
Strategic Account Manager
Render
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $180,000 - $235,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Manage a dedicated portfolio of high-growth customers, establishing yourself as their trusted business advisor and primary point of contact.
- Develop a deep understanding of each customer's business, their key objectives, and their technical roadmap to create and account plans that ensure Render is delivering maximum value.
- Proactively identify and mitigate churn risks by addressing customer concerns, articulating Render's scalability, and reinforcing the value proposition.
- Drive account expansion by identifying opportunities to convert customers from month-to-month to committed annual contracts and lead the upsell motion.
- Collaborate closely with our Customer Engineers, who own the technical relationship with developers, to present a unified front and ensure customers are both technically successful and strategically aligned.
- Lead regular business reviews with key stakeholders to showcase ROI, review progress against goals, and uncover new opportunities for partnership.
- Serve as the voice of your customers internally, sharing their feedback and insights with our Product and Engineering teams.
- Represent Render with authenticity, curiosity, and technical credibility in every customer interaction.
Requirements
- Has 5+ years of proven experience in a customer-facing role such as Account Management or Customer Success, preferably in the cloud infrastructure or developer tooling space
- Possesses a commercial mindset with a track record of successfully managing renewals, identifying expansion opportunities, and negotiating contracts
- Is familiar with using product usage data or analytics to identify customer health risks and expansion opportunities
- Is a strategic thinker who can connect the dots between a customer's technical challenges and their overarching business goals
- Excels at building rapport and trust with a wide range of stakeholders from senior engineers to C-level executives
- Is savvy with product-led growth (PLG) environments and understands how to engage customers who initially adopted a product through a self-service motion
- Is a builder who thrives in ambiguity. You are energized by the opportunity to shape a new function and create processes, not frustrated by the lack of standardized playbooks
- Has a strong sense of empathy and a genuine passion for helping developers and engineering teams succeed.
Benefits
- This opportunity is also eligible for equity with early-exercise options and extended exercise windows.
- 4 weeks of paid vacation.
- 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child. We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return.
- Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
- 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent. FSAs and HSAs are available as well.
- Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
- Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
- Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
- Continuous learning benefits & related support.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
customer successaccount managementcontract negotiationdata analyticsrenewals managementexpansion opportunitiescloud infrastructuredeveloper toolingproduct-led growthtechnical roadmap
Soft Skills
strategic thinkingrapport buildingtrust buildingempathycommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilitycustomer advocacyleadership