Rippling

Account Manager SMB

Rippling$125K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of SaaS experience in account management, sales, or customer success
  • Track record of consistently surpassing quotas through new product sales and upgrades
  • Creative problem-solver with a competitive drive to win customers
  • Experience conducting consultative discovery and structured sales meetings
  • Proven ability to build and maintain long-term commercial relationships
  • Strong communication skills with a knack for building trust across diverse stakeholders
  • Highly organized, self-motivated, and detail-oriented with a track record of follow-through
  • Demonstrated integrity and enthusiasm for contributing to long-term company success

Responsibilities

  • Proactively engage customers during key lifecycle events such as 'go live' and contract renewals
  • Consult with clients to assess their HR, IT, Finance, and global workforce needs
  • Build relationships with various stakeholders through remote and in-person meetings
  • Negotiate procurement and execute customer contracts for relationship management
  • Develop a pipeline for new subscription sales, upgrades, and renewals
  • Demonstrate knowledge of Rippling's products and execute adoption strategies
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to secure customer success and influence product development
  • Adopt an entrepreneurial mindset to tailor solutions for each customer's business operations

Benefits

  • Equity offerings in addition to salary and commission
  • Flexible hybrid-remote work environment
  • Collaborative work culture valued by the leadership
  • Opportunities for personal and professional growth within a fast-paced company
  • Access to a variety of resources and support teams to ensure customer success
Full Job Description
About the role

We're looking for a self-driven, growth-minded account manager with a proven track record of success to join our hybrid-remote US-based Account Management team. As an account manager at Rippling, you are the CEO of your book of business. You are the primary relationship owner for each of your customers to guide them in optimizing the use of Rippling's suite of back-office HR products and solutions. You will navigate complex customer issues and priorities and lead initiatives in your book to meet company objectives for customer adoption, retention, and revenue growth. Account managers in our SMB segment own revenue retention and growth of one our fastest growing customer segments.

What you will do

  • Proactively engage customers in your book via key lifecycle events: "go live", benefits renewal, executive business reviews, contract renewal, etc.
  • Consult with clients to understand their HR, IT, Finance, and global workforce management needs through a solutions-based approach
  • Navigate a strategic sales process by building relationships with multiple external and internal stakeholders through remote and in-person meetings
  • Negotiate and coordinate customer procurement and contract execution as part of managing the broader customer relationship
  • Build and manage a pipeline of new subscription cross-sales, product upgrades, and contract renewals to monthly targets
  • Develop and demonstrate a broad knowledge of current and new Rippling products via executing customer adoption playbooks and prospecting
  • Partner with cross-functional product, support, and customer operations teams to ensure customer success and secure long-term commitments, directly influence Rippling's product roadmap, and increase operational efficiency
  • Take an entrepreneurial approach to the role by being a proactive and strategic partner to customers, tailoring your approach to maximize Rippling product adoption based on each customer's unique business operations

What you will need

  • 2+ years of SaaS experience in account management, sales, or quota-carrying customer success
  • Track record of consistently meeting and exceeding quota via new product sales and upgrades (license expansion sales are not likely relevant)
  • Competitive and creative drive to win over customers and think outside the box to get a deal done
  • Demonstrated ability to run a consultative discovery and demo meeting and run a structured sales process
  • Proven success building and maintaining long term commercial relationships
  • Highly effective communicator with good people instincts - able to build trust and work well with a diverse group inside and outside the company
  • Highly organized, self-motivated, and detail-oriented; great follow-through on projects/tasks big and small
  • High integrity; 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.

Additional Information

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a 40 mile radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.

This role will receive a competitive On-Target Earnings (base salary + sales commission) + benefits + equity. The On-Target Earnings* for employees will be 60/40 commission split for base/variable pay.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone's compensation-including a candidate's professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.

*Commission is not guaranteed

The Pay Range for this role:

Tier 2: $125,000 OTE

Commission 60/40 Split

About Rippling

Rippling is a technology company that provides a platform for managing human resources. The company's platform includes tools for onboarding new employees, managing payroll and benefits, and tracking time off. Rippling was founded in 2017 by Parker Conrad, who previously founded Zenefits. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Rippling
Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2017

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