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Sudipta Chakraborty

An experienced People Leader who has demonstrated the ability to lead diverse teams of professionals to new levels of success. An impressive track record of more than 20 years of hands-on experience in Technical and Customer Support processes, and over 16 years in people and performance management with a strong acumen to build teams from scratch and sustain them for organizational growth.

Also led Customer Success Team(5 CSMs) in ANZ & APJ space for sometime in SaaS space.

Proven ability to successfully analyze an organization's critical business requirements, identify deficiencies and potential opportunities, and improving customer service offerings.

A High-Performance Manager with demonstrated ability to build strong working relationships with coworkers and other internal departments like Hiring, R&D, Training, SEO, Sales, Customer Success, Product Management, REW with strong interpersonal skills enhancing stakeholder Management.

Proven track record working with senior and executive management and department heads to assess and institute company-wide technical support policies and procedures with strong escalation handling skills with vast experience in managing Critical Customer Accounts.

  • Role

    Head of Customer Success

  • Years of Experience

    21 years

Skillsets

  • Salesforce
  • Zoho
  • Scrum
  • NLP
  • Kaizen
  • ITIL
  • Cloud
  • Analytics
  • Zendesk
  • Six Sigma
  • ServiceNow
  • SAP HANA
  • Agile
  • Power BI
  • Machine Learning
  • Jira
  • Hubspot
  • Gainsight
  • Freshdesk
  • Confluence
  • Bugzilla
  • automation
  • AI

Professional Summary

21Years
  • Aug, 2023 - Present2 yr 7 months

    Head Customer Support (Sr. Manager)

    Darwinbox
  • Jul, 2022 - Jun, 2023 11 months

    Head of Customer Success, setting up Customer Support Operations and other consultative projects

    Sabbatical Contractual Hire
  • Apr, 2021 - Jun, 20221 yr 2 months

    Head of Customer Support & Success (Band-Director)

    CredAvenue/Yubi
  • Feb, 2015 - Mar, 20161 yr 1 month

    Manager - Customer Success

    VMware India
  • Mar, 2016 - Sep, 20204 yr 6 months

    Technical Support Manager

    VMware India
  • Oct, 2020 - Feb, 2021 4 months

    Head of Customer Support (Band-Director)

    Raven360
  • Jan, 2014 - Jan, 20151 yr

    Operations Leader (Assistant Manager Operations)

    Altisource
  • Jan, 2012 - Jan, 20142 yr

    Assistant Manager Operations

    IBM Global Process Services
  • Nov, 2005 - Jan, 20126 yr 2 months

    Assistant Manager Operations

    HSBC EDPI
  • Jun, 2004 - Mar, 2005 9 months

    Customer Service Executive

    Wipro Spectramind

Work History

21Years

Head Customer Support (Sr. Manager)

Darwinbox
Aug, 2023 - Present2 yr 7 months
    Orchestrated global support expansion, achieving >95% SLA compliance and reducing first-contact resolution time by 85%. Deployed Voice of the Customer initiatives and leveraged automation for ticket deflection and feature adoption.

Head of Customer Success, setting up Customer Support Operations and other consultative projects

Sabbatical Contractual Hire
Jul, 2022 - Jun, 2023 11 months
    Head of Customer Success, setting up Customer Support Operations and other consultative projects.

Head of Customer Support & Success (Band-Director)

CredAvenue/Yubi
Apr, 2021 - Jun, 20221 yr 2 months
    Built and scaled technical support and customer success organizations from the ground up. Established operating frameworks, designed KPIs/SLAs/OLAs, and led the GTM strategy for CSAT/NPS, achieving a benchmark NPS of 70 and supporting Series B funding.

Head of Customer Support (Band-Director)

Raven360
Oct, 2020 - Feb, 2021 4 months
    Head of Customer Support, revamped the support operations and placed key individuals in key roles via account based routings available on Zendesk and introduced tier wise support via revisiting SLA and OLA policies optimizing agent productivity and client satisfaction as outcomes.

Technical Support Manager

VMware India
Mar, 2016 - Sep, 20204 yr 6 months
    Formed the first customer success team in India for the ANZ region, overseeing multi-BU and multi-geographical teams, managed a $4.5M support portfolio, delivered 98% CSAT regionally, and drove using Six Sigma and Agile methodologies. Standardized processes and unified global tooling for improved collaboration and 25% faster resolution times. Headed automation projects using advanced analytics (Power BI, SAP HANA) for performance reporting and decision support.

Manager - Customer Success

VMware India
Feb, 2015 - Mar, 20161 yr 1 month
    Manager - Customer Success.

Operations Leader (Assistant Manager Operations)

Altisource
Jan, 2014 - Jan, 20151 yr
    Operations Leader (Assistant Manager Operations, 4 levels reporting).

Assistant Manager Operations

IBM Global Process Services
Jan, 2012 - Jan, 20142 yr
    Assistant Manager Operations (3 levels of reporting).

Assistant Manager Operations

HSBC EDPI
Nov, 2005 - Jan, 20126 yr 2 months
    Assistant Manager Operations.

Customer Service Executive

Wipro Spectramind
Jun, 2004 - Mar, 2005 9 months
    Customer Service Executive.