Gainsight

Customer Account Manager

Gainsight  •  $90k - $100k/yr  •  Michigan (Remote)  •  3 months ago
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Job Description

We’re building the AI-driven future of customer success, from retention to growth!

Gainsight is the AI-powered retention engine behind the world’s most customer-centric companies. The Gainsight CustomerOS platform orchestrates the customer journey from onboarding to outcomes to advocacy. More than 2,000 companies trust Gainsight’s applications and AI agents to drive learning, adoption, community connection, and success for their customers. To explore how our suite of solutions is shaping the future of customer success, check out the link

About This Role:

We’re looking for a full-timeCustomer Account Manager to join our Sales team reporting to the Director. This role is a remote role based in The United States.

In this role, you’ll drive revenue growth by managing the end-to-end sales cycle and building a strong pipeline. This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys working cross-functionally with teams like Customer Success, Marketing, and Product. The ideal candidate brings strong skills in consultative selling, stakeholder management, and product demonstrations.

What You'll Do:

Follow and manage the Gainsight Sales Process

  • Achieve sales quota for assigned territory and/or accounts

  • Maintain appropriate proactive sales development activity to ensure healthy pipeline management

  • Execute a thorough discovery process understanding customer requirements

  • Articulate value messaging related to driving customer outcomes

  • Manage complex, multithreaded sales cycles across all stakeholders

  • Overcome technical and business objections of prospective customers as necessary

  • Conduct online or onsite product demonstrations to qualified prospects as necessary

  • Collaborate with Gainsights Customer Success department to drive renewals

  • Respond to RFPs for qualified business opportunities where Gainsight is a fit

  • Work with Gainsight’s Professional Services organization to evaluate training and consulting needs to support implementations

  • Develop and maintain industry and competitive product and market knowledge

  • Maintain a thorough understanding of the Gainsight product and services offered

  • Gain an understanding of Gainsight’s use in the industry, as well as best practices

  • Be a subject matter expert for your designated industries and territory

Sales Administration

  • Work with Customer Success to define and support prospecting efforts within assigned territory

  • Enter new leads, contact data, log calls and other sales information into SFDC for prospects, partners and customers

  • Prepare formal proposals, produce price quotes, work with management on contract negotiations, and coordinate the gathering of all necessary paperwork to process orders

  • Investigate and resolve customer problems with releases, payments, product use or implementation (as required)

  • Provide feedback (customer/prospect needs, industry trends, market perceptions, competitive intelligence, etc.) to company management, Marketing and Product Management teams

  • Conduct online webinars as a means of generating qualified leads

  • Plan, promote and conduct round table events in key locations within your territory

  • Travel to and attend customer and prospect meetings, trade shows, conferences and round tables; 25-30% travel per year

This is not a complete list of responsibilities, and the scope of the role may evolve with the needs of the team and business. This role will require occasional travel for team meetings, training, or company events.

What We're Looking For:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

  • Minimum of five years experience selling Enterprise Solutions (SaaS and services) into Fortune 1000 companies

  • Comfort and expertise calling on and presenting to C-Suite level contacts, six figure deal sizes and 6-12 month sales cycles

  • Proven track record of identifying business issues and creating value while managing multiple stakeholders and decision makers in a complex sales cycle

  • Demonstrated history of quota achievement/overachievement

  • Someone who is highly competitive, entrepreneurial and self-driven

  • Experience in the Customer Success and Product Experience fields working with key decision makers such as Chief Revenue Officers, Chief Customer Officers, leaders in Customer Success and Product Management and Marketing strategizing to drive for mutual success.

Why You’ll Love It Here:

Gainsight is a place where innovation is shaped through collaboration, curiosity, and a shared focus on solving real-world problems. With a growing suite of products across customer success, product experience, community, education, and AI-powered relationship intelligence, we continue to evolve with the needs of our customers. When people with diverse strengths, a strong sense of community, and true passion for our mission come together, they drive greater impact and create lasting value. What underpins it all is a culture that offers the stability, trust, and support that people need - not just to do the job, but to show up as themselves and feel connected to the work they do. Gainsters love working here for several reasons. Here are a few:

Our Compensation and Benefits:At Gainsight, we believe great work happens when teammates feel fully supported.

  • The starting base salary range for this role is $90,000 – $100,000 USD annually This role is also eligible for commission based on performance and participation in Gainsight’s equity program. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as skills, experience, and location.

  • We offer a comprehensive benefits package including fully covered medical premiums (employee-only), flexible PTO, 401(k) plan, dental and vision coverage, and remote work options. Additional benefits include a $10,000 lifetime fertility stipend and access to coworking spaces around the globe. You'll also enjoy dedicated Recharge Holidays - one long weekend each quarter to relax and reset.

Our Core ValuesWe are guided by our values and our mission to be living proof you can win in business while beingHuman-First Learn morehere

Our Growth OpportunitiesFrom mentoring to career development opportunities, we’re passionate about helping our teammates learn, grow, and thrive.

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If this sounds like the right role for you, we’d love to hear from you.

Additional Information:

We’re committed to creating an inclusive, fair, and transparent hiring process. As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a welcoming experience for all candidates.

If you require accommodations or have questions about how your personal data will be used during the hiring process, please let the recruiting team know.

If you are based in San Francisco, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Gainsight

About Gainsight

At Gainsight, our mission is to be living proof you can win in business while being human first.

Gainsight, the world’s leading Customer Success platform, helps businesses drive efficient growth by unifying the post-sales customer journey. Our innovative suite of solutions—including customer success, customer education, product experience, community management, and conversational AI insights—are trusted by companies of all sizes and industries, including nearly 200 publicly traded organizations.

With Gainsight, businesses can leverage AI-driven insights from real-time customer interactions to enhance engagement, improve retention, and drive expansion. Our platform makes it easier for customer success, product, and community teams to scale efficiently and gain a holistic view of their customers, driving product adoption and building thriving customer communities.

Gainsight joined the Vista Equity Partners portfolio in 2020. In 2021, we won their Excellence in Engineering award in recognition for our product and engineering advancements.

A remote-friendly company, we have offices in the US, UK, Netherlands, Israel, and India. Gainsight received the top spot in Glassdoor's Best Places to Work for 2023. It has also been named as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world by Forbes, one of the fastest-growing private companies in America by Inc. Magazine, and one of 20 Great Workplaces in Tech by Fortune Magazine.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Year Founded
Unknown
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