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With $200+ million in annual revenue and team members based around the globe, Toptal is the world’s largest fully remote workforce.\nWe take the best elements of virtual teams and combine them with a support structure that encourages innovation, social interaction, and fun. We see no borders, move at a fast pace, and are never afraid to break the mold.\nJob Summary:\nOur Account Managers grow and retain Toptal’s small- and medium-sized business clients. You will own a book of high-value SMB accounts, become a trusted advisor to each client, and proactively expand each relationship across Toptal’s full portfolio, including specialized talent, global hiring and payroll through HireGlobal, and our AI-driven, platform-powered, outcome-focused services offerings.\nThis is a high-energy, consultative growth role. You will look beyond the transactional request to understand the business problem behind it, identify needs the client has not yet voiced, and build account plans that turn one successful engagement into a broader partnership. Excellence in this role means asking better questions than the clients expect, keeping every engagement healthy, and consistently turning insight into expansion revenue.\nYou will own the full client lifecycle. You will be the primary point of contact for your accounts, guide clients through active projects, resolve issues before they stall decisions or put the relationship at risk, and know when to bring in specialists for deeper expertise. You will work closely with Talent Operations, Delivery, HireGlobal, and Toptal’s services experts to deliver an exceptional experience while driving growth.\nOur ideal candidate is ambitious, competitive, driven by client service, and pairs that drive with genuine curiosity about how businesses work. If you want to build real consultative selling skills in a fast-paced environment and be recognized for the growth you create, this is the team you want to be part of.\nThis is a remote position. We do not offer visa sponsorship or assistance. Applicants must be authorized to work in the US at the time of hire. Resumes and communication must be submitted in English.\nResponsibilities:\nThe following information is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or required skills.\nOwn the Portfolio: You are the dedicated advisor and primary point of contact for a portfolio of SMB accounts, accountable for their retention, growth, and success. You exercise discretion and independent judgment in how you prioritize and grow each account.\nDiscovery and Diagnosis: You run insight-driven conversations with clients to understand the business objective behind each request, assess account health, and uncover challenges Toptal can solve. You earn the right to recommend before you recommend.\nAccount Planning: You build and execute proactive account plans that connect each client’s business goals to the right Toptal offering, with clear next steps, timing, and expansion targets.\nPortfolio Selling: Clients rarely arrive with their full set of needs articulated. You expand accounts across Toptal’s full portfolio, including specialized talent, HireGlobal for global hiring and payroll, and our AI-driven, platform-powered services offerings, positioning Toptal as a strategic partner rather than a single-transaction talent vendor.\n Qualify, Manage, and Win Expansion: You own expansion from identification through qualification, proposal, negotiation, and close across departments, projects, and offerings. You explain why the relevant offering fits and address concerns, bringing in teammates as subject-matter experts for specialized offerings and working with internal specialists and experts for solution expertise and scoping. You own the client relationship. You maintain accurate pipeline and forecast data in Salesforce (SFDC).\nUncover Value Early: You monitor demand signals and platform data to offer “uncovered value,” identifying needs before the client voices them, and you use outreach and engagement campaigns, including Salesloft cadences, to educate clients on Toptal’s full breadth of services.\nOwn the Client Experience: You own the client relationship and the client’s experience of every engagement, from kickoff onward. You stay close to active work, address concerns with a client-first mindset, and partner with Talent Operations and Delivery, who execute the work, to keep engagements on track so that retention is earned through results.\nFirst Line of Defense: You are the first to respond when a client raises an issue, resolving smaller concerns yourself and escalating to Client Experience when an issue needs more than you can solve on your own. You partner with Talent Operations, Delivery, HireGlobal, and services experts to bring the right expertise into an account at the right moment. Communicating clearly over Zoom and Slack is critical.\nGrowth and Development: Our SMB team improves individually and as a team. You review your own calls, seek and act on feedback, and contribute what you learn back to the team.\nIn the first week, expect to:\nOnboard and integrate into Toptal.\nLearn Toptal’s model, our team members, and our story.\nMeet colleagues across Customer, Talent Operations, Delivery, and HireGlobal to begin your onboarding journey.\nListen to recorded client calls and identify what the Account Manager did well and what they missed.\nIn the first month, expect to:\nComplete our personalized sales and vertical-specific training, demonstrating fluency in our full range of talent, HireGlobal, and services offerings, including mock calls and role-play scenarios.\nBegin joining client calls, learning who the business partners are on both sides of each relationship and where Toptal can help them grow.\nReview and prioritize your portfolio, and draft an initial account plan for each of your accounts.\nIn the first three months, expect to:\nComplete all onboarding and portfolio transitions, and establish yourself as the primary point of contact for your accounts through introduction and discovery calls.\nEstablish a working cadence with key clients and with the team members supporting those accounts, while exercising discretion and independent judgment. Run account health check-ins that surface at least one new business need beyond the client’s original request.\nBuild a qualified expansion pipeline across your portfolio based on priority account plans with consistently high-performing call-quality metrics and accurate forecasts maintained in SFDC.\nIn the first six months, expect to:\nExecute your account plans and consistently meet or exceed your defined revenue and expansion metrics, with a clear pattern of organic growth across your portfolio.\nExpand the scope of engagements to include new departments, projects, and offerings, including HireGlobal and services opportunities.\nIdentify where expansion opportunities lose momentum and improve your follow-through using evidence from your own work.\nIn the first year, expect to:\nDemonstrate portfolio net revenue growth through sustained retention and expansion performance, with a consistent qualified pipeline of new opportunities across your accounts.\nBe a trusted advisor to your clients, and a reference point for the team on maintaining forecast accuracy, account planning excellence, and on positioning the full Toptal portfolio.\nMentor new team members, sharing best practices on Toptal’s model and on moving from transactional to consultative account management.\nPosition yourself for senior-level partnership responsibilities.\nQualifications and Job Requirements:\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree is required.\n3+ years of B2B account management or sales experience, with a demonstrated history of meeting or exceeding revenue-based quotas.\n1+ years of experience in a software consulting or tech sales role, with proficiency navigating the software project lifecycle.\nDemonstrated experience growing and retaining existing client accounts, including proactively creating and closing expansion opportunities, reaching new decision makers, and connecting new business needs to additional solutions.\nExperience managing a portfolio of accounts in parallel and maintaining momentum while other teams complete necessary work.\nAbility to translate a client’s business objectives into recommendations and actionable project scopes that demonstrate Toptal’s value.\nExperience maintaining accurate pipeline, forecast, and account data in a CRM.\nOutstanding written and verbal communication skills.\nAbility to work and thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company, managing a diverse array of clients and competing deadlines. Exceptional time management is key to success in this role.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExposure to a named sales methodology, such as MEDDPICC, Challenger, SPIN, Sandler, or similar.\nExperience selling more than one product or service line into the same account.\nFamiliarity with global hiring, EOR, or payroll concepts.\nFluency with modern sales tooling, including AI-assisted research, call review, and CRM workflows.\nCore Competencies\nThese are what we assess for in interviews and coach against after you join.\nConsultative discovery. You ask open-ended questions, listen for what is not being said, and diagnose before you prescribe. You uncover the “why” behind a client’s request.\nProactive ownership. You do not wait for a client to name a new opportunity or voice dissatisfaction. You analyze their trajectory, spot gaps, needs, and roadblocks before they occur, and you own the outcome, successes and failures alike.\nBusiness acumen. You can hold a credible conversation with a founder or business owner about growth, hiring, cost, and risk, and connect what you sell to what they are trying to achieve.\nPoint of view. You bring insight to the conversation, stay current on industry trends, and are willing to respectfully reframe a client’s thinking when their stated request is not the best path to their goal.\nPortfolio thinking. You see beyond the single engagement and can position specialized talent, HireGlobal, and services offerings as parts of one growth plan.\nAccount discipline. You bring consistent, disciplined account management and process adherence, including rigorous SFDC hygiene, to execute account strategies and long-term growth.\nClient-centricity. You are committed to the client’s success, across the talent we provide, the experience we offer, and the outcomes we deliver, and you are direct about fit when Toptal is not the right answer.\nWill to win. You are naturally competitive, with yourself first, and optimistic and ambitious in the face of change. You want to exceed targets, not just meet them.\nLearn-it-all mindset. You seek feedback, review your own calls, and share what you learn with the team.\n Collaborative and grounded. Nothing we do is done in isolation. You work as a team within Toptal and within client accounts, and you don’t take yourself too seriously. We are a high-performance team that values authenticity and wit.\nEssential Job Functions\nRegularly and reliably attend scheduled virtual team meetings on camera.\nWork independently with minimal supervision.\nUse all required digital collaboration tools.\nPrioritize and self-manage workflows and deadlines.\nUS FLSA Classification: Full-Time/Exempt\nThis position receives a base salary and is also eligible to earn monthly commissions based on revenue generated from engagements sold. For candidates who meet the qualifications and job requirements listed above, Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.\nApplications are accepted on an ongoing basis. 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