Strategic Account Manager
WHO WE ARE
Braze delivers customer experiences across email, mobile, SMS, and web. Customers, including Burger King, Delivery Hero, HBO Max, Mercari, and Venmo, use the Braze platform to facilitate real-time experiences between brands and consumers in a more authentic and human way. And we do it at scale – each month, hundreds of billions of messages are sent to a network of over 3 billion active users through Braze.
Need more proof? Braze was named a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Cross-Channel Campaign Management (Independent Platforms), Q3 2021, and was named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for the fourth consecutive year. The company has also been selected as one of Fortune’s Best Workplace for Millennials in 2021, and was ranked #20 on Fortune’s Best Medium Sized Workplaces in 2021. Braze is certified as a Great Place to Work in the UK and the U.S. and is recognized as one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Women.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
As part of the Braze Strategic Account Management Team, you will partner with Enterprise Account Executives within Braze’s most strategic portfolio of global clients to ensure they are maximizing value from technology and services in order to develop and grow the relationship.This is an opportunity to work with some of the largest brands on the planet, and bring your skills as a consultant, business analyst, project manager and sales professional to leading global brands. You’ll also expand your knowledge of multi-channel consumer engagement, mobile marketing automation, APIs and analytics.
The ideal candidate will have at least 2 years’ experience renewing and expanding existing SaaS solutions, with at least 2 years working contracts in a variety of different verticals where typical company size is F50. Ideally, your product sales experience focuses on selling/renewing email, analytics, CRM, marketing automation, and/or content marketing solutions. Prior experience should include collaboration with Customer Success and Marketing/Sales Enablement teams. This is a field sales role that routinely requires travel for onsite customer engagement, resulting in time spent out of the office meeting with and selling to existing customers.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Develop commercial relationship in collaboration with the Strategic Account Executive to increase Braze utilization and value
- Partner closely with Strategic Account Executives and Customer Success Managers to secure contract renewals
- Nurture and close a high volume of expansion deals both upsell, cross sell and net new lines of business up to a value of $100k
- Effectively communicate customer feedback to Braze product team
- Achieve quarterly upsell and renewals targets
- Cross-department collaboration, including but not limited to Success, Sales, RevOps, Product, Legal and Marketing
- Coordinate resources to drive feature adoption
- Excellent Product knowledge
- Pro-actively analyze customer product usage and identify growth opportunities
- Work with Account Executives and other Success Partners to seamlessly transition clients from pre-sales, through onboarding and into ongoing Service usage
WHAT YOU BRING
- 2+ years of experience in Account Management, SaaS sales, or similar relevant roles, with at least half of that time spent closing and managing strategic customers
- Drive, determination and accountability
- Background in Enterprise SaaS sales for Mobile and/or Marketing Technology
- Outstanding verbal, written and stand-up presentation skills, with experience of presenting value propositions to executive teams
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Keynote
- Prior experience with salesforce.com CRM, or other CRM used to manage sales pipeline
- Excellent organizational skills and time management abilities
- The ability to handle multiple competing priorities
- Proven ability to quickly get up to speed on new cloud apps and tools
- A proven networker in your daily life
- Up-to-date on digital trends, especially in the mobile, web and email space
- Proven success navigating large organizations and the ability to quickly identify decision makers and the decision-making process for large, global brands
- Prior experience in a startup technology company a plus
WHAT WE OFFER
- Competitive compensation that includes equity
- Generous time off policy to balance your work and life, including paid parental leave
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Collaborative, transparent, and fun loving office culture
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