Smb Account Manager (hybrid)

CrowdStrike CrowdStrike · Enterprise · Austin, TX

This role is for an SMB Account Manager at CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company that uses an AI-native platform. The role focuses on managing customer accounts, driving sales, renewals, and identifying upsell/cross-sell opportunities within the small to mid-size business segment. While the company utilizes AI, this specific role is in sales and account management, not directly building or researching AI.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as the primary point of contact for clients while collaborating with various internal stakeholders (Customer Success, Managed Services, etc.) to ensure the existing customer base is receiving the value they expect from their previous purchase
  2. Manage the contract renewal cycle from scheduling initial meetings through negotiation, contract changes, and signature while ensuring customers renew at an escalated ARR rate.
  3. Achieve a quota of new sales growth within customer base.
  4. Be a customer advocate, driving relationships with key customers and creating new champions.
  5. Identify whitespace in accounts and create value-based presentations to promote upgrades and cross-sells.

Skills

Required

  • 1+ years in sales development and/or 1+ years of full sales cycle experience in an account management or net new logo capacity, selling to a technical audience such as engineers, IT, security, and other related fields.
  • Track record of meeting or exceeding expectations in an individually focused, quota and/or metric carrying role.
  • Ability to successfully balance a wide variety of daily tasks and adjust priorities on the fly in a fast-paced environment over multiple engagements.
  • Strong technical aptitude and ability to learn new concepts quickly.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills demonstrated through email, conference calls, client visits and presentations, and internal meetings
  • High level of comfort handling client objections and negotiations.

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree is preferred
  • Light experience and/or understanding of sales qualification frameworks such as Medic, Medpicc, and/or Sandlar
  • Security or SaaS experience is a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • quota
  • sales
  • customer