Leading Educators

Account Manager

• Every partnership Leading Educators builds starts with a conversation—one where you listen carefully to understand the real instructional or systems challenge a district or state is trying to solve.
• As the Director of Partnerships and Growth, you'll lead the full cycle of consultative business development, identifying new opportunities, engaging senior educational leaders in strategic dialogue, and crafting tailored partnership solutions that drive both organizational growth and educational impact.
• This is a frontline business development role where you own a personal portfolio of district and state prospects and carry clear revenue accountability.
• You'll work through ambiguity to identify the most impactful ways to partner, translating partner needs into customized engagements that align their impact goals with LE's organizational capacity.
• You'll manage the entire partnership development lifecycle—from lead generation and cultivation through proposal development, RFP response, negotiation, and signed agreements—using disciplined pipeline management practices and CRM systems to track progress and forecast revenue.
• Your success depends on your credibility as an educational leader. Whether you spent time in the classroom, school leadership, district leadership, or state education roles, you'll leverage that experience to engage superintendents, state agency leaders, and instructional directors as a thought partner who genuinely understands their world—the realities of instructional improvement, system-level decision-making, funding constraints, and competing priorities.
• You'll represent Leading Educators at conferences and in the field, building sustained relationships and maintaining an active external presence that positions you as a trusted advisor in K–12 education.