Avishek Mitra

Avishek Mitra

Enterprise Sales @ FirstHive | Enterprise SaaS Sales & Customer Success | Customer Data Platform (CDP) • Loyalty • AI | Retail • Hospitality • Real Estate • Manufacturing | 15+ Yrs

Bengaluru, India

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About

Enterprise SaaS sales and customer success leader with 16+ years of driving revenue growth across Customer Data Platform (CDP), Loyalty, and AI-led customer intelligence solutions. I currently lead enterprise account acquisition at FirstHive (CXWAI Tech), helping CXOs in Retail, Hospitality, Real Estate, and Manufacturing turn fragmented customer data into unified, actionable intelligence — identity resolution, golden record creation, RFM/CLTV modeling, and omnichannel activation, all built for a DPDPA-compliant, agentic-AI future. My focus spans the full enterprise sales cycle: account and martech-stack research, CXO-level pitch and business-case development, competitive positioning, and sales enablement content that shortens deal cycles for the broader team. What sets my approach apart is a research-first, evidence-backed sales motion — every pitch is grounded in the prospect's actual financials, org structure, and technology stack, not a generic template. I've applied this to build prospect-specific CDP business cases for consumer health, fashion & apparel, footwear retail, insurance, and real estate accounts, consistently translating a technical platform into a CXO-relevant growth story.

Experience

Senior Manager – Enterprise Accounts

CXWAI Tech India Pvt Ltd (FirstHive) — Customer Data Platform (CDP)

Jan 2022 – Present

Growth Path: Key Account Manager → Customer Success Manager → Senior Principal Account Manager → Senior Manager – Enterprise Accounts • Full Customer Lifecycle & Consumption Growth: Own the end-to-end lifecycle — onboarding, adoption, renewal, and expansion — for enterprise CDP and data-activation accounts (ARR $60K–$200K), consistently achieving 100%+ of expansion and retention targets through structured account planning and multi-threaded stakeholder engagement. • Executive Business Case & Value Realization: Build and deliver executive-level business cases, ROI narratives, and value- realization proposals for CXOs, CMOs, and CIOs, translating data-activation and CDP capabilities into quantifiable business outcomes — moving conversations from technical deployment to business impact. • Data-Driven Account Insights: Use CRM (Zoho) and enrichment data (Apollo.io, SignalHire) to build account-health and martech-stack analyses, surfacing at-risk accounts and expansion-ready opportunities for leadership review. • Consultative Use Case Identification: Analyze customer workflows and existing technology stacks to identify adoption gaps and new use cases within active accounts, building the business case for expanded scope ahead of renewal. • Cross-Functional Ecosystem Collaboration: Partner continuously with Product and Engineering, acting as the voice of the customer to feed field insights from enterprise accounts into roadmap and feature prioritization. • Design Partner & Reference Programs: Cultivate design partners among enterprise accounts, producing co-branded case studies and documented ROI outcomes that strengthen renewal conversations and market credibility.

Customer Data PlatformZoho CRMApollo.io

Senior Account Manager (US Market)

La Casa India R and D Private Limited (CasaOne)

Jun 2019 – Dec 2021

Growth Path: Customer Success Manager (US Market) → Senior Account Manager (US Market) • Customer Success Team Leadership: Led a team of 5 CSMs, implementing structured adoption cadences and data-driven account prioritization that increased pipeline engagement by 25%. • Adoption Barrier Removal: Partnered with Product/Engineering to diagnose post-sale friction points and customer pain points, contributing to a 20% reduction in support tickets. • Data-Driven Account Strategy: Built account strategies aligned to customer business objectives using behavioral and lifecycle data, directly informing renewal and expansion planning. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Worked across Presales, Product, and Delivery functions to ensure unified, successful implementation of customer solutions. • Training & Enablement: Designed and delivered training programs that lifted employee engagement scores by 25%; mentored team members, contributing to 1 internal promotion. • Escalation Management: Partnered with the team to resolve 2,000+ customer escalations within defined SLAs, safeguarding retention and account health.

Customer SuccessProduct CollaborationEscalation Management
SmartKarrot Inc.

Lead – Customer Success

SmartKarrot Inc.

Feb 2019 – Jun 2019
Customer SuccessAccount ManagementEnterprise SaaS

Manager – Operations & Customer Support

Curiositi Learning Solutions

May 2018 – Feb 2019
Operations ManagementCustomer SupportProcess Improvement

Initiatives Team – Customer Relationship

Neocube Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (Cubito)

Mar 2017 – Jul 2017
Customer RelationshipInitiatives ManagementStakeholder Engagement

Logistics Coordinator

Parekh Integrated Services Private Limited

Jun 2016 – Jan 2017
Logistics CoordinationSupply ChainOperations

Assistant Manager – Shipping Operations

Deb Group of Companies

Jun 2010 – Jun 2016
Shipping OperationsInventory ManagementTeam Coordination

Education

IILM – Graduate School of Management (IGSM), Greater Noida

IILM – Graduate School of Management (IGSM), Greater Noida

PGDM · HR & Marketing

2009

George College, West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata

BBA

2007

Skills

Cross-Sell/UpsellAccount ManagementCRMBusiness DevelopmentProject ManagementCommunicationCustomer ExperienceRelationship BuildingCustomer DataBrand LoyaltySaaS SalesAI/Agentic SolutionsCXO Level EngagementCustomer Success

Languages

English (Full professional proficiency)Hindi (Native or bilingual proficiency)Bengali (Native or bilingual proficiency)