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Mongoose

AI-driven enrollment, retention, and engagement.

Account Manager

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
$70k - $150k/yr
Mid
Boston, MA, USA+7 moreMore locations: Nashville, TN, USA | Washington, DC, USA | Dallas, TX, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | Buffalo, NY, USA | New York, NY, USA | Atlanta, GA, USA
RemoteOnsite client visits and travel as needed.
Sales & Account ManagementAccount Management

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.
  • Demonstrated ability to build healthy pipelines, convert with strong win rates, drive renewals, and grow accounts through upsells and cross-sells.
  • Ability to build client relationships and trust, and communicate complex ideas clearly so clients can understand and act on them.
  • Ability to anticipate problems, develop solutions, think strategically, improve processes, and drive better outcomes.
  • Ability to use data and insights to uncover opportunities, address challenges, and shape an approach; experience translating data into actionable insights for client business decisions.
  • Experience with customer relationship management systems; HubSpot expertise is a plus.
  • Ability to collaborate with Marketing, Product, and Client Success, and work in partnership with a dedicated Client Success Manager to balance commercial ownership with adoption and value delivery.
Responsibilities
  • Meet or exceed assigned renewal and expansion quotas while developing strategic retention and growth plans in partnership with the Customer Success Manager.
  • Lead contract renewals and proactively anticipate and address renewal risks.
  • Build a pipeline through focused weekly outbound activities, and own upsell and cross-sell opportunities by demonstrating how the company's solutions address client needs.
  • Expand product adoption within schools by introducing solutions to new departments and teams.
  • Build client relationships through strategic outreach and quarterly reviews, understand client goals and challenges, and position the company as a partner.
  • Work with the Client Success Manager on commercial strategy while the partner leads adoption, value realization, and day-to-day success; jointly deliver outcomes that maximize client satisfaction and growth.
  • 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 to inform improvements.
  • Represent the company at industry events, conferences, and trade shows, including onsite visits and travel as needed.
  • Track client health metrics, maintain accurate CRM records of renewals, upsells, and interactions, and share updates internally.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in the higher education sector.

About the company

Mongoose provides an AI-powered engagement platform for higher education that helps colleges enroll more students, retain them, and support them without adding staff. Its AI Agents act as teammates, handling routine questions, prompting next steps, and escalating to humans when needed, while working 24/7 across Text, WhatsApp, and Chat and integrating with existing CRM workflows. The platform turns CRM data into personalized outreach that targets prospective students, current enrollees, and donors, driving measurable outcomes. By focusing on scalable, multi-channel engagement built for higher education, Mongoose aims to move students from first inquiry through graduation and beyond, increasing deposits, enrollment, retention, and giving with less additional 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

  • April 21, 2026 AI Agents launch targets enrollment, retention, and fundraising automation.
  • July 2026 Ellucian Advise integration opens student-success budgets beyond admissions.
  • 2026 benchmark reports across 53.4 million messages strengthen product proof and sales credibility.

What critics are saying

  • Slate, Ellucian, and Salesforce can absorb Mongoose workflows through native messaging features by 2027.
  • AI Agents face FERPA, hallucination, and consent failures; one campus incident freezes expansion quickly.
  • Higher-ed enrollment budgets drive revenue; a weak 2026–2027 admissions cycle cuts renewals and stalls expansion.

What makes Mongoose unique

  • Mongoose owns two-way student conversations across Text, Chat, WhatsApp, and CRM workflows.
  • July 2026 Ellucian Advise connector deepens retention workflows without replacing existing system records.
  • April 2026 AI Agents add human-in-the-loop automation inside higher-ed engagement, not a standalone CRM.

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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