Account Manager, Enterprise

Vanta · Enterprise · U.S. · Remote · Revenue

Vanta is seeking an Account Manager, Enterprise to manage and grow a portfolio of existing customers. This role involves developing strong customer relationships, identifying expansion opportunities, and managing the sales cycle for upsells and renewals to achieve net revenue expansion. The ideal candidate will have strong sales and communication skills, with experience in security and compliance being a plus. The role is focused on customer success and revenue growth within the Vanta platform.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and maintain strong relationships with assigned accounts, acting as a trusted advisor and strategic partner.
  2. Develop a deep understanding of Vanta’s current product offerings and take initiative to learn Vanta’s product roadmap to speak confidently when addressing customers.
  3. Maintain strong partnerships and alignment with CSMs to understand customer health, ensure close strategic collaboration and execute harmonious communication to accounts.
  4. Collaborate on account plans that identify new opportunities for expansion with current customers to increase their usage of Vanta’s platform via new frameworks, security tools, etc.
  5. Manage the entire sales cycle of any expansion or renewal opportunity from first meeting to close, negotiating where necessary and pulling in additional internal resources where appropriate (solutions consultants, subject matter experts, etc).

Skills

Required

  • Account management
  • Sales
  • Customer relationship management
  • Pipeline management
  • Forecasting
  • Negotiation
  • Communication skills

Nice to have

  • Security and compliance experience
  • AI tool usage

What the JD emphasized

  • 6+ years experience selling to or managing customers
  • Strong ability to prospect and build pipeline without assistance from BDR and/or inbound support
  • Exceptional communication skills (written, verbal, visual), both for internal audiences and customer-facing messaging