Customer Success Manager

Job Description

Freshworks is seeking a Customer Success Lead to manage and grow relationships with some of our largest Mid‑Market and Enterprise customers. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on driving strategic customer outcomes, retention, product adoption, and growth across a portfolio of key accounts.

As a trusted advisor, you will partner with customers to maximize the value of their Freshworks investment through proactive guidance, executive engagement, and ongoing partnership. By building strong relationships across technical and business stakeholders, you'll help customers achieve meaningful business outcomes while creating enthusiastic advocates for Freshworks.

In addition to managing customer success, you will serve as the voice of the customer within Freshworks. Leveraging insights from your portfolio, you'll partner closely with teams across Sales, Product, Engineering, Support, and Marketing to influence strategy, improve the customer experience, and drive continuous product innovation.

What You’ll Do:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with a portfolio of Mid‑Market and Enterprise customers, serving as a trusted advisor to technical and executive stakeholders. Drive retention, product adoption, and account growth by helping customers realize measurable business value from their Freshworks investment.
• Partner with Account Managers to develop and execute account strategies focused on engagement, renewals, expansion opportunities, and long‑term customer success.
• Analyze customer health, product usage, and engagement data to identify risks and opportunities. Take proactive action to improve adoption, mitigate churn, and support successful renewals.
• Collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams including Sales, Renewals, Professional Services, Product, Engineering, Support, and Customer Advocacy to accelerate time‑to‑value, improve customer outcomes, and drive net revenue retention.
• Leverage deep product, technical, and industry knowledge to guide customers through their adoption journey, remove blockers, and execute customer success plans.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned accounts, managing customer inquiries, escalations, and issue resolution in partnership with internal stakeholders.
• Lead customer engagements including business reviews, product feedback sessions, success planning discussions, and executive stakeholder meetings.
• Travel as needed to support customer relationships and business objectives.

• 5–7 years of experience in a customer‑facing role such as Customer Success, Consulting, Technical Account Management, or a related discipline
• Experience managing Mid‑Market and/or Enterprise customer accounts within a SaaS environment
• Demonstrated success building relationships with diverse customer stakeholders, including technical administrators, business leaders, procurement teams, and executive decision‑makers
• Proven track record of driving customer retention, product adoption, and identifying growth opportunities in partnership with Sales and account teams
• Experience managing a portfolio of customer engagements, balancing multiple priorities, and collaborating effectively across cross‑functional teams
• Strong understanding of customer experience, employee experience, SaaS platforms, and customer success best practices. Experience with Freshworks products is a plus.
• Ability to quickly understand technical and business concepts and clearly communicate value to both technical and non‑technical audiences
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture principles and familiarity with the technology ecosystems commonly found within Mid‑Market and Enterprise organizations

Please note this is a hybrid role with onsite expectations of 3x/week (Tuesday‑Thursday) from our Downtown Boston office.

The annual base salary range for this position is $108,800 – $134,400 USD. This role is eligible for a target bonus and operates under an 80/20 pay mix (80% base salary, 20% variable compensation). Actual compensation will vary based on factors including location, experience, skills, and qualifications.

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

We are committed to providing equal opportunity.