Jobs · Business Development · California

Account Manager, Commercial - AI / Strategic Growth

Method Recruiting, a 3x Inc. 5000 company · San Francisco, CA · 3 wk ago
Business Development$91k–$105k/yrFull-time

About the role

This role is a great fit for someone with experience in SaaS renewals, customer success, account management, or a similar customer-facing commercial role.

Responsibilities

  • Own customer relationships across a commercial account segment
  • Lead renewal and recontracting cycles from initial outreach through negotiation, signature, and execution
  • Drive customer retention, on-time renewals, increased commitments, and account expansion
  • Build trusted relationships with customers and understand their business goals, use cases, and success metrics
  • Identify new workloads, use cases, or expansion opportunities within existing accounts
  • Communicate product value, business impact, and ROI in a clear, customer-focused way
  • Partner with customers to increase adoption and deepen long-term engagement
  • Manage contract conversations, including negotiation, deal structure, legal review, and security review processes
  • Maintain accurate forecasting, account notes, renewal timelines, and pipeline data in CRM and reporting tools
  • Follow established account management playbooks while continuing to improve outreach, renewal, and expansion processes
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and leadership to support customer outcomes

Requirements

  • Experience in SaaS renewals, customer success, account management, or a similar customer-facing commercial role
  • Experience carrying a quota, retention target, renewal goal, or other measurable customer revenue target
  • Strong negotiation, deal structuring, and contract management skills
  • Proven ability to identify expansion opportunities and grow customer relationships over time
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to build trust across business, technical, and executive stakeholders
  • Highly organized and comfortable managing multiple renewal timelines at once
  • Salesforce proficiency required
  • Experience with AI platforms, data infrastructure, developer tools, or technical SaaS is a strong plus
  • Collaborative, coachable, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced startup environment

Qualifications

  • Curious about emerging technology and energized by helping customers adopt new products and workflows

Skills

  • Customer success
  • Account management
  • Sales
  • Contract management
  • Customer retention
  • Product marketing
  • Business development
  • Customer service

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Learning and growth opportunities
  • Regular team events and offsites
  • Relocation support to San Francisco

Pay

The expected compensation range for this role is $91,000–$105,000 base salary, with $130,000–$150,000 OTE, plus equity and comprehensive benefits.

Schedule

This role is full-time based in San Francisco, CA.

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