Strategic Account Manager, Mid Market (City of Sydney)

The Role Join the Square Account Management team and play a critical role in helping some of our highest-value Sellers grow and scale with Square. The Account Management team partners with high-value Australian business owners to maximise the value they get from Square, providing tailored, strategic guidance to help Sellers achieve their goals. As an Account Manager on our Strategic team, you will take ownership of long‑term, high‑impact partnerships with a diverse portfolio of dynamic business owners. Reporting to the Strategic Lead, you will operate with a high degree of autonomy and engage in peer support. Building trusted relationships across industries, developing a deep understanding of seller needs, and proactively shaping solutions that drive meaningful outcomes. You will act as a strong advocate for your Sellers within Square, balancing their priorities with broader business objectives. In this role, you are expected to anticipate challenges and opportunities, applying sound judgment and creativity to solve complex business problems. You will leverage Square’s platform to design thoughtful, scalable solutions across a range of business scenarios, navigating ambiguity with confidence. As a trusted advisor, you will lead day‑to‑day engagement while also identifying and driving longer‑term growth opportunities — expanding partnerships, influencing adoption, and negotiating commercially sound, mutually beneficial outcomes. You will play a key role in representing the voice of some of Square’s highest‑value Sellers, synthesising insights from your portfolio to inform internal teams and influence decision‑making. Through robust cross‑functional partnership, you will help shape how Square supports and grows its strategic sellers, contributing beyond individual accounts to broader team and business impact. The ideal candidate brings experience across mid‑market account management, business development, consulting, partnerships, sales, or sales engineering, and is comfortable engaging senior stakeholders including business owners, IT, finance, and operations leaders. They have demonstrated success managing complex, multi‑stakeholder initiatives on behalf of customers and are confident operating independently in quick‑moving environments. Internally, they collaborate effectively with product, engineering, finance, implementation, marketing, legal, and sales teams to drive successful outcomes for customers and Square. You Will:
- Build partnerships and establish lasting, fruitful relationships with existing sellers to retain and grow our presence with mid‑large market organisations
- Take full ownership of your managed book and oversee business prioritisation, contracting, technology strategy and ongoing account management
- Anticipate and solve complex seller challenges, leveraging deep product, payments, and industry knowledge to design innovative solutions in ambiguous environments
- Support and elevate peers, sharing best practices, contributing to team learning, and positively influencing the broader Strategic AM function.
- Demonstrated ability to contribute to the refinement and evolution of Strategic Account Management practices, applying subject matter expertise in account segmentation, prioritisation, and portfolio strategy
- Experience designing and operationalising repeatable approaches to account planning, seller engagement, and opportunity management that improve consistency and impact across a team
- Proven capability to engage and align cross‑functional partners (e.g. Product, Sales, Implementation, Finance, Marketing) to support a more systematic and scalable approach to managing strategic sellers
- Strong judgment in identifying patterns and insights across a book of business and translating them into practical frameworks or guidance that others can follow
- Partner with sales colleagues to establish and grow newly on‑boarded, high‑value sellers
- Be the “voice of the seller” curating analysis of product performance from your managed book, and provide relevant feedback to inform for product roadmap decision‑making You Have:
- 5+ years of experience in account management, business development, partnerships, sales or sales engineering focused on technical products
- Industry experience in Hospitality and/or Food & Beverage strongly preferred
- Proven ability to own revenue outcomes and manage sophisticated commercial relationships with minimal guidance
- In‑depth experience collaborating internally with partners on complex deals or partnerships
- Experience requirements gathering with customers, building business cases for feature development with product teams, while balancing expectations for both parties
- Proven ability to own revenue outcomes and manage sophisticated commercial relationships with minimal guidance
- Strong experience leading multi‑stakeholder, cross‑functional initiatives across product, engineering, finance, legal, and go‑to‑market teams
- Demonstrated ability to quantify impact, build compelling business cases, and influence prioritisation decisions internally
- Confidence engaging and influencing senior decision‑makers, both internally and externally
- Formal sales or negotiation methodology training, with the judgment to adapt approaches based on context
- Experience supporting or shaping go‑to‑market efforts for new or evolving products Benefits Every benefit we offer is designed with one goal: empowering you to do the best work of your career while building the life you want. Work from home, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offerings. EEO Statement Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to identity or other legally protected class. We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Work Location Block is a globally distributed company and this role will require working with other employees in multiple time zones. You may be required to perform work outside of normal business hours as part of this role. #J-18808-Ljbffr Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3ruhek