US Account Manager – SaaS, Higher Ed

🔥 16 hours ago

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💰 Account Manager

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Gecko | AI-Powered Student Engagement Platform

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2012

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $2.3M Venture Round - GeckoLabs on 2019-06

Education • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

Gecko | AI-Powered Student Engagement Platform is an AI-driven software company that builds a student engagement platform for higher education institutions. Its products help universities and colleges engage, communicate with, and support students through modular, analytics-enabled tools that streamline recruitment, retention, and student services. Gecko positions itself as a SaaS provider focused on innovation, customer-centric development, and measurable impact for higher education customers.

📋 Description

• Own a portfolio of university and college partners across the US • Understand partner goals, priorities, challenges, usage and future plans • Build trusted, multi-threaded relationships from day-to-day users to senior sponsors • Develop success plans and account strategies tied to meaningful outcomes • Monitor partner health, risk and opportunity • Lead renewals from early planning through agreement • Identify and lead expansion opportunities through discovery, negotiation and close • Carry renewal and expansion targets and maintain an accurate pipeline • Run account reviews connecting partner outcomes to future opportunities • Keep Salesforce current and accurate • Visit partners regularly on campus across the US • Represent Gecko at Higher Education conferences, exhibitions and partner events • Balance in-person and remote engagement • Coordinate Support, Product, Commercial and Enablement teams • Deliver demos, account reviews, presentations and commercial conversations • Follow through on partner commitments • Occasionally travel internationally, including to the UK

🎯 Requirements

• Experience owning a portfolio of accounts in a B2B SaaS business • Direct responsibility for retention, renewals and expansion • Experience managing complex or strategic accounts with multiple stakeholders and longer decision cycles • Ability to build genuine relationships while maintaining commercial focus • Demonstrable commercial outcomes personally influenced through renewals, expansion, upsell or growth within existing accounts • Confidence discussing pricing, value, revenue and next steps • Ability to uncover and properly progress opportunities • Ability to lead meetings, demos, executive reviews and negotiations • Organised, proactive and comfortable managing a portfolio, pipeline and regular travel • Higher Education or EdTech experience useful but not essential • Must be US-based • Must already have a valid right to work in the US

🏖️ Benefits

• 33 days’ holiday • Flexible working • Opportunity to work from another location through the Workation policy • Brilliant home office set-up • MacBook Pro • Headphones of your choice • Medical benefits • Dental benefits • Vision benefits • 401(k) • Perks via Perkbox • Remote-first working • Connected virtual culture • Commercial impact through direct influence on retention, expansion and growth