Strategic Account Manager

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  • San Francisco, California
  • 30+ days ago
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    • Performance Analysisunmatched
    • Performance Managementunmatched
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    Description

    Account Manager

    Location: San Francisco, CA
    Company Stage of Funding: Series B Marketplace & AI Company
    Office Type: Onsite
    Salary: $125K–$200K Base ($165K–$255K OTE) + Equity

    Company Description

    We're representing one of the fastest-growing AI-powered marketplace companies, building the infrastructure that powers modern talent acquisition. The platform connects companies with specialized recruiting firms and AI-powered recruiting workflows, helping organizations hire more efficiently while enabling recruiting partners to scale their businesses.

    Having achieved eight-figure ARR in a short period of time and backed by leading technology investors and operators, the company is rapidly expanding its go-to-market and marketplace operations teams. This role sits at the center of marketplace growth, working directly with recruiting firms that generate significant revenue across the platform.

    What You Will Do

    • Own and grow relationships with a portfolio of recruiting firms and agency partners.
    • Act as a trusted advisor to business owners, helping them improve operational performance and grow revenue on the platform.
    • Manage expansion, retention, and revenue growth across your book of business.
    • Identify bottlenecks across onboarding, activation, engagement, and retention, then design solutions to improve outcomes.
    • Run marketplace experiments focused on incentives, workflows, operational processes, and liquidity improvements.
    • Collaborate closely with Product, Operations, and GTM teams to translate customer feedback into platform improvements.
    • Develop scalable systems and best practices that improve partner success and marketplace efficiency.
    • Monitor performance metrics and proactively identify opportunities to increase partner productivity and marketplace growth.
    • Serve as the voice of customers internally while driving measurable business results.

    Ideal Background

    • 2–8 years of experience in account management, business operations, customer growth, partnerships, marketplace operations, or related customer-facing roles.
    • Proven experience owning and exceeding revenue targets, expansion goals, or commercial KPIs.
    • Strong track record of managing strategic customer relationships and driving measurable business outcomes.
    • Experience working at high-growth startups, preferably from Series A through pre-IPO stages.
    • Excellent communication, relationship-building, and stakeholder management skills.
    • Strong operational mindset with the ability to identify problems, design processes, and execute solutions.
    • Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally across operations, product, and go-to-market teams.
    • High ownership mentality with a bias toward action and execution.
    • Strong academic background with evidence of high achievement throughout career progression.

    Preferred

    • Experience in marketplace businesses, advertising technology, media partnerships, recruiting, staffing, or similar relationship-driven industries.
    • Background in account management roles that carried expansion, upsell, or revenue responsibilities.
    • Experience working with supply-side marketplace customers or business owners.
    • Exposure to startup operations, growth, or strategic initiatives.
    • Evidence of exceptional achievement, entrepreneurial pursuits, competitive athletics, side businesses, or other standout accomplishments.
    • Experience working in highly competitive, performance-driven environments.

    Compensation and Benefits

    • Base salary: $125K–$200K.
    • On-target earnings: $165K–$255K.
    • Competitive equity package.
    • Visa sponsorship available for qualified candidates.
    • Opportunity to join a rapidly scaling Series B marketplace company.
    • Significant ownership and direct impact on company revenue growth.
    • Exposure to product, operations, marketplace strategy, and GTM functions.
    • Fast-paced, high-performance culture with substantial career growth opportunities.
    • Work alongside top operators, founders, and marketplace leaders in a highly collaborative onsite environment.
     

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSan Francisco, California

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