Customer Success Manager

Location: Goregaon, Mumbai

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 5+ Years

Industry: Event Management

Job Summary

We are hiring an experienced Client Servicing Manager to manage client relationships, understand business requirements, and ensure seamless execution of projects. The ideal candidate should have strong communication skills, a client-first approach, and the ability to coordinate effectively with internal teams to deliver exceptional results.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for clients.
• Build and maintain long-term client relationships.
• Understand client objectives and communicate requirements to internal teams.
• Coordinate across multiple departments to ensure timely project execution.
• Manage client expectations and provide effective solutions when needed.
• Track project progress and maintain regular communication with stakeholders.
• Prepare account status reports and post-project reviews.
• Identify opportunities to expand and strengthen existing client accounts.
• Address client concerns promptly and ensure high satisfaction levels.
• Stay informed about industry trends and market developments.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Hospitality, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in client servicing, account management, or a similar role.
• Strong relationship management and stakeholder handling skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Proficiency in MS Office and CRM tools.

Preferred Skills

• Strong problem-solving and organizational abilities.
• Detail-oriented with a proactive approach.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines.
• Professional and customer-focused mindset.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.
• Career growth and development opportunities.
• Collaborative and professional work environment.
• Exposure to diverse and challenging projects.

Apply now if you have a passion for client relationship management and delivering exceptional customer experiences.

A BIT ABOUT US:

Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. A profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.

The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits. Appknox has helped secure mobile apps at Fortune 500 companies with major brands spread across regions like India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, US, and expanding rapidly. We have secured 300+ Enterprises globally.

We are a 70+ incredibly passionate team working to make an impact and helping some of the biggest companies globally. We work in a highly collaborative, very fast-paced work environment. If you have what it takes to be part of the team, we are excited and let’s speak further.

The Opportunity:

Customer Success contributes to our efforts to enhance and transform the Appknox customer experience via a customer-centric approach (building and maintaining relationships, proactively identifying potential crises that may be detrimental to the user experience, meeting, and exceeding customer expectations). Thus, helping to differentiate Appknox.This position provides the opportunity to tame different use cases across multiple industries and interact with some of the smartest individuals from other fast-growing companies that are our customers. We see this role requiring an intersection of three key skills – Business Acumen & Problem solving, Product Perspective, and People Skills.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a portfolio of current customers. 
• Understand the customer’s goals, establish a trusted relationship and ensure that they are successful in achieving their business goals using Appknox. 
• Own the customer lifecycle journey from onboarding to adoption, renewal, and growth.
• Organize, analyze, prioritize, and share customer feedback with concerned stakeholders to ensure we always consider the voice of the customer.
• Drive live demos and product implementation for your customers when onboarding and support existing clients on issues and tickets.
• Prepare and collate all materials and participate with customers on QBR exercises to address existing gaps and identify new opportunities/use cases.
• You will be assigned customers from USA and EU+UK (primarily); and will work from 8pm to 5am IST

What An Ideal Candidate Would Look Like:

• 2+ years of working experience in a customer-facing role such as Customer Success, Technical Account Management, Customer Onboarding roles at SaaS companies.
• Good communication skills especially with Enterprise customers from around the globe are necessary.
• Must have experience in upselling, cross selling and gauge customer requirements.
• Must have good presentation skills and hold of understanding customer’s business requirements.
• Will have worked on KPIs - customer retention, upsell revenue, cross sell revenue, QBR(Quarterly Business Reviews), referrals.
• Knows how to be the customer's voice in the company to ensure they get maximum value from upcoming product features.
• Must have experience of tracking product usage and instrumentation for Customer Success Management.
• May have experience driving customer advocacy programs along with Sales and Marketing teams to build customer referral, customer case studies and testimonials.

Work Expectations:

Within 1 month

• You should have a complete hold of the product and value customers are getting from it.
• Interact with at least 5 enterprise customers and receive feedback that we should be focusing on.
• Drive at least 1 QBR from existing customers.

Within 3 months

• You need to have a clear understanding of onboarding customers. 
• Suggest CR(Customer Requests) for the Product team to evaluate and consider in the product roadmap.
• Complete at least 5 QBRs and also engage with 15+ customers from your book of business to ensure they get value ++.
• Understand how to build the engagement pipeline for each of the customers you are owning and document all engagements.
• At least 1 referral from existing customers.

Within 6 months

• You should have discipline and document all of the ongoing discussions. 
• Own CS for your accounts and set up a process that needs to be implemented for better customer experience.
• We need an owner for this position who can in future build the CSM team below to drive overall customer success.

Personality traits we really admire:

• Confident and dynamic working persona, which can bring fun to the team, and sense of humor, is an added advantage.
• Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
• Has attention to details and helps identify edge cases.
• Highly motivated and coming up with fresh ideas and perspectives to help us move towards our goals faster.
• Follows timelines and absolute commitment to deadlines.

Interview Process: 

• Round 1 - Profile Evaluation
• Round 2 - Task sent by Appknox, reviewed by Appknox CSM and leadership team.
• Round 3 - Call with the CSM team to review your assignment
• Round 4 - Call with one of the management team members to review your assignment and understand overall your experience and vision on Customer Success.
• Round 5 - HR Discussion

Compensation:

• As per Industry Standards

We prefer that every employee also holds equity in the company. In this role, you will be awarded equity after 12 months, based on the impact you have created.

Please be aware that all your customers will include Enterprises and Fortune 500 companies.

Why Join Us:

• Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who enjoys challenging work & pushing your boundaries, then this is the right place for you. We appreciate new ideas & ownership as well as flexibility with working hours.
• Great Salary & Equity: We keep up with the market standards & provide pay packages considering updated standards. Also as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also provide equity options for our top performers.
• Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to training and developing our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
• Transparency: Being a part of a start-up is an amazing experience, one of the reasons being the open communication & transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will give you the opportunity to experience it all first hand.
• Health insurance: We offer health insurance coverage upto 5 Lacs for you and your family including parents.
• Work Schedule: Flexible working environment with remote work if required.