.mastercard.com","_company_tagline":"For 50 years, we've been using our technology and expertise to make payments safer, simpler and smarter. Innovation is at the heart of Mastercard\u2019s 50-year history. We take an innovative, value-driven approach to the solutions we create and services we offer, making transactions faster, easier, an... read mored more convenient and secure. One of the many ways in which we innovate is through our culture and people. We hire talented, inventive employees. We also encourage all employees to participate in efforts that cultivate innovation in local communities such as STEM programs. In addition, we showcase innovation through products such as MasterpassTM and tokenization to deliver value to consumers, merchants and banks alike. And, through outreach to developers and entrepreneurs, we are helping to facilitate improvements across the payments ecosystem that will generate future innovations. By underpinning innovation in everything we do, we are transforming the way people pay and get paid, helping businesses grow, improving the shopping experience and advancing financial inclusion around the world. 2nd Floor, 23 Melrose Boulevard Melrose Arch, Melrose North 2196 Johannesburg South Africa","_company_twitter":"","_company_video":"","_filled":0,"_featured":0,"_remote_position":0,"_job_salary":"","_job_salary_currency":"","_job_salary_unit":""},"job_listing_region":[11],"job-types":[12],"class_list":{"0":"post-36404","1":"job_listing","2":"type-job_listing","3":"status-publish","4":"hentry","5":"job_listing_region-gauteng","7":"job-type-full-time"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings\/36404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/job_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_region?post=36404"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-types?post=36404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}