Account Development Manager
About the role
About Us
YipitData is the market-leading data and analytics firm. We analyze billions of data points every day to provide accurate, detailed insights across industries, including consumer brands, technology, software, and healthcare. Our insights team uses proprietary technology to identify, license, clean, and analyze the data that many of the world’s largest investment funds and corporations depend on. We raised $475M from The Carlyle Group at a valuation over $1B, further accelerating our growth and market impact. We have been recognized multiple times as one of Inc’s Best Workplaces. As a fast-growing company backed by The Carlyle Group and Norwest Venture Partners, YipitData is driven by a people-first culture rooted in mastery, ownership, and transparency.
About The Role
We are looking for a Account Development Manager to join our team and support our growing Hedge Fund client base. This individual will be an early joiner to a new and fast growing segment of our business with a focus on driving value and managing commercial relationships. In this role, you will be an expert in our clients and our products as well as successfully balance competing priorities across a large set of clients.
As a Account Development Manager at YipitData, you will:
- Own and cultivate relationships with your clients by:
- Leverage product expertise to drive value and grow user engagement
- Becoming a trusted resource for our clients by acting as a thought partner and providing top-notch service
- Advocating for client needs cross-departmentally
- Creating and executing on account growth & engagement strategies
- Manage commercial strategy by:
- Developing rapport with key decision makers
- Managing renewals from beginning to end
- Identifying and executing on upsell opportunities to augment contract value
- Contribute to building best-in-class practices within our growing Client Strategy team and work to eventually grow into our Business Development team or build out a team of your own
You are likely to succeed, if:
- You have minimum 3+ year of relevant client facing experience
- You are able to build strategic relationships within your book of business to support your renewal conversations, partnership presentations, and business expansion opportunities
- You are passionate about making your clients successful and care deeply about their investment questions and process
- You are able to proactively identify value-adding opportunities for your client base and materialize them through our research
- You can manage a high-touch, high-volume client base
- You are both a self-starter and a team player
- You are energized by contributing to the future of data-driven investment research and are genuinely interested in investment research and the markets