Account Manager -SMB, Growth & Retention (HR Services)
Rippling · Chicago, IL · 2 days ago
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About the role
We're seeking a self-driven, growth-minded account manager to join our hybrid-US based Account Management team. As an account manager, you'll be responsible for guiding customers in optimizing the use of Rippling's suite of back-office HR products and solutions. Your role involves ensuring customers realize value and expand across the platform, engaging them proactively, and negotiating contracts.
Responsibilities
- Ensure our customers in the HR Services channel are realizing value and expanding across the platform.
- Proactively engage customers in your book via key lifecycle events: “go live”, introduction calls, benefits renewal, executive business reviews, contract renewal, etc.
- Consult with clients to understand their HR, IT, Finance, and global workforce management needs through a solutions-based approach.
- Navigate a strategic sales process by building relationships with multiple external and internal stakeholders through remote and in-person meetings.
- Negotiate and coordinate customer procurement and contract execution as part of managing the broader customer relationship.
- Build and manage a pipeline of new subscription cross-sales, product upgrades, and contract renewals to monthly targets.
- Develop and demonstrate a broad knowledge of current and new Rippling products via executing customer adoption playbooks and prospecting.
- Partner with cross-functional product, support, and customer operations teams to ensure customer success and secure long-term commitments, directly influence Rippling’s product roadmap, and increase operational efficiency.
- Take an entrepreneurial approach to the role by being a proactive and strategic partner to customers, tailoring your approach to maximize Rippling product adoption based on each customer’s unique business operations.
Requirements
- 3+ years of SaaS experience in account management, sales, or quota-carrying customer success.
- Track record of consistently meeting and exceeding quota via new product sales and upgrades (license expansion sales are not likely relevant).
- Demonstrated ability to run a consultative discovery and demo meeting and run a structured sales process.
- Proven success building and maintaining long term commercial relationships.
- Highly effective communicator with good people instincts – able to build trust and work well with a diverse group inside and outside the company.
- Highly organized, self-motivated, and detail-oriented; great follow-through on projects/tasks big and small.
- Courage to challenge the status quo when logic and reason require it.
Qualifications
- Competitive and creative drive to win over customers and think outside the box to get a deal done.
- Highly effective communicator with good people instincts – able to build trust and work well with a diverse group inside and outside the company.
- Highly organized, self-motivated, and detail-oriented; great follow-through on projects/tasks big and small.
- Courage to challenge the status quo when logic and reason require it.
Skills
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to build and maintain long-term commercial relationships.
- Experience in SaaS and/or CRM platforms.
- Knowledge of HR, IT, and finance systems.
- Ability to negotiate and manage contracts.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Benefits
- Competitive On-Target Earnings (base salary + sales commission) + benefits + equity.
- Hybrid work model with option to work from home.
- Flexible vacation policy.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Employee referral program.
- Professional development opportunities.
- Work-life balance with generous paid time off.
Pay
- Base salary + sales commission.
- Salary range: 130,000 - 130,000 USD per year (US) / 125,000 - 125,000 USD per year (US).
Schedule
- Hybrid work model with option to work from home.