Senior Account Manager (US)

Code and Theory

$110K — $150K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-8 years in client-facing delivery or implementation roles at SaaS or software companies
  • Proven experience managing engagement budgets, scope changes, and related conversations
  • Ability to collaborate with technical teams and translate client needs into engineer-friendly scopes
  • Strong understanding of marketing workflows from briefs to performance evaluation
  • Hands-on experience with AI tools and agentic workflow management
  • Proven capacity to handle multiple implementations simultaneously without missing details
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for diverse audiences
  • Organized and process-oriented with meticulous attention to detail
  • Adaptable to fast-paced, ambiguous startup environments

Responsibilities

  • Own and define the success of implementations from pre-sales to expansion
  • Translate client goals into detailed implementation plans for execution
  • Monitor financials, tracking budgets against actual spend and ensuring commercial health
  • Collaborate with engineering pods to provide scope, priorities, and clear communication
  • Lead client kickoffs, establishing success criteria in client terms
  • Confirm integration readiness for clients before project starts
  • Oversee plugin rollout and configurations with technical teams
  • Track adoption metrics and intervene when engagement drops
  • Manage escalations proactively, addressing risks and providing recommendations
  • Conduct executive reviews to measure success and propose expansions
  • Ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards for clients
  • Refine and document the rollout playbook for efficiency and repeatability

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and growth within a dynamic environment
  • Collaborative team culture with the chance to work alongside engineering and creative teams
  • Involvement in high-impact projects for both enterprise and internal clients
  • Ability to influence the implementation approach and client interactions
  • Exposure to cutting-edge AI tools and workflows in a rapidly changing industry
Full Job Description
We're looking for a Senior Account Manager to own the definition and success of Machine rollouts. This is an account and rollout ownership role. You define the work, track status, manage the financials of the rollout, and solve the problems that come up along the way, working alongside a Forward Deployed Engineering pod that executes the build.

You'll run implementations for both enterprise clients and internal clients across our agency network. The work spans deep, complex enterprise deployments and high-volume internal rollouts where both repeatability and customization matter.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
  • Own the definition and success of the implementation motion across your portfolio, from pre-sales through go-live, adoption, and expansion
  • Define the work: translate client goals into a scoped, sequenced implementation plan the FDE pod can execute against
  • Manage the financials of the rollout: track budget against burn, flag variance early, and own the commercial health of your accounts
  • Partner closely with the Forward Deployed Engineering pod assigned to your accounts, giving them clear scope and priorities and clearing any blockers that surface
  • Lead client kickoffs: establish success criteria in the client's own language, define governance and decision rights for agentic AI actions, and set the communication cadence
  • Confirm integration readiness for each module in scope, mapping every required input to a confirmed client data source before build begins
  • Own plugin rollout and configuration, coordinating with the technical FDE on setup and version management
  • Monitor adoption weekly, tracking whether Machine outputs are being used rather than just produced, and intervene early when engagement drops
  • Manage escalations: surface risks early, come with a recommendation, and communicate with clients before they ask
  • Lead executive business reviews: measure performance against agreed success criteria, present business impact, and propose the natural next expansion
  • Choreograph security and compliance reviews for regulated clients, owning SOC 2 delivery, NDA execution, and formal go-live authorization
  • Continually refine the rollout playbook: document what worked after each implementation, so the next one is faster. Repeatability is a core part of the job, but there is an element of customization as well
  • Coordinate with sales and pre-sales on handoff so no client commitment arrives as a surprise, and feed implementation learnings back into how deals get scoped

WHAT YOU'LL NEED
  • 4-8 years in a client-facing delivery, implementation, or account ownership role at a SaaS, martech, or software implementations company
  • Experience owning the commercial side of an engagement: budget, burn, scope changes, and the conversations that come with them
  • Track record working closely with technical teams without being the one writing the code. You can translate client needs into clear scope for engineers and earn their trust
  • Deep fluency in marketing workflows: you understand how briefs become assets, how campaigns get planned and trafficked, and how performance data informs creative decisions
  • Hands-on experience with AI tools. You have used LLMs as more than just a search engine; you can explain how agentic workflows are built and operated
  • Ability to run multiple implementations in parallel without losing the thread on any of them
  • Strong written and verbal communicator. You can explain a technical integration dependency to an account lead and an agentic decision-rights framework to a CMO, and both leave clear
  • Organized and process-oriented. You build systems for yourself because you know rollouts live or die in the details
  • Comfortable in a startup-within-an-agency environment where ambiguity is the default and the playbook is still being written
  • Understanding of AI trust curves and agentic adoption patterns. You know stickiness is built through context accumulation, prompt mastery, and habit, and that features alone do not get you there

NICE TO HAVE
  • Experience rolling a platform out across many teams or business units, where the challenge was standardization and change management rather than a single custom build
  • Experience in a regulated industry client context (financial services, pharma, healthcare) where compliance is a go-live gate
  • Familiarity with martech and adtech platforms
  • Experience working inside or closely alongside an agency or creative production environment
  • Background in brand compliance, content governance, or creative operations
  • Experience with enterprise vendor security review processes (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FINRA/SEC compliance environments)

The compensation range for this role is $110,000 - $150,000. We're open to hiring at the level that best matches the right candidate's experience. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, budget, and location.

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