Senior Manager, Strategic Account Management- Services

Block Block · Fintech · CA · Remote · 20405 S&M - Sales - Square Account Management

Senior Manager, Strategic Account Management for Square's Services vertical, focusing on retention and growth of large merchants. The role involves leading a team of Account Managers, providing coaching, developing processes, and influencing tooling and product initiatives. Requires significant experience in account management, team leadership, and cross-functional collaboration within a high-growth tech company.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a distributed team of up to 6-8 senior Account Managers focused on services sellers, each with a book of business of 40-60 accounts
  2. Retain your portfolio in a challenging and competitive environment
  3. Provide 1:1 coaching and performance management to your team members
  4. Serve as an escalation point for customer challenges, including meeting with customers in-person monthly to quarterly
  5. Act as an upmarket services expert and engage with product teams to serve as the customer voice for upmarket sellers with past success working with executive internal stakeholders

Skills

Required

  • Team leadership
  • Account Management
  • Customer Retention
  • Revenue Growth
  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Product Management liaison
  • Process Development
  • Performance Management
  • Customer Escalation Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Business Development

Nice to have

  • Experience serving as a player/coach
  • Experience operating in the unknown
  • Experience with beta programs, co-marketing, product insights

What the JD emphasized

  • customer-facing leader
  • lead a team
  • retention and growth
  • data-driven and motivated team
  • directly manage 6-8 Strategic Account Managers
  • revenue and logo retention
  • 1:1 coaching and performance management
  • develop processes and insights
  • influence the tooling Account Managers need for success
  • impactful cross-functional projects
  • leading high performing teams
  • player/coach
  • leading projects
  • driving revenue growth
  • advocating internally for customers
  • coaching talent
  • operating in the unknown
  • senior Account Managers
  • book of business
  • escalation point for customer challenges
  • upmarket services expert
  • customer voice
  • executive internal stakeholders
  • operational efficiencies
  • stream-lined repeatable processes
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • beta programs
  • co-marketing
  • product insights
  • 15+ years total experience
  • 5+ years experience directly managing metrics-driven customer-facing teams
  • high-growth technology company
  • independently developing plans of action
  • internal senior stakeholders
  • voice of the customer
  • direct senior escalation point
  • diffuse challenges
  • identify mutual wins