Strategic Account Director

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

Strategic Account Director role focused on retaining and growing Square's presence in the Enterprise & Mid-Market space in the UK. The role involves managing high-value technical accounts, working with C-level executives, identifying expansion opportunities, and acting as an internal advocate for clients. It requires experience in account management, business development, or sales engineering, with a focus on technical products and achieving revenue goals.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build partnerships and establish lasting, fruitful relationships with existing customers to retain and grow our presence within enterprise grade organizations
  2. Take full ownership of your managed book and oversee business prioritization, financial contract structuring, legal negotiations, technology strategy and ongoing account management
  3. Discover challenges and aspiration with customers within your book and use Square's platform and product portfolio to grow their success through up-sell and cross-sell opportunities
  4. Partner with enterprise sales colleagues to establish and grow newly on-boarded, high-value customers
  5. Be the "voice of the seller" curating analysis of product performance from your managed book and provide relevant feedback to inform for product roadmap decision-making

Skills

Required

  • Account management
  • Business development
  • Consulting
  • Partnerships
  • Sales
  • Sales engineering
  • Technical products
  • Revenue metric goals
  • Complex deals
  • Requirements gathering
  • Business case development

Nice to have

  • Experience supporting go-to-market efforts for new products
  • Passion for technology

What the JD emphasized

  • 7+ years experience in account management, business development, consulting, partnerships, sales or sales engineering focused on technical products
  • Experience achieving revenue metric goals
  • In-depth experience collaborating internally with partners on complex deals or partnerships
  • Experience requirements gathering with customers, building business cases for feature development with products teams, while balancing expectations for both parties