Account Manager - Higher Education

As an Account Manager, you will lead the expansion of our existing Enterprise customers by focusing on revenue growth through renewals and up-sales while serving as a trusted adviser to our customers.

We expect you to have an entrepreneurial tempo with the main focus on commercial initiatives to drive revenue growth among our Enterprise customers. We are looking for someone who can create long-term and strategic relationships with out customers.

We use the theory of Predictable Revenue, and reference Dropbox and Slack when we see the future of Mentimeter. Mentimeter is a service that is loved globally and our growth has been almost 100% organic. Sales are currently growing over 10% per month and you will be the driving force to accelerate that growth even further.

Responsibilities for the role:

• Full commercial ownership of our current Higher Education customers across North America.
• Drive revenue growth by building a strong pipeline and expanding our customers. Your success is measured on Net Revenue Retention (NRR)
• Manage a continuous pipeline for new expansion and up-sell opportunities
• Ownership of renewals of ongoing agreements in order to prevent churn
• Ability to assess business opportunities and use data in order to support decision-making towards customers
• Develop a strategy for best-in-class scalable customer expansion and customer success
• Collaborate together with Customer Success Managers on strategic enterprise customers in addition to working with other sales roles on a day to day basis
• Work closely with the marketing and product team by serving as the voice of your customers as well as listening to the market needs

Responsibilities not included in the role:

• Roll-out and adoption of our enterprise solution with our customers is mainly done by Customer Success Managers (Although for certain accounts that will be done by Relationship Managers as well)
• Closing new customer contracts (Account Executives does that)
• Day-to-day support (We have minimal support, and a support specialist is responsible for this)

Resources we have to support you:

• World-class lead-generation from the Marketing and Product teams
• Marketing and Sales team to support in analysis and tactics
• Sales Development Representatives to support in lead qualification
• Sales Operation function
• Professional CRM and data gathering services (Intercom, Mixpanel, Google Analytics, Salesforce)

Must-haves for the role:

• Experience of 1+ years as CSM or Account Manager in SaaS industry
• Experience with Sales and achieving a sales quota.
• Ability to assess business opportunities and use data to make informed decisions and persuade others
• Passion for building long-term relationships as well as driving commercial initiatives with customers
• Knowledge of software contract terms and conditions with the ability to create fair transactions
• Strong negotiation, pipeline and forecasting skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Permitted to work & live permanently in Toronto, ON. (This is a hybrid role, which requires you to be in office 3 days a week)

Nice to have:

• Bachelor or masters degree (field not important)

Compensation model:

We strongly believe in the power of togetherness, and we put a lot of effort into collaboration, teamwork and helping each other whenever needed. We believe that every part of Mentimeter, from Sales Development Representatives and Account Executives to Frontend Developers and Marketing Managers contributes equally to our continued success. To foster and emphasize this culture and way of working, we apply a non-commission based salary model in our sales roles, which has proven to be very successful and appreciated across the team. You can read about our benefits and perks here. Compensation span for this role: $75,000 - $96,000 CAD.