Senior Account Manager - US

Traveltechessentialist; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

20 vacation days

12 public holidays

Health insurance options

401(k) with company match

Relocation support

Work from Anywhere days

Job summary

Perk in Chicago invites a Senior Account Manager to own strategic SMB portfolios, driving satisfaction, retention, and expansion within a fast-growing customer base. You’ll build multi-threaded relationships with executives and translate data into actions that grow ROI across the Perk platform.

In this role you’ll lead QBRs, collaborate with Sales, Product and Customer Support, and design scalable processes to scale the team while maintaining a high-touch, customer-first approach.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in B2B Account Management or Customer Success with SaaS experience.
• Ability to hit retention and expansion targets.
• Strong communication and data storytelling skills.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Portfolio Ownership with top SMB customers.
• Drive consultative growth and upsell opportunities.
• Lead data-driven QBRs and reporting frameworks.
• Advocate for product adoption to maximize ROI.
• Collaborate with Sales, Product, and Customer Support on roadmaps.
• Balance high-touch management with internal process improvements.

Skills

Account Management

SaaS

Customer Success

Data Analysis

Presentation Skills

English Fluency

Tools

Excel

BI Tools

Job description

About Us

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time-consuming, manual work that gets in the way of real work, our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more. By eliminating this shadow work that wastes hours, erodes morale, and saps innovation, we’re on a mission to power real work, with real impact.

We’re trusted by more than 10,000 companies worldwide, including Wise, On Running, Breitling, and Fabletics, and we’re tackling the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee each week, a $1.7 trillion problem.

Founded in 2015, Perk has grown into a global company of more than 1,800 people across 12 offices globally, with headquarters in London and Boston. We combine innovation, control, and simplicity to transform how businesses work and how people feel at work.

At Perk, we’re driven by our values, like being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team. We value curiosity, purpose, and mindset, not just knowledge, to unlock the power in your potential. Our talent team brings together leading minds from the travel and SaaS industries, representing over 70 countries. If you’re excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work, we’d love you on the team.

Visit www.perk.com to learn more.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Account Manager who is customer-focused and results-driven to join our high growth Account Management Team. At Perk, we don't just manage accounts; we build strategic partnerships that redefine how businesses move.

As a Senior AM, you will be the primary driver of satisfaction, retention, and expansion within our most valuable SMB portfolios. You’ll be expected to navigate a fast-paced, hyper growth environment with a "roll-up-your-sleeves" attitude, while also stepping back to design the frameworks and optimizations that will help our entire team scale.

What You’ll Do:

• Strategic Portfolio Ownership: Own a high-value portfolio of top SMB customers, building multi-threaded relationships with key stakeholders and C-suite decision-makers.

• Consultative Growth: Move beyond transactional support to gain a deep understanding of your customers’ business goals. You will ensure they maximize the Perk platform while identifying profitable upsell and expansion opportunities.

• Data-Driven Storytelling: Leverage advanced data analytics to conduct Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) that provide actionable insights, not just numbers. You will create templated reporting frameworks that the wider team can adopt.

• Product Advocacy: Act as an expert on the Perk product ecosystem, ensuring your clients are the first to adopt new features that drive their ROI.

• Problem-Solving & Strategy: Identify recurring friction points across your portfolio and develop scalable, long-term solutions to improve the customer experience.

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Act as a bridge between Sales, Product, and Customer Support to ensure seamless roll-outs and advocate for your clients' needs in our product roadmap.

• Operational Excellence: Prioritize your efforts to maximize impact, balancing high-touch client management with internal projects that improve team efficiency.

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

• Experience: 3+ years in B2B Account Management or Customer Success (SaaS experience preferred), with a proven track record of hitting retention and expansion targets.

• Communication: Exceptional presentation skills and the ability to translate complex data into a compelling narrative for stakeholders.

• Analytical Rigor: You are comfortable in Excel/BI tools and enjoy using data to prove value.

• Growth Mindset: You thrive in "hyper growth" and view ambiguity as an opportunity to build something new.

• Language: Native-level fluency in English; additional European languages are a significant advantage.

The Perk Persona:

• Empathetic: You genuinely care about your customers’ success and approach every problem with a solution-oriented mindset.

• High Integrity: You are a team player who prioritizes collective wins over individual politics. You are honest, transparent, and dependable.

• Radical Candor: You seek and provide feedback early and often. You understand that direct, constructive criticism is the fastest way to grow.

• Focused: You focus on the big wins, refusing to let minor distractions derail your primary objectives.

Benefits:

• Receive competitive compensation and equity ownership in Perk

• Rest and recharge with our generous allocation of 20 vacation days and 12 public holidays

• Enjoy the flexibility of three medical plans to choose from, with company contributions and an HSA when enrolling in an HDHP medical plan

• Take control of your physical health with additional comprehensive benefit plans, covering dental, vision and Wellhub’s gym subscription from your start date

• Rest assured that you’re covered by life and disability policies from your start date, with options to add extra protection through voluntary buy-up plans

• Plan for your future with our 401(k) plan with company matching contributions

• Care for your furry friends through partner discounts on pet insurance

• Join our unforgettable Perk events, including our spectacular annual summer party

• Always feel supported with Spring Health, our market-leading wellbeing partner, providing fast, comprehensive access to 12x therapy and 12x coaching sessions for you and your loved ones

• Focus on your family with 12-16 weeks’ paid parental leave

• Contribute to your community with 16 paid hours per year to spend volunteering for your dearest charitable causes

• Broaden your horizons with up to 20 "Work from Anywhere" days per year

• Follow your passions and take a four-week, fully paid sabbatical once you reach 5 years

• Let us help you move to one of our hubs with relocation support

Compensation

Compensation for this role is a combination of salary, commissions, and stock options. The base salary range is $95,000, and the on-target variable earnings are $28,000. The commission structure will be tied to achieving revenue & retention targets

AI at Perk

AI is embedded in how we work across every function. The tools you’ll use day-to-day are AI-enabled so you can move faster and spend more time on the work that matters. In practice, that means using AI to research and prioritise accounts, draft and refine outreach, handle customer interactions more effectively, synthesise information, and cut through shadow work - the invisible tasks that pull people away from the work only they can do - so you can focus on relationships and outcomes.

We don’t expect you to be an AI expert, but we do expect you to be curious and intentional about it. The bar is judgment: knowing when AI makes your work better, when to verify what it produces, and when to rely on your own expertise instead.

We’ll ask about how you use AI in your interviews, not to test tool knowledge, but to understand how you think about it. That reflects how we work every day.

How We Work

At Perk, we take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in-person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our hubs. We fundamentally believe in the value of meeting in real life to improve connectivity, productivity, creativity and ultimately making us a great place to work.

For certain roles, we can help with relocation from anywhere in the world, English is the official language at the office. Please submit your resume in English if you choose to apply. Do not forget to submit an updated portfolio and/or resume.

Perk is a global company with a diverse customer base, and we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that. We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means you’re welcome at Perk regardless of how you look, where you’re from, or anything else that makes you, well, you.

All official communication from Perk will always come from email addresses ending in @perk.com or @externalperk.com, our verified social media channels, or recruiters listed on our official LinkedIn page. We will never ask you to pay for equipment, training, or fees, request sensitive personal information such as bank details early in the process, or communicate through unofficial apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal. If you receive a message claiming to be from Perk that seems suspicious, please do not respond. Forward it to security [at] perk .com, and we will confirm whether it is legitimate.