Renewal Account Executive

Algolia

3d•$100,000 - $120,000•Remote

About The Position

At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 17,000+ businesses to deliver blazing-fast, predictive search and browse experiences at internet scale. Every week, we power over 30 billion search requests — four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo combined. In 2021, we raised $150 million in Series D funding, quadrupling our valuation to $2.25 billion. This strong foundation enables us to keep investing in our market-leading platform and serving incredible customers like Under Armour, PetSmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens. At Algolia, we’re looking for a Renewals Account Executive, responsible for strategic engagements with a dedicated portfolio of high-value customers. As a Renewals Account Executive, you will partner with Account Executives and Customer Success Managers to align on the account strategy for each customer, and help execute on these strategies. You will engage with each customer proactively to understand overall customer sentiment and satisfaction, while also identifying both risk and expansion potential. You are responsible for managing the renewal process, including but not limited to, providing renewal notice, creating quotes, forecasting, negotiating, and working through customer legal and procurement requirements. You will be working cross-functionally, partnering with Sales, CSEs, and CSMs, along with finance and the deal desk. In this Customer-Centric role, you will have the opportunity to work on the front lines with our incredible customer base and be exposed to exciting and complex customer interactions. You'll connect with our customers to understand their needs and challenges while partnering with our Customer Success team to ensure their challenges are addressed. You'll establish relationships with customers as you negotiate to maximize mutual benefit at renewal time.

Requirements

3+ years of relevant customer facing experience at a SaaS/Software Company
Demonstrate ownership and drive initiative in an account team environment
Ability to manage strategic and enterprise level accounts, identify problems and opportunities, and provide solutions for each of them with strong process management, negotiation skills, financial acumen, and ability to apply strict policies
Ability to build relationships and collaborate closely with teammates
Ability to react and adapt to potential rapid shifts in priorities and organizational policies
Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills
Ability to set priorities, drive decisions and get closure on recommendations and issues
Strong attention to detail and process-oriented
Proven time management skills with the ability to prioritize tasks
Constantly looking to learn and improve
Ability to deeply understand customers sentiment or needs, and strategically involve other parties (such as AE, CSM, or leadership) to prevent risk proactively
Experience with Salesforce CRM

Nice To Haves

Experience with an enterprise CRM or customer service application
Experience with Gainsight is a plus
Experience leveraging AI to drive efficiencies
Ability to demonstrate a strategic mindset to enable persuasive value conversations with customers at an executive level
Ability to manage transactions through every stage of the renewal cycle
Experience in negotiating complex multi-year service contracts
Preference for candidates with experience at our current stage and beyond (over 10,000 customers, $50-200M ARR, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure)

Responsibilities

Owning and executing a portfolio of renewal contracts in an assigned territory
Ensuring all renewals occur on time
Identifying growth opportunities and providing insights to the business that improve future business outcomes
Identifying and escalating risk within customer portfolio
Partner with Account Executives to develop and execute win/win negotiation strategies for account contract renewals that maximize long term contract value while protecting and enhancing customer trust
Own, drive and manage the renewal process with customers, including renewal quotes and renewal opportunities, in collaboration with Customer Success, Finance, Legal, Deal Desk and Sales teams to ensure all contracts are timely and accurate
Maximize account growth opportunities by playing an active role on the account team and helping to identify incremental opportunities aligned to activities within the renewal playbook
Identify customer requirements, uncover roadblocks, and demonstrate strong account management and commercial capabilities to drive renewal to on-time closure (OTRR: On Time Renewal Rate & Revenue Retention will be a KPI)
Provide Customer Success Management and Sales with complete visibility to renewals and involve Algolia Leadership as required
Accurately maintain/update and provide renewal forecast of your territory and communicate any renewal risk to internal resources to develop resolution strategies
Follow and adhere to best practices for all internal processes, including, but not limited to, Opportunity Management, Data Quality and accuracy, Quotations and Forecasting
Achieve financial and strategic targets for minimizing attrition, positioning favorable terms, boosting incremental revenue via up-sells, cross-sells and add-ons, and maximizing customer value
Accurately forecast and manage pipeline on a monthly and quarterly basis

Benefits

Algolia does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The annual total cash compensation range (base salary and commission) for this role reflects market pay data within this location. The exact compensation offered for this role may vary depending on specific location and job-related knowledge, technical skills, and experience; and is only one part of our Total Rewards philosophy to compensate and recognize employees for their work.
On-Target Earnings Pay Range $100,000—$120,000 USD
Algolia’s flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We place an emphasis on an individual’s impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location. Algolia is a high-trust environment and many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when.
We have a global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, however we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. Positions listed as "Remote" are only available for remote work within the specified country. Positions listed within a specific city are only available in that location - depending on the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.
GRIT - Problem-solving and perseverance capability in an ever-changing and growing environment.
TRUST - Willingness to trust our co-workers and to take ownership.
CANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback.
CARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company.
HUMILITY - Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside.
We’re looking for talented, passionate people to help build the world’s best search and discovery technology. We value autonomy, diversity, and collaboration. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is respected and supported—regardless of race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability, or socioeconomic background.
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