Hybrid Account Manager, SMB

at Apollo.io

• Job title: Account Manager, SMB
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior
• Salary: $110,000 - $130,000 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Austin, United States

About the role

• Account Manager for SMB segment responsible for managing and growing relationships with existing customers at Apollo.io. Focus on maximizing account value and identifying expansion opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Manage the entire sales process from initial conversation, trial management, negotiation, legal, and close with an average deal cycle of 30 days or less.
• Negotiate a high volume of renewals (~10) each month within your book of business.
• Manage a pipeline of primarily inbound inquiries from your book of business to identify, engage, and develop relationships with potential buyers.
• Responsible for taking 5+ meetings per day between upsells and renewals, running 25+ meetings per week.
• Consistently create 3x pipeline month over month.
• Achieve and exceed monthly and quarterly quotas
• Capable of time management and accountable to own your schedule to structure your day and accomplish - running initial meetings, showing a demo of our platform, Salesforce hygiene and admin work, customer escalations, follow up meetings, pricing calls and various company calls and meetings.
• Confident handling objections with a prospect on a call.
• Ability to tier your account list to identify top expansion opportunities as well as top ‘at risk’ accounts.
• Proficient in the sales process, and specifically the Discovery step. Asking questions in a consultative way and actively listening to tie back to value and business driven outcomes.
• Collaborate with businesses that have a maximum of 200 employees.
• Communicate directly with Director and above level contacts primarily within the sales, marketing, and RevOps departments.
• Ability to effectively articulate how our platform can solve customer challenges to drive expansion opportunities.
• Clearly articulate an overview of your pipeline and deals in your funnel at each stage.
• Accurately predicting your most likely outcome within a 10% margin.

Requirements

• Have at least 1 year of experience owning a large book of existing accounts (~500+ accounts) within the SMB segment (<200 employees), working majority expansion opportunities and owning retention. (SaaS experience is a plus)
• Top performer in your current role.
• Proven track record of consistently meeting targets, min of 3 trailing quarters
• Experience using strong consultative selling skills & sales process in their day to day.
• Ability to communicate, present to, and influence key stakeholders across both technical and non-technical roles.
• Adaptable with the ability to pick up new technologies, assess situations quickly, and find smarter ways to achieve goals.
• Coachable— loves to learn, receive feedback, and improve their skills.
• Must be willing to be in office 3 days per week

Benefits

• equity
• company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
• 401(k) plan
• at least 10 paid holidays per year
• flex PTO
• parental leave
• employee assistance program and wellbeing benefits
• global travel coverage
• life/AD&D/STD/LTD insurance
• FSA/HSA and medical, dental, and vision benefits