Core Responsibilities
- Account Strategy & Growth
- Develop and execute a strategic plan to achieve/exceed renewal and expansion targets, prioritizing high-value and at-risk accounts
- Ensure renewals deliver mutually beneficial commercial terms and maintain long-term account health
- Collaborate cross-functionally to build accurate renewal and expansion forecasts and adjust account plans based on insights on a daily/weekly basis
- Proactively monitor account health and expansion opportunities, providing qualitative and quantitative insights to executives and internal stakeholders about customer needs and opportunities to create customer value
- Partner with R&D, CX, Marketing, and Sales to ensure customer feedback informs product development and go-to-market strategy
- Leadership of the Account Management Team
- Set clear expectations, goals, and success metrics for Account Managers to drive predictable renewal and expansion performance
- Monitor individual and team performance, providing actionable feedback and guidance to optimize results
- Coach and develop Account Managers to accelerate skill growth, address performance gaps, and support career progression
- Establish and maintain standardized playbooks, workflows, and best practices to ensure consistency and operational efficiency
- Advocate for the team, ensuring Account Managers have the tools, resources, and cross-functional support to succeed
- Foster a high-performing, collaborative, and customer-focused culture that encourages accountability, learning, and experimentation
Accountabilities and Metrics
- Renewal Rate and Gross Revenue Retention (GRR) – Achieve/exceed renewal targets
- Net Revenue Retention (NRR) – Meet/exceed expansion targets
- Expansion Pipeline - Meet/exceed expansion pipeline targets
- Forecast Accuracy – Maintain accurate, reliable, data-driven forecasts of renewals and expansion for current and future quarters
- Executive Insights – Provide actionable renewal and expansion insights with clear, prioritized recommendations
- Team Performance – Account Managers hit/exceed renewal and expansion goals
Required Experience
- 5+ years of experience managing strategic accounts in a SaaS environment, with direct responsibility for renewal, expansion, and customer growth
- Team Leadership – Proven experience leading, coaching, and developing high-performing sales teams (ideally 5–10 direct reports)
- Experience building and executing account-level and territory-level plans to meet revenue, renewal, and growth targets
- Demonstrated success working with R&D, Product, CX, Marketing, and Sales to drive account outcomes and influence organizational priorities
- Strong track record of building trusted executive-level relationships and managing complex customer lifecycles
- Comfortable leveraging data to create accurate renewal/expansion forecasts, monitor account health, and provide actionable insights to leadership
Key Competencies
- Ability to motivate, develop, and hold a sales team accountable to goals and standards
- Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills to interpret account data and drive decisions
- Deep understanding of customer needs, outcomes, and journeys, with the ability to translate data and insights into actionable plans
- Excellent verbal and written communication; able to influence cross-functional stakeholders and executives
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Encourages iterative approaches to account management, learning from successes and failures to improve outcomes
- Use of AI tools and other software to build systems and scale team impact
Sample Week in the Life
- Monday: Sales Leadership Weekly, Account Management Team Meeting, Call Reviews/Live Coaching (Join 3 customer calls to support your team on renewal and expansion opportunities)
- Tuesday: Leadership Forecast Review, Expansion Pipeline Review, Team 1:1s, Call Reviews/Live Coaching (Join 3 customer calls to support your team on renewal and expansion opportunities)
- Wednesday: Expansion Deal Walk, Team 1:1s, Enablement Strategy Sync, Call Reviews/Live Coaching (Join 3 customer calls to support your team on renewal and expansion opportunities)
- Thursday: Lead Training, Call Reviews/Live Coaching (Join 3 customer calls to support your team on renewal and expansion opportunities)
- Friday: Forecasting, Renewal 1:1s, Call Reviews/Live Coaching, Prioritize and share cross-functional feedback from the week, provide feedback on a marketing campaign for next quarter’s renewals
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