Full-Time

Account Manager

Life Safety

Posted on 9/11/2026

Ocean Optics

Ocean Optics

51-200 employees

Manufactures portable spectrometers and sensing solutions

No salary listed

Pennsylvania, USA + 2 more

More locations: Massachusetts, USA | New Jersey, USA

In Person

Residence within the assigned geography and approximately 50% travel are expected.

Bachelor's

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Forecasting
CRM
Salesforce

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Requirements
  • Proven success in territory management and consistently delivering against sales quotas.
  • Strong prospecting, pipeline development, relationship-building, and account growth discipline.
  • Ability to identify customer needs and translate them into solutions.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and a results-oriented mindset.
  • Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Experience using customer relationship management and business intelligence tools such as PowerBI and Salesforce.
  • Ability to effectively collaborate with customers, partners, and cross-functional teams.
  • Fluency in English and the primary language used within the assigned area.
  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Communications, Sales, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience in a quota-carrying business-to-business sales or account management role, preferably within life safety, fire alarm, or related technical markets.
  • Access to and residence within the assigned geography, with proximity to primary metropolitan hubs.
  • Willingness to travel as required to serve the assigned territory.
Responsibilities
  • Own a portfolio of accounts and deliver profitable growth through disciplined sales execution.
  • Achieve or exceed assigned sales, profitable growth, and activity targets within the territory.
  • Grow existing accounts through deeper penetration, cross-selling, and adoption of new solutions.
  • Identify, prospect, and win new customers and competitive conversions to expand market share.
  • Build and maintain a healthy pipeline supporting current and future growth objectives.
  • Execute prospecting, customer engagement, and pipeline-generation activities to create qualified opportunities.
  • Build relationships with key decision-makers, influencers, and partners across assigned accounts.
  • Understand customer needs and recommend solutions addressing business and life safety challenges.
  • Conduct customer visits, presentations, training sessions, and product demonstrations.
  • Maintain accurate and timely account, contact, opportunity, activity, and forecast data within the customer relationship management system.
  • Execute account plans, sales processes, and activity expectations.
  • Provide reliable pipeline and forecast updates to support business decision-making and customer experience.
  • Partner with Customer Experience, Technical Support, and Marketing.
  • Achieve or exceed sales and profit objectives.
  • Add new customers and opportunities consistently.
  • Maintain an accurately forecasted pipeline.
  • Maintain strong customer relationships that support retention and expansion.
  • Ensure customer relationship management data accurately reflects key customer interactions and opportunities.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience using business intelligence tools such as PowerBI and Salesforce.
  • Experience in life safety, fire alarm, or related technical markets.

Ocean Optics makes compact spectroscopy hardware and related optical sensing tools. Its flagship products are miniature, portable spectrometers used to measure light across wavelengths for scientists and engineers in fields like chemical analysis, environmental monitoring, and industrial sensing. The devices work by detecting light that passes through or reflects from a sample and translating it into a spectrum—the distribution of light by wavelength—using optical components and a small detector. The company differentiates itself with a modular approach and small, affordable spectrometers that can be integrated into custom systems or handheld devices, enabling researchers to build compact spectroscopic tools rather than relying on large, expensive lab equipment. Ocean Optics' goal is to broaden access to spectral data by providing versatile, scalable sensing solutions that allow users to deploy spectroscopy across a wide range of applications and environments.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Dunedin, Florida

Founded

1989

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Halma reported 16.2% photonics organic profit growth on June 11, 2026.
  • Ocean Optics launched the SR2 spectrometer on July 30, 2026, with higher speed and SNR.
  • Bioz tools drove record engagement in June 2025, strengthening inbound demand and citations.

What critics are saying

  • Edmund Optics now controls a major global channel and can squeeze margins by 2027.
  • Compact spectrometers face commoditization from Avantes, Hamamatsu, and Ocean Insight’s own resellers.
  • If Halma reallocates capital toward faster-growth photonics, Ocean Optics loses strategic priority.

What makes Ocean Optics unique

  • Ocean Optics commercialized the first miniature spectrometer and still defines portable spectroscopy.
  • Halma listed Ocean Optics across six global offices on August 26, 2026.
  • The September 22, 2025 Edmund Optics deal extends reach without building a sales force.

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Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

2%

2 year growth

4%
Ocean Optics
Aug 12th, 2025
Ocean Optics Partners with Edmund Optics for Global Distribution

ORLANDO, Fla. - (August 14, 2025) - Ocean Optics, a pioneer in modular spectroscopy and a trusted name in optical sensing, is proud to announce a new Supplier Partner relationship with Edmund Optics.

Ocean Optics
Jun 23rd, 2025
Ocean Optics Launches Bioz Tool

To further enhance visibility and engagement, Ocean Optics has also added a Bioz Homepage Banner, ensuring that visitors immediately discover the powerful citation management capabilities available on its website.

EIN News
Sep 8th, 2023
Ocean Insight Announces Richard Curran as New President

Ocean Insight announces Richard Curran as new president.

Ocean Insight
Jun 22nd, 2023
Women in Engineering Day 2023

Ocean Insight has been named the Best Place to Work in both Central Florida and New York state.

Ocean Insight
May 3rd, 2023
Press Release: New Ocean SR series

Orlando, Florida, USA (May 4, 2023) – Ocean Optics, a brand of Ocean Insight, introduces compact, versatile Ocean SR series spectrometers distinguished by their rapid spectral acquisition speed and high signal to noise ratio (SNR) performance.