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Deepak Varadarajan

Associate Director - Customer Success
Hyderabad

Summary

Customer success professional with over 9+ years of experience in the SAAS space. Highly organized and self-motivated professional experienced in project management, team development and process improvement. Skilled in developing and implementing strategies to increase efficiency and performance. Passionate about driving business growth and creating positive work environment.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
17
17
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Associate Director - Customer Success

inFeedo
4 2023 - Current

Took up the initiative to head the customer success team for SEA(South east asia), 0-1 startup within inFeedo - Activities including budgeting, resource planning & retention.


Played a dual role of Customer success & Account manager

  • Understand the viability of the product by conducting C- Level interviews with customers
  • Grew the region from $350k to $500k in 10 months
  • Leveraged data and analytics to make informed decisions and drive business improvements.
  • Ensured 90% renewals done on time
  • Successfully managed budgets and allocated resources to maximize productivity and profitability.
  • Maintained positive customer relations by addressing problems head-on and implementing successful corrective actions.
  • Moved towards a consultative approach
  • Established performance goals for employees and provided feedback on methods for reaching those milestones.

Sr Customer Success Manager

InFeedo
03.2022 - 03.2023
  • Managing a portfolio of strategic enterprise customers spread across 3 regions.
  • Played the role of strategic advisor using a consultative approach
  • Manage a team of highly passionate CS folks
  • Worked on setting up process for Churn prediction, assigning a risk class for customers & building a referral pipeline
  • Built a partner centric approach

Senior Customer Success Manager

Wingify
08.2021 - 03.2022
  • Help clients understand importance of CRO and helped improve their digital footprint
  • Worked with clients to maximise their ROI by helping them use the platform effectively
  • Ensure that a value framework is developed, implemented and tracked constantly
  • Build & analyze business cases and achieve outcomes that help improve the overall digital touch points of visitors on the website.
  • Created customer success strategy to increase customer retention.
  • Facilitated penetration of key accounts via strategic planning initiatives.
  • Recommended changes, improvements or enhancements in products to product development team based on customer feedback.
  • Actively listened to customers' requests, confirming full understanding before addressing concerns.
  • Built a working model for Churn prediction

Customer Value Manager

Highradius
03.2018 - 08.2021
  • Identify strategies to understand and improve overall customer's experience
  • Channel partner enablement and growing channel partnership
  • Responsible for overall relationship building and retention of strategic customers - 98% retention year over year
  • Build a culture of high performance within the
  • Empowered the team to be proactive and work effectively with clients
  • Managed team of 10 people
  • Established trusted/strategic advisor relationship with customers and drive continued value of products and services
  • Created activities and engagements to enhance customer experience, knowledge and patronage.
  • Improve product adoption and value for clients
  • Identify clients at risk of churn and build strategies to retain them & help with product adoption.

Customer success consultant

Zenoti
03.2016 - 02.2018
  • Account management, issue tracking, resolution management, testing & validating product functionality
  • Built strong customer relationships, identified key pain points for clients and got them mitigated
  • Worked with strategic clients to improve their adoption
  • Built strategies that reduced overall issues being reported from 70% to 45%
  • Built up knowledge base for easy access and team development

Digital Marketing Intern

Linchpin Technologies Pvt Ltd
01.2015 - 07.2015
  • B2B sales, targeting small and medium businesses, developed strategies for initial product offering and targeting new market segments
  • Streamlined buying process from requirements phase to final product offering
  • Was instrumental in figuring out service gaps within the organization and helped bridge that gap by implementing CRM process.

Programmer analyst

Cognizant technology solutions, Nadu
10.2011 - 03.2013
  • Worked with a 15-member team which involved coding & testing of applications using Auto-It
  • Generating automated scripts using Auto-IT for testing purposes by building test scenarios
  • Performed regression and system-level testing to verify software quality and function prior to release.

Education

MBA - Marketing & Operations

ICFAI Business School
Hyderabad, TG
03.2014 - 01.2016

BE - Mechanical

Vasavi College of Engineering
Hyderabad, TG
05.2007 - 04.2011

High School Diploma -

Narayana Junior College
Hyderabad, TG
07.2005 - 03.2007

Sceince

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavans
Hyderabad, TG
01.1995 - 01.2005

Skills

    Trusted advisor

    Consultative approach

    Strategic partnerships

    Strategic leadership

    Strategic planning

    Key relationship management

Certification

Customer success management - Gainsight

Timeline

CCSM - Level 2

11-2023

Sr Customer Success Manager

InFeedo
03.2022 - 03.2023

CCSM - Level 1

01-2022

Senior Customer Success Manager

Wingify
08.2021 - 03.2022

Customer success management - Gainsight

04-2018

Customer Value Manager

Highradius
03.2018 - 08.2021

Customer success consultant

Zenoti
03.2016 - 02.2018

Digital Marketing Intern

Linchpin Technologies Pvt Ltd
01.2015 - 07.2015

MBA - Marketing & Operations

ICFAI Business School
03.2014 - 01.2016

Programmer analyst

Cognizant technology solutions, Nadu
10.2011 - 03.2013

BE - Mechanical

Vasavi College of Engineering
05.2007 - 04.2011

High School Diploma -

Narayana Junior College
07.2005 - 03.2007

Sceince

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavans
01.1995 - 01.2005

Associate Director - Customer Success

inFeedo
4 2023 - Current
Deepak VaradarajanAssociate Director - Customer Success