Sales & Revenue - Executive & VP
Strategic Account Director
Director / VP / Exec
Independently auditedOwns the revenue number and the organisation that delivers it. Owns a multi-team area, its strategy, its budget, and its operating model.
Audited package
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Your Stack (Swappable)
This role works against whatever tools you already run. We list the tool categories the role operates in, never a named vendor, so you are never asked to replace a system that works.
- CRM
- Conversation Intelligence
- Account and contact intelligence
- CPQ & Proposals
- Account & Deal Planning
- Analytics & BI
- Contract Lifecycle (CLM)
- Customer Success Platform
Deliverables
- Strategy and operating plans
- Board and executive narrative
- Investment and trade-off recommendations
- Organisational design proposals
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a multi-year strategic account thesis and enterprise-wide whitespace map
- Build durable C-suite and senior stakeholder relationships around mutual strategic agendas
- Own the personal account quota, opportunity portfolio, forecast, and commercial close for assigned flagship accounts
- Design enterprise-agreement, multi-product, multi-business-unit, and multi-year commercial strategies
- Orchestrate executives, presales, product, engineering, Customer Success, delivery, legal, finance, and partners as a virtual team
- Run account governance and executive business reviews that connect delivered value to future strategy
- Balance near-term bookings with relationship trust, delivery capacity, concentration risk, and lifetime value
- Translate recurring customer patterns into decision-ready product, partnership, and investment requests
The essence of this seat
The Strategic Account Director is the senior individual contributor who owns a handful of the largest and most strategic customer accounts as multi-year relationships, carries a large personal number, and orchestrates a broad virtual team without formal headcount authority.
Signature move
Begin with a multi-year account thesis connecting the customer's strategy, economics, operating model, technology, leadership agenda, and relationship history
What good looks like
an account system beyond deals, evidence-based investment, and explicit reasons not to pursue
Decision rights
- - the multi-year commercial and relationship strategy for assigned strategic accounts
- - a large personal account quota, strategic opportunity portfolio, enterprise-agreement strategy, and account forecast
- - orchestration of the account's virtual team, executive engagement, governance cadence, and cross-functional account plan
- - the recommendation to invest, sequence, pause, protect, or exit opportunities based on long-term account value
Working vocabulary
What this role does
The Strategic Account Director is the senior individual contributor who owns a handful of the largest and most strategic customer accounts as multi-year relationships, carries a large personal number, and orchestrates a broad virtual team without formal headcount authority. It is a Senior IC seat whose central outcome is a flagship customer relationship compounds over years through executive trust, enterprise-wide value, disciplined account governance, strategic commercial outcomes, and coordinated delivery across a small portfolio of critical accounts The work concentrates on flagship named-account strategy, C-suite relationship architecture, enterprise-wide whitespace, multi-year value agendas, enterprise-agreement strategy, strategic opportunity portfolios, virtual-team orchestration, executive governance, and senior-IC influence without people authority. The signature strength is operating the account as a long-lived strategic system rather than a sequence of unrelated deals while remaining a quota-carrying individual contributor. This seat owns very few accounts with seven-figure-plus lifetime value and company-level strategic relevance. The Strategic Account Director develops C-suite relationships, connects the customer's multi-year priorities to an enterprise account thesis, sequences large opportunities, and coordinates executives, product, engineering, presales, Customer Success, partners, legal, finance, and delivery. The word Director is a senior seller title here, not a people-management designation. The strict boundaries are operational rather than cosmetic. Against Enterprise Account Executive, this seat owns a handful of flagship accounts as multi-year strategic systems and C-suite relationships; the neighbor owns a broader book of enterprise pursuits and individual large deals. Against VP / Regional VP of Sales, this seat carries a personal account number and influences a virtual team without formal people authority; the leadership neighbor owns teams, headcount, territory strategy, performance, and the regional or organizational number. Against Alliance / Partner Manager, this seat owns the direct customer relationship and revenue strategy; the partner neighbor owns the partner relationship, joint business plan, and partner economics. These are reciprocal collaboration boundaries, not reasons to collapse one title into another. Every named title remains its own 1:1 role package.
Best-fit customer
organisations that need experienced judgement applied to revenue generation, go-to-market coverage, and commercial performance
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