Apollo.io

Account Manager, SMB

Apollo.io • $110K — $130K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 1+ years managing a large book of SMB accounts (500+ accounts)
  • Proven top performer with a track record of meeting targets for at least 3 consecutive quarters
  • Strong consultative selling skills and familiarity with the sales process
  • Ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Adaptable and quick to learn new technologies
  • Coachable and open to feedback
  • Willingness to work in-office 3 days a week

Responsibilities

  • Manage the entire sales process from initial conversation to close, averaging a 30-day deal cycle
  • Negotiate approximately 10 renewals monthly within your account portfolio
  • Handle 5+ meetings daily, focusing on upsells and renewals
  • Create a pipeline that consistently grows by 3x month over month
  • Achieve and exceed monthly and quarterly sales quotas
  • Effectively manage time to balance meetings, demos, and administrative tasks
  • Confidently address objections during calls with prospects

Benefits

  • Equity options
  • Company bonus or sales commissions
  • 401(k) plan
  • At least 10 paid holidays per year
  • Flexible PTO and parental leave
  • Employee assistance program and wellbeing benefits
  • Global travel coverage
  • Comprehensive insurance options (life, AD&D, STD, LTD)
  • FSA/HSA and medical, dental, and vision benefits
Full Job Description
As an Account Manager within our SMB segment (1 to 200 employees), you will drive expansion revenue and retention across a book of business (~300 accounts) with Apollo's largest customer segment: small businesses. You will be responsible for managing and growing relationships with our existing customers. Your primary focus will be ensuring customers achieve their desired outcomes with our platform, maximizing account value, and identifying expansion opportunities. You will work closely with Customer Success, Support, Onboarding and Product teams to deliver a seamless customer experience. This is a hybrid role, three days in office.

Day in the life...Pipeline & Sales Process Execution
  • 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.

Sales Strategy & Deal Management
  • 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.

Mindset and Behaviors
  • Bring your thinking, strategies, and ideas to advance our company's values, unique culture, and vision for the future.
  • Engage as your unique self in a diverse, inclusive and high-performing team
  • Thrive in a competitive environment, embracing challenges, enjoying objection handling, and using setbacks as fuel to improve and win.
  • Have a positive outlook, a strong ability to take responsibility for successes and failures, and a relentless drive to keep improving.
  • Maintain a sharp focus on your goals and a belief that your daily, weekly and monthly activities will help achieve them
  • Possess a competitive spark, a hunger to win, and a determination to outperform in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.
  • Be a self-starter who proactively identifies opportunities, takes initiative, and stays motivated in the face of multiple objections and "no's."
  • Embody a team selling approach. Proactively engaging with leadership to support selling.

Qualifications
  • Have at least 1 year of experience owning a large book of existing accounts (~500+ accounts) within the SMB segment (
  • 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


The listed Pay Range reflects the total cash compensation inclusive of annual base salary and annual bonus as applicable. For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonus target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Apollo and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate's experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity; company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; at least 10 paid holidays per year, flex PTO, and 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.

Annual Pay Range

$110,000-$130,000 USD

About Apollo.io

Apollo.io is a provider of sales engagement and lead generation software that helps businesses find and connect with potential customers. The company's products include Apollo Prospector, which uses artificial intelligence to identify and prioritize leads based on a company's ideal customer profile; Apollo Outreach, which automates the process of sending personalized emails and follow-up messages to prospects; and Apollo X, which provides real-time insights into sales performance and customer engagement. Apollo.io's customers include some of the world's largest companies in industries such as finance, healthcare, and e-commerce.
Learn more about Apollo.io
Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2015

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