Senior Account Manager

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Take ownership of a diverse client portfolio in APAC & EMEA, driving customer retention and expansion while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure maximum value realization.
Plivo is a leading technology company transforming customer engagement for some of the world’s largest B2C brands, including Uber, WhatsApp, and Zomato. Our AI agents platform, automates the entire customer lifecycle - from acquiring, engaging, and supporting customers - through cutting-edge multimodal AI, including LLMs, text-to-speech, and speech detection. With a 150+ member team based out of India & US. We are building high-impact global products that handle over 1 billion API requests per month. If you are excited about solving hard, real-world AI challenges at scale, this is where you belong. 🚀 The Role - Plivo seeks an Account Manager (AM) for its APAC & EMEA business to drive customer retention and expansion. The AM will take ownership of a portfolio of clients, building and maintaining long-term strategic relationships with key business executives and stakeholders across the region. With a focus on growth, the AM will identify opportunities for upselling and cross-selling Plivo's solutions while ensuring customers achieve their desired business outcomes. The ideal candidate will proactively collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver tailored solutions, ensuring a seamless customer experience. Success in this role requires a results-driven approach, a deep understanding of Plivo's products, and the ability to act as a trusted advisor to clients. The AM will also demonstrate a sense of urgency and expertise in resolving customer challenges, maximizing value realization, and fostering loyalty. Responsibilities :
  • Manage a portfolio of customers that represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from established global enterprises to SMBs.
  • Facilitate continuous value realization for customers, ensuring revenue retention, and reduced churn rate, with a major focus on expansion.
  • Onboard new customers, identify the success criteria and execute thereafter, and establish review cadence with the customers.
  • Develop and execute the customer relationship strategy to ensure every customer receives maximum value from Plivo.
  • Drive customer loyalty by creating a referenceable pool of customers.
  • Lead cross-functional coordination between sales, product, customer support, and solution engineering.
  • Be the voice of the customer within Plivo, identifying and communicating the key factors required for success
  • Maintain expertise on industry trends, best practices, and the competitive landscape.
  • Qualifications :
  • Relevant Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience
  • 5+ years of overall work experience
  • 3+ years of experience in Account Management or related role at a high-tech or SaaS company
  • Exceptional communication, listening and interpersonal skills
  • Experience in negotiating renewals and identifying & driving upsell and cross-sell opportunities.
  • Behaviour Traits :
  • A self-starter, capable of working independently with minimal supervision in developing relationships with customers, internal team members and other related stakeholders.
  • Is customer obsessed.
  • Proven track record of taking ownership of tasks and driving forward to resolutions.
  • Seeks excellence and maintains high-quality work ethics.
  • Has a bias for high velocity and urgency. Is focused on results.
  • Flexibility with time zones to manage customers and collaborate with colleagues globally.
  • Voice & SMS API Platform: Plivo enables businesses and developers to tap into powerful Voice and SMS capabilities without carrier lock-in.

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