Senior Account Manager

Lokalise; Greater London; Remote; GBP 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Stock options

Remote setup

Co-working budget

Flexible vacation

Home office budget

Learning & development

Health insurance

Wellness allowance

Zusammenfassung

Lokalise is seeking a Senior Account Manager for our EMEA team to strengthen relationships with existing customers and drive sustainable revenue through retention, expansion, upselling and cross-selling. You will own the commercial lifecycle for a portfolio of strategic accounts, guiding renewals and ensuring customers realise ongoing value from our localization platform.

You will report to the Director of Sales EMEA and collaborate with Customer Success, Solutions Architecture, Product,

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years owning the commercial lifecycle of enterprise accounts in a B2B SaaS environment.
• Track record of protecting revenue and achieving gross revenue retention.
• Translate complex SaaS products into clear commercial value.
• Strong written and spoken English; experience in a remote, international organisation.
• Experience engaging and influencing C-level and senior stakeholders.
• Negotiate contracts and navigate procurement or legal discussions.
• Competency with AI tools to accelerate research, planning and decision-making.

Aufgaben

• Own the full commercial lifecycle of enterprise accounts, including retention, renewals, expansion, upselling, and cross-selling.
• Monitor account health, engagement, and value delivery to safeguard renewals and retention.
• Identify expansion opportunities and lead negotiations to meet sales quotas.
• Create and maintain clear account plans based on customer goals and risks.
• Advise customers on localisation workflows and link needs to company solutions.
• Coordinate with CS, Solutions Architecture, Product, Finance, and Legal; maintain CRM records and forecasts.
• Apply AI tools to improve research, account planning, and decision-making.

Kenntnisse

Account management

Enterprise sales

Customer retention

Upselling

Cross-selling

English proficiency

C-level influence

AI-assisted workflows

Tools

CRM software

Jobbeschreibung

Who are we

At the company, we make it easy and profitable for businesses to expand into new markets.Our AI-powered localization platform helps companies manage bothsoftware and marketing contentfrom a single, unified environment — ensuring every team speaks with one voice across every language and channel.

By automating workflows, integrating with over 60 tools, and centralizing translation memory and terminology, the company enables product, engineering, and marketing teams to collaborate without friction and launch globally up to 10× faster and at 80% lower cost.

Trusted by thousands of businesses across more than 100 countries, the company empowers millions of people worldwide to use digital services in their native languages. Backed by a customer-loved support team, our platform fits seamlessly into your design, development, and content workflows, helping you scale with consistency and control.

About the Team

We are looking for a Senior Account Manager to join our EMEA team, which focuses on strengthening relationships with existing customers and driving sustainable revenue growth through retention, expansion, upselling, and cross-selling.

In this role, you will own the commercial outcomes and full commercial lifecycle of your assigned enterprise accounts. This includes protecting customer retention, supporting successful renewals, identifying expansion opportunities, and ensuring customers continue to realise value from the company over time.

You will manage a portfolio of strategic customers. You will act as a trusted commercial partner, helping customers connect the company's capabilities to their business objectives, localisation workflows, and international growth plans.

You will report to the Director of Sales EMEA and work closely with Customer Success, Solutions Architecture, Product, Finance, and Legal. You will be measured primarily on account expansion through upselling, cross-selling, and broader customer adoption and gross revenue retention across your portfolio.

What You Will Do

• Own account commercial outcomes: Take responsibility for the full commercial lifecycle of your assigned enterprise accounts, including retention, renewals, expansion, upselling, and cross-selling.
• Protect retention and renewal outcomes: Monitor account health, customer engagement, product value, and commercial risks to identify potential retention challenges early and coordinate effective action with internal teams.
• Drive account expansion: Identify and execute upsell, cross-sell, and expansion opportunities, leading commercial conversations and negotiations with a focus on achieving and surpassing sales quotas.
• Develop account strategies: Create and maintain clear account plans based on customer goals, stakeholder priorities, product adoption, business risks, renewal plans, and opportunities for broader collaboration.
• Lead consultative customer conversations: Advise customers on how to improve their localisation and content workflows, connect their needs to the company's solutions, and articulate clear business value and return on investment.
• Navigate complex enterprise sales processes: Coordinate multi-stakeholder opportunities, procurement activity, contract negotiations, and legal discussions, ensuring progress toward successful commercial outcomes.
• Partner cross-functionally and maintain accurate reporting: Work closely with Customer Success and Solutions Architecture to support retention and expansion, collaborate with Product, Finance, and Legal to resolve customer needs, and maintain accurate CRM records, account plans, pipeline updates, and forecasts.
• Use AI to elevate your work: Proactively explore and apply AI tools and approaches to improve customer research, account planning, decision-making, productivity, and go-to-market impact.

What You Must Have

• Full account lifecycle ownership: +5 years of experience owning the commercial lifecycle of strategic or enterprise customer accounts, including retention, renewals, expansion, upselling, and cross-selling in a B2B SaaS environment.
• Proven commercial outcomes: A track record of protecting customer revenue, achieving gross revenue retention or comparable retention targets, and generating measurable account expansion.
• Ability to understand complex SaaS products, with experience selling to business, marketing, and sales stakeholders, and translating product capabilities into clear commercial value.
• Strong written and spoken English, with the ability to collaborate effectively across a remote, international organisation.
• Experience engaging and influencing C-level and senior stakeholders, including the ability to lead strategic conversations and align solutions with business priorities.
• Strong commercial skills, including experience identifying growth opportunities, negotiating contracts, and navigating complex procurement or legal discussions.
• Competency using AI tools to accelerate customer research, synthesis, account planning, and decision-making, with a proactive mindset toward adopting new AI-enabled ways of working.

It's a Plus If You Have

• Experience engaging technical stakeholders (e.g., IT, engineering, product) in addition to business buyers.
• Experience selling localisation, translation management, or other workflow software.
• Experience working with procurement processes such as RFPs, security reviews, or complex enterprise buying committees.
• Familiarity with structured sales methodologies or account planning frameworks.

Our Benefits

Competitive salary and employee stock options.

Fully remote setup with flexible working hours.

Co-working budget for those days you want a change from your home office.

Flexible vacation policy to recharge when you need to.

Home office setup budget: monitor, desk, ergonomics, whatever helps you do your best work.

Learning & development budget to grow your skills and career.

Health insurance to keep you covered.

Wellness allowance to support your mental and physical well-being.

Great startup culture: remote but close-knit, with regular retreats and social events to stay connected.

We are committed to a culture of inclusion and equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome applications from people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, personal expressions, relationship, marital, or civil partnership statuses, racial identities, national or ethnic origins, religious beliefs, ages, and disability statuses.