Key Account Manager – United-States

Webhosting; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Wellness programs

Paid time off

Parental leave

Recognition programs

Job summary

Acquia is seeking a high-impact Key Account Manager to champion strategic partnerships across North America. You will act as a growth engine and trusted advisor, responsible for health, retention, and commercial expansion of your assigned accounts.

This role requires a proven track record in selling and managing complex cloud or SaaS solutions to large enterprises, with strong relationship skills, cross-functional leadership, and a proactive, data-driven approach.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in Account Management or Customer Success for SaaS/Cloud solutions.
• Proven track record of expanding revenue within existing accounts.
• Strong leadership and collaboration capabilities across teams.
• Proactive, autonomous approach with strong analytical skills.
• Experience navigating complex procurement cycles and enterprise selling.

Responsibilities

• Strategically identify, negotiate, and close expansion opportunities within your book of business.
• Build and maintain deep relationships with stakeholders, users, and procurement teams.
• Partner with Renewal Managers to ensure seamless renewals and mitigate churn.
• Advocate for customers across Sales, Support, and Finance to improve the customer journey.
• Create data-driven territory plans to maximize retention and lifetime value.
• Maintain accurate forecasting and account documentation in CRM systems.

Skills

Account growth

Expansion sales

Relationship management

Cross-functional leadership

Self-starter

Analytical

Salesforce

Google Workspace

Tools

Salesforce.com

Google Workspace

Job description

Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in Boston, MA, Acquia is a Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM company, is listed as one of the world’s top software companies by The Software Report, and is positioned as a market leader by the analyst community. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it!

Career Exploration at Acquia

Our recruitment process is designed to empower you in making the most informed decisions. Acquia is committed to providing an inclusive, transparent, efficient, and educational interview experience that cultivates exploration into career opportunities at Acquia

You will discover the opportunity to grow your career here and learn from a global team that empowers you to exceed boundaries and achieve the extraordinary.

The Opportunity

Acquia is seeking a high-impact, results-oriented Key Account Manager to champion our most strategic partnerships across North America. In this role, you aren’t just managing a list of clients; you are a strategic advisor and a growth engine. You will be responsible for the health, retention, and-critically-the commercial expansion of your assigned accounts.

This is a premier opportunity to work with best-of-breed open-source technology in a high-growth market. You will act as the customer’s internal advocate, ensuring a world-class experience while identifying untapped potential to grow Acquia’s footprint within their organization.

Primary Responsibilities

• Strategic Account Growth: Proactively identify, negotiate, and close expansion opportunities (upsells and cross-sells) within your existing book of business to exceed growth targets.
• Relationship Management: Build and maintain deep-rooted relationships with key stakeholders, business users, and procurement teams to ensure long-term partnership health.
• Retention & Renewals: Partner closely with dedicated Renewal Managers to ensure a seamless renewal experience. You will provide the strategic context and account health insights necessary to mitigate churn risk and facilitate timely contract executions across your territory.
• Customer Advocacy: Act as the “voice of the customer” within Acquia, collaborating across Sales, Technical Support, and Finance to resolve issues and optimize the customer journey.
• Strategic Planning: Create and execute data-driven territory plans designed to maximize both account retention and lifetime value (LTV).
• Operational Excellence: Maintain rigorous hygiene within Salesforce and other CRM tools, ensuring accurate forecasting and account documentation.

Job Requirements

• Experience: Minimum of 5 years in an Account Management or Success role, specifically selling/managing complex cloud or SaaS solutions for large enterprises.
• Expansion Track Record: A proven history of owning and exceeding a sales quota, with a specific focus on growing revenue within existing accounts.
• Leadership & Collaboration: Exceptional communication skills and the ability to lead cross-functional teams to deliver on customer needs.
• Self-Starter Mentality: Ability to drive account strategy proactively with minimal oversight, thriving in a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment.
• Analytical Rigor: Highly detail-oriented with the ability to prioritize tasks, manage multiple systems, and navigate complex procurement cycles.
• Tech Stack: Proficiency in Salesforce.com and Google Workspace (Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive) is required.

We are an organization that embraces innovation and the potential of AI to enhance our processes and improve our work. We are always looking for individuals who are open to learning new technologies and collaborating with AI tools to achieve our goals.

Acquia is proud to provide best-in-class benefits to help our employees and their families maintain a healthy body and mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage, wellness programs, take it when you need it time off, parental leave, recognition programs, and much more!

Final compensation will be commensurate with your experience and will be determined by a variety of factors, including city of residence, relevant skillset, and job-related knowledge. This role is also eligible for variable compensation.

Acquia is an equal opportunity (EEO) employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veterans status or any other protected status or characteristic under federal, state or local law unrelated to the ability to perform the job.