Corporate Strategy Manager (Consulting & Strategy)

Freshworks is looking for a Manager to join our global Corporate Strategy team and help shape some of the most important decisions facing the company.

This is a high-impact strategy role for someone who loves solving complex business problems but wants to get closer to the decisions the executives making them and the outcomes that follow.

Youll work directly with Strategy leadership and senior executives on questions spanning AI product strategy pricing and monetization GTM growth market expansion and strategic investments. One project might involve evaluating how we monetize a new AI capability; another could focus on where Freshworks should invest to accelerate growth or how we evolve our GTM strategy.

The team operates with the rigor of a top strategy consulting firm but with one important difference: we dont stop at the recommendation. We partner across Product Sales Finance and Operations to help turn strategy into action and see the impact of the decisions we help shape.

What Youll Do

Own high-priority strategic initiatives from initial question through recommendation and execution.
Tackle ambiguous company-level problems develop hypotheses and create the analytical frameworks needed to answer them.
Evaluate growth opportunities across AI product GTM pricing market expansion and strategic investments.
Build business cases financial models market assessments and scenario analyses that inform investment and resource allocation decisions.
Partner directly with senior leaders across Product Sales Finance and Operations to shape decisions and drive alignment.
Translate strategy into actionable plans and stay close to execution to understand what is working and where we need to adjust.
Develop executive and Board-level narratives that distill complex analysis into clear choices and recommendations.
Bring an outside-in perspective on the SaaS and AI landscape and help identify the strategic questions Freshworks should be asking next.

Qualifications :

What Were Looking For

4-6 years of experience in management consulting corporate strategy or a combination of consulting and in-house strategy experience; experience from a top-tier management consulting firm particularly MBB (Mckinsey Bain BCG) is preferred
Experience solving growth product GTM pricing market entry or investment strategy problems
Exposure to SaaS enterprise software or technology businesses strongly preferred
Strong analytical and financial modeling skills with the ability to turn data into business insights and recommendations
Executive-level communication skills and the ability to influence without authority
Comfortable moving between high-level strategy and hands-on analysis
Curious low ego and energized by ambiguity
Most importantly you want to own the outcome not just deliver the recommendation

Why This Role

Freshworks is at an exciting point in its evolution. Were scaling a global SaaS business expanding our enterprise presence and navigating how AI changes the products we build how we monetize them and how our customers work.

For someone coming from consulting this is an opportunity to keep the parts of the job you lovecomplex problems executive exposure analytical rigor and varietywhile gaining something thats harder to get as an advisor: ownership.

Youll see the decisions get made. Youll work alongside the teams responsible for executing them. And youll have the opportunity to see whether the strategy actually worked.

This is a highly visible individual contributor role with exposure to senior executives and the Board and an opportunity to build a deep understanding of how a global SaaS company operates.

Additional Information :

At Freshworks we have fostered an environment that enables everyone to find their true potential purpose and passion welcoming colleagues of all backgrounds genders sexual orientations religions and ethnicities. We are committed to providing equal opportunity and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant richer environment that boosts the goals of our employees communities and business. Fresh vision. Real impact. Come build it with us.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time