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ClayClayNew York, NY

Manager, Strategic Growth

Leads and scales a Strategic Accounts team responsible for enterprise customer growth, retention, and expansion. The role requires 8+ years in B2B SaaS customer-facing roles, 4+ years managing teams, executive-level relationship skills, and strong operational rigor.

220k – 250k/yr
Hybrid8+ YOECustomer Success

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Hire, develop, and lead a team of Strategic Growth Strategists serving enterprise customers.
  • Build and scale a high-performing team and establish standards for enterprise-tier customer engagement.
  • Foster accountability, experimentation, and knowledge sharing.
  • Own 1–2 strategic accounts initially and lead by example.
  • Drive expansion pipeline through multithreading, new use-case discovery, and deeper adoption.
  • Guide multi-year account strategies, complex organizational navigation, and expansion efforts.
  • Support commercial processes from opportunity identification through redlines and negotiation in partnership with Sales.
  • Coach the team on product capabilities and connect go-to-market ideas to business outcomes.
  • Surface product pain points and represent the voice of strategic customers to Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales leadership.
  • Own forecasting, KPI tracking, and executive reporting for expansion, retention, and account health.
  • Build and evolve playbooks and operating models for engaging, retaining, and growing strategic accounts.

Requirements

  • 4+ years leading and scaling teams in Customer Success, Account Management, or a similar customer-growth function.
  • 8+ years in customer-facing roles at a B2B SaaS company, including experience managing large or executive-level accounts.
  • Track record of driving revenue growth, expansion, and retention within enterprise or strategic accounts.
  • Experience influencing customers and internal stakeholders at the executive or C-level.
  • Strong coaching and people-development skills.
  • Strong relationship-building and communication skills with senior stakeholders.
  • Systems-thinking mindset with the ability to identify bottlenecks and build scalable processes.
  • Technical aptitude and curiosity about product capabilities and business outcomes.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with enterprise or strategic accounts.
  • Familiarity with the go-to-market space.

Skills

Customer SuccessAccount ManagementB2B SaaSenterprise accountsstrategic accountsRevenue Growthaccount expansionCustomer Retentionexecutive stakeholder managementForecastingKPI Trackinggo-to-marketsales negotiation
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