Head of Account Management

Alex

$160K — $200K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience owning revenue metrics like ARR, NRR, and GRR in an enterprise SaaS context.
  • Proven track record managing teams of Account Managers or Customer Success Managers with quotas.
  • Experienced in leading negotiations for six-figure renewals and expansions.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to define and defend post-sale metrics.
  • A proven builder, comfortable creating new processes or playbooks from scratch.
  • Confidence when engaging and communicating with C-level executives in HR and recruiting.

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive net revenue retention for enterprise and staffing accounts.
  • Define, instrument, and report on every post-sale metric end-to-end.
  • Create a detailed renewal strategy to prevent surprises in churn.
  • Develop expansion strategies based on real usage data and account potential.
  • Build a repeatable activation playbook for new RPO clients.
  • Lead a team of Account Managers by setting performance standards and driving recruitment as needed.

Benefits

  • Work in a founding leadership role with a direct impact on company strategy.
  • Opportunity to shape and develop the post-sale function in a growing company.
  • Collaborative environment with a focus on commercial conversations, not technical support.
  • Direct reporting line to the CEO, providing visibility and influence in decision-making.
  • Potential for career advancement as the team grows and functions evolve.
Full Job Description
About the Role

This is a founding leadership role. Alex has grown fast on new business. The revenue that comes after the first signature now needs an owner: you. You'll take a live book of 70+ enterprise and staffing accounts, own net revenue retention as your number, and build the renewal and expansion motion that makes it repeatable via your team of strategic Account Managers.

We'll be direct about why this role exists: post-sale has never had a strong commercial owner. You'll inherit a team of 3 AMs and the mandate to re-charter how they create value for our key customers. This is a player-coach seat - you'll run your own strategic expansions while building the playbook the team runs on. You report to our CEO and work in office in San Francisco.

What You'll Own
  • Net revenue retention. Renewals, expansion and churn across the whole book. You set the forecast, you defend it, and it becomes the number leadership plans against.
  • Every post-sale metric, end to end. NRR, GRR, logo retention, expansion booked - you define them, instrument them in Salesforce, and own them. When someone asks why the number moved, you're the person who knows.
  • The renewal engine. A dated plan on every renewal long before it comes due, a save motion for accounts that are borderline, and no renewal (or churn) that arrives as a surprise.
  • The expansion motion. Forecasting plans on the accounts with the most headroom and upsell triggers read off real usage data rather than a calendar reminder.
  • RPO client activation. When an RPO adopts Alex, their recruiters get more capacity - and their clients become candidates for Alex in their own right. You'll build a repeatable playbook for every RPO we sign.
  • The team. Rebalance books, set account plan and QBR standards, shape AM compensation and performance plans, and hire as the motion earns it.

Note: You're not technical support.

Every Alex account is run by a pair: an AM and a Forward-Deployed Engineer. The technical implementation and configuration belongs to the FDE team. The relationship, the renewal, and the expansion belong to your team.

We built it this way intentionally. Most post-sale leaders spend their careers absorbing implementation work that quietly eats the hours meant for commercial conversations, and then get measured on a number they never had time to move. That trade does not exist here. Your job is a commercial one, end to end - and protecting that line for your team is part of the mandate.

About You
  • You've owned a revenue number - ARR, NRR, GRR, renewals, expansion - at an enterprise SaaS company. You can name what you carried, where it started, and where it landed.
  • You've managed AMs or CSMs carrying a quota, and you've personally run six-figure renewals and expansion negotiations. You still like doing the work.
  • You're rigorous about the metric: you can define NRR, defend the crediting rules underneath it, and hold your own in a room where the number is being questioned.
  • You're a builder. There is no existing playbook for post-sales, and you'd rather build one than inherit a fully built one.
  • You're credible with a CHRO and with the recruiter using Alex every day, in the same afternoon.
  • Staffing, recruiting or HR-tech experience isn't necessary - curiosity about the industry is.
  • This isn't the role for you if you aren't driven by metrics and revenue.

If you've gotten this far and our culture resonates with you, we want you to apply. Your first conversation will be with Alex, our AI recruiter.

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