Account Manager - Strategic Accounts

The Role

You’ll own some of our largest and fastest-growing accounts. You’re the person responsible for those relationships: their growth, their problems, and their revenue.

Here’s why the role matters. Our best customers are growing fast, and they grow faster when someone is paying attention: helping them launch the next workload, sizing what’s coming, clearing obstacles before they slow anything down.

The other half is holding on to what we have. Usage can drift away: an account that was doubling every few months is suddenly half its size, with no phone call and no warning. Your job is to know your accounts well enough that none of that happens silently. If it’s a problem we can fix, you catch it early.

Day to day, you will:

• Grow and keep the revenue in your accounts
• Handle inquiries from accounts on track to join our top customer list, and turn them into relationships before they need one
• Keep a simple plan for each account: what they run, who decides, where it’s headed
• Review usage and architecture with customers on a regular schedule
• Watch usage signals, and start conversations when the data says something changed
• Be the named contact when something breaks, and chase the fix internally until it’s done
• Help customers move workloads onto Sprites
• Tell our product and pricing teams what your customers need

What Good Looks Like

• Revenue kept and grown in your accounts
• Shrinking accounts caught while a conversation could still change the outcome, with the reason understood and written down
• Every account touched on schedule. No big customer goes a month without contact.

Who You Are

Requirements

You have at least 3 to 6 years in account management, customer success, sales engineering, or technical support at an infrastructure or developer tools company.

You’re technical enough to keep up. You don’t write production code, but you can read a usage chart and form a theory, follow a conversation about containers and regions, and ask engineers questions they take seriously. Our customers are engineers. Canned answers won’t work on them. You can handle money conversations alone: pricing, terms, discounts, and telling a customer they’re wrong when they are.

You’re fluent in AI. You use it constantly to automate the routine parts of the job: account research, call prep, first drafts, usage summaries. And you can hold a real conversation with customers whose products are built on it, because most of yours will be.

And you’re honest. Our culture isn’t salesy, almost to a fault. The way to keep big customers for years is to tell them the truth, including when a smaller bill is the right answer for them.

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