Remote Account Manager for International Recruitment Agency
Somewhere · Remote
Overview
Somewhere is hiring a remote Account Manager to join their internal sales team. You will consult with business founders, scope their hiring needs, and close service agreements. Earn USD 1500 to 2000 monthly plus performance incentives while working from home on US business hours. This role is perfect for a consultative sales professional with recruitment or staffing experience.
About the role
This is your chance to join a fast growing global recruitment and remote talent placement firm. As an Account Manager, you will be the trusted advisor to business owners, CEOs, and hiring managers who need remote talent to grow their teams. You will not be doing cold calls. Instead, you will focus on inbound leads and consultative discovery calls.
Your day to day will involve leading 20 to 30 minute video calls to understand client pain points, scoping roles, and setting realistic compensation expectations. You will draft and execute service agreements, ensure deposits are collected, and coordinate kickoff calls with the recruitment delivery team. You will also keep detailed notes in HubSpot CRM and nurture pipeline leads so that nothing falls through the cracks.
This role requires someone with a commercial mindset who can close deals while maintaining strong relationships. The company offers a fully remote setup aligned to US business hours, with a competitive USD salary and performance incentives.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in recruitment account management, staffing agency sales, consultative B2B sales, or RPO account intake
- Proven track record closing commercial agreements with North American or European business founders and hiring managers
- Deep understanding of international remote staffing, offshore/nearshore talent dynamics, and compensation benchmarking
- Strong working fluency with HubSpot CRM for deal pipelines, task workflows, and contact management
- Experience drafting and issuing commercial contracts, service orders, and invoicing terms
- Exceptional written and verbal English communication with neutral accent and executive presence
- High comfort working across U.S. business hours (PST, CST, or EST overlap)
- Preferred tools: Google Workspace, Zoom, Fathom/Otter.ai, Slack, DocuSign/PandaDoc, Loom
Responsibilities
- Lead structured consultative discovery calls with business owners to uncover hiring needs
- Scope detailed job profiles and set realistic compensation benchmarks
- Draft and execute Master Services Agreements (MSAs) and Service Orders (SOs)
- Enforce search deposit standards and commercial terms
- Coordinate structured kickoff calls between clients and recruitment teams
- Nurture stalled leads and past clients back into active hiring pipelines
- Maintain pristine CRM hygiene in HubSpot
- Collaborate with marketing and recruitment teams to monitor talent supply and market demand
- Track conversion metrics from discovery call to signed service order
- Alert sales and recruitment leadership when client expectations diverge from market reality
Benefits
USD $1,500 – $2,000 monthly basic salary, performance incentives, fully remote work
Job details
- Organisation
- Somewhere
- Job type
- Contract
- Work arrangement
- Remote
- Experience level
- Mid (3+ years)
- Category
- Sales & Business Dev
- Application Method
- Apply online
Success Guide
If you are applying for this Account Manager role, highlight your experience closing deals with international clients, especially in recruitment or staffing. Be ready to talk about how you consult with founders, set realistic hiring expectations, and handle commercial negotiations. This is a remote role that requires you to work US hours, so demonstrate your ability to manage your time across time zones. In your cover letter, mention your familiarity with HubSpot and any relevant tools listed. Since the company values a consultative approach, avoid sounding like a pushy salesperson. Instead, show how you build trust and guide clients to the right hiring decisions. This is a contract position paid in USD, which is great for South African professionals. Make sure your CV reflects your deal closing metrics and client satisfaction.
How we help you prepare
This employer takes applications on their own website, so you'll submit this one yourself — but SPAAN NOW gets everything ready for you first. Here's how it works:
- Our AI tailors your CV to match this job's keywords and requirements, so it stands out to recruiters and screening systems.
- A custom cover letter is written specifically for this role — no generic templates.
- We gather the documents this job needs: CV. SPAAN NOW pulls these from your profile and packages them together, ready to attach.
- Once your application is prepared, we show you exactly how and where to apply — just follow the link to the employer and submit your ready-made CV, cover letter and documents.
- Mark it as applied under Applications to keep track, and if you're shortlisted, use AI Interview Prep to practise questions commonly asked for roles like this.
We do the hard part — tailoring and gathering everything — so applying yourself only takes a minute.
Spaan Talk
15 job seekers are in this Circle