Account Manager, Mid Market - Toronto - Hootsuite Inc.

Description

We're looking for an Account Manager to manage, retain, and grow relationships within our Mid-Market customer segment. In this role, you will be the primary commercial owner for a portfolio of accounts, with a clear mandate to ensure long-term customer value, successful retention, and targeted expansion. You will leverage a deep understanding of our platform and full product suite to drive consistent customer value and achieve superior renewal and expansion outcomes. This is a hybrid role based out of our Toronto or Vancouver offices and will report into the Manager, Scaled Account Management, Mid-Marker.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Maintain day‑to‑day contact with your book of Mid Market customers, establishing influential relationships by providing timely answers to questions, monitoring health and adoption, in order to enhance performance across social media.
• Manage the post‑sale relationships, including multithreaded customer engagements. Implement negotiation strategies with manager support to drive successful renewal and expansion outcomes.
• Provide weekly forecasts and maintain rolling forecasts ensuring SFDC is consistently updated for your customers. Monitor account data health, identify risks and/or objections, and **escalate** risks to internal stakeholder groups for timely mitigation to ensure customer retention.
• Act as a trusted advisor throughout the customer journey, leveraging your knowledge of product fit while tailoring existing renewal strategy to meet customers' unique needs with manager support.
• Conduct Strategic Business Reviews (SBR) to discuss accomplishments, opportunities, account growth and to identify areas of improvement.
• Monitor and report on customer engagement activities and results in order to assess trends using SFDC, Gainsight, Gong and others.
• Consistently build an expansion pipeline, focusing on the upsell of product add‑ons upon contract renewal or during the service period to meet or exceed expansion targets.
• Demonstrate an understanding of contract terms and processes in order to positively influence the renewal process as well as ensure a seamless customer experience.
• Report clients' feedback to manager and relevant internal stakeholders.
• Log feature requests and update customer account notes in Salesforce. Identify and escape potential account risks and maintain SFDC hygiene.
• Collaborate with Professional Services where applicable.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

• Relevant experience in sales or customer success experience, preferably in a fast paced, SaaS industry.
• Proven success managing a customer portfolio; demonstrated ability to manage a high volume of opportunities and transactions, while leveraging data driven insights within the customer journey and sales process.
• Proven record of quota attainment and/or portfolio management and can share experiences of developing business plans with a mix of tactics.
• Experience using sales tools such as SFDC, Gong, Sales Navigator, 6Sense, and Gainsight.
• Belief in ValueSelling, with a strong sense of what customers value and how to challenge them to develop a deeper understanding of how Hootsuite delivers impact and ROI.
• Open Communication: Clearly conveys thoughts, both written and verbally, listening attentively and asking questions for clarification and understanding, supporting new owls with internal training and collaboration sessions.
• Collaboration and Teamwork: Works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs. Commitment to Results: Consistently achieving results, demonstrating high performance, and challenging self and others to deliver results.
• Customer Focus: Demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customers to meet their needs.
• Negotiation: Successfully obtains commitment to a solution or idea, while maintaining integrity and relationships.
• Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish – doesn't give up.

WHO YOU ARE:

• Solution seeker. You're focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward—and you don't wait to be asked.
• Lifelong learner. You have a growth mindset – you're here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn't.
• Resilient adapter. In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity.
• Intentional collaborator. You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information.
• Critical challenger. You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result.
• Active communicator. You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively.
• Integrated thinker. You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team's work drives broader organizational goals.
• Accountable owner. You take pride in the work you're responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes.
• Bar‑raiser. You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected.

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Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

This posting is for a current vacancy for which we are actively hiring.

Note. The below pay range represents the base pay for this position.

Variable Pay

Canada Pay Range For This Role

$65,000 — $85,000 CAD

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Canadian Benefits. Hootsuite offers comprehensive benefits to support the health and wellbeing of our owls and their families. The benefits cover health insurance including medical, dental, vision, life/disability insurances, an Employee and Family Assistance Program and more Hootsuite provides a group RRSP plan with a company match of up to 4% of base salary. Benefits are available to permanent employees who meet minimum hours requirements without a waiting period. THIS resource will provide additional information.
USBenefits. Hootsuite offers comprehensive benefits to support the health and wellbeing of our owls and their families. The benefits cover health insurance including medical, dental, vision, and life/disability insurances. Hootsuite also offers a 401k Plan with a company match (up to 4% of base salary), an Employee and Family Assistance Program and more Benefits are available to employees who meet minimum hours requirements without a waiting period. THIS resource will provide additional information.

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All permanent employees, including birthing, non-birthing and adoptive parents, who have been employed by Hootsuite for a minimum of12 months are eligible for 26 weeks of full and partially paid leave in accordance with local government regulations.

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