Who we are
Help us shape the future of photography! At Capture One we provide photographers with the most powerful tools to capture, edit and collaborate and bring their visions to life. We’re uncompromising about image quality, speed and reliability. Capture One consistently gives photographers the best tethered workflow in the industry, making it intuitive and efficient, with unparalleled image quality, true-to-life color processing and precise editing and flexible collaboration tools letting you work from anywhere and with anyone.
Can you imagine seeing your software being used for a huge photoshoot fashion cover, famous athletic brands, actors, famous singers or even brands that you love and use every day? Our love of imaging translates into empowering our ever-growing community of over 250,000 photographers around the world.
The role
As we continuously drive for growth and plan to expand our team, we are looking for a highly driven and achievement-oriented Strategic Account Manager to join our team.
Based in London, this role will play a critical role in driving growth across blue-chip enterprise and mid-market accounts, with a primary focus on managing, retaining, and expanding a defined portfolio of strategic clients. This role is centered on long-term account development, revenue expansion, and deep relationship ownership ensuring continued adoption and growth of Capture One across enterprise organizations.
This is a strategic account management role, focused on renewals, upsells, and cross-sell opportunities, including the introduction of new products and solutions into an existing client base paired with some new business development across a set of pursuit accounts. This role requires a highly consultative, relationship-driven seller who can identify expansion opportunities, navigate complex organizations, and drive multi-threaded engagement across departments.
You will be a sales account lead across EMEA reporting to the General Manager of EMEA and APAC, and work in close partnership with Market Activations/Marketing, Customer Success, Product, and other cross-functional teams to drive coordinated go-to-market execution and long-term customer success.
You will be joining a thriving team that has grown from 0.5m to 4m+ ARR in three years and a team who is tasked with 50–100% year-on-year growth, as we accelerate Enterprise and Studio adoption across the region.
The role requires approximately 25% travel, including international travel, to engage clients, attend industry events, and support key market activations.
What you will do
Engage & Grow Blue-chip Clients:
- Manage and develop a portfolio of enterprise and mid-market blue-chip brands. Build strong, long-term relationships, drive renewals, and identify opportunities to expand usage, increase seat count, and deepen product adoption across teams and departments.
Account Expansion & Strategic Development:
- Own the full lifecycle of existing accounts, identifying upsell and cross-sell opportunities, including positioning new products and capabilities. Expand single-team deployments into multi-division or enterprise-wide agreements through multi-threaded engagement.
Renewal Ownership & Revenue Retention:
- Lead renewal cycles to protect and grow ARR. Proactively manage account health, engagement, and timing to ensure smooth renewals and minimize churn risk while identifying growth opportunities within the renewal motion.
Consultative Selling & Stakeholder Navigation:
- Act as a trusted advisor to clients, understanding their workflows, challenges, and business goals. Navigate complex organizations with multiple stakeholders, including creative, technical, procurement, and executive teams.
CRM & Pipeline Discipline:
- Maintain disciplined pipeline management and reporting in HubSpot. Manage deal progression and velocity, deliver accurate forecasts, and operate with structured sales rigor and accountability across renewals and expansion opportunities.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Work closely with Market Activations on events across the Americas, share customer insights with Product and leadership to help inform strategy, and partner with Customer Success to ensure smooth onboarding, strong adoption, and long-term customer success.
Requirements
What we are looking for
- 6+ years of experience managing and growing enterprise or mid-market accounts, with a strong track record in renewals, upsells, account expansion.
- Proven ability to manage complex client relationships and drive revenue growth within existing accounts through consultative selling and strategic account planning.
- Experience working with enterprise customers, preferably within creative, marketing, retail, media or related industries i a plus but not essential.
- Strong ability to navigate multi-stakeholder environments, lead commercial conversations, and manage renewal and expansion cycles.
- Excellent CRM discipline ideally with experience in HubSpot, ensuring strong forecasting accuracy and pipeline visibility.
- Highly organized, self-sufficient, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced team, performance-driven environment.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, with a proactive approach to feedback and continuous improvement.
- Interest in or familiarity with photography, creative software, or digital imaging is advantageous but not essential.
- Fluency in foreign languages would be highly advantageous with French and/or Spanish preferred.
- Candidates must have the right to work in the UK
Benefits
Why you will like it at Capture One
Our Company Values make Capture One special:
- Win as one team: Make things happen together. Working together is when the magic really happens.
- Empower photographers: Letting image makers work less and create more. We want photographers to do more of what they love, whether that’s on or off set.
- Embrace diversity: Different cultures, languages, and passions thriving under one roof. We are an equal opportunity employer; we welcome diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
- Take ownership: Use your expertise and feel good doing it. Being from Copenhagen, Denmark, we’re all about the Scandinavian mindset. Take initiative. Be autonomous. Feel like you own your craft. And feel satisfied doing it.
Your benefits & perks
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance
- Hybrid work schedule with two-three days per week in our Kings Cross hub.
- 25 days of paid vacation, giving you dedicated time to fully recharge
- 3 weeks of “passport working,” offering the flexibility to work from anywhere
Competitive Benefits
- Comprehensive, company-paid health insurance to support your overall well-being
- Generous, fully paid parental leave for all new parents.
Global Onboarding & Growth
- Structured onboarding experience based in our London and New York office.
- One-week onboarding experience in Copenhagen Denmark, working alongside our global team and leadership.
- A unique opportunity to build international relationships and gain firsthand exposure to our global business from day one.
Top-Notch Equipment & Support
- Work with the latest Apple products as part of your setup
- Company phone provided to keep you connected
Compensation & Performance Incentives
Competitive base salary with commission component tied to performance.
Join us and be part of something bigger! This is an opportunity to make a real impact, work alongside a global team, and help shape the future of our business.
If you’re looking for a role where you can grow, contribute, and win as one team, we’d love to hear from you.
Skills Required
- 6+ years managing and growing enterprise or mid-market accounts with demonstrated renewals and expansion success
- Proven ability to manage complex client relationships and drive revenue growth via consultative selling and strategic account planning
- Experience owning renewal and expansion cycles and protecting/growing ARR
- Strong CRM and pipeline discipline with experience using HubSpot
- Experience working with enterprise customers, preferably in creative, marketing, retail, or media industries
- Ability to navigate multi-stakeholder environments, lead commercial conversations, and manage complex organizations
- Highly organized, self-sufficient, and comfortable in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Based in London and available for a hybrid schedule (2-3 days/week) at Kings Cross hub
- Willingness to travel approximately 25%, including international travel
- Interest in or familiarity with photography, creative software, or digital imaging
- Fluency in foreign languages, French and/or Spanish preferred
What We Do
Born out of a passion for photography, Capture One provides photographers with the tools to easily collaborate with clients and creatives and achieve the highest quality photograph, bringing their visions to life. Our powerful photo editing software is built on more than twenty-five years of technical expertise. Today, we offer the fastest tethered shooting in the industry, an intuitive and efficient workflow, unparalleled image quality with support for over 600 camera and lens profiles, true-to-life color processing, and precise editing and collaborative tools. Based in Denmark and Greece, our passionate team from around the world challenge each other daily to make sure we answer the needs of our community. At Capture One, we believe in creating an inclusive work culture with people who are representative of the diverse community we serve. We follow the Scandinavian mindset of giving our teams full trust to run with ideas while keeping each other accountable and ensuring that customer benefit is at the heart of everything we do. We are on a journey to become the most efficient ecosystem of creative and collaborative tools with a flexible photography workflow seamlessly spanning across multiple devices, letting you work from anywhere and with anyone. Our love of imaging translates into empowering our ever-growing community of over 260,000 photographers across the globe to show the world.
