Account Manager
First Street Foundation
Sales & Business Development
New York, NY, USA
Location
New York City
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Marketing & Sales
Company & Mission Overview:
Our mission: We exist to connect climate and financial risk.
Who we are: First Street is the standard for Climate Risk Financial Modeling. For over a decade, we’ve been translating climate risk into decision-useful financial outcomes for investors, businesses, communities, and property owners worldwide. With backing from world-class firms, including Innovation Endeavors, Galvanize, General Catalyst, and others, our team has raised millions to change how the global economy thinks about climate change.
Read more about our culture here and see what Climate Risk Financial Modeling is all about here.
Our data: We’ve assembled leading climate scientists and economists to develop transparent, peer-reviewed methodologies to calculate the past, present, and future climate risk for properties and asset classes spanning real estate, infrastructure, and companies. Using physics-based deterministic models, we predict the likelihood of floods, wildfires, hurricanes, and other hazards at any location on Earth, along with associated damage and downtime.
Our customers: We aim to incorporate climate risk data into every financial decision made today. We are relied on every day by:
Institutional investors like Norges Bank Investment Management and Blackstone.
Banking enterprises, including Bank of America and Fifth Third.
Government bodies ranging from Fannie Mae to the US State of Connecticut.
Millions of everyday users on Zillow, Redfin, Realtor.com, Homes.com, and more.
Come join us and use your talents to change the world.
Team & Role Overview:
We’re looking for an Account Manager to join First Street as part of our Client Success team. In this role, you will own the post-onboarding relationship with our enterprise clients, including asset owners and managers, financial institutions, real estate firms, and corporations, ensuring they realize maximum value from First Street’s Enterprise Suite over the full lifecycle of their partnership with us.
This position requires a combination of strong client management instincts, the ability to translate climate risk data into business outcomes that resonate with clients, and the operational rigor to manage a portfolio of strategic accounts at scale. You will be the trusted advisor and primary day-to-day point of contact for assigned accounts, driving adoption, surfacing expansion opportunities, partnering with Account Executives on renewal motions, and channeling client feedback into our product, science, and data teams.
You will report directly to the Director of Enterprise Solutions and work closely with other members of the Client Success and Solutions Engineering teams, account executives, and our product, climate science, and data teams to ensure that client needs are met, risks are identified early, and growth opportunities are identified and converted.
What you’ll do:
Own the post-onboarding relationship for a portfolio of strategic enterprise accounts across asset owners, asset managers, banks, corporates and other clients, serving as the primary point of contact from go-live through renewal
Build and maintain trusted relationships with day-to-day users as well as senior stakeholders across investment, risk, sustainability, underwriting, portfolio management, and other teams at client organizations
Drive product adoption of First Street’s Enterprise Suite by understanding each customer’s specific use cases and proactively guiding them to the modules, workflows, and outputs that deliver the most value
Lead Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) that surface readmap-relevant feedback, identify expansion opportunities, quantify value delivered, and reinforce First Street’s position as a strategic partner
Monitor account health using usage analytics, qualitative signals, and customer feedback; build mitigation plans where churn risk is identified and escalate appropriately
Partner with account executives on renewal strategy and execution, owning the value narrative, supporting commercial conversations, and ensuring renewal readiness in advance
Identify expansion and upsell opportunities across new features, additional user groups, and adjacent business units; collaborate with AEs to convert them
Coordinate with solutions engineers, product managers, software engineers, and other relevant SMEs as necessary to resolve technical questions on data delivery, API integrations, methodology, and platform functionality
Collect, prioritize, and channel client feedback into our Product, Climate Science, Economics, and Data teams to influence the roadmap
Maintain accurate customer records, account plans, and Forecasts in HubSpot, ensuring visibility into account health, renewal risk, and pipeline
Develop and refine scalable customer success assets including playbooks, training materials, knowledge hub content, and QBR templates with a focus on reducing time-to-value and enabling customers to self-serve where appropriate
Travel as required to meet with customers and represent First Street at industry events
What you’ll need:
5+ years of experience in customer success, account management, or technical client services at a B2B SaaS, data, or analytics company, ideally selling into investment organizations, banks, financial services, real estate, or corporate risk functions
Demonstrated track record of managing a portfolio of enterprise accounts, including ownership of adoption, retention, and expansion outcomes
Strong understanding of how investors, financial institutions, and corporations make decisions, and an ability to connect data products to investment, underwriting, risk management, disclosure, and other relevant workflows
The ability to understand and communicate complex climate science concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence decision-makers at all levels
Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities across multiple accounts simultaneously
Curiosity and willingness to learn about climate change and First Street’s product offerings
Education minimum requirement: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline
What will make you stand out:
Direct experience supporting clients in asset management, asset owner, banking, financial services, or real estate
Familiarity with climate risk, ESG, or sustainability concepts, including regulatory frameworks such as TCFD and CSRD
Proficiency with HubSpot or comparable CRM and customer success tooling
Experience building customer-facing infrastructure (knowledge hubs, training programs, video content) that scales the CS function
Advanced credentials such as CFA, MBA, or equivalent
How we work:
Impact: We only focus on things that move the needle
Drive: We are driven by the role we play in connecting climate change to financial risk
Ownership: This is our company and we act accordingly
Urgency: We move quickly because the world depends on it
Resilience: We have a growth mindset in all that we do
What we offer:
Competitive salary commensurate with experience
Ownership interest in the company via Employee Stock Option Plan
Hybrid Schedule with in-office work days on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday
15 vacation days along with 8 statutory company holidays, 5 days for winter break office closure, and 10 sick days
Healthcare monthly premium covered at 100% for employee or a significant contribution for family plans
Vision and dental benefits with partial employee contribution
12 weeks of paid parental leave
Access to One Medical, Teledoc, HealthAdvocate, Kindbody, and Talkspace
Company 401k program
Commuter benefits
Life Insurance
Tech startup environment
Weekly team meals and an office stocked with coffee and snacks
Working on the world’s biggest issue with other passionate professionals
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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