Strategic Account Executive - Lodging
Description
Responsibilities
- Own the strategic relationship for a portfolio of enterprise lodging customers, with accountability for growth, expansion strategy, and long-term account health
- Partner with Customer Success Managers to align on goals, delivery, adoption, and overall engagement strategy
- Serve as a trusted advisor to customer executives across operations, IT, payments, and digital teams
- Lead Executive Business Reviews and QBRs focused on outcomes, adoption, and expansion opportunities
- Identify and drive cross-sell, upsell, and global expansion opportunities within lodging environments
- Build and maintain strategic account plans aligned to each customer’s business priorities and growth strategy
- Collaborate with Sales, Product, Operations, and Commercial teams to ensure customer initiatives are supported end to end
- Monitor account health, adoption metrics, and expansion pipeline across assigned accounts
- Bring forward lodging industry insights, best practices, and trends to guide customer strategy
- Act as the voice of the customer internally, influencing product roadmap and service improvements
- Represent FreedomPay in customer meetings, onsite engagements, and relevant lodging or payments industry events
- Travel approximately 30 - 40%
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in a customer-facing role such as Strategic Account Management, Account Management, Customer Success, Solutions Consulting, or similar
- At least 5 years of experience supporting the lodging industry
- This may include managing lodging brands as an account manager or working within payments or commerce technology for a Food Service organization
- Experience supporting enterprise customers in payments, fintech, SaaS, or commerce technology
- Proven ability to manage executive-level relationships within complex, multi-location organizations
- Strong understanding of how technology and payments impact lodging operations and guest experience
- Ability to translate product capabilities into business outcomes
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Demonstrated ability to identify and drive expansion opportunities within existing accounts
- Highly collaborative and comfortable working cross-functionally
- Bachelor’s degree required
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience working with large lodging brands or multi-unit lodging groups
- Background in payments, POS, or commerce platforms within the lodging ecosystem
- Experience supporting global or multi-region lodging operators
- Familiarity with franchise and corporate-owned lodging structures
- Experience building structured account plans, QBR frameworks, or adoption strategies
- MBA or relevant advanced degree
Skills
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- What state do you currently live/work out of? optional
- Are you currently legally authorized to work in the United States for our company without the company providing immigration sponsorship now or at any point in the future? optional
Written answers (7)
- What has you interested in this open role and working with FreedomPay?
- Have you signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement or something similar with your current employer? optional
- What are your salary expectations for your next role? optional
- What languages in addition to English are you business proficient in?
- Describe your experience working with enterprise Lodging or multi-location customers. How have you driven strategic growth or expansion within those accounts beyond day-to-day account management?
- How do you stay informed on trends in the Lodging industry, and how have you applied those insights to shape customer strategy or business outcomes?
- Describe a time you influenced a senior stakeholder or executive to align on a long-term strategy?
