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Mongoose

Mongoose

AI-driven enrollment, retention, and engagement.

Account Manager

Full-Time
$70k - $150k/yr
Mid
Buffalo, NY, USA
Remote

About the job

Requirements
  • Proven success carrying a renewal and/or expansion quota in a business-to-business software-as-a-service environment, with a consistent track record of exceeding targets.
  • Ability to build healthy pipelines, convert opportunities with strong win rates, drive renewals, and grow accounts through upsells and cross-sells.
  • Ability to build trust and make complex ideas easy to understand and act on.
  • Ability to anticipate problems, develop solutions, improve processes, and drive better outcomes.
  • Ability to use data to uncover opportunities, address challenges, and translate data into actionable insights for business decisions.
  • Experience with customer relationship management systems.
  • Ability to collaborate with Marketing, Product, and Client Success in a partnership model.
  • Ability to learn quickly, adapt, and understand the higher education industry.
Responsibilities
  • Meet or exceed assigned renewal and expansion quotas to drive revenue growth.
  • Develop strategic retention and growth plans in partnership with the Customer Success Manager.
  • Lead renewals and proactively identify and address risks before renewal time.
  • Build pipeline through focused weekly outbound activities.
  • Own upsell and cross-sell opportunities and expand the company's footprint within schools by introducing solutions to new departments and teams.
  • Build client relationships through strategic outreach and quarterly reviews.
  • Position the company as an indispensable partner based on client goals and challenges.
  • Drive commercial strategy for renewals, upsells, and expansions in partnership with the Client Success Manager.
  • Partner with Marketing to share new offerings, success stories, and updates with clients.
  • Collaborate with Leadership to identify risks and develop solutions to challenges or closing opportunities.
  • Share customer insights and ideas with Product.
  • Represent the company at industry events, conferences, and trade shows.
  • Conduct onsite visits and travel as needed.
  • Track client health metrics to guide conversations and uncover opportunities.
  • Maintain accurate customer relationship management records for renewals, upsells, expansions, and interactions.
  • Share internal insights and updates to maintain alignment and support strategy.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in the higher education space.
  • Expertise with HubSpot.

About the company

AI-powered engagement platform for higher education that helps colleges enroll more students, retain them, and support them without adding staff. AI Agents handle routine questions 24/7 across Text, WhatsApp, and Chat, escalate when needed, and integrate with existing CRM workflows. The system turns CRM data into timely, personalized outreach and works across multiple channels to reach students where they are. Built for higher ed by practitioners, it aims to move students from inquiry to graduation and beyond, improving deposits, enrollment, retention, and giving while reducing required staffing.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Buffalo, New York

Founded

2009

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What believers are saying

  • WhatsApp support for Slate and Ellucian Recruit expands international and adult-student reach.
  • July 2026 Ellucian Advise integration opens retention and student-success budgets beyond admissions.
  • Capterra lists over 1,000 institutions, signaling durable product-market fit and broad installed base.

What critics are saying

  • Slate and Salesforce own the system of record, compressing Mongoose into a feature.
  • Element451, ibl.ai, and Modern Campus attack Mongoose’s engagement layer from adjacent stacks.
  • If AI Agents underperform on enrollment, institutions cut Cadence budgets within 2026 renewals.

What makes Mongoose unique

  • Mongoose embeds text, chat, WhatsApp, and CRM workflows into higher-ed operations.
  • December 2025 Slate WhatsApp support deepens lock-in for institutions already on Slate.
  • April 2026 AI Agents automate student conversations while handing edge cases to humans.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Remote Work Options

Company News

Business Wire
Sep 22nd, 2022
Mongoose Launches Cadence Chat Solution To Reach Students, Promote Student Success, And Battle Enrollment Declines

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mongoose, a pioneer in conversational software for the higher education industry, today announced the launch of Cadence Chat, an online engagement solution that helps colleges and universities build authentic relationships with website visitors. Cadence Chat is a new solution that’s built into Mongoose’s Cadence product suite, which is focused on helping higher education institutions streamline communications and enhance relationships throughout the student lifecycle, in part to combat declining enrollment and retention rates. Client feedback drove the design for an integrated text and chat platform that is aligned with the communication preferences of digital native audiences, including students. Institutions using Mongoose’s chat solution have generated an average of 1,600 incremental inquiries and $1.2 million in incremental revenue, while saving 78 staff days in a single recruitment cycle