Associate Account Manager

Navan
United States
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Geared toward customer success professionals comfortable with technical product support and cross-functional collaboration, with a preference for candidates based in Berlin and experienced in a SaaS environment.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in SaaS customer success and a knack for translating technical details into customer value
    — “within a rapidly growing SaaS company”
  • Individuals who thrive in cross-functional teams and can manage customer escalations with a solution-oriented mindset
    — “work across teams to resolve issues”
  • Candidates who can balance detailed problem-solving with high-level strategic thinking for customer retention
    — “Drive satisfaction, adoption, retention, and reduce customer churn risk”

Things to consider

  • Geographic placement in Berlin may influence compensation and work expectations despite the remote option
    — “This role will be based in Berlin”
  • The role is likely a stepping stone to a revenue-driving Account Manager position with growth potential
    — “fast track towards a revenue driving Account Manager role”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in resolving technical customer issues and translating feedback into product improvements
    — “the ‘voice of the customer’ and provide internal feedback”
  • Demonstrate your ability to execute playbooks and track KPIs for customer adoption and satisfaction
    — “Run playbooks and program ideas to drive adoption and satisfaction and track results based on defined KPIs”
  • Emphasize your communication skills with examples of explaining complex concepts to non-technical audiences
    — “ability to clearly articulate complex concepts and technologies to diverse audiences”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • supporting account managers
  • assisting customers with product configuration
  • handling escalations
Typical background
customer successaccount managementsales

Skills & requirements

Required

Customer SuccessAccount ManagementProduct KnowledgeCommunicationProblem-solving

Preferred

Data Analysis

Stack & domain

PythonSQLSparkCi/cd PipelinesGitMlflowDockerKubernetesLinux NetworkingClickhousePostgreSQLGrafanaLeadershipCommunicationTeamworkProblem-solvingAttention To DetailProject ManagementData AnalysisCustomer ServiceStrategic ThinkingInnovationFinanceMarketingE-commerceSupply ChainData ScienceMachine LearningCloud Computing

About the role

Original posting from Navan

The Associate Account Manager role is a new and developing function at Navan within the wider Account Management department. Associate Account Managers work alongside Account Managers to provide support to our Travel and Expense customers, specifically to program administrators. 

As an Associate Account Manager, you will be working with a team of account managers across different market segments and be responsible for delivering an outstanding customer experience. Your role will be to assist customers with product related configuration queries, troubleshooting and resolving issues. You will partner closely with our global Product, Finance, Operations and Travel Experience teams to ensure we are delighting our customers and helping them achieve their goals.

We are looking for individuals who have a passion for customer success and account management, embody a “go- getter” attitude, can communicate effectively and thrive in a fast-paced environment. You can expect world-class training and enablement and a fast track towards a revenue driving Account Manager role.

This role will be based in Berlin and report directly to the Manager, Associate Account Management.

What You’ll Do:

Effectively partner with your assigned team of Account Managers to support their customers, ensuring excellent customer experience through timely, accurate communications.

Develop and maintain a deep understanding of our travel and expense product offering to enable programme administrators on the Navan’s product functionality.

Monitor and respond to email inquiries from Travel and Expense Administrators related to product integrations and platform settings, travel and expense policy configuration, payment and integration issues troubleshooting and product bugs and feature requests, etc. .

Drive satisfaction, adoption, retention, and reduce customer churn risk by providing quick and knowledgeable advice based on customer’s desired outcomes.

Handle customer escalations and work across teams to resolve issues.

Act as the ‘voice of the customer’ and provide internal feedback on how we can better serve them to maximize customer value and retention.

Run playbooks and program ideas to drive adoption and satisfaction and track results based on defined KPIs.

Document processes to support the team efficiently and at scale.

What We’re Looking For: 

Bachelor’s degree or similar working experience.

1+ year of prior experience in customer success, account management, sales or related customer-facing position within a rapidly growing SaaS company.

Passion for customer experience and technology with the ability to deeply understand a product.

Superior written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex concepts and technologies to diverse audiences including C-level executives.

Detail-oriented and ability to stay organized and prioritize tasks and initiatives in a fast-paced environment, as well as problem-solve.

Data-driven approach to continuously drive additional efficiency.

Highly intelligent, passionate, driven, high EQ, coachable individuals who are excited to delight clients, drive revenue and accelerate their careers.

The posted pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the compensation for this position and is subject to change based on business need. To determine a successful candidate’s starting pay, we carefully consider a variety of factors, including primary work location, an evaluation of the candidate’s skills and experience, market demands, and internal parity.

For roles with on-target-earnings (OTE), the pay range includes both base salary and target incentive compensation. Target incentive compensation for some roles may include a ramping draw period. Compensation is higher for those who exceed targets. Candidates may receive more information from the recruiter.Pay Range$67,500—$90,000 USD 

Navan uses AI-assisted Automated Employment Decision Tool (Metaview) to assist with evaluating resumes against job qualifications for this role. All final decisions are made by human recruiters and hiring managers. 

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Source: Navan careers

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