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Account Manager

GearsetCambridge, United KingdomHybrid, Onsite
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Our sales team is united by a common purpose: delighting our customers, and propelling ourselves forward as the market leader for Salesforce DevOps. We’re confident in our product, market potential, and we have big plans for the future. 
We’re looking for Account Managers that can help us realise the growing opportunity that exists within our customer base, and can collaborate effectively with our other customer facing teams.

What’s the opportunity for an Account Manager at Gearset?


  • Be part of building a brand new Sales function at Gearset. Being the “first feet on the ground” you will be perfectly placed to take full advantage of the growth opportunities that will be created if we’re successful.
  • This is a key role for Gearset’s growth in 2024. You will drive revenue growth by delivering new solutions for your customers, with a focus on selling new product lines into current active accounts.
  • As an Account Manager, you will be responsible for growing revenue across your designated territory. For the accounts you manage, you will be the sole commercial owner, working alongside Customer Success Managers who will be jointly responsible for the success of your accounts.
  • Owning the overall sales cycle, from initial conversation through to commercial discussion, and winning the opportunity.
  • Deliver product demos with strong levels of interactivity, and guide our prospects through the full sales cycle.
  • Become a Gearset product expert after receiving full product training from our in-house team, becoming able to position Gearset above others in the market.
  • Become a key part of the sales team which thrives on competitive collaboration to ensure success for everyone in the team.

What you’ll achieve


  • Accurately forecast sales targets, meeting (or exceeding!) them. You’ll build a deep understanding of our users and common pains, our products, the Salesforce platform, and DevOps concepts.
  • Collaborate and learn from team members across the business to expand your technical product knowledge, and become an expert in the values of Gearset.
  • Influence Gearset’s product roadmap by sharing prospect feedback with the marketing and development teams, to ensure we’re continuing to build a world-class solution.

About you


  • Previous experience selling a product as either an Account Manager, Account Executive or Renewals Manager 
  • Track record of consistently achieving or exceeding sales targets
  • Proven long term relationship building with both technical and commercial stakeholders
  • You will be a strategic and critical thinker
  • Love to learn and improve, and you're comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback to make your work (and your colleagues) even better
  • Have excellent written and verbal communication skills to be able to engage professionally with prospects
  • Have the drive to learn a new technology, and a passion to provide high quality customer demos
  • A team player to help shape our rapidly-growing company

Great to have


  • Experience selling an Enterprise level SaaS product
  • Familiarity with the Salesforce ecosystem and/or DevOps 

Salary and benefits (The stuff you’d expect!)


  • Salary of £35k - £50k base with a realistic OTE of £45k - £70k (depending on experience)
  • This is a full time opportunity, working Monday to Friday with the option of flexible home working (for most of us that looks like 2-3 days a week in the office)
  • Hours will be a mix of UK, and US East Coast (1pm - 9pm UK)
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to buy an extra 5 each year)
  • £1500 per year personal development budget for courses, conferences, and anything else useful to your professional development in the role
  • Industry leading sales training provided by Sandler training
  • Free lunch in the office
  • Company Pension Plan (matching up to 5%)
  • Bupa health care, life insurance & critical illness cover
  • Discounted gym membership, as well as a range of health and wellness benefits

About the sales teamWe know it can be hard to get a real sense of what it’s like to work in a team from the job ad, so we’ve created this page to give you an idea of what it’s like working in the Sales team at Gearset. And, if you want to get to know some of our Sales leaders, take a look at Jen and Jack, two managers from the Sales team, to give you an idea of what you can expect.We know diverse teams with varied experiences and opinions are key to the success of the business, so if what we’ve shared about this role sounds interesting, we'd encourage you to apply, whatever your background.Hear from some of our sales teamSales video  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLszhsUyv68Life in the Cambridge officeWant to find out more about what it’s like to work in the Cambridge office? This page should give you a behind the scenes look at what you can expect.

About usGearset is the leading Salesforce DevOps platform trusted by more than 2000 companies around the globe, including McKesson, Accenture and IBM. We’ve the fast paced exciting environment of a start-up, with the success and ambition of a scale-up, with offices in Belfast, London, and Chicago, alongside our Cambridge (UK) HQ. We’re proud of our unique culture built on trust, collaboration, transparency, and teamwork, allowing us to have a feedback-driven culture that keeps us focused on delivering the best solution for our customers.Alongside our Glassdoor score of 4.8/5, and customer G2 scores of 4.7/5, we hold three awards from Best Companies UK.

These include: Top 5 Best Company to work for in the East of England, UK Top 5 Best Mid-sized Company, and Top 5 Best Technology Company to work for in the whole of the UK. Apply for this job

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Life at Gearset

As one of Cambridge's fastest-growing tech startups, we've already established ourselves as the market-leading Salesforce DevOps solution, relied upon by some of the most recognized companies in the world. Built on deployment best-practice, Gearset is helping companies of all sizes revolutionize their release management processes, from freelance consultants to the Fortune 5. Whether you're looking to adopt an Agile release process, improve developer collaboration or speed up project delivery, Gearset's easy metadata and data deployments, integration with Salesforce DX and powerful automation can help. Visit our website to start your free 30-day trial, and see how much time you could save. Interested in joining us at Gearset? We're looking for people who have an aptitude for problem solving, have a natural drive to contribute every day, and take pride in what they do. We value knowledge sharing, collaboration, and decisiveness.
Thrive Here & What We Value1. Focus on job completion2. Trust, transparency, collaboration3. Autonomy for success4. Learning and development opportunities5. No pointless meetings6. Top-end hardware setup7. Flexible working options8. Customer success focus9. Industry training support10. Generous personal development budget
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