Who are we
At Lokalise, we make it easy and profitable for businesses to expand into new markets. Our AI-powered localization platform helps companies manage both software and marketing content from a single, unified environment — ensuring every team speaks with one voice across every language and channel.
By automating workflows, integrating with over 60 tools, and centralizing translation memory and terminology, Lokalise enables product, engineering, and marketing teams to collaborate without friction and launch globally up to 10× faster and at 80% lower cost.
Trusted by thousands of businesses across more than 100 countries, Lokalise empowers millions of people worldwide to use digital services in their native languages. Backed by a customer-loved support team, our platform fits seamlessly into your design, development, and content workflows, helping you scale with consistency and control.
We are looking for a Senior Account Manager to join our EMEA team, which focuses on strengthening relationships with existing customers and driving sustainable revenue growth through retention, expansion, upselling, and cross-selling.
In this role, you will own the commercial outcomes and full commercial lifecycle of your assigned enterprise accounts. This includes protecting customer retention, supporting successful renewals, identifying expansion opportunities, and ensuring customers continue to realise value from Lokalise over time.
You will manage a portfolio of strategic customers. You will act as a trusted commercial partner, helping customers connect Lokalise’s capabilities to their business objectives, localisation workflows, and international growth plans.
You will report to the Director of Sales EMEA and work closely with Customer Success, Solutions Architecture, Product, Finance, and Legal. You will be measured primarily on account expansion through upselling, cross-selling, and broader customer adoption and gross revenue retention across your portfolio .
What You Will Do
- Own account commercial outcomes: Take responsibility for the full commercial lifecycle of your assigned enterprise accounts, including retention, renewals, expansion, upselling, and cross-selling.
- Protect retention and renewal outcomes: Monitor account health, customer engagement, product value, and commercial risks to identify potential retention challenges early and coordinate effective action with internal teams.
- Drive account expansion: Identify and execute upsell, cross-sell, and expansion opportunities, leading commercial conversations and negotiations with a focus on achieving and surpassing sales quotas.
- Develop account strategies: Create and maintain clear account plans based on customer goals, stakeholder priorities, product adoption, business risks, renewal plans, and opportunities for broader collaboration.
- Lead consultative customer conversations: Advise customers on how to improve their localisation and content workflows, connect their needs to Lokalise’s solutions, and articulate clear business value and return on investment.
- Navigate complex enterprise sales processes: Coordinate multi-stakeholder opportunities, procurement activity, contract negotiations, and legal discussions, ensuring progress toward successful commercial outcomes.
- Partner cross-functionally and maintain accurate reporting: Work closely with Customer Success and Solutions Architecture to support retention and expansion, collaborate with Product, Finance, and Legal to resolve customer needs, and maintain accurate CRM records, account plans, pipeline updates, and forecasts.
- Use AI to elevate your work: Proactively explore and apply AI tools and approaches to improve customer research, account planning, decision-making, productivity, and go-to-market impact.
What You Must Have
- Full account lifecycle ownership: +5 years of experience owning the commercial lifecycle of strategic or enterprise customer accounts, including retention, renewals, expansion, upselling, and cross-selling in a B2B SaaS environment.
- Proven commercial outcomes: A track record of protecting customer revenue, achieving gross revenue retention or comparable retention targets, and generating measurable account expansion.
- Ability to understand complex SaaS products, with experience selling to business, marketing, and sales stakeholders, and translating product capabilities into clear commercial value.
- Strong written and spoken English, with the ability to collaborate effectively across a remote, international organisation.
- Experience engaging and influencing C-level and senior stakeholders, including the ability to lead strategic conversations and align solutions with business priorities.
- Strong commercial skills, including experience identifying growth opportunities, negotiating contracts, and navigating complex procurement or legal discussions.
- Competency using AI tools to accelerate customer research, synthesis, account planning, and decision-making, with a proactive mindset toward adopting new AI-enabled ways of working.
- Experience engaging technical stakeholders (e.g., IT, engineering, product) in addition to business buyers.
- Experience selling localisation, translation management, or other workflow software.
- Experience working with procurement processes such as RFPs, security reviews, or complex enterprise buying committees.
- Familiarity with structured sales methodologies or account planning frameworks.
Our Benefits
💰 Competitive salary and employee stock options.
🌍 Fully remote setup with flexible working hours.
🏢 Co-working budget for those days you want a change from your home office.
🌴 Flexible vacation policy to recharge when you need to.
🖥️ Home office setup budget: monitor, desk, ergonomics, whatever helps you do your best work.
📚 Learning & development budget to grow your skills and career.
🏥 Health insurance to keep you covered.
🧘 Wellness allowance to support your mental and physical well-being.
🤝 Great startup culture: remote but close-knit, with regular retreats and social events to stay connected.
We are committed to a culture of inclusion and equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome applications from people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, personal expressions, relationship, marital, or civil partnership statuses, racial identities, national or ethnic origins, religious beliefs, ages, and disability statuses.
Skills Required
- 5+ years owning the commercial lifecycle of strategic or enterprise customer accounts in a B2B SaaS environment, including retention, renewals, expansion, upselling, and cross-selling
- Proven record of protecting customer revenue, achieving retention targets, and generating measurable account expansion
- Experience understanding complex SaaS products and selling to business, marketing, and sales stakeholders
- Strong written and spoken English
- Experience engaging and influencing C-level and senior stakeholders
- Experience identifying growth opportunities, negotiating contracts, and navigating complex procurement or legal discussions
- Competency using AI tools for customer research, synthesis, account planning, and decision-making
- Experience engaging technical stakeholders such as IT, engineering, or product
- Experience selling localization, translation management, or other workflow software
- Experience with procurement processes such as RFPs, security reviews, or complex enterprise buying committees
- Familiarity with structured sales methodologies or account planning frameworks
What We Do
We work towards a world without language barriers ? Lokalise is the category leader for localization. We own the category, and we redefined it as well. We effectively changed the way teams decide and execute localization. Lokalise is the number one choice for any organization going global, and we are also a localization thought leader, pushing for education and quality in all localization aspects. With us, customers reach a whole new audience of app users, online shoppers, web browsers, and game players by providing local experiences, in their language, no matter where in the world they are. Lokalise is not bound to specific personas. We address the needs of developers, product designers, product managers, go-to-market functions, and even internal resources localization. Our product provides a holistic journey to all localization aspects in a flexible all-in-one solution be it software localization, interpreting, document translation, machine translation, localized pricing, copywriting, local legal adjustments, and literally anything localization-related.
Why Work With Us
Our team operates like a professional sports team. We are not ninjas, rockstars, superheroes, or other solitary spotlight seekers. We are team players who excel at our roles and who challenge each other to accomplish more together than any ninja could on their own. We continuously support each other and live up to our five Lokalise values.
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