Account Manager, Public Sector

Working at Atlassian

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Atlassian is continuing to drive investments focused on developing our largest, most strategic customers. We partner with 82% of the Fortune 500 and work with teams at IBM, Tesla, Dish, Lufthansa and many more. Our Account Management team looks to deepen our relationships with our customers, explore how we solve their most complex challenges, and help them realize value across our solutions.

Our Account Management team owns retention and accelerates expansion, ultimately contributing to the transformation of our largest Enterprise customers worldwide. You will drive revenue growth across Atlassian’s full product portfolio by delivering high customer retention rates, proactively engaging on expansion opportunities, and leading upsell, upgrade & cross-sell opportunities throughout the customer lifecycle. You will partner closely with our Global Sales Team to drive Total Book of Business growth. Additionally, you will be partnering with Sales team on strategic opportunities, including white space analysis, strategic account planning & mapping, and cross-functional partnership with Sales support teams.

We are looking for team player who can adapt rapidly to changing events and handle the complexity and detail orientation that comes with large strategic accounts. In addition, you need to be able to prioritize high value activities amongst competing priorities. You have over 5 years of relevant experience with a proven track record of achieving revenue targets and accelerating expansion within your owned book of business, ideally with experience in owning sales engagements end-to-end.

More about you

The team is comprised of proactive, resilient, and empathetic Account Managers, specialized in accelerating growth across Atlassian's full suite of products and services. You are adaptable to change, consistently seek opportunities to learn, and lean into collaboration to drive success. We believe in the Atlassian values and want to use them as our compass in constantly refining and optimizing our go-to-market model.

In your first 90 days, we'll expect you to have:

• Manages time effectively and prioritize among competing opportunities

• Demonstrated experience leading sales cycles end-to-end

• Leverage subject matter expertise to build credibility with stakeholders/champions

• A team player mindset; driving collaboration and engagement scope with global stakeholders

• A customer first mentality advocating for the customer’s interests, solving complex problems, influencing outcomes, and aligning with Atlassian’s strategy and values

• Effective communication and active listening skills whilst leading revenue expansion efforts from start to finish, and engaging with senior stakeholders

• A change agent with the ability to continuously learn and implement feedback

• A tendency to operate daily with a sense of urgency, an affinity for creative problem-solving

• Accelerating revenue growth by leveraging existing customer footprints to maximize expansion via a tops-down, solution-oriented approach

• Developing Senior and Executive relationships over video conferences as well as in-person

• Manage high-value renewals & expansion across a sizable product portfolio

• Ownership of growth opportunity management and sales cycles end-to-end

• Partner with our Sales team on account planning and driving total book of business growth through competitive, market and whitespace analysis

• Increase customer awareness of Atlassian's product portfolio to discover cross-sell and up-sell opportunities

• Maintain a deep understanding of product updates and new offerings and articulates those improvements to customers and our solution partners

• Forecasting accountability for your owned book of business

Your Background:

• Five or more years experience in account management, inside sales, customer success or other relevant business areas

• Ability to establish rapport and build relationships and trust over the phone and on video across a wide variety of countries and cultures

• Proven track record of meeting or exceeding performance goals

• Experience managing high-revenue customer engagements with Enterprise-level customers

• Experience managing complex, end-to-end sales cycles is preferred

• Experience working with National or State and Local government customers or partners.

• Knowledge of government procurement cycles, contracting vehicles and FedRAMP

Nice to have:

• Experience selling Enterprise SaaS products across a global account footprint

• Experience working with Channel Partners & GSIs to retain and grow customer accounts

• Experience using Salesforce, Clari and Tableau

• Experience analyzing data to support identifying opportunity and projecting growth trajectories

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Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $111,400 - $148,600

Zone B: $100,300 - $133,700

Zone C: $92,400 - $123,200

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

Our perks & benefits

Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.

About Atlassian

At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.