Director, Account Management, Growth + Retention

New York, USA (Remote)

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Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead a scaling client-facing sales and account management function to exceed quotas across SMB to Enterprise and drive go-to-market growth.

  • Own building and leading a high-performance account management team with quota attainment
  • Must-have: 5+ years scaling client-facing sales or account management teams and 3+ years managing managers
  • Standout: Entrepreneurial, hands-on leader who collaborates with leadership to expand geographies and languages

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build strong account management teams that consistently meet and exceed quota
  • Define and manage key customer lifecycle events across SMB, Mid-Market and Enterprise segments within the channel, and track outcomes
  • Provide leadership and direction to a high-performance team – including hiring, training, and pace setting
  • Develop specific and targeted goals and quotas to expand and accelerate revenue opportunities
  • Create, monitor and manage key performance metrics
  • Find innovative and creative ways to improve and increase performance
  • Implement best practices to support consistent and consultative sales and client success processes
  • Develop and refine an effective go-to-market strategy as we expand geographic and language coverage
  • Take an entrepreneurial approach to the role, working collaboratively with the rest of the leadership team to get things done

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience scaling and managing a client-facing sales or account management team in a fast-paced environment
  • Experience managing managers for at least 3+ years
  • Experience as a top-performing account manager or sales executive
  • Proven track record of team quota-attainment via new product sales and upgrades (license expansion sales are not likely relevant)
  • Proven leadership skills, people management skills
  • Great with numbers including strong analytical skills
  • Highly effective communicator with good people instincts - able to build trust and work well with a diverse group inside and outside the company
  • Eager for a very hands-on role, where you’ll be asked to take on and run with a range of projects outside your comfort zone, and learn quickly
  • Highly organized, self-motivated and detail-oriented, with great follow-through on projects/tasks big and small
  • High integrity individual who’s enthusiastic about building a great company for the long term
  • Courage to challenge the status quo when logic and reason require it. See something broken? Fix it
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Rippling

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Rippling is a workforce management system that eliminates the friction from running a business. Today, most companies struggle with everything from routine tasks, like running payroll, to cross-functional planning, like aligning on headcount. That’s because all their data related to people, processes, and systems is scattered in a hundred places. Rippling has every application you need to run your business—from applicant tracking and payroll to IT and expenses—in one place. But unlike other systems, Rippling sits on top of a unified platform. Data flows dynamically between Rippling’s applications, giving every team a shared source of truth, the power to automate processes, and access to the insights they need. This allows your business to execute better, faster.Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock.Get help: rippling.com/contactLicensing details: https://app.rippling.com/licensing

Founded in 2016
San Francisco, California, USA
6.5K employees (237 in marketing)
77% recommend to a friend
86% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2.4M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
16.6%
Direct
64.8%
Referral
11.2%
Social
6.7%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
157 (2% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
1.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
9

Funding

Total Funding
$2.4B
Last Raise
$450M
Series G, 10 months ago

Funding History

  • May 2025
    Series G • $450M
  • Apr 2024
    Series F • $200M
  • Apr 2024
    Secondary Market • $590M

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