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Sreelatha Gowni

Bangalore

Summary

Dynamic Customer Success Manager with a proven track record at Company ABC, driving 25% incremental ARR through strategic upselling and cross-selling. Expert in relationship management and data-driven decision making, I excel in mentoring teams and aligning product roadmaps with client goals to ensure long-term success and satisfaction.

Work History

Customer Success Manager

Company ABC
  • Handling India's largest communication service provider, and other CSPs in Europe region, driving value realization and identifying & nurturing growth opportunities.
  • Managing a $10M ARR portfolio and achieved over 25% incremental ARR by cross-selling relevant products in Wifi optimization domain and SMB Wifi solutions and strategically up-selling by shifting subscription tiers based on maturity models, adoption trends, and solid success plans.
  • Influencing adoption & value realization metrics and leveraging them for QBRs to align on executive priorities, discuss product roadmaps, and explore opportunities to scale relevant to customer growth plans and goals.
  • Collaborating with customer GTM teams to co-create rollout plans, helping with customer-facing collateral for Product features, and drive bundled subscription campaigns across India and Europe.
  • Drive customization of white-labeled mobile apps, functionality workflows, Figma designs by aligning with internal and external product teams as per CSP-specific requirements.
  • Leading high-stakes communication scenarios like escalations & expectations management. Take care of product & roadmap demonstrations/presentations to executives on the customer side.
  • Mentoring 6 CSMs, help them ramp up to handle customers and guide with strategies to drive value, adoption and churn forecasting and mitigation.
  • Managing complex implementations involving CSPs, product, firmware, and hardware partners.
  • Working closely with internal teams (API, UI, DevOps, Support) to define requirements, prioritize features, and support cloud deployments.
  • Leading cloud upgrades with new features and fixes, ensuring a smooth rollout and customer readiness.
  • Influencing product roadmap by representing customer needs, collaborating with Product Managers, and tracking progress through Jira for stakeholder alignment.

SENIOR CUSTOMER SUCCESS MANAGER

Company XYZ
  • Managed a portfolio of 24+ enterprise clients, with a total ARR of $5.8M, achieving 92%+ retention, and 20% YoY net growth.
  • Acted as the strategic advisor across XYZ’s core suites, Social Publishing, Listening, Marketing Analytics, and AI Case Management, bridging platform capabilities with customer business goals.
  • Translated key business goals into XYZ configurations, governance models, and campaign frameworks across product suites to achieve success.
  • Platform audits, health diagnostics & usage reviews to identify risk early and drive stable, long-term adoption.
  • Drive EBR/QBRs to strengthen executive relationships, mitigate churn risks, and identify upsell opportunities by aligning XYZ capabilities with broader digital transformation goals.
  • Mentored and supported the growth of over 10 SMs during my stint for faster onboarding, account management, and customer satisfaction.
  • Spearheaded operations excellence programs like success plan standardization and early warning systems (for churn prediction).
  • Major product recommendations were made by collaborating with product and engineering, saving more than $1M in ARR and receiving organization-wide recognition.

GROUP MANAGER

  • Responsible for managing key clients with an extensive focus on customer engagement, success management, relationships, and winning loyalty to drive strong license renewals and service extensions.
  • Understand the client's operating model to identify opportunities to scale.
  • Managed a total BoB of $2.2 million (renewals, net new sales, and services) for the Mulesoft middleware product portfolio.
  • Collaborate with delivery and project managers to understand timelines, dependencies, and challenges, ensuring effective management of commitments.
  • Multi-stakeholder management to drive technical demos, proposal building, planning project timelines, and collaterals (SoW, NDA, MSA).
  • Executive presentations, trackers, and dashboards for CXOs to provide visibility on the sales pipeline, project margins, and employee utilization.

Education

Bachelor of Science -

S.V.U
Tirupati

Skills

  • Customer consulting
  • Relationship management
  • Program management
  • Account strategic planning
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Product roadmap planning
  • Empathy
  • Negotiation
  • Problem solving
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Team leadership
  • Adaptability
  • SFDC
  • Gainsight
  • Jira
  • Confluence

Hobbies and Interests

  • Travelling
  • Philately
  • Video Making
  • Photoshop

Awards

  • CSM of the year, 2022
  • Quarterly Kudos Awards
  • Q1 2022
  • Q3 2021
  • Q2 2021
  • Q3 2020
  • A-Team recognition, Hats off & Strategic thinking award

Timeline

Customer Success Manager

Company ABC

SENIOR CUSTOMER SUCCESS MANAGER

Company XYZ

GROUP MANAGER

Bachelor of Science -

S.V.U
Sreelatha Gowni