Customer Success Manager

ThoughtSpot ThoughtSpot · Data AI · Bangalore, India

Customer Success Manager role focused on driving adoption, engagement, and growth for a portfolio of customer accounts. The role involves building relationships, acting as a strategic advisor, and guiding customers through their journey. Requires strong communication, problem-solving, and understanding of the data/BI space. Emphasizes using AI tools to enhance productivity and quality in daily workflows, including research, content creation, and document summarization, with a required AI mindset of curiosity, adaptability, and critical thinking.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with Account teams to manage multiple strategic accounts, helping drive annual recurring revenue and long-term retention.
  2. Cultivate strong customer relationships through proactive engagement and champion building.
  3. Act as the primary contact for your accounts, translating customer use cases, goals, and requirements into actionable insights for cross-functional teams (Sales, Product, Marketing, Support, Services).
  4. Guide customers throughout their lifecycle – onboarding, adoption, and continued success.
  5. Understand customers’ business objectives and help them maximise the value of ThoughtSpot in achieving those goals.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years’ experience in customer-facing roles (Customer Success, Account Management, Pre-Sales, Support, Services).
  • Strong understanding of the data/BI space, including cloud data warehouses, ETL pipelines, and tools such as SQL.
  • Proven ability to guide customers through technical challenges while expanding platform usage.
  • Strong communicator who can bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Hands-on approach – willing to dive in to help resolve customer issues or triage them effectively.
  • Skilled in navigating change management, probing for business outcomes, and building strategies to deliver results.
  • Solid project management skills and the ability to manage stakeholders at all levels.
  • Organised, self-directed, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
  • AI literacy and workflow integration
  • Leverage AI tools (industry-leading LLMs) to increase productivity, automate routine tasks, and improve work quality.
  • Use AI for research, content creation, and document summarization while maintaining ownership of judgment and final decisions.
  • Write effective prompts to get the most accurate and creative results from AI tools.
  • Curiosity in exploring new AI tools
  • Adaptability to quickly learn and implement new, emerging AI technologies
  • Critical thinking to know when to identify when AI should be used versus when human judgement is necessary

Nice to have

  • Experience with data ecosystems – data sources, ETL tools, data warehousing, and modelling concepts.
  • Familiarity with BI platforms such as ThoughtSpot, Looker, Tableau, Power BI, MicroStrategy, Qlik, Sigma, or similar.
  • Exposure to ETL tools like Fivetran, Alteryx, Talend, SSIS, Informatica, or others is a plus.
  • Previous experience running or supporting a BI Centre of Excellence is advantageous.
  • A passion for early-stage environments – adaptable, solutions-focused, and process-minded.
  • Strong documentation habits and a desire to help shape the Customer Success function.
  • Bachelor’s degree

What the JD emphasized

  • AI literacy and workflow integration
  • Hands-on experience to leverage AI tools (industry-leading LLMs) to increase productivity, automate routine tasks, and improve work quality.
  • Speak to the experience of using AI for research, content creation, and document summarization while maintaining ownership of judgment and final decisions.
  • Write effective prompts to get the most accurate and creative results from AI tools.
  • Curiosity in exploring new AI tools
  • Adaptability to quickly learn and implement new, emerging AI technologies
  • Critical thinking to know when to identify when AI should be used versus when human judgement is necessary