Strategic Account Manager
About this role
Agtonomy is hiring a Strategic Account Manager, full-time, on-site in Bakersfield, CA, in the INDUSTRIAL sector.
What You'll Be Doing
- Spend significant time in the field with customers, supporting live demos, pilots, and on-site deployments of Agtonomy’s solutions.
- Act as the primary customer-facing representative during trials, capturing feedback on usability, performance, and operational fit.
- Build trusted relationships with farmers, growers, and enterprise operators by understanding their workflows, pain points, and success metrics.
- Partner closely with Field Operations to coordinate demos, troubleshoot issues, and ensure a strong customer experience.
- Translate field learnings into clear, actionable insights for Product, Engineering, and Sales leadership.
- Own follow-up conversations post-demo to progress opportunities toward commercial agreements.
- Manage a portfolio of strategic accounts, driving revenue through pilots, expansions, and long-term customer adoption.
- Maintain detailed notes, feedback, and opportunity tracking in HubSpot and Google Suites.
- Participate in account planning, forecasting, and pipeline reviews with sales leadership.
- Represent Agtonomy at field days, customer sites, grower meetings, and industry events.
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience preferred.
- 4–7 years of experience in sales, account management, customer success, or field-facing roles, ideally within agriculture, ag tech, equipment, or industrial technology.
- Demonstrated comfort working in the field with customers, including farms, test sites, or operational environments.
- Ability to communicate effectively with hands-on operators as well as enterprise and executive stakeholders.
- Strong listening skills and a structured approach to capturing and synthesizing customer feedback.
- Experience supporting technical demos or pilots in collaboration with engineering or field teams.
- Organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple accounts and field activities simultaneously.
- Data-driven mindset with experience tracking opportunities, feedback, and outcomes.
- Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time, with extended time on customer sites as needed.
- Proficiency with Google Workspace, PowerPoint, Slack, CRM systems (HubSpot), and modern sales tools.
What Makes You a Strong Candidate
- You enjoy being in the field and learning directly from customers.
- You are curious, observant, and ask thoughtful questions to uncover real customer needs.
- You take pride in being a strong advocate for the customer internally.
- You are comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- You are passionate about automation, Physical AI, and improving how agricultural work gets done.
- You balance customer empathy with accountability to revenue and business outcomes.
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About Agtonomy
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