Strategic Account Manager
Location
United States
Posted
13 days ago
Salary
Not specified
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Role Description
We’re looking for a Strategic Account Manager to own and grow relationships with a select group of high-impact AI companies and enterprise AI teams. This is not traditional SaaS selling. Our clients build and fine-tune foundation models, deploying production AI systems, and require high-quality, domain-specific training data to power them.
You will operate at the intersection of AI research, data operations, and commercial strategy — acting as a trusted advisor to technical buyers while driving long-term revenue expansion. This role is high-autonomy, high-visibility, and revenue-critical.
What You’ll Do
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Own & Grow Strategic Accounts
- Manage a portfolio of key AI-native and enterprise AI accounts
- Develop multi-threaded relationships across research, ML, product, and procurement teams
- Build account plans that map technical needs to scalable data solutions
- Drive expansion through new use cases, domains, and geographies
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Lead Complex, Technical Sales Cycles
- Navigate consultative, solution-based deals (often custom scopes)
- Translate model requirements (fine-tuning, RLHF, synthetic data, evals) into commercial proposals
- Partner with delivery and ops teams to scope programs accurately
- Manage pricing strategy, contract negotiations, and renewals
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Act as the Voice of the Customer
- Surface client feedback on quality, latency, compliance, and scale
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, ops, and leadership
- Identify whitespace opportunities in emerging model categories
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Drive Revenue & Forecasting Discipline
- Own quota across expansion and renewals
- Maintain clean pipeline hygiene
- Provide accurate forecasting on complex, usage-based revenue streams
What Success Looks Like
- Deep, trusted relationships with senior AI researchers and data leaders
- High retention and net revenue expansion within accounts
- Strong multi-year contracts with growing scope
- Ability to identify and close new model programs early
Qualifications
- 5–10+ years in strategic sales or account management
- Experience managing $1M+ ARR accounts or equivalent enterprise spend
- Comfortable navigating procurement and enterprise security processes
Requirements
- Experience selling into AI/ML teams, data infrastructure, or technical buyers
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Familiarity with concepts like:
- Foundation models
- RLHF / RLAIF
- Model fine-tuning
- Synthetic data
- Human-in-the-loop systems
- Able to speak credibly with ML engineers and research teams
- Strong account planning methodology
- Experience with complex scoping and pricing
- Comfortable in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
Benefits
- This is not transactional SaaS selling.
- Deals are custom, high-context, and deeply tied to model performance.
- Your impact directly influences how frontier AI systems are trained and deployed.
Job Requirements
- 5–10+ years in strategic sales or account management
- Experience managing $1M+ ARR accounts or equivalent enterprise spend
- Comfortable navigating procurement and enterprise security processes
- Experience selling into AI/ML teams, data infrastructure, or technical buyers
- Familiarity with concepts like: Foundation models RLHF / RLAIF Model fine-tuning Synthetic data Human-in-the-loop systems
- Foundation models
- RLHF / RLAIF
- Model fine-tuning
- Synthetic data
- Human-in-the-loop systems
- Able to speak credibly with ML engineers and research teams
- Strong account planning methodology
- Experience with complex scoping and pricing
- Comfortable in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
Benefits
- This is not transactional SaaS selling.
- Deals are custom, high-context, and deeply tied to model performance.
- Your impact directly influences how frontier AI systems are trained and deployed.
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