Relocate to SF: Founding Account Manager

Pylon Labs

$90K — $130K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in Account Management or Sales roles with quota-carrying experience
  • Proven track record of meeting or exceeding revenue targets
  • Strong skills in executive relationship management and value-based selling
  • Ability to grasp complex technical products and translate features into customer value
  • Experience in building playbooks for scaling account management teams
  • Proficient in CRM tools like Salesforce and revenue tooling
  • Analytical approach to identifying and progressing expansion opportunities

Responsibilities

  • Identify and drive expansion opportunities within assigned customer base
  • Lead renewal discussions and negotiations focusing on high renewal rates
  • Collaborate with Customer Success Managers to align on customer engagement
  • Build and execute strategic account plans to enhance customer lifetime value
  • Establish trusted relationships with key customer stakeholders
  • Maintain accurate forecasting and analytics of customer accounts

Benefits

  • Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Commuter benefits
  • Parental leave
  • 14 company holidays and unlimited PTO
  • Annual offsite gatherings
  • Complimentary lunch, dinner, and snacks at the office
  • Fitness stipend
Full Job Description
Notice: This is an on-site role based in San Francisco, California. Relocation is required, and we're happy to discuss timing and support during the process.

Role Overview

As an Account Manager at Pylon, you will own commercial outcomes for a defined portfolio of customers in our post-sales base with a focus on expansion revenue, renewals, and strategic account growth. You'll partner closely with Customer Success Managers to drive revenue while ensuring customers achieve meaningful business results. This role is for a revenue-driven, relationship-focused leader who can balance commercial execution with customer value delivery.

What You'll Do
  • Identify and drive expansion opportunities within an assigned book of customers
  • Lead renewal discussions and negotiations, ensuring high renewal rates and predictable revenue outcomes
  • Collaborate with CSMs to align health, adoption, and usage insights with commercial strategy
  • Build and execute account plans that increase customer lifetime value and strategic engagement
  • Establish strong, trusted relationships with customer stakeholders across the organization (executives, champions, operators)
  • Maintain accurate forecasting, pipeline, and customer analytics


What Success Looks Like
  • Meeting or exceeding quarterly expansion + renewal revenue targets
  • Strong alignment with CSMs measured by adoption signals and customer satisfaction
  • Clear, executable account growth plans with measurable pipeline and closed revenue
  • Timely and accurate forecasting with disciplined CRM discipline


What You Bring
  • 3+ years in Account Management, Sales, or post-sales roles with quota-carrying experience
  • Consistent track record of meeting or exceeding revenue targets
  • Strong understanding of multithreading, executive relationship management, and value-based selling
  • Ability to develop deep understanding of complex technical products and translate features into business value for customers
  • Excited to build playbooks to help scale up the AM team
  • Comfortable using CRM and revenue tooling (e.g., Salesforce)
  • Data-driven in identifying, prioritizing, and progressing expansion opportunities within a portfolio


Requirements
  • Location: Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate, with enthusiasm for working in person.
  • Customer Communication: Comfortable interacting with customers daily over chat and video.
  • Analytical Thinking: Able to deeply understand customer use cases and recommend thoughtful, strategic solutions.
  • Operational Discipline: Highly organized, process-oriented, and capable of managing a high-volume workload.
  • Product Curiosity: Interested in exploring product nuances and designing more efficient workflows.
  • Bonus: Experience building or analyzing dashboards in modern analytics tools.


Our perks

Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees

401(k) retirement plan

🚆 Commuter benefits

Parental leave

14 company holidays + unlimited PTO

Annual offsite

Lunch, dinner, and snacks at the office

🏋 Fitness stipend

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