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Senior CSM / Account Manager

Gocertify · Remote · UK

Base
£55K–£60K
OTE
£80K
Quota attainment
Not disclosed
Posted
1mo ago

Why it matters: OTE tells you what you could earn. Attainment tells you how realistic it is.

Ask: “What percentage of fully ramped reps hit quota last year?”

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The job

Who you'd sell to
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Where deals come from
Not stated in the posting.

The Braun Read

Ask hard questions

Too much is left unsaid. Make them answer before you invest.

Pay
Base and OTE both listed. Roughly a 69/31 base-to-variable split.
Transparency
Says nothing about quota, attainment, deal size, territory or sales cycle.
Time on market
Open 30 days. Normal, but not fresh.
Company hiring
This is their only open sales role.

Red lights

None spotted.

Green lights

  • Publishes OTE. It tells you the on-target earnings up front. Most postings don't.

Based only on what the posting says. Lights are a starting point for your first call, not a final judgment.

Questions to ask on the first call

Built from what this posting leaves out. How they answer tells you as much as what they say.

  1. 1.

    What percentage of fully ramped reps hit quota last year?

    OTE is what you could earn. This is how likely you are to earn it.

  2. 2.

    What percentage of reps on the team have been here more than 18 months?

    Tenure shows whether people stay long enough to get paid.

  3. 3.

    Has the comp plan changed in the last 12 to 18 months? What changed?

    A plan that changes every year means the goalposts keep moving.

  4. 4.

    Who sits with reps and reviews calls each week?

    Coaching is often what's behind a good or bad attainment number.

  5. 5.

    What's the annual quota, and how was it set?

    A quota built from real data is a target. Otherwise it's a hope.

  6. 6.

    Why is this role open? Did someone leave, or is it new?

    New headcount is growth. A replacement means someone left. Ask why.

› When the offer comes

Save these for later. They land better once they've said yes to you.

  1. 1.

    Can I see the full comp plan in writing, including clawbacks and accelerators?

    What's in writing is what gets paid. Read it before you sign.

  2. 2.

    Can I see the actual comp distribution for the team last year, not just the OTE?

    The spread shows what most reps really take home. OTE is just the target.

  3. 3.

    I'd be walking away from earned commission to join. Is there room for a sign-on bonus to help cover that?

    Leaving money behind is a fair reason to ask. The worst answer is no.

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Full posting
Department: Client Success Reports to: Head of Client Success Job title: Senior CSM / Account Manager Salary: £55,000-£60,000 base; OTE up to £80,000 Employment Type: Full-time Location: Remote, UK-based, with monthly London meetups About Gocertify Gocertify is a bootstrapped UK tech start-up helping brands run smarter, more targeted reward campaigns. We verify eligible audiences such as students, key workers and seniors, so brands can move away from broad discounting, protect brand value and offer the right rewards to the right customers. We are trusted by 500+ brands, including Samsung, Sainsbury's and FARFETCH. We work with 2m+ shoppers a year, drive £125m+ in retail sales, and have grown profitably and bootstrapped since 2020. In 2025 we were named in the Deloitte EMEA Technology Fast 500, the ranking of the fastest-growing technology companies across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. We are a team of around 20 people, working remotely with monthly meetups in London. We care about staying close to our customers, understanding their goals, and helping brands run targeted discounts that deliver real value. Why this role exists Our Client Success team works with a strong portfolio of major e-commerce brands, many of which already see real value in Gocertify. There's also a lot of growth in that book still to unlock - well-known brands doing a fraction of what they could, where the opportunity is there for someone to go and find it. We are hiring a Senior CSM / Account Manager to help unlock that growth. You will inherit a focused book of high-value and high-potential brand accounts. Some are already commercially significant today, while others have much more value to unlock. This is a commercial role first. You'll protect what's already working while finding the real growth in the book - spotting where an account could be doing more, then doing the work to get it there, whether that's a stronger campaign, a new market, or bringing the right people on board. We do not currently separate Account Management from Client Success, so this role sits at the intersection of both. You will fully own the client relationship while driving the commercial strategy needed to turn this book of business into meaningful growth. Role and scope As a Senior CSM / Account Manager, you will own a portfolio of brand accounts and be accountable for driving retention, adoption and revenue growth across them. You will work closely with the Head of Client Success to identify the accounts with the most potential, build structured account plans, run commercial client conversations, and make sure that growth opportunities are identified and progressed. You will need to combine strong relationship management with strategic thinking. That means understanding what marketing, ecommerce, CRM, loyalty and partnership teams are trying to achieve, then shaping practical campaign recommendations and commercial opportunities around those goals. You will be expected to hit the ground running, quickly understand where the biggest opportunities are, and build momentum with clients who have the potential to grow with Gocertify. What you will focus on Own and grow your portfolio You will work on - Prioritising your time across a broad portfolio based on value, risk and opportunity. - Building account plans that connect client goals to practical revenue opportunities. - Running structured QBRs that are commercially focused. - Identifying and progressing expansion, upsell and cross-sell opportunities across both established and high-potential accounts. - Owning a growth and retention target across your book, and reporting against it. - Keeping CRM records, next steps and opportunities accurate and up to date. Own renewals and reduce churn You will work on - Managing renewals across your portfolio and identifying risks early. - Using client feedback, usage data and commercial judgement to understand account health. - Holding commercial conversations around value, performance, contract terms and next steps. - Working with internal teams to resolve blockers that may affect retention. - Building practical plans to reduce churn and improve client outcomes. Help clients get more from Gocertify You will work on - Helping clients connect their goals to practical campaign recommendations. - Supporting clients to launch, improve or expand targeted discount campaigns. - Identifying where adoption is low and building practical plans to address it. - Running early check-ins after launch to make sure clients are set up for success. - Spotting friction in the client experience and helping remove it. Bring insight back into the business You will work on - Sharing client feedback with Sales, Product and Partnerships. - Flagging common challenges, requests and growth blockers. - Helping the team understand which client segments, use cases or campaigns are creating the most value. - Contributing ideas that improve our product, positioning and account management approach. - Helping build the processes and playbooks that make Client Success more consistent as we grow. Requirements - Established experience in a commercially accountable Client Success, Account Management or equivalent role, ideally in SaaS or subscription - Experience in, or a strong working understanding of, the retail, e-commerce or affiliate/partnerships landscape. - A track record of carrying a commercial target and hitting it (tell us your targets in your CV and how you performed, year on year) - Experience owning renewals and the commercial conversations around them - pricing, contract terms, holding value under pushback - Managed a broad, mixed book of accounts with real commercial value - breadth across varying sizes matters more than depth on a few, but not high volumes of tiny deals - A data-informed approach to spotting client risks and opportunities - Strong prioritisation - you can triage a large account list and focus on where the value is - Confidence with CRM data and disciplined pipeline tracking - Excellent written and verbal communication, with clients and internally - A bias towards action and ownership - you move things forward without being chased - Comfort working in a fast-moving, lightly structured environment - as happy building a process that doesn't exist yet as following one that does Who will thrive in this role This role is a strong fit for someone who can combine deep client understanding, strong commercial execution and a modern way of working. - Strong discovery and client understanding: You’re excellent at understanding what a retailer is trying to achieve, both at a business and individual stakeholder level. You ask good questions, get beneath surface-level requests and identify where Gocertify can create the most value. - Strategic solution-selling: You can turn client objectives into a clear recommendation. That means connecting Gocertify’s features to the client’s goals, then telling a compelling story about why that solution makes sense. You’re comfortable using data, ROI forecasts and persuasive commercial thinking to convince clients why they should care. - A modern, forward-thinking operator: You are excited by smarter ways of working. We use data, internal systems, automation and increasingly AI-enabled workflows to understand clients, spot opportunities and manage accounts more effectively. You don't need to be an AI expert, but you do need to be curious and keen to use it - it's core to how we work here. Work environment and tools - Fully remote, UK-based, with monthly in-person meetings in London. - Core working hours: 10am-4pm UK time, with flexible remote work. - Some travel to client meetings and industry events. - Tools include; Airtable, Apollo.io, Front, Metabase (Analysing client performance) as well as our Client Hub (our custom-built app to manage clients) Benefits - Salary: £55,000 - £60,000; OTE up to £80,000 - 25 days annual leave + UK bank holidays - Private health insurance with AVIVA, including optical and dental cashback and the option to self-fund partners/dependents - EMI share options - Work-from-home budget - Flexible remote work in many countries around our core hours, 10am-4pm UK - Unlimited access to coworking spaces in 48+ countries through Hubble - Access to incredible Gocertify offers
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