Account Manager, Financial Services

AlphaSense•New York, NY

29d•$96,000 - $118,000

About The Position

The Account Manager, Financial Services is responsible for developing three-dimensional relationships with customers and key stakeholders in order to effectively retain and grow our customer base. In this role, you will serve as our Financial clients’ main point of contact for inbound queries, outbound engagement, relationship updates, and renewal discussions. You’ll need to be versatile. You will work with a variety of clients from Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, Investment Banks to Private Equity and more.. In this role, you’ll be expected to collaborate with account executives, identifying new business opportunities to help expand our footprint within each client account. While key performance indicators include retention rate and the identification of growth opportunities, the responsibilities of Account Managers go much deeper. The team also extracts a wealth of knowledge from our clients, bringing that internally to product, marketing and sales teams in order to maximize the effectiveness of our business’ strategy and communication.

Requirements

Relationship-driven: You have a strong ability to develop instant rapport with new people and you’ve demonstrated success at managing and growing relationships within Fortune 1000 clients and/or financial services companies
A subject matter expert: You excel at what you do and know how to succeed within your role -- this includes both internal and external relationship management as well as strong business acumen and commitment to effective processes and tactics
Energetic and Creative: You possess a natural intellectual curiosity with the ability to learn and adapt quickly
Understand our business: We are a rapidly growing SaaS company and are incredibly passionate about our product. We are looking for individuals who understand best practices for client engagement within a SaaS environment;
Committed to delivering results: You set the example for grit, work ethic, initiative, enthusiasm and commitment amongst your peers.
A strong communicator: You’ll regularly be engaged with anyone from an Analyst to a C-level executive and that requires exceptional oral, written and presentation skills. You’ll need to distill and explain complex issues in simple terms.

Responsibilities

Forecast and maximize retention rate across the book of business
Increase and drive adoption of AlphaSense solutions into other business units of existing clients to uncover new opportunities, exceeding monthly, quarterly and annual revenue goals
Identify at-risk revenue in order to best position the company to prevent churn
Collaborate with Account Executives to identify growth opportunities within the book of business
Understand the ins and out of the business, roles, responsibilities, projects, performance metrics, etc. within our client base in order to more effectively: 1) communicate with users, 2) communicate with decision makers, 3) identify white space, 4) partner with AE to craft most compelling messaging to prospective users
Cultivate relationships with users and key stakeholders to ensure AlphaSense is viewed as a business partner rather than vendor
Hold Business Reviews with key stakeholders
Plan and execute new user onboarding and training initiatives
Consistent proactive outreach with material and information that’s relevant for our user base
Serve as our boots on the ground and physical presence within each client (floor walks, lunch and learns, etc.)
Serve as both the advocate for AlphaSense to the client, and the client advocate within AlphaSense
Acquire value stories and product feedback from clients. Circulate internally to assist with product development, marketing, sales efforts