Account Manager - Banking and Wealth

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam.

The Plaid Account Management team in the Banking & Wealth Segment leverages our deep technical, product, and industry knowledge to help our banking, wealth, and insurance cohort of customers build and scale amazing applications. We act as partners, advisors, and advocates for our customers to help shape how consumers and businesses interact with their finances.

Plaid is looking for an experienced customer-facing professional to manage and grow our relationships with a portfolio of high-potential, strategic customers. The right candidate has the ability to grow a customer’s revenue, build strong partnerships with their customers, develop a deep understanding of their priorities, motives, and key drivers, and is solutions oriented. In this role, you will be the primary point of contact for your customers and will work with them on all stages of integration, scaling, product expansion, and partnership management. You will be responsible for owning and growing revenue (cross-selling, up-selling, increasing product utilization, and senior stakeholder management).

Responsibilities

• Own the overall relationship with our banking, wealth, and insurance customers, identifying key stakeholders and building relationships with influencers and the core team interacting with our solutions.

• Manage partnership, commercial, and technical topics; develop and implement strategies that increase customer product adoption, engagement, and growth at scale to drive revenue.

• Own revenue targets, which includes identifying and closing new upsell opportunities and leading commercial negotiations for contract renewals.

• Be a strategic advisor and product consultative guidance on Plaid and industry best practices as customers build and scale their applications.

• Be a champion for our customers and work with our internal Plaid teams to translate customer feedback into product insights; partner with key customer stakeholders to ensure alignment between their business and product priorities and Plaid’s.

• Partner and collaborate with internal cross-functional counterparts such as Sales, Partnerships, Support, Risk, Legal, Finance, Commercial, Engineering, Product, and Business Operations.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of quota carrying account management experience; ideally with large enterprise organizations.

• Ability to collaborate closely with Plaid’s technical team to ensure customer launches are timely and successful; previous B2B technology experience is a strong plus.

• Deep customer empathy and desire to see our customers succeed.

• Ability to quickly understand new technologies and become a subject matter expert in Plaid’s APIs in order to convey complex information simply to our customers.

• Interest in financial services and technical products; grit, enthusiasm, and a high degree of intellectual curiosity.

• Excitement to work in a high-growth, ever-changing environment and to help build processes and tools as needed.

• Adaptable and capable of working with all types of people and roles to build long-lasting relationships.

Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!

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Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered. Plaid provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Pay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience and skillset, and location. Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.