Commercial Account Manager

Salesloft Salesloft · Enterprise · United States · Commercial

This is a Commercial Account Manager role at Salesloft, a company that provides sales engagement software. The role focuses on managing and growing existing customer accounts, driving upsells, cross-sells, and renewals. It involves building executive relationships, account planning, retention management, and collaborating with internal teams like Customer Success and Product. The ideal candidate has SaaS sales experience, strong relationship-building skills, and a track record of overachieving quota.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serving as the primary point of contact and ultimate owner of the account relationship, managing all commercial transactions including upsells, cross-sells, and the end-to-end renewal process.
  2. Actively prospecting within your assigned territory to identify, qualify, and close new ACV opportunities within your install base to expand your total book of business. Actively hunt for opportunities to introduce additional products or seat expansions to existing customers, maximizing the lifetime value (LTV) of your portfolio.
  3. Developing and executing success plans for high-value accounts to ensure long-term alignment between their business goals and our solutions.
  4. Monitoring account health and usage patterns to identify potential churn risks early, implementing "save" strategies to protect existing recurring revenue.
  5. Cultivating ties with VPs, C-suite executives and key stakeholders to move beyond a vendor relationship and become a trusted business advisor.

Skills

Required

  • 2-3 years of proven relationship building & closing experience in a SaaS environment
  • Experience establishing strategic C-level relationships
  • Ability to run a full sales lifecycle, start to finish, within the SMB segment
  • Experience executing detailed product presentations and web demonstrations of our software capabilities to C-level executives, directors, and sales managers
  • Adept at identifying and utilizing internal resources (Sales Engineers, Customer Success, Support etc.) to build Clari / Salesloft brand awareness, assist in sales cycles, and close deals.
  • Collaborative mentality by prioritizing ‘we’ and not focusing on ‘me.’
  • Superb listening skills; you must understand objections and defeat them by turning sceptics into ecstatic new customers
  • High level of empathy - it’s important for our AM’s to be a good person to peers and prospects.
  • Experience managing, expanding, and renewing customer relationships.
  • Consistent overachievement of quota and revenue goals.
  • Proven ability to make strong connections and overcome rejection to achieve results.
  • Demonstrated ability to conduct compelling on-site and virtual presentations to C-Level executives.

Nice to have

  • passion for sales technology
  • obsessed with delivering a world-class customer experience
  • thrive in a fast-paced, hyper-growth startup environment

What the JD emphasized

  • Full-Cycle Account Ownership
  • Driving Net-New Revenue
  • Account Planning
  • Proactive Retention Management
  • Executive Relationship Building
  • Forecasting & Pipeline Accuracy
  • Market & Competitive Intelligence
  • Collaborative Problem Solving
  • Segmented Renewal Strategy
  • results-oriented
  • motivated
  • strategic
  • growth-minded advocate
  • laser-focused on deepening and expanding relationships
  • hunt for untapped potential
  • identifying new use cases
  • scaling our footprint
  • securing high-value renewals
  • winning expansion deals
  • propel you past your quota
  • passionate about sales technology
  • obsessed with delivering a world-class customer experience
  • thrive in a fast-paced, hyper-growth startup environment
  • motivated sales professionals
  • strong desire to win
  • self-motivated
  • ambitious
  • passionate about evangelizing the future of sales innovation
  • proven relationship building & closing experience
  • Experience establishing strategic C-level relationships
  • Ability to run a full sales lifecycle, start to finish
  • Experience executing detailed product presentations and web demonstrations
  • Adept at identifying and utilizing internal resources
  • Collaborative mentality
  • Superb listening skills
  • High level of empathy
  • Experience managing, expanding, and renewing customer relationships
  • Consistent overachievement of quota and revenue goals
  • Proven ability to make strong connections and overcome rejection
  • Demonstrated ability to conduct compelling on-site and virtual presentations