Praveen Raj

Customer Success Manager

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India9 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 8.5+ years in Customer Success and Consulting.
  • Expert in driving customer adoption and retention strategies.
  • Proven track record in managing high-value customer portfolios.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Customer Success Manager with expertise in SaaS and enterprise consulting.

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Skills

Core Skills

Customer SuccessCustomer Relationship Management (crm)

Other Skills

Customer EngagementMarketingPresalesglobal HCMRetention StrategiesSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Customer RetentionAccount ManagementHTMLMicrosoft ExcelC++JavaMicrosoft OfficePowerPointC

About

Customer Success professional with 8.5+ years of experience spanning presales, enterprise consulting, and customer lifecycle management. For the past 6 years, I’ve been working as a Customer Success Manager at Kissflow and Freshworks, partnering closely with customers to drive adoption, value realization, renewals, and long-term growth.

Experience

9 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
3 yrs
Average Tenure
4 yrs
Current Experience

Freshworks

2 roles

Lead - Customer Success

Jan 2026Present · 4 mos

Customer Success Manager

May 2022Jan 2026 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • 1) Handling customers from the EU - partnerships & global
  • 2) QBR, EBR, PBR activities.
  • 3) Outcome driven engagement activities
  • 4) Adoption, Retention & Expansion - Key focus areas
  • 5) AI enablement - a primary initiative for controlling churn & driving expansion
  • 6) Experience in using support, CRM tools (freshdesk)
  • 7) As an escalation point of contact
Customer SuccessCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)

Kissflow

Customer Success Consultant

May 2020May 2022 · 2 yrs · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Hybrid

  • 1) Handled NA market with a portfolio size of $3M ARR
  • 2) Worked on complete journey of a customer from Onboarding to Retention
  • 3) Migrated the customers from old to new versions.
  • 4) Collaborated with internal stakeholders on a recurring basis to identify customer challenges and providing resolution
  • 5) Demonstrated new releases to customers and educating them on a weekly basis (Top customers)
  • 6) Prepared POC for upsells and cross sells, identifying opportunities and turning them to success stories.

Transsys solutions

3 roles

Oracle HCM Functional Consultant

Jan 2019May 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • 1) Understanding the business process and capturing user requirements
  • 2) Configured Core HR, Absences & Talent management module.
  • 3) Experience in Data Migration using HDL, report testing and functional guidance to the technical team for report development
  • 4) Preparation of Deliverables – Analysis Specification Document, User Guides, Test Scripts
  • 5) System configuration for required setups & creating customized fields based upon the client's requirement.
  • 6) Identifying the root cause of the issue and preventing further occurrence.
  • 7) Maintain strong adherence to Service Level Agreements

Presales Consultant

Promoted

Jan 2018May 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Skill sets: Presales, Bid management, RFP response preparations, Preparation of Capability decks/Presentations, RFI preparation, Account mining, (EMEA Region)
  • Driving the complete project response starting with the kick-off meeting.
  • End-to-end responsibility in making the proposal, estimating the bid, strategic alignment with the client requirement.
  • Solution Presentation, Participating in War rooms.
  • Close interaction with the delivery team to build the delivery model, solution architecture, mapping service offerings with the client's requirement.
  • Active coordination with the Account/Sales Managers and Delivery Managers
  • Good understanding of all Oracle Cloud & OP modules

Presales Executive

Mar 2017Dec 2017 · 9 mos

  • Identifying opportunities in the ASEAN region, market research.
  • Preparation of proposals, SOW.
  • Lead generation and turning them into client wins.
  • Strong interpersonal skills.

Education

Anna University Chennai

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) — Marketing & Operations

Jan 2015Jan 2017

Anna University Chennai

Bachelor's degree — Information Technology

Jan 2011Jan 2015

kalaimagal viddyalaya matriculation higher secondary school

Jan 1997Jan 2011

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