Strategic Account Director

Business Development - East Coast, US

Ref: 129Thursday 25 June 2026

Competitive Base Salary + Uncapped OTE

Lead strategic enterprise account growth across the US Life Insurance technology market, helping life insurers modernise complex operations through specialist software and SaaS solutions.

Role Details

Location: US / Remote
Sector: Life Insurance Software / SaaS
Function: Strategic Accounts / Enterprise Sales

The Opportunity

We are supporting a global insurance technology business with the appointment of a senior Strategic Account Director to drive growth across major Life & Annuities enterprise accounts in North America.

This is a high-impact, quota-carrying role focused on owning the commercial strategy for a defined portfolio of large, complex strategic accounts. You will be responsible for expanding platform adoption, driving cross-sell and upsell opportunities, building senior executive relationships and maximising long-term account value across the Life Insurance market.

The role would suit a proven enterprise software or SaaS sales leader with experience managing major strategic accounts, leading complex sales cycles and operating credibly with C-suite stakeholders across Life Insurance, Life & Annuities, retirement, wealth or insurance technology environments.

The Role

You will take ownership of commercial strategy, account planning and revenue growth across assigned strategic Life & Annuities enterprise accounts.

Working closely with sales engineering, product, delivery and executive leadership teams, you will develop multi-year account plans, identify expansion opportunities and position a broad insurance technology platform around customers’ modernisation, transformation and growth objectives.

This is a senior account leadership role requiring strong executive presence, strategic thinking and the ability to orchestrate complex internal and external stakeholder groups.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own commercial strategy, revenue target and quota for assigned strategic Life & Annuities enterprise accounts

  • Develop and execute multi-year account plans focused on account growth and platform expansion

  • Drive cross-sell, upsell and net-new opportunities within existing strategic accounts

  • Build trusted executive-level relationships across customer organisations

  • Lead complex enterprise software sales cycles, including negotiation and deal closure

  • Position specialist Life Insurance software and SaaS solutions around customer transformation and modernisation objectives

  • Coordinate internal stakeholders across sales engineering, product, delivery and executive leadership

  • Maintain accurate forecasting, pipeline management and CRM discipline

  • Represent the voice of the customer internally to help influence roadmap, packaging and go-to-market strategy

Candidate Profile

We are interested in speaking with senior enterprise sales and strategic account leaders with a strong track record of quota achievement in North America.

You will ideally bring experience selling complex enterprise software, SaaS or insurance technology solutions into Life Insurance, Life & Annuities, retirement, wealth or policy administration environments.

Experience managing and growing strategic accounts with multi-million-dollar annual revenue potential would be highly relevant.

You should be comfortable engaging at C-suite level, leading complex commercial pursuits and building long-term strategic relationships across major Life Insurance enterprise customers.

Why Join?

This is an outstanding opportunity to take ownership of a strategically important portfolio of Life & Annuities enterprise accounts with a global insurance technology business.

You will have the autonomy to shape account strategy, build senior market relationships and drive meaningful long-term revenue growth across a major North American customer base.

Interested?

If you have experience leading strategic enterprise software or SaaS account growth across the Life Insurance, Life & Annuities, retirement, wealth or policy administration technology market, we would be very happy to speak with you confidentially.