Lead - Customer Success

Freshworks is seeking a Lead - Customer Success to help manage and grow some of Freshworks largest accounts. Our Customer Success Managers (CSM) consult on a spectrum of Customer Support/Experience (CX) and Employee Experience (EX) solutions from the Freshworks SaaS suite with a wide array of customers. 

Kindly note this is an individual contributor role on our team. 

Our Customer Success Leads are responsible for retention minimizing churn/contraction risk while driving product adoption and identifying expansion opportunities to then collaborate with Sales. We do this by demonstrating the value of Freshworks in business discussions with our customers by engaging with customers at specific points in their lifecycle providing them experiences and recommendations based on their maturity. The goal is to enable our customers to become successful and enthusiastic Freshworks champions. 

Our Customer Success Leads have a key role internally as well - Armed with key customer insight and knowledge a Lead - Customer Success works with the sales product engineering support and marketing teams to bring the voice of customers inside Freshworks.
 

• Build and foster strong relationships with your portfolio of managing our Mid-Market & Enterprise segments customers to minimize churn and contraction and drive expansion by partnering with our customers technical and business executive leadership team by proactively guiding customers technical adoption journey and enabling them to deliver innovation and demonstrable business value to their end business users.

• Work with the Account Manager to manage all aspects of the account including defining account penetration engagement renewal and growth strategy.

• Proactively analyze customers product usage data and take necessary actions to mitigate risk improve product adoption business value outcomes and reduce churn. Lead - Customer Success ensure successful renewal.

• Partner with customer-facing account teams and executives (Sales Renewals Advocacy Professional Services Product Engineering and partners) on overall platform success to accelerate customers time-to-value journey and to protect recurring renewal revenue and expand customer NRR (Net Retention Rate)

• Develop and apply domain/technical knowledge of the Freshworks platform our best practices and customer insights to remove blockers and lead key resources internally and externally to proactively support customers success plan.

• Act as the customers first point of contact and liaison between customer and internal teams. Handle complaints problems and escalations in timely and effective manner

• Facilitate organize and lead regular customer meetings product feedback sessions quarterly business reviews

• Travel as needed. 

Qualifications :

• 5-7 years of experience working in customer-facing technical roles (in Customer Success consulting or related discipline)
• Experience in managing Mid-Market and/or Enterprise-level accounts
• Experience working with multiple levels of customer stakeholders technical admins C-level executives and procurement teams
• Proven track record of identifying and collaborating on expansion opportunities and strategies with Sales and account teams
• Proven track record of planning for a portfolio of engagements on-time deliveries cross-group collaboration and critical thinking is required
• Functional domain/technical knowledge of CX or EX solutions best practices and customer insights to remove blockers and lead key resources internally and externally to proactively support customers success plan.  Freshworks knowledge is a bonus
• Proven ability to quickly grasp and distinctly explain technological and business concepts including demonstrating SaaS functionality to customers. 
• High-level understanding of enterprise architecture principles and familiarity with the IT application landscape common amongst Enterprise companies.
• Bachelors Degree or equivalent career experience.

Additional Information :

This role is based in the Tampa Bay Area and the expected base salary range for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background training work experience business needs and market demand. Therefore in some circumstances the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. 

Compensation Package

$102400-$147200 USD Base Salary Variable Compensation (where applicable)

Freshworks offers multiple options for dental medical vision disability and life insurances. Equity ESPP flexible PTO flexible spending commuter benefits and wellness benefits are also offered. Freshworks also offers adoption and parental leave benefits.

At Freshworks we are creating a global workplace that enables everyone to find their true potential purpose and passion irrespective of their background gender race sexual orientation religion and ethnicity. We are committed to providing equal opportunity for all and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant richer work environment that advances the goals of our employees communities and the business.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time