Senior Account Manager

Cornerstone OnDemand; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cornerstone OnDemand is seeking a Senior Account Manager for Strategic Accounts. This quota-carrying role centers on growing revenue within Cornerstone's largest enterprise clients while expanding into new opportunities.

You will own executive relationships and collaborate with Sales, Customer Excellence, Customer Engagement, and Customer Support to drive commercial outcomes. You will own a book of strategic accounts, hunt for whitespace, and expand across Cornerstone products.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in strategic account management or enterprise sales.
• Demonstrated success building and owning C-level relationships.
• Proven success hunting opportunities within existing client bases.
• Ability to build and execute account plans for complex organizations.
• Consultative approach mapping business needs to multi-product solutions.
• Strong forecasting discipline in a metrics-driven environment.

Responsibilities

• Own a book of strategic enterprise accounts with ~85% expansion and 15% net-new development.
• Own and cultivate C-level relationships as the primary trusted advisor.
• Hunt for whitespace within accounts to expand into new units or use cases.
• Expand footprint across products like learning, performance, talent acquisition, and AI-driven solutions.
• Build and execute strategic account plans mapping org structure and budgets.
• Drive and defend renewals, protecting and growing ARR.
• Lead discovery workshops and executive business reviews.
• Forecast a pipeline of expansion and net-new opportunities across stages.
• Maintain account intelligence to inform strategy and forecasting.
• Travel as needed for on-site executive engagement.

Skills

Strategic account management

C-level relationship building

Forecasting discipline

Negotiation and closing

Hunting new opportunities

Travel flexibility

Job description

The Cornerstone Senior Account Manager, Strategic Accounts owns the overall relationship and revenue growth within a book of Cornerstone's largest, most complex enterprise clients. This is a quota-carrying role with a blended mandate: 85% expansion within the existing client base and 15% net-new logo acquisition . The Account Manager pairs deep account stewardship with an active hunting mindset — proactively identifying and closing new opportunities within their accounts, not just managing renewals.

The successful candidate will partner closely with Sales leadership, Customer Excellence, Customer Engagement, and Customer Support, while serving as the client's primary strategic, commercial, and executive relationship owner .

In this role you will…

• Own a book of strategic enterprise accounts, carrying a quota split ~85% expansion/cross-sell and 15% net-new development.

• Own and cultivate C-level relationships (CHRO, CFO, CIO, etc.) as the primary trusted advisor and executive escalation point.

• Hunt for whitespace within accounts — new business units, subsidiaries, or use cases not yet leveraging Cornerstone.

• Expand Cornerstone's footprint across products (learning, performance, talent acquisition, AI-driven workforce solutions).

• Build and execute strategic account plans mapping org structure, executive stakeholders, budget cycles, and competitive exposure.

• Drive and defend renewals, protecting and growing ARR.

• Lead discovery workshops and executive business reviews that position Cornerstone against competitors.

• Manage and forecast a pipeline of expansion and net-new opportunities across Commit, Probable, and Upside stages.

• Maintain account intelligence — org charts, sponsor mapping, competitive landscape, renewal timing — to inform strategy and forecasting.

• Travel as needed for in-person executive engagement, including QBRs, briefings, and on-site strategy sessions.

You've got what it takes if you have…

• 5+ years in strategic account management or enterprise sales, with a quota track record spanning both expansion and new business.

• Demonstrated success building and owning C-level relationships , not just practitioner-level ones.

• Proven success hunting new opportunities within an existing client base.

• Ability to build and execute account plans for complex, matrixed organizations.

• A consultative approach — diagnosing business needs and mapping them to multi-product solutions.

• Strong forecasting discipline in a metrics-driven environment.

• Excellent discovery, negotiation, and closing skills.

• Willingness to travel as needed for executive relationship-building and on-site engagement.

Extra Dose of Awesomeness if you have…

• Experience selling into large, matrixed enterprises (healthcare, financial services, retail, or similar).

• Familiarity with AI-driven workforce/talent solutions and the competitive landscape (Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Docebo, ServiceNow).

• An existing network of C-level relationships in Fortune 500, healthcare, financial services, or another relevant vertical.

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