Strategic Account Manager - Government
About the Team
Australia is the hub for the APAC region at Miro, with 70 employees across the region based in Sydney, Melbourne and Singapore. This role is a Strategic (Large Enterprise) Account Executive role partnering with our State Government and Higher Education customers in NSW and QLD. The Strategic Accounts Team is at the forefront of Miro's growth strategy, partnering with the world's largest companies to drive innovation and transformation through visual collaboration. We're a high-energy, collaborative team focused on establishing Miro as a strategic platform within our customers' organisations and expanding our enterprise footprint.About the Role
Given our recent investments in Australian data residency there is a significant opportunity to grow and acquire customers across the territory fuelled by ongoing government investment in digitisation and innovation. As a Strategic Account Manager, you will own the end-to-end relationship and strategic growth for a portfolio of Miro's State Government and Higher Education accounts within the ANZ region. You will act as a trusted advisor, focusing on deeply understanding your customers' business challenges and objectives. Your goal is to drive significant value and innovation through Miro, fostering strong partnerships while identifying and executing on opportunities for both account expansion and new business growth within your assigned territory.What you’ll do
- Develop and execute strategic account plans for assigned large enterprise customers, identifying key opportunities for both expansion and new business growth
- Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with multiple stakeholders (including executives) across your accounts, acting as a trusted advisor
- Proactively identify and engage new teams, departments, or high-value use cases within existing accounts to expand Miro's footprint and value
- Lead complex sales cycles for both expansion and new business opportunities, from qualification and value articulation through to negotiation and close
- Partner closely with Customer Success Managers to ensure customer health, drive adoption of key use cases, and identify growth signals
- Master Miro's platform and solutions to effectively demonstrate value, inspire new ways of working, and address customer needs
- Develop Miro’s brand in state government through events and partnering with industry bodies
- Drive strong business management through achieving quarterly and annual targets and maintaining an accurate forecast and pipeline
What you’ll need
- 8+ years of successful experience in a quota-carrying Account Management or Account Executive role within SaaS, managing and growing large, complex enterprise accounts
- Proven track record of consistently exceeding targets through both new business acquisition (within accounts or potentially net-new) and account expansion/growth
- Experience managing the full customer lifecycle, including navigating complex renewals and driving expansion opportunities (deals typically in the $50k-$150k+ ACV range)
- Strong ability to build relationships and communicate value effectively with diverse stakeholders, including C-level/VP executives
- Excellent discovery, strategic account planning, and value selling skills
- Proficiency in applying a structured sales or account management methodology ie. MEDDPICC, Miller Heiman
- Collaborative mindset with proven experience working effectively with Customer Success, Sales Engineering, Marketing, and other internal teams
- Alignment with Miro's Mindsets (e.g., Drive, Curiosity, Empathy, Accountability) and a genuine passion for customer success
What's in it for you
We want you to feel supported, connected, and ready to grow. Our global benefits package generally includes equity, a wellbeing benefit, a WFH equipment allowance, and an annual Learning & Development stipend. Join a diverse team where you can do your best work. Full benefits may differ per location. If you would like to learn more about location-specific benefits, please refer to our Global Miro benefits board.
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About Miro
Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 100M users and 250,000 companies collaborate in the Innovation Workspace. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,600 employees in 13 hubs around the world.
We are a team of dreamers. We look for individuals who dream big, work hard, and above all stay humble. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do and through our work together we hope to create a supportive, welcoming, and innovative environment. We strive to play as a team to win the world and create a better version of ourselves every day. If this sounds like something that excites you, we want to hear from you!
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