Account Advocate

Apollo.io Apollo.io · Enterprise · Office - Manila, Philippines +1 · Support

This role focuses on customer retention, billing accuracy, and operational improvements within a SaaS company. The Account Advocate will handle complex customer issues, identify churn drivers, and partner with various teams to enhance the customer experience and reduce churn. While the company mentions being AI-native and using AI/automation, this specific role is not directly involved in building or deploying AI/ML models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the most complex, high-risk cancellation, downgrade, and billing escalation cases.
  2. Lead strategic retention efforts for at-risk accounts, balancing customer empathy with policy and revenue considerations.
  3. Act as the subject-matter expert for billing, renewals, refunds, and subscription lifecycle workflows.
  4. Ensure audit readiness, data quality, and consistency across billing decisions and documentation.
  5. Mentor and coach Account Advocates and Billing Advocates through case reviews, knowledge shares, and shadowing.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of experience in customer-facing SaaS roles (Support, Renewals, Billing Operations, Customer Success).
  • Demonstrated success owning complex billing, retention, or churn-prevention scenarios.
  • Proven track record of driving cross-functional improvements without people management responsibility.
  • Strong experience working with billing systems, CRMs, and subscription tooling.

Nice to have

  • Experience influencing pricing, packaging, or policy decisions.
  • Exposure to churn analytics, VOC programs, or revenue operations.
  • History of mentoring senior ICs or serving as a domain owner within a support organization.

What the JD emphasized

  • highest level of domain expertise
  • operational ownership
  • solving the most complex customer, billing, and revenue-impacting challenges
  • high degree of autonomy and influence
  • owning high-risk scenarios
  • driving systemic improvements
  • owns outcomes end-to-end
  • elevates the performance of others through expertise, mentorship, and operational leadership
  • Required
  • Demonstrated success owning complex billing, retention, or churn-prevention scenarios.
  • Proven track record of driving cross-functional improvements without people management responsibility.
  • take extreme ownership
  • move with focus and urgency
  • learn voraciously
  • own your role and make a real impact
  • all for one
  • bold ideas and courageous action