Account Manager

PolyAI; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

WFH allowance

401k plan

Health insurance

Annual learning stipend

Flexible PTO

Job summary

PolyAI, a US-based AI-driven dialog platform, seeks an Account Manager to grow strategic Enterprise relationships. You will own renewals, expansions, and multi-threaded deals, reporting to the VP of Account Management, with a focus on executive-level engagements and ROI-based selling.

You will collaborate with solution consultants to tailor demos, create ROI models, and drive renewal-driven revenue while expanding cross-sell opportunities across verticals.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years in Account Management roles owning renewals & expansions.
• Proven history in value-selling and managing relationships with champions and decision-makers.
• Sales experience with a SaaS/AI-focused product and cross-functional collaboration.
• Ability to map ROI and build business cases for executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage a book of up to 8 Enterprise accounts with focus on renewals and expansions.
• Lead executive-level SteerCo meetings with CIO/CTO and business leaders.
• Develop ROI models and MEDDPIC-based forecasting for quarterly deals.
• Collaborate with solution consulting to tailor demos for use cases and value realization.
• Drive customer lifetime value and retention through renewal strategies and expansions.

Skills

Value selling

Executive relationships

SaaS sales

Forecasting

Job description

PolyAI is the Agentic Dialog Platform for building the conversational enterprise, used to build, run, govern, and improve dialog agents at scale. Powered by Raven, a proprietary dialog model trained on more than a billion enterprise conversations, PolyAI agents are built for complexity, open at every layer, and sovereign by design. PolyAI serves hundreds of enterprises across 75 languages and 25 countries, including Metro Bank, Marriott, PG&E, and UniCredit.

PolyAI is searching for a US-Based Account Manager, reporting directly to the VP of Account Management to commercially manage and grow our growth-tier customer relationships across a wide variety of verticals. We want you to bring your great experience and skills to help us develop a scalable growth motion that encourages a customer can-do attitude through self service, as well as building executive-level relationships, defining the account strategy, delivering solution-based sales modelling and driving account retention and revenue growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a book of up to 8 existing Enterprise customer accounts with a focus on account expansion and renewals
• Main point of contact for the identification and closing of expansions, upselling and cross-selling into new areas of the business and driving new channel expansion
• Lead customer SteerCo executive meetings bringing together C-level economic buyers with transformation, operations and IT
• Leverage business reviews to align business and IT buyers with a PolyAI-driven AI roadmap
• Responsible for retaining existing customers through renewal and delivering customer lifetime value, executing on specific commercial plays to drive high retention rates
• Work alongside our solution consulting team to create bespoke / tailored demos to convert potential use cases into reality
• Accountable for accurate forecasting leveraging MEDDPIC methodology of in-Quarter deals and pipeline generation within Gong
• Create tailored ROI models tailored to specific verticals that cover revenue generation and cost efficiency plays
• Leverage our Command of the Message Sales methodology to foster expanded multi-threaded relationships within a customer department for cross-selling our solution into new areas of the business
• Voice of the customer internally within PolyAI, partnering alongside our Deployment Strategists to drive product usage and ongoing quality of the virtual agent

Requirements

• Minimum of 4-years experience in Account Management type positions owning renewals & expansions of existing customers
• Proven history in value-selling and fostering relationships at champion / decision maker level, including; executives, business, and technical leaders.
• Sales experience with a call center operations background.
• Previous AI experience within the space is nice to have.
• Understand the importance of mapping out and calculating Return of Investment (ROI) models that support a business decision around cost savings, revenue generation, improved CX and reduction in wait times
• Successful results meeting/exceeding sales goals, revenue expansion, new product adoption and identifying new use cases across additional areas of the business.
• Proven results that consistently meet and exceed annual retention targets and booking quota
• Experience selling solutions embracing SaaS, system and performance software and innovative devices. Ability to communicate analytical results a critical success factor for this role
• Understanding and clearly communicating the benefits of complex, technical solutions to early adopters and visionaries at executive and team levels. Ability to understand and communicate about Artificial Intelligence (AI) a plus

Your Style

• Self-starter, willing to balance multiple customer and internal priorities
• Energised to build out a scalable growth model within customer success
• Entrepreneurial spirit combined with a scrappy, competitive, and optimistic outlook

We provide a competitive salary range for this role - which is $120,000 – $135,000 base salary / $172,000-$192,500 OTE - depending on level and experience. Please note this range is intended as a guide, not a guarantee. Final compensation will be based on individual qualifications, relevant experience, and the scope of the role.

In addition to salary, this position includes equity in the business, giving you the opportunity to share in the company’s long-term success.

Benefits

• Participation in the company’s employee share options plan
• 100% of Single Cost (employee) and 70% of Dependent for medical, dental & vision
• Life Insurance
• STD and LTD
• The opportunity to contribute to the company's 401k plan
• Flexible PTO policy + 11 designated company holidays
• Annual learning and development allowance
• We’re all about making WFH work for you - that’s why we offer a one-off WFH allowance when you join. Offering perks like noise-cancelling headphones or a comfortable desk chair to boost your comfort and focus!
• Enhanced parental leave
• Company-funded fertility and family-forming programmes
• Menopause care programme with Maven

Our Core Values Are

Only the best

We expect the best from our people, we hire people that expect the best from themselves, and we nurture this drive for excellence.

Ownership

We care deeply about what we do. We take ownership of our initiatives, decisions and outcomes.

Relentlessly improve

We demand more from ourselves and are always evolving. Continuous, obsessive improvement is the only way we will transform the world of conversational AI.

Bias for action

Our world moves quickly and so do we. We take calculated risks and we deliver impact fast.

Disagree and commit

We are all working toward the same goal. If we donʼt agree with something, we work hard to understand it and when a decision is made, we accept it and give it our all.

Build for people

We want the world to enjoy the experiences they have with us. We are building for a future that prefers automation.

PolyAI is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment decisions at PolyAI will be based on the business needs without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, neurodiversity status or disability status.

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