Director, Strategic Accounts

AeroVect; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

AeroVect Technologies Inc. is seeking a Strategic Account Director to own and grow a major airline account. You will lead day-to-day relationships, secure funding for deployments, and manage commercial agreements with AeroVect leadership and the customer teams.

This hands-on role focuses on executive-level discussions, contract negotiations, and ensuring deployments progress across the customer’s organization. Atlanta-based with regular in-person meetings.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in strategic account management, enterprise sales, or commercial leadership with large enterprise customers.
• Proven growth of accounts via funded agreements and deployed products/services.
• Experience navigating capital budgets, procurement processes and contract negotiations.
• Ability to build relationships with frontline operators and senior executives for strategic discussions.
• Exceptional financial and commercial judgment.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including executive presentations.
• Strong follow-through across customer and internal teams to move deals forward.

Responsibilities

• Own the account plan with revenue targets, expansion opportunities, budgets, and key decisions.
• Build relationships across customer teams and secure executive sponsorship.
• Develop business cases using deployment results and expected returns; secure approvals and PO.
• Lead pricing, contracts, and renewals with leadership, Finance, and Legal.
• Run business reviews on operating results, deployment progress, and opportunities.
• Maintain forecast accuracy, monitor milestones, payments, and risks.

Skills

Strategic account mgmt

Enterprise sales

Complex buying groups

Executive relationship building

Financial judgment

Executive communication

Cross-functional follow-through

Job description

Who We Are

AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations. We are a Series A company backed by top-tier venture capital investors in aviation and autonomous driving. Our customers include some of the world’s largest airlines and ground handling providers. For more information, visit www.aerovect.com.

We are hiring a Strategic Account Director to own and grow one of AeroVect’s largest airline accounts. You will lead the day-to-day customer relationship, secure funding for deployments, and manage commercial agreements. You will work directly with AeroVect’s leadership and the customer’s operations, finance, procurement, and executive teams.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role dedicated to a single strategic customer. You will personally lead business reviews, negotiate commercial agreements, and follow through on the customer decisions needed to keep deployments moving.

You Will

• Own the account plan, including revenue targets, expansion opportunities, budget timelines, and key customer decisions.
• Build relationships across the customer’s operating teams, budget owners, procurement, and senior leadership. Develop executive sponsorship beyond individual contacts.
• Build business cases using deployment results, operating costs, and expected returns. Work with the customer to secure budget approval and purchase orders for implementation and fleet expansion.
• Lead pricing, contract negotiations, and renewals with AeroVect’s leadership, Finance, and Legal. Work with Product, Engineering, and Operations to validate scope and service commitments.
• Run customer business reviews covering operating results, deployment progress, commercial opportunities, and decisions required.
• Maintain an accurate account forecast and track contractual milestones, payment status, and commercial risks. Evaluate expansion requests against delivery capacity, support costs, and margins.

You Have

• 10+ years of experience in strategic account management, enterprise sales, or commercial leadership, with direct responsibility for large enterprise customers.
• A track record of growing accounts through signed, funded agreements and deployed products or services.
• Experience navigating complex buying organizations, capital budgets, procurement processes, and contract negotiations.
• The ability to build relationships with frontline operators and senior executives, and lead substantive discussions about business performance and investment decisions.
• Exceptional financial and commercial judgment.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including executive presentations.
• Strong follow-through across customer and internal teams. You are comfortable personally handling the details needed to move an account forward.

We Prefer

• Experience selling and deploying robotics, industrial automation, or other technology used in industrial operations.
• Experience owning a major enterprise account in the airline / airport industry.
• Atlanta-based, with availability for regular in-person meetings and visits to customer locations.

Compensation Range: $160K - $200K