Associate Account Manager

Role Overview

• Build, cultivate, and expand high-level relationships with assigned restaurants, serving as a trusted advisor and long-term strategic partner.
• Own the end-to-end customer lifecycle, including onboarding, installation, configuration, training, adoption, retention, and revenue growth.
• Lead and manage a defined portfolio and market segment, driving high retention rates and reducing churn.
• Perform and oversee OpenTable software installations, customizing solutions to meet each restaurant’s operational needs.
• Act as the primary liaison and advocate for restaurant partners, resolving cross-functional issues across Product, Support, Finance (AR), Marketing, and Sales.
• Proactively resolve customer cases and daily tasks while ensuring timely follow-up and high customer satisfaction.
• Provide data, insights, and performance reports to help restaurant partners optimize operations and change behaviors that drive success.
• Strategically overcome objections and competitive challenges while positioning OpenTable’s solutions effectively.
• Deliver customized product demonstrations and strategic presentations to current clients and prospects.
• Encourage customers to think differently about their business by sharing industry trends, best practices, and unique insights.
• Drive engagement on the OpenTable platform to increase reservation availability and overall utilization.
• Consistently meet and exceed individual, team, revenue, and retention goals.
• Maintain accurate documentation, forecasts, pipelines, and win/loss insights in account management systems (including Salesforce).
• Stay current on OpenTable products, solutions, and enhancements, continuously evolving account management strategies and processes.
• Listen to market needs and customer feedback, sharing insights with Product and Marketing teams to influence roadmap and go-to-market strategies.
• Collaborate closely with Account Executives, Inside Sales, Customer Support, and Field teams to ensure seamless customer experiences.
• Collaborate with our internal billing team to support restaurants to have the best experiences, as well as work proactively in our internal billing projects that impact customer retention
• Deliver initial and ongoing training remotely to restaurant staff to maximize product adoption and engagement.
• Conduct remote restaurant or group meetings, to attend different areas like performance in our network, use our marketing engine to increase the exposure, and use our integrations

Requirements

• Proven experience in account management, consultative selling, or equivalent customer-facing roles within the restaurant or hospitality industry.
• Deep knowledge of restaurant operations and hands-on experience working within local restaurant markets.
• Strong customer service orientation with a consistent record of driving results through trusted advisory relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally across multiple departments to solve complex problems and deliver outcomes.
• Highly self-motivated, tenacious, and results-driven, with the ability to perform under pressure and against ambitious goals and deadlines.
• Skilled at presenting new perspectives that reframe how customers think about their business and drive strategic change.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to gather, interpret, and leverage data to support and influence business decisions.
• Excellent communication, listening, influencing, training, and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal.
• Exceptional organization, documentation, prioritization, and time-management capabilities.
• Comfortable and effective working in unstructured, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial environments.
• Experience using Salesforce or equivalent CRM systems; OpenTable software experience is a plus.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Windows, Office tools, and internet-based applications; basic web design or HTML knowledge is a plus.
• Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation for business-related travel (expenses reimbursed).
• Bilingual (Spanish/English) required.
• College or university degree preferred.

Benefits

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Focus on mental health and well-being:
• Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
• Company-paid subscription to Headspace
• Company-wide week off a year
• the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
• Paid parental leave
• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
• Paid volunteer time
• Focus on your career growth:
• Development Dollars
• Leadership development
• Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
• Travel Discounts
• Employee Resource Groups
• Christmas Bonus
• 30 days
• 20 days of paid time off a year
• 25% vacation premium
• Private health, dental, and life insurance
• Monthly social events and happy hours