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Raghav Viswanathan

San Mateo,CA

Summary

Raghav is a SaaS Swiss army knife with direct experience across Solution Engineering, Sales, GTM strategy, and Product Management functions.
He is passionate about solving customer needs through elegant technology solutions.
He is a consistent top performer (2x President's Club) with experience in breaking into new segments, closing large deals, and shaping product roadmaps.
In a career spanning 10+ years, Raghav has had the opportunity to be an early member of a hyper-growth company:
$5mil ARR to $700 mil ARR |200+ employees to 5000+ employees | VC-backed start-up to a successful IPO.
He has exposure to various facets of a business with a deep understanding of growth challenges and how to handle them.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Strategic Account Manager

Freshworks
05.2023 - Current
  • CX specialist managing the largest accounts, focusing on cross-selling and expanding account value.
  • Closed the largest deal in the company for 2024.
  • DRI for the North America cross-sell number
  • Program managed and implemented cross sell strategies and field enablement


Staff Outbound Product Manager

Freshworks Inc.
03.2021 - 05.2023
  • Product lead for North America to bring the voice of the customer and needs from the field to shape the roadmap
  • Responsible for roadmap strategy and competitive intelligence programs
  • Assisted in closing major deals >$3mil ARR by providing product coverage and technical support.
  • Handled large customer escalations, ensuring customer satisfaction and retention.
  • Reported directly to the founder and CEO to redesign and launch a new product sign up and onboarding workflow for PLG (Product-Led Growth) that improved sign ups by 17%.

Principal Solution Engineer

Freshworks Inc.
02.2017 - 03.2021
  • First Solution Engineer hire in North America to build out the Mid-Market and Enterprise business
  • Responsible for hiring and mentoring a growing solution engineering team (30+)
  • Closed the largest deals in company history (2018,2019,2020)
  • Worked closely with leadership to ideate and build execution strategies to drive enterprise readiness
  • Support the sales team by taking a consultative role in a customer's evaluation processes to help identify and solve their most critical business challenges through in-depth discovery.
  • Architect effective and scalable solutions and deliver value selling through tailored story telling based demonstrations that align with the customer's needs
  • Own the technical sales process through RFI/RFP responses, Presentations, Product demonstrations and Proof of concepts.
  • Represent the voice of the customer with Product management to win deals and influence roadmap
  • Conduct online and on-site user workshops and training sessions
  • Ideated and ran a bi-weekly product webinar that was used for lead generation, deal closure, and training.
  • Worked on a product entry into the ITSM Gartner Magic Quadrant (2019) and the 2020 submission where Freshworks was the biggest mover in the MQ .

Awards and Notables

  • Presidents Club (2018,2019)
  • Freshworks Culture 360 (2018) : An award given to an employee who champions the Freshworks culture code

Enterprise Applications Consultant

IBM
09.2016 - 02.2017
  • Worked with a large divested clinical diagnostics company through their SAP implementation.

Solution Engineer

Freshworks Inc.
02.2015 - 07.2016
  • Presales Solutions Engineer working with customers in EMEA and the UK
  • Influenced over $2Mil ARR in 2015-16 and closed the largest account in the MEA region.
  • Trained new hires in modules such as customer support, product training,pre-sales and company culture.

Education

Bachelor's Degree - Mechanical Engineering

College of Engineering, Guindy
12-2014

Skills

  • Solution Engineering
  • B2b Sales
  • Cross team and geo collaboration
  • Value Selling
  • Product Management

Timeline

Strategic Account Manager

Freshworks
05.2023 - Current

Staff Outbound Product Manager

Freshworks Inc.
03.2021 - 05.2023

Principal Solution Engineer

Freshworks Inc.
02.2017 - 03.2021

Enterprise Applications Consultant

IBM
09.2016 - 02.2017

Solution Engineer

Freshworks Inc.
02.2015 - 07.2016

Bachelor's Degree - Mechanical Engineering

College of Engineering, Guindy
Raghav Viswanathan