Sebastian Schötz

Customer Success Manager

Munich, Bavaria, Germany7 yrs 6 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Award-winning Customer Success Manager at LinkedIn
Expert in AI-driven hiring strategies
Proven track record in talent acquisition and leadership development

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on talent acquisition and customer success.

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Skills

Core Skills

Customer Success ManagementAi-driven HiringLeadership DevelopmentTalent AcquisitionExecutive SearchCorporate CommunicationsSales ManagementPublic RelationsMarketingSales

Other Skills

Executive RelationshipsEmployer BrandingTrainingRecruitingGainsightAccount ManagementRelationship BuildingArtificial Intelligence (AI)Customer ValueStorytellingCoachingRenewalsCustomer EngagementLeadershipBusiness Partnering

Experience

7 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

2 roles

Emerg[in] Leader Program FY26

Oct 2025 – Present · 7 mos

The LinkedIn Emerg[in] Leader Program is a global, exploratory development program targeting high potential individual contributors to equip them with the requisite skills to pursue leadership opportunities within LinkedIn's Global Business Organization.

LeadershipLeadership Development

Senior Customer Success Manager, Large Enterprise

Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

This role gives me a front-row seat to how careers, hiring, and AI are actually changing at scale.
Partnering with Fortune 500 and multinational enterprises across D-A-CH to maximize ROI from LinkedIn Talent Solutions, with a strong focus on AI-driven hiring and LinkedIn's agentic Hiring Assistant.
Manage a $XXM ARR portfolio of complex enterprise accounts
Act as strategic advisor to senior TA and HR leadership
Lead exec business reviews, enablement workshops, and AI adoption initiatives
Influence product roadmap through structured client feedback
Highlights:
✦ EMEAL Collaboration Champion Award Winner for cross-functional excellence (FY26)
✦ Emerg[in] Leader Program | Global development program targeting high potential ICs (FY26)
✦ EMEAL Collaboration Champion Award Finalist for cross-functional excellence (FY25)
✦ Coach and Partnership Manager, Social Impact @ LinkedIn

Executive RelationshipsEmployer BrandingTrainingRecruitingGainsightAccount Management+10

Personio

2 roles

Talent Acquisition Manager - Go-To-Market (GTM)

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Dec 2022 · 8 mos

Member of the Global GTM Recruitment team. Recruited for roles within Sales, GTM Strategy & Ops, Marketing & Partnerships across DACH, Benelux, Nordics, UK/I, and Southern Europe.
Highlights:
✦ First talent partner who recruited for all Sales roles (IC + Leadership)
✦ Filled a critical Sales Leadership role that was open for 10+ months within 30 days
✦ 93% Offer Acceptance Rate in 2022
✦ Core project team member of Beamery implementation as new Talent CRM

Business PartneringStakeholder ManagementRecruitingCritical ThinkingRelationship BuildingCommunication+3

Jr. Talent Acquisition Manager

Apr 2021 – Mar 2022 · 11 mos

From Agency to Corporate Recruiting. I joined Personio after its Series D funding round as employee #625 and supported scaling the company to 1,800+. I've built out several teams, especially our Talent Acquisition function (Business & Tech) across Europe, as well as our Sales Development in DACH.
Highlights:
✦ Got promoted within my first year
✦ 100% Offer Acceptance Rate in 2021
✦ Most Commercial One-Off Hires in Q3/2021
✦ Second Most High Volume Hires in Q4/2021
✦ TA Onboarding Champion & Interview Trainer

Business PartneringStakeholder ManagementRecruitingCoachingTalent AcquisitionCandidate Experience

Glasford international deutschland | executive search

Recruitment Consultant

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr · Munich, Bavaria, Germany

From Exec Comms to Exec Search. I learned the playbook of traditional headhunting and accompanied international clients from different industries in their most challenging hiring projects.

Stakeholder ManagementRecruitingActive SourcingExecutive SearchCoachingTalent Acquisition

Prosiebensat.1 media se

2 roles

Commercial Partnerships Manager | Job Rotation

Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 · 0 mo · Unterföhring, Bayern, Deutschland · On-site

Three-month job rotation in the Group's sports business unit. I co-owned the project management for the American Football #ranNFL cinema cooperation 2019/20. Increased revenue (+77%) and audience (+116%).

New BusinessPartnershipsSalesSales Management

Corporate & Internal Communications Specialist

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs · Unterföhring, Bayern, Deutschland · On-site

I started my career as Internal Comms Specialist. Helping to position a then-newly hired CEO, as well as raising awareness of an increasingly changing business strategy came along with some very valuable learnings about company culture, employee engagement, leadership, change communication, storytelling and executive branding.
Highlights:
✦ First leadership experience after being elected from my 120 peers as Young Talents Representative
✦ Speaker & Ambassador at different internal and external events
✦ Owner of P7S1's Social Intranet Development

Internal CommunicationsCommunicationCoachingCorporate CommunicationsCopywriting