Account Director

Job Description

• Own a portfolio of existing accounts and take responsibility for their retention and growth.
• Identify upsell and cross sell opportunities within existing accounts.
• Proactively own renewals in accounts in cooperation with the Customer Success team.
• Succeed in a team selling environment for maximum account penetration and coverage.
• Consistently forecast monthly and quarterly performance.
• Negotiate deals and contracts at various levels within the targeted account, with primary focus/importance on “C” and enterprise level negotiations.
• Participating in meetings with key stakeholders starting from onboarding kick-off and Business Review meetings.
• Discovering strategic needs and direction of the customers, setting goals and objectives with a customer that will enable the teams to drive business impact.
• Analyzing stakeholder mapping and setting overall strategy to capture right frequency in touchpoints.
• Taking ownership of renewal success and strategy to achieve key commercial/contractual targets.
• Ensuring Customer Success realization is achieved and recognized across key stakeholders and reaching NPS targets ensuring best customer experience and success recognition.
• Achieving customer advocacy goals with the marketing team with success stories, and testimonials.
• Monitoring market trends and industry analysis to nurture key stakeholders aligned with Insider Product and Strategic Roadmap execution.

What we expect from you?

• 7+ year experience in Customer Success Management, Account Management, or Sales, ideally in SaaS.
• Proven oral and written communication abilities, positive and energetic phone skills, and exquisite listening skills. Alas, we’ve got clients all over the world!
• Proven track record of using sales & persuasive skills.
• To be a self-motivated and savvy tech bug, always in search of savvy solutions and ideas to improve our relationship with our clients.
• To cherish one of our core ethos: care. You’ll need to care for our clients and make sure they feel at home with our products and our around the clock support.
• Passion for testing, measuring, and improving outreach and follow up effectiveness.
• Strong communication skills in both writing and speaking (both English and French).
• High sense of responsibility and accountability.
• A strategic thinker with excellent project and time management skills.
• Experience negotiating and navigating contracts and legal discussions.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, high growth, rapidly changing environment.
• Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts, and ensuring follow-through with verbal and written communication.
• Strong presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences and various levels of management (Senior Marketing Executives, IT management, Database administrators, and Data Scientist).
• Proven track record of building relationships and need discovery with senior customer executives in large or highly strategic accounts,
• Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solutions/engagements required.

Hold on! Life’s a two-way road! Here’s what you’ll enjoy while spending time with us (perks, anyone?)

• a chance to work in an international, diverse, and inclusive environment,
• access and opportunity to gain a limitless network all over the globe,
• a chance to become a Shareowner with the "Shareowner System" that we offer to all Insiders who meet certain criteria,
• to be part of an industry that’s shaping the future of customer experience
• access to many hard and soft skills pieces of training to help you improve and challenge yourself,
• access to 16,000+ online courses taught by real-world professionals on the LinkedIn Learning platform to satisfy your hunger for knowledge.
• space to share your skills through training sessions and workshops if you wish. Sharing is caring!
• the infamous team activities that are bursting with fun,
• no Dress Code!

Was this position made for you?

So let’s talk! We’re curious bugs and can’t wait to get to know you.

We provide equal opportunity in a zero-discrimination workplace and not just welcome but also embrace everyone without regard to sex, race, color, nationality, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, citizenship, or marital status.

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