Lead - Customer Success

Organizations everywhere struggle under the crushing costs and complexities of “solutions” that promise to simplify their lives. To create a better experience for their customers and employees. To help them grow. Software is a choice that can make or break a business. Create better or worse experiences. Propel or throttle growth. Business software has become a blocker instead of ways to get work done.

There’s another option. Freshworks. With a fresh vision for how the world works.

At Freshworks, we build uncomplicated service software that delivers exceptional customer and employee experiences. Our enterprise-grade solutions are powerful, yet easy to use, and quick to deliver results. Our people-first approach to AI eliminates friction, making employees more effective and organizations more productive. Over 72,000 companies, including Bridgestone, New Balance, Nucor, S&P Global, and Sony Music, trust Freshworks’ customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX) software to fuel customer loyalty and service efficiency. And, over 4,500 Freshworks employees make this possible, all around the world.

Fresh vision. Real impact. Come build it with us.

Job Description

• Professionally manage relationships with a portfolio of assigned accounts
• Build executive relationships within the customers organization
• Make sure you exceed customer retention goals and ensure consistently high retention rates
• Build and maintain strong, trusted working relationships with key decision-makers and power users starting from onboarding and throughout the customer lifecycle
• Gain a thorough understanding of assigned client’s needs, objectives, and processes to ensure that they successfully adopt and deploy Freshworks suite of products
• Ensure that customers derive maximum value from Freshworks and collaborate with the sales team to help upsell additional services, integrations, and features
• Identify risks to client success and aggressively/proactively engage the client whenever there’s an identified retention issue
• Develop and execute retention plans for customers who may be at risk
• Drive resolution of escalated account issues in coordination with Billing, Support, and other departments
• Gain and maintain expert knowledge of Freshworks’s products and services
• Be a voice for accounts internally and help senior leadership understand product concerns, shortcomings, and missing features that are retention risks
• Manage contract related inquiries, questions, and issues from clients and other departments
• Liaise with other team leaders to make sure that Freshworks’s clients are getting the best service possible

Qualifications

• 7 to 10 years proven success in Customer Success/Account Management/Consulting role for a SaaS/product company
• Proven expertise in handling enterprise customers across India
• Proven track record of building strong executive level relationships
• Experience with account portfolio planning, management, and prioritization
• Strong project management capability and ability to multitask
• High attention to detail and willingness to get “in the weeds” to fix a problem
• Knowledge of customer success best practices
• Experience driving client adoption of technology or software product
• Exceptional communication and relationship management skills

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.