Key Account Manager

About Acquia

Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.

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We are seeking an ambitious Key Account Manager responsible for delivering against renewal and upsell targets as well as developing & maintaining existing customer relationships within higher education and state/local government. In this role, you will proactively engage in the day-to-day Account Management of accounts; mitigating customer escalations and risks with the appropriate sense of urgency, and building strong cross-departmental relationships with other stakeholders in the organization. You will become the customer’s advocate within Acquia, creating a positive customer experience that ultimately results in the renewal of the subscription and account growth. You will work directly with Sales & Pre-Sales, Technical Support, Customer Success, Professional Services, Operations and Finance.

This position is designed for an individual who has account management experience, a high attention to detail and strives for customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate will have past experience working for a technology company.

Responsibilities

• Exceed quarterly renewal and upsell goals
• Maintain solid relationships with customers and ownership of customers’ success with Acquia platform services
• Guide customers through onboarding of products and services
• Maintain control of account direction and strategy
• Build relationships with strategic leadership level customer contacts
• Identify new opportunities and work to drive them to a close
• Coordinate with business users and procurement to ensure timely renewals
• Update and maintain Sales database as appropriate
• Must be able to proactively drive accounts with minimal oversight
• Strong collaboration with internal teams
• Generates trusted relationships with customers
• Ability to manage multiple systems and administration at once

Required Qualifications

• 3-5 years working in a sales / account management role for a technology company, education and government experience a plus
• Strong leadership, teamwork, communication & cross-group collaboration skills
• Proven track record of sustaining & growing complex relationships including closing the renewal and assisting with up sell / cross sell opportunities