Account Manager, Growth Stage

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

Account Manager responsible for expansion and retention of existing customers, focusing on post-sale commercial conversations, upsells, and renewals to drive net revenue expansion. The role involves understanding customer needs, aligning Vanta's solutions, and managing the sales cycle for expansion opportunities.

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

  • Sales experience
  • Customer relationship management
  • Account management
  • Upselling
  • Renewals
  • Communication skills
  • Pipeline management
  • Forecasting
  • Negotiation

Nice to have

  • Security and compliance experience
  • AI tool usage

What the JD emphasized

  • 3+ years experience selling to or managing customers
  • Must be authorized to work in the U.S.