We are hiring an Account Manager to join our Growth team!
As an Account Manager, your responsibilities are:
Drive revenue growth with our existing customers, through product and industry expertise
Be a key contact for existing customers to ensure the customer’s ongoing customer satisfaction and retention of their business.
Develop and maintain strong customer relationships to understand customer’s needs to identify up-sell, cross-sell, and expansion opportunities and ensure contract renewals.
Have a significant role in Spare's long-term growth and success!
Our Spare headquarters is located in Vancouver, BC, but this position is open to remote work options within Canada and the USA.
Drive revenue growth with our existing customers, through product and industry expertise
Establish yourself as a key contact to existing customers - along with Partner Success, to ensure customer satisfaction and retention of their business.
Develop and maintain strong relationships to understand customers’ needs and close up-sell, cross-sell, and expansion opportunities, and ensure contract renewals.
Educate customers on current and new product features, benefits, and configuration options to optimize their use of Spare’s platform and products.
Own account planning for customers and manage technical, operational and executive stakeholders at large transit agencies and operators.
Provide weekly feedback & forecasting on all account activity, and demonstrate excellent CRM adoption for managing your pipeline and account plans.
Work closely with champions and stakeholders to develop proposals and business cases for large scale deployments.
Work closely with Marketing and Business Development team to develop account-based marketing and sales plans
Build a deep understanding of Spare’s products and key markets, and maintain ongoing learning of new features and improvements
Partner with and influence customers through thought leadership, industry best practices, and deep product knowledge
Share customer feedback with Product, Engineering and Partner Success teams.
Experience in Transit Technology sales and/or sales for government agencies (ideally 4+ years)
Passion for and interest in Urban Planning and/or Transit (or correlated areas)
Understanding of the transit industry (knowledge of the types of transit systems, regulations, and funding structures, to effectively support our customers and users)
Excellent communication skills (verbal, written and presentation skills) with the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences in a personable way
Availability to travel frequently within Canada and the USA
It will be considered a plus if you have:
Academic background in Urban Planning, Environmental Science, Sociology, Sustainability, etc
Experience in a transit tech company
Experience in a transit agency
Purposeful work: Be a part of a mission-driven company that is solving real-world problems and improving the lives of people around the world. Learn more about the impact we're making in our 2024 Global Impact Report
Growth Opportunities: Spare is growing fast and there is uncapped potential for rapid advancement of motivated high performers on our team! 🚀
Market-competitive pay: We benchmark roles annually to attract and retain top talent. For Growth roles, we also offer a competitive commission/bonus structure that rewards strong performance.
Stock options: Enjoy the feeling of ownership. All Spartians are provided stock options, so you can share in the growth and success of Spare!
Flexible work: Work remotely from anywhere in Canada, in your own time zone.
In-office collaboration: If you're in Metro Vancouver, you have the option to work out of our HQ located downtown, close to Waterfront Station. If you're located elsewhere, you'll have access to CA$200/month to spend on a coworking membership to work together with team members in your city.
Home office allowance: We recognize the importance of a productive home office setup to help you do your best work, which is why we provide a CA$1,000 home office allowance.
Team offsites & socials: We love the flexibility of remote work, and we also value the importance of in-person connection. Each team has an annual budget for travel and accommodations to get together for a team offsite or hackathon. Plus you have access to a CA$50 monthly budget to socialize with other Spartians in your city - go out for a meal or hit up a karaoke spot!
Health insurance: We offer a fully-paid health insurance package for you and your dependents that includes prescription drug, paramedical, mental health, dental, life insurance, travel insurance, and Employee Assistance Program.
Lifestyle Spending Account: We offer CA$500 per year Lifestyle Spending Account (taxable benefit), which you can use to get reimbursed for a variety of expenses including education, wellness, transportation, and childcare/pet care.
Flexible time off: Along with unlimited annual vacation, we offer unlimited sick days and have company-wide shut-down days to help you rest and recharge.
Spare's mission is empowering everyone to unlock the potential of mobility.
Spare is the future of shared transportation. We’re revolutionizing how the busy mom from Dallas, the retired teacher from Oslo or the aspiring entrepreneur from Tokyo experiences transportation, by partnering with transportation providers around the world to enable worry-free, efficient, flexible, and automated on-demand solutions.
From the daily commute to non-emergency hospital visits, last-minute lunches, and leisurely trips to the museum, our technology makes people’s lives easier and transit more equitable both for those with specialized mobility needs and those without.
With Spare’s Platform, which includes a feature-rich admin web-panel, as well as rider and driver apps, transportation providers can break free from para and microtransit silos and provide holistic demand-responsive services that give each rider exactly what they need. We also help cities easily optimize their transit network so that the entire transportation ecosystem works better together.
At Spare, nothing is impossible. We think safe, affordable, scalable and eventually autonomous transportation is the right way forward. Join us for the ride!
At Spare, we don't have a strict set of values, but rather a set of Guiding Principles that represent the most successful people at Spare.
🗝️ Take Ownership
⛰️ Growth Mindset
🚨 Execute with Urgency
🚌 Drive Results
💩 No Assholes
🤩 Customer-Obsession
You can read more about our culture (and how we work) here
Skills Required
- At least 4 years of experience in transit technology sales and/or sales to government agencies
- Interest in urban planning, transit, or related areas
- Understanding of transit systems, regulations, and funding structures
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills
- Availability to travel frequently within Canada and the USA
- Academic background in urban planning, environmental science, sociology, sustainability, or a related field
- Experience in a transit technology company
- Experience working in a transit agency
What We Do
At Spare, our mission is to make every ride possible, regardless of who you are or where you're headed. We believe in the power of on-demand transit to transform lives by connecting people to opportunities, communities, and essential services. By enabling agencies to provide exceptional microtransit and paratransit services with our cloud-based software, we're reimagining the transportation landscape. We understand that resources are finite and that transit agencies need to optimize their existing assets. That's why we developed Spare Open Fleets, a solution that integrates bookable service providers like Lyft into an agency's operations, enabling them to expand their service offerings without compromising quality or incurring additional costs. By empowering agencies to deliver reliable microtransit and paratransit services, we are reshaping the future of transportation, one ride at a time.
