Strategic Account Manager, Mid Market

Block Block · Fintech · NSW, Australia · 20405 S&M - Sales - Square Account Management

This role is for a Strategic Account Manager at Block (Square) in Australia, focusing on managing and growing relationships with high-value mid-market sellers. The role involves providing strategic guidance, understanding seller needs, proactively shaping solutions, acting as a seller advocate, anticipating challenges, and driving long-term growth opportunities. The ideal candidate has experience in account management, business development, consulting, partnerships, or sales engineering, with a focus on technical products and managing complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives. The role requires collaboration with internal teams like product, engineering, and sales to ensure successful outcomes for customers.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build partnerships and establish lasting, fruitful relationships with existing sellers to retain and grow our presence with mid- large market organisations
  2. Take full ownership of your managed book and oversee business prioritisation, contracting, technology strategy and ongoing account management
  3. Anticipate and solve complex seller challenges, leveraging deep product, payments, and industry knowledge to design innovative solutions in ambiguous environments
  4. Support and elevate peers, sharing best practices, contributing to team learning, and positively influencing the broader Strategic AM function.
  5. Demonstrated ability to contribute to the refinement and evolution of Strategic Account Management practices, applying subject matter expertise in account segmentation, prioritisation, and portfolio strategy

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years experience in account management, business development, partnerships, sales or sales engineering focused on technical products
  • Proven ability to own revenue outcomes and manage sophisticated commercial relationships with minimal guidance
  • 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

Nice to have

  • Industry experience in Hospitality and/or Food & Beverage strongly preferred

What the JD emphasized

  • high-value Sellers
  • strategic guidance
  • deep product, payments, and industry knowledge
  • complex business problems
  • ambiguous environments
  • cross-functional partnership
  • technical products
  • complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives