Senior Director, Account Management

ZappiStore; Boston (MA); Vor Ort; USD 155.000 - 165.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Unlimited holidays

Remote-friendly

401k matching

Mental health days

Zusammenfassung

Zappi is seeking a revenue-driven Senior Director, Account Management to own and expand enterprise relationships in Boston, MA. You will drive year-over-year growth, expand enterprise accounts, and maximize customer lifetime value through strategic solutions and cross-functional collaboration.

Ideal candidates will have enterprise selling experience, a strong background in market insights, and a proven ability to forecast, renew, and upsell within complex organizations.

Qualifikationen

• Significant enterprise selling experience.
• Experience in the market research or consumer insights industry.
• Strong consultative sales skills aligning solutions to customer objectives.
• Apply defined qualification principles to strengthen renewals and upsell opportunities.
• High proficiency in forecasting, pipeline management, and Salesforce.

Aufgaben

• Account Expansion & Growth: cultivate senior stakeholder relationships and identify growth within accounts.
• Renewals Management & Retention: own renewal bookings target and maximize retention and upsell opportunities.
• Customer Engagement & Advocacy: serve as strategic partner and drive long-term customer success, with regular client meetings.

Kenntnisse

Enterprise selling

Market research knowledge

Consultative sales

Qualification principles

Sales forecasting

Negotiation skills

Buyer alignment

Procurement knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

AI in sales

Tools

Salesforce

Jobbeschreibung

Senior Director, Account Management

Application Deadline: 26 November 2026

Department: Sales

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Boston, MA

Reporting To: Mike D'Aloia

Compensation: $155K–$165K base salary, with a $260K–$275K OTE on a 60/40 base-to-variable split.

Description

We’re now looking for a revenue-centric, consultative Senior Director, Account Manager to own and expand our existing enterprise customer relationships. The mission of our team is to drive the adoption of Zappi's agile research solutions, demonstrating the value of persistent audience insights to help customers make better business decisions. This role is focused on year-over-year growth, expansion of enterprise accounts, and maximizing customer lifetime value.

Responsibilities

Account Expansion & Growth

• Cultivate and retain relationships with senior stakeholders within a set portfolio of accounts
• Identify new areas of growth within an organization. Growth can be defined (but not limited to) increasing existing user base, upselling to premium solutions, driving adoption within new business units and users, and cross-selling new solutions to existing users.
• Conduct in-depth discovery to understand customer innovation, advertising, and insights processes, ensuring Zappi solutions align with their strategic needs.
• Leverage a consultative selling approach to develop strategic solutions and enterprise agreements that deliver value to Zappi and the customer.
• Navigate complex enterprise organizations, working with multiple stakeholders including COEs, budget holders, senior marketers, and product leaders.

Renewals Management & Retention

• Own and manage the renewal bookings target and partner with Customer Success to achieve high Gross Bookings Retention (GBR) and Net Bookings Retention (NBR).
• Execute a structured renewals playbook, beginning renewal discussions at least 120 days in advance to maximize retention and upsell opportunities.
• Maximize renewal to drive YOY growth and secure long term, upfront, and early commitments within the customer base.

Customer Engagement & Advocacy

• Act as a strategic partner, driving long-term relationships and advocating for customers’ success with Zappi.
• Conduct multiple client-facing meetings per week, ensuring consistent engagement across all levels of the organization.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Customer Success, Professional Services, Solution Strategy, and Marketing to enhance customer satisfaction and adoption.
• Provide clear forecasting, status updates, and strategic insights to internal teams to ensure renewal and expansion success.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Significant enterprise selling experience, with a track record of driving contract expansion within complex organizations.
• Experience in the market research or consumer insights industry or selling market research solutions.
• Strong consultative sales skills, with the ability to align solutions to customer personas and business objectives.
• Apply defined qualification principles to strengthen renewals and upsell opportunities, ensuring alignment with economic buyers, decision criteria, and procurement processes.
• Maintain impeccable Salesforce hygiene, tracking deal timelines, forecast categories, and pipeline accuracy.
• Demonstrated ability to drive YOY growth through account expansion and retention strategies.
• Excellent negotiation skills, capable of structuring enterprise contracts that drive customer value and financial growth for Zappi.
• Ability to manage relationships across multiple teams across complex large enterprise organizations with constantly changing priorities
• Strong grasp of budget cycles, procurement processes, and brand-based buying centers.
• High proficiency in forecasting, pipeline management, and Salesforce best practices.
• Proactive approach, and ability to challenge industry norms and incumbents.
• Willingness to travel for customer meetings and internal events, both in the US and internationally as needed.
• AI Proficiency: Demonstrated ability and commitment to leverage company-defined AI solutions and tools throughout the sales and account management process to improve productivity, enhance customer engagement, identify growth opportunities, and drive better business outcomes.

Benefits

• The salary range for this position is $155K–$165K base salary, with a $260K–$275K OTE on a 60/40 base-to-variable split.
• Unlimited holidays – we want well rested and motivated teams so encourage people to take plenty of time off. We don’t cap your allowance, but do set a minimum of at least 20 days per year plus national holidays
• One company-paid mental health day of rest every quarter (these are pre-scheduled, so the entire company can take the same days off regularly to reset)
• Flexible working arrangements, including remote (unless otherwise specified)
• Thoughtfully designed offices to support both individual work and collaboration without interrupting others
• Support setting up your home office, if appropriate
• Wellbeing benefits and access to trained therapists / counselors
• Company paid Life, AD&D, Short term & Long term disability
• Immediate access to Zappi's Health, Dental and Vision Insurance Plan
• Option to enter Zappi's 401k program after 90 days of employment, matched up to 4%
• Tailored personal development through training allowances, coaching, mentorship and career frameworks

Why join us?

We’ve been recognized as one of the hottest martech companies in 2022 by Business Insider and named Best Place to Work by Quirk’s Media for our engaging and inclusive workplace culture. We’re committed to both people and the planet.

Our belief in inclusion means we’re building an organisation of diverse individuals and helping brands eliminate cultural presumptions in their research. Read our Diversity Manifesto here.

We are a values and behaviours driven business and believe that Trust, Truth, Ownership, Ambition and Humility describe Zappi employees on our best day. This is how we strive to show up for our customers, for each other and for our communities.

Earning B Corp certification assures us we’re on the right track and have structures in place to become the business we want to be.

Our commitment to minimise our impact on the environment means being honest with ourselves and transparent with you—about everything from carbon emissions to tree-planting initiatives. We achieved our goal of becoming Net Zero in 2021!

Zappi Company Culture Highlights

• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company for Women 2022
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Work-Life Balance 2022
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Compensation 2022
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best CEO for Women 2022
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company for Diversity 2022
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Culture 2022
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best CEO 2022
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Happiness 2022
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Leadership Teams 2023
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best CEOs for Diversity 2023
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Engineering Teams 2023
• Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Outlook 2023
• Winner of Newsweek’s Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in the UK 2022 & 2023
• Recognised by Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2023
• Recognised as Best Marketing Insights Platform in the MarTech Breakthrough Awards