Strategic Account Director

UserTesting

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

At UserTesting, we're helping the world's leading brands create experiences people love. Every day, we empower organizations to make customer-first decisions faster by bringing real human insight into every stage of product development and innovation. As a Strategic Accounts Director, you'll play a pivotal role in growing and strengthening relationships with some of our most strategic enterprise customers. This is an opportunity for a consultative seller with a strong hunter mindset—someone who is energized by uncovering new opportunities, acquiring new business within complex enterprise organizations, and expanding the strategic footprint of existing customer partnerships. You'll partner with executive stakeholders to identify business challenges, develop account strategies, and deliver solutions that create measurable customer value. Working closely with Customer Success, Solutions Consulting, Marketing, Partnerships, and Business Development, you'll lead initiatives that drive long-term customer success, sustainable revenue growth, and deeper adoption of UserTesting across the enterprise. If you're passionate about building executive relationships, navigating complex sales cycles, and helping customers solve meaningful business challenges, we'd love to meet you.

Requirements

• 8+ years of enterprise SaaS sales experience, with a consistent track record of exceeding revenue targets and driving customer retention and account growth.
• Demonstrated success acquiring new business within enterprise accounts while expanding existing customer relationships and increasing strategic account value.
• A strong hunter mindset, with the curiosity, resilience, and business acumen to uncover whitespace opportunities, engage new stakeholders, and create demand within complex organizations.
• Proven ability to navigate and influence executive stakeholders across large, matrixed enterprises while building trusted, long-term relationships.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills, with a consultative, customer-focused approach.
• Proficiency with Salesforce, Gong, Outreach, Google Workspace or Microsoft Office, and leading generative AI tools. Experience using AI platforms such as Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT to improve productivity, research, account planning, customer engagement, and sales execution is required.
• Ability to travel up to 50% of time

Nice To Haves

• Experience selling solutions in user experience, digital product development, customer insights, market research, or adjacent technology spaces.
• Located in San Francisco, CA, Detroit, MI, New York City, NY, or Seattle, WA.

Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of strategic enterprise accounts, delivering quarterly and annual revenue goals while maintaining forecast accuracy within +/-10%.
• Drive customer retention and expansion by partnering closely with Renewal Managers and Customer Success Managers to maximize customer value and long-term growth.
• Develop and execute territory and account plans that identify opportunities to acquire new business units, stakeholders, and buying centers while expanding existing enterprise agreements.
• Build and maintain a healthy pipeline by partnering with Business Development Representatives, Field Marketing, Partnerships, and through proactive prospecting and outbound engagement.
• Lead complex enterprise sales cycles using a consultative approach, aligning UserTesting's solutions to customer business priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Collaborate across Solutions Consulting, Customer Success, Value Management, Insights Consulting, Deal Desk, and Partner teams to deliver exceptional customer outcomes and profitable growth.
• Build trusted relationships with executive sponsors and key decision-makers while maintaining accurate account, opportunity, conversation intelligence, and forecast data in Salesforce, Gong, and other sales productivity tools.

Benefits

• UserTesting is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a participant in the U.S. Federal E-Verify program. Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. UserTesting will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, as applicable.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed