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.