Manager, Commercial Accounts Hybrid in Santa Clara or Mountain View, CA

HackerRank; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

HackerRank is seeking a senior leader to head the Commercial Account Management team in the Americas. You will drive renewal and expansion strategies, reduce churn, and coach a quota-carrying team to deliver strong customer outcomes across a high-volume SaaS environment.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Finance, and Legal to ensure value realization, accurate forecasting, and strategic growth while upholding HackerRank’s standards and customer-first approach.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in SaaS sales, account management, customer success, or renewals.
• At least 2 years leading or managing a customer-facing, quota-carrying team.
• Strong analytical skills to use CRM data, forecasts, and customer signals to guide decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop the Commercial Account Management team with clear performance expectations.
• Own strategy and performance against renewal and expansion goals; identify opportunities to reduce churn.
• Equip the team with playbooks for account planning, renewals, and value realization; leverage AI tools.
• Partner with account managers on complex renewals and negotiations; address at-risk accounts.
• Maintain accurate forecasts in Salesforce and communicate risks and opportunities to leadership.
• Establish quarterly QBRs and renewal planning; drive upsell methods and contract governance.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to improve end-to-end customer experience.
• Work with Deal Desk, Finance, and Legal on renewal pricing and redlines; explain positions clearly.
• Translate customer feedback into recommendations for product adoption and growth.

Skills

SaaS sales

Account management

Customer success

Leadership

Job description

HackerRank helps companies like NVIDIA, Amazon, and Microsoft hire and upskill the next generation of developers based on skills, not pedigree. Our platform is trusted by over 2,500 of the world’s most innovative companies to build strong engineering teams ready for what’s next.

Software has entered an era where humans and AI build side by side. As this shift accelerates, the definition of strong technical talent is changing. We give companies better ways to identify and invest in next-generation skills.

People at HackerRank care deeply about the impact of their work and sweat the small details so our customers can be wildly successful with products they genuinely love to use. We move with urgency and believe great outcomes come from high standards.

About the Team

The Commercial Sales team spans all market segments from small, high growth start ups to large established enterprises. The defining factor for this team is working in a fast-paced, high-volume environment with responsibility for total customer experience and all commercial relations with assigned customers in the Americas region.

What you’ll do

• Lead, coach, and develop the Commercial Account Management team. Set clear performance expectations, support career growth, and build a culture of engagement, accountability, and strong customer outcomes.
• Own the team’s strategy and performance against commercial gross revenue retention, net revenue retention, renewal, and expansion ARR goals. Identify opportunities to reduce churn and grow the installed customer base.
• Equip the team with repeatable playbooks for account planning, renewals, value realization, and expansion leverage latest AI tools and approaches.
• Partner with account managers on critical customer moments, including complex renewals, commercial negotiations, and account recovery plans.
• Monitor customer health and early warning indicators. Coordinate with internal partners to address risk, develop save plans, and improve adoption and customer outcomes.
• Maintain accurate forecasts in Salesforce and provide clear visibility into renewals, ARR, churn, and expansion. Use pipeline and customer data to guide operating decisions and communicate risks and opportunities to leadership.
• Establish and improve core account management practices, including quarterly QBRs with customers, value realization frameworks, renewal planning, and upsell methods.
• Partner with Deal Desk, Finance, and Legal on renewal and expansion pricing, discount governance, contract structures, amendments, and redlines. Explain approved commercial and legal positions clearly to customers.
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to improve the end-to-end customer experience. Translate customer and market feedback into recommendations that support product adoption and account growth.

We are looking for

• 6+ years of experience in SaaS sales, account management, customer success, or renewals, including at least 2 years leading or managing a customer-facing, quota-carrying team.
• A track record of meeting or exceeding renewal, retention, and expansion goals, with a repeatable approach to account management and experience across high-touch and scaled customer models.
• Strong knowledge of SaaS economics, commercial account strategy, customer adoption, renewals, and negotiations.
• The ability to coach and motivate teams, set clear standards, build accountability, and represent team needs with leadership.
• Strong analytical skills to use CRM data, forecasts, and customer signals to guide decisions and address risk.
• Excellent communication, organization, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to partner across Product, Engineering, Support, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Deal Desk, and Legal.
• A technical background is a plus, particularly experience as a Solutions Engineer.

What you’ll need to thrive in this role

You’ll pair strong commercial leadership with deep customer, product, and business understanding. You’ll lead in a way that reflects HackerRank’s values: Front of Jersey, Captain, Madly Deeply Care, Go Deep, and Dev First. You’ll bring grit, curiosity, agency, collaboration, clear communication, strong organization, relationship-building, and consistent follow-through to your work.

What you’ll bring

• Deep product expertise: A strong understanding of the products the team supports, including how to scope and deliver solutions that meet customer requirements.
• B2B sales expertise: Mastery of the sales cycle stages relevant to this role, particularly account management, adoption, renewal, and customer advocacy. Expectations for prospecting or new deal execution should be confirmed based on the role’s final scope.
• Commercial and customer judgment: The ability to connect customer needs, product capabilities, and business outcomes to guide account strategy and support sustainable retention and growth.
• Leadership and communication: The ability to set direction, coach account managers, communicate clearly with customers and executives, and build effective cross-functional partnerships.

Compensation

This sales role is eligible for incentive-based pay, with an annual total potential earnings range (OTE) of $200,000 to $235,000, including base salary and incentive-based compensation (based on quota attainment).

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