Director of Account Management

Summary

Join UpGuard's leadership team as a Director of Account Management! This role involves building and leading a team of Account Managers focused on driving revenue retention and expansion for high-touch customers. You will scale and mentor your team, forecast revenue, build executive relationships, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Leveraging data and metrics, you'll optimize team performance and ensure adherence to UpGuard's post-sale processes. This position requires significant leadership experience in managing Account Managers within a B2B SaaS environment, along with proven success in revenue retention and expansion. UpGuard offers a comprehensive benefits package including a monthly lifestyle subsidy, WFH setup allowance, learning and development allowance, generous PTO, parental leave, and a fully remote work environment.

Requirements

• A minimum of 2 years of leadership experience managing Account Managers or similar post-sales teams, with a proven track record in revenue retention and expansion
• At least 3 years of experience in B2B SaaS as an individual contributor, ideally with a focus on renewals, cross-sells and upsells and a proven track record
• Experience in leveraging post-sales technology stacks such as Hubspot (CRM) and Gong (Revenue Intelligence) to coach and guide your team
• Demonstrated ability to plan, monitor, and optimize post-sale activities based on team performance and customer feedback
• A problem-solver who simplifies complex challenges and fosters collaboration across teams
• Leadership with an executive presence, capable of influencing at all levels
• A customer-centric mindset, passionate about building and nurturing long-term relationships
• A goal-oriented, collaborative approach that thrives on teamwork and diverse perspectives

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of Account Managers focused on managing renewals, cross-sells, and upsells for high-touch customers
• Scale, mentor, and develop a high-performing Account Management team
• Accurately forecast monthly and quarterly revenue retention and expansion results
• Drive strategy and build executive relationships for top accounts
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams (Sales, Marketing, Product) to optimize results and customer engagement
• Use data and metrics to assess team performance and implement improvement initiatives
• Ensure adherence to UpGuard’s post-sale processes and standards
• Foster a culture of accountability and customer-first thinking within the team
• Build close alignment with team leaders and individual contributors to support mentorship and career growth for high-performers
• Develop and execute customer retention strategies, ensuring high customer satisfaction and long-term account stability

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with MEDDPICC sales methodology and process
• Experience with cybersecurity and TPRM (Third-Party Risk Management) products

Benefits

• Monthly Lifestyle subsidy: use this for financial, physical and mental wellbeing (all regions)
• WFH set-up allowance: to ensure you have the right environment to work in, we will help you get set up within your first 3 months at UpGuard (all regions)
• $1500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance: to support your career development all team members will be able to expense development opportunities against this allowance (all regions)
• Generous Annual Leave/PTO allowances: time to recharge your batteries (all regions)
• 18 weeks paid Parental Leave: irrespective of parenting role (all regions)
• Personal Leave allowance: this includes sick & carer’s leave (all regions)
• Fully remote working environment: whilst we have physical offices in Sydney & Hobart, we do not mandate compulsory attendance (all regions)
• Top-spec hardware: all team members will be provided with top-spec laptops for their role (all regions)
• Personal device security & online privacy protection subsidy: UpGuard provides team members with a paid subscription to personal device security & online privacy protection platform (all regions)
• Generative AI subsidy: UpGuard provides paid subscriptions for all team members to access generative AI tools to support their work (all regions)