Customer Success / Support Manager · Mid-level · ~5 yrs

Faisal Qureshi

Senior Customer Success Manager

Professional summary

Customer Success Manager with 5 years owning B2B SaaS portfolios from onboarding through renewal. Manages a book of 40+ mid-market accounts, drives retention through proactive QBRs and health scoring, and turns at-risk customers into expansion stories. Builds onboarding and escalation playbooks that scale, mentors CSAs, and consistently lands renewals and upsells against quota.

118%

Net revenue retention

11%→6%

Logo churn reduced

₹14Cr

ARR portfolio owned

Skills

Customer success

Account managementCustomer onboardingRenewals & upsellQBRsChurn reductionHealth scoring

Retention & metrics

NPSCSATGross & net retentionChurn analysisExpansion / cross-sell

CRM & platforms

SalesforceGainsightHubSpotZendeskIntercomCatalyst

Operating

Onboarding playbooksEscalation managementStakeholder mappingMentoring CSAsForecasting

Work experience

Customer Success Manager · Cadenza Cloud (Series B SaaS)

Aug 2022Present

Gurugram

  • Own a portfolio of 42 mid-market SaaS accounts worth ₹14 crore in ARR, sustaining 94% gross retention and 118% net revenue retention.
  • Cut logo churn from 11% to 6% in 18 months by introducing a health-score model that flags at-risk accounts 60 days before renewal.
  • Run quarterly business reviews (QBRs) for top 20 accounts, tying product adoption to customer outcomes and lifting upsell attach rate 23%.
  • Built a 30-60-90 onboarding playbook in Gainsight, reducing time-to-first-value from 41 to 24 days across new customers.
  • Mentored 3 customer success associates and standardized escalation handling, trimming critical-escalation resolution time by 35%.

Customer Success Associate · Brightfold Analytics

Jun 2020Jul 2022

Bengaluru

  • Onboarded 90+ customers and held a 4.6/5 CSAT while managing a shared queue of 200+ open accounts in Salesforce.
  • Drove an NPS lift from 31 to 52 by launching a closed-loop feedback program that routed detractors to a 48-hour recovery workflow.
  • Recovered ₹2.1 crore in at-risk renewals across two years through proactive check-ins and tailored success plans.

Featured projects

67% save rate
Renewal Radar — at-risk playbook

A churn-reduction playbook combining health scoring, save plays and renewal forecasting for the mid-market segment.

  • Codified a 6-signal health score (usage, support tickets, NPS, sponsor change, payment, QBR attendance) adopted by the full CS team.
  • Standardized 4 save plays that lifted at-risk renewal recovery rate from 48% to 67% across two quarters.
Churn reductionRetentionGainsight

Education

MBA — Marketing & Operations

2020

Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune

Specialization in Services Marketing

B.B.A. Business Administration

2018

Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Certifications

Gainsight Customer Success Certification (Level 2)

Gainsight · 2023

Salesforce Certified Administrator

Salesforce · 2022

See the work in 3D

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