Private Equity Senior Account Manager

  • Full-time

Company Description

Recognized as the 127th fastest-growing private company in the 2021 Inc. 5000, BluWave is an innovative market network powered by technology, data, and human ingenuity. More than 500 of the world’s top private equity and venture capital firms and their portfolio companies use BluWave to connect with the very best in class third parties for their wide range of critical due diligence and value creation business needs.   

In Summary: we're like a Gartner Magic Quadrant meets a very high-end Yelp for private equity firms, venture capital and their portfolio companies, connecting them with excellent solution providers, like consulting firms, marketing agencies, independent consultants, and other expert advisors. 

We're a nimble and rapidly growing organization with a unique business model serving a large unmet need. We're looking for top individuals who are creative, driven, interested in all aspects of business, eager to learn, are excited to be working with the world’s top investors and leading consultancies, and curious enough to dive into all aspects of our business and proactively help solve our clients' challenges and opportunities. 

Job Description

We are seeking a driven individual with a proven track record in the Private Equity landscape to help lead our Account Management efforts. As Senior Account Manager, you will be responsible for opening new private equity firm relationships and deepening our relationships across our existing clients and their portfolio companies. You will also provide a leadership role for our firm-wide Account Management activities.

You will be responsible for achieving new client activation targets, bookings targets, and customer satisfaction measures, among other key performance indicators. You will be responsible for working with our data and marketing resources to ensure each client firm and user are brought along the appropriate client journeys.

Are you passionate about helping your clients succeed? Are you a hands-on account manager who deeply understands how to “land and expand” within the PE client landscape? Do you know how to manage the customer journey and maximize customer engagement? Do you love solving complex problems in a fast-paced environment? Are you willing to give the extra effort to ensure our customers and your teammates succeed? Are you a “we,” not “me” person? Do you like to win?

We're looking for a proactive, intelligent, and self-motivated team member for our Account Management Director position who can help us execute against our strategic account management plans to effectively grow our current and future customer relationships.

Key responsibilities will include: 

  • BluWave works with over 550+ PE funds, and your job will be to maximize each of those relationships to ensure each customer firm and user is getting the most from BluWave. You will provide leadership executing our account management strategy for our prospects and customers by working with our Managing Director overseeing overall corporate development, our Account Management team, as well as our Marketing Director.   
  • Leveraging our data and proprietary market maps to strategically build new relationships and grow deeper relationships within existing clients, leveraging the different team members across Account Management and Research/Operations to maximize all customer interactions.   
  • Acting as a player/coach to both engage with clients directly, but also coordinate the various client-facing parts of BluWave to 1) ensure there is regular strategic communication between our internal teams and client accounts; 2) ensure the client interface from BluWave is consistently relevant, coordinated, insightful, and value-added; 3) deepen our customer relationships in support of their success and our business growth.    
  • Engaging with our Marketing team to ensure the value-added content is thoughtfully shared with our customers to support stronger relationships with our clients over time —both digitally (via email and LinkedIn) and in-person (virtual events and, eventually, in person events). 
  • Communicating plans and collaboratively working effectively and efficiently across BluWave, including Account Management, Research/Operations, and Marketing teams.  
  • As with any high-growth start up, being hands-on, flexible, and happy taking on other responsibilities as needed as part of our collaborative team with a shared mission 

 Key characteristics: 

  • A good person who loves to win and believes in “we” more than “me” 
  • Has a player/coach mentality.  You need to be a “doer” who is unafraid to work in a less structured environment 
  • Highly analytical using data-driven intellectual curiosity to solve problems, primarily around prioritizing and penetrating client accounts 
  • Highly developed customer-service skills, including both IQ to full grasp the PE world and how we bring value, and EQ to understand the nuance in communicating with this particular client set 
  • Self-motivated with strong ability to work both in teams and independently to get jobs done on time 
  • Extremely well-organized, detail-oriented, and highly comfortable with multitasking 
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills 

Qualifications

  • 4-year undergraduate degree from a top University, ideally in business or a related field 
  • 5-7 years of professional work experience in account management or customer success. Prior account management experience with a top, trusted resource serving the private equity industry is strongly preferred. 
  • Experience with CRM tools such as Salesforce.com 
  • We prefer that you live here in Nashville currently, but we're open to talking if you're fully committed to relocating here. 
  • We take the health of our employees seriously and require all staff to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as a requirement for employment

Additional Information

The BluWave Values 

We place great importance on adding team members that align with our company values. We live and breathe these every day, and we are looking for someone to join the team who appreciates the importance of company values and culture as much as we do. 

  • Team: We’re a “we” not “me” people 
  • Value: We bring value with value 
  • Grow: We are always growing our business and our selves 
  • Win: Winning for our clients 

BluWave is a top tier destination for differentiated individuals to grow their long-term careers.  We are building the best intelligent B2B marketplace in the world.

BluWave encourages anyone to apply to join our team. BluWave is an inclusive workplace that considers all applicants regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or identification, background, disability or status. 

Future Opportunities for Growth

As BluWave grows, numerous opportunities for additional responsibilities and advancement will present themselves to talented, ambitious, team-oriented individuals who have proven themselves in this role.

Please include your resume and a message to let us know why you would be a good fit for this position.

BluWave, LP is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity.