Founding NYC Account Manager
Own and grow a portfolio of strategic AI/ML customer accounts for Encord's data platform, driving expansion, adoption, and value realization through technical stakeholder relationships. Build the post-sales function as a founding NYC team member; requires 2-5 years post-sales SaaS experience with proven expansion track record.
About the job
What you'll do
- Own and grow a portfolio of North American customer accounts with a focus on expansion and long-term value
- Build trusted relationships with ML, data, engineering, operations, and executive stakeholders
- Understand customers' technical roadmaps to proactively identify expansion opportunities
- Drive upsells, cross-sells, and multi-team rollouts across existing accounts
- Partner with Customer Success, Product, and Engineering to deliver customer outcomes
- Communicate customer insights and feature requests internally — your proximity to customers makes you a critical voice in the product roadmap
- Lead account planning, run QBRs, and develop growth strategies for your accounts
- Maintain accurate pipeline and revenue forecasting in HubSpot
- Help build the post-sales and expansion playbook for North America in a fast-growing GTM organisation
Who we're looking for
- Excited by the founding opportunity — you want to help shape the NYC office, not inherit a finished motion
- Ability to engage confidently with technical stakeholders (ML engineers, data leads, CTOs)
- Strong relationship builder with a genuine interest in solving customer problems
- Comfortable in a fast-moving, high-growth start-up environment
- Experience with HubSpot, Salesforce, or similar CRM tools
- Curious, driven, and excited by the potential of AI and data infrastructure
Experience requirements
- 2–5 years of experience in account management, customer success, or a post-sales commercial role within B2B SaaS or technology
- Proven track record of owning and growing a book of business, with demonstrable success hitting or exceeding net revenue retention or expansion targets
- Experience managing mid-to-large ACV accounts ($50K–$250K+) across multi-stakeholder organisations
- Confidence engaging with technical buyers — including ML engineers, data scientists, and engineering leads — and translating their needs into commercial outcomes
- Familiarity with structured account planning, QBR delivery, and pipeline forecasting using CRM tools such as HubSpot or Salesforce
- Experience working in a high-growth start-up or scale-up environment preferred
- Exposure to developer tools, data infrastructure, or ML/AI platforms is a strong advantage
Why Encord
- Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity in a high-growth start-up
- Clear, accelerated growth opportunities as the company scales rapidly
- Strong in-person culture: 4 days/week
- Flexible PTO to fully recharge
- Annual learning & development budget
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Frequent travel opportunities across the U.S., London, and Europe
- Bi-annual company offsites, twice-weekly team lunches, and monthly socials
Skills
Account Management, Customer Success, HubSpot, Salesforce, CRM, Machine Learning, AI, Data Infrastructure, Qbr, Pipeline Forecasting
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