Scale and lead new business sales, customer success, marketing, and partnerships to meet ambitious sales and impact goals.
Report to and work closely with the Chief Executive Officer and senior executive team; directly manage Managing Directors and Sr. Directors of Sales & Marketing.
Design and execute go-to-market strategies for adoption of OUR portfolios with focus on impact and sustainable growth.
Build a scalable sales and marketing engine, including operationalizing forecasting, quarterly business reviews, and revenue operations with the CFO.
Leverage district and state relationships to expand OUR’s footprint and brand visibility; represent OUR at national and regional conferences.
Align sales with academic and product strategy, support RFPs/State Adoptions, and meet professional learning sales KPIs.
Hire, train, mentor, and develop high-performing sales and marketing teams; establish accountability structures and processes for scale.
Use customer and market insights to refine positioning and inform sales and marketing decisions.
Requirements
Scale our teams: lead the sales and marketing structure workflows, and process to ensure accountability, consistency and high performance.
Exceed impact and revenue goals: build, operationalize and lead an accountable team culture focused on surpassing ambitious reach, sales and renewal targets.
Market Expansion: Leverage district and state relationships to expand OUR’s footprint, strengthen brand visibility, and accelerate adoption of curriculum and professional learning solutions.
Sales & Marketing Alignment: Oversee the integration of sales and marketing strategy to maximize lead generation, conversion and district engagement.
Go-to-Market Strategy: Develop and execute repeatable go to market strategies for curriculum and professional learning services, ensuring scalability and measurable results.
Talent Development: Train and mentor a high performing team of sales reps creating a culture of long term professional growth.
Revenue Operations: Partner with the Chief Financial Officer to establish and execute on forecasting and quarterly business reviews, ensuring transparency and accuracy in reporting.
Cross Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with the Chief Academic Officer and Chief Product Officer to align sales with RFPs/State Adoptions, professional learning KPIs and product strategy. successfully execute upon RFPs and meet professional learning sales KPIs
Customer Centric Growth: Use customer and market insights to refine positioning, improve offerings and services and inform sales and marketing decisions.
Identify key processes: Improve workflows across sales and marketing teams; spearhead in a leadership role and partner with other members of senior leadership as needed to optimize these workflows/processes
Brand Leadership: Champion OUR at national and regional conferences, leading the organization’s presence at events such as AASA, NCTM and NCTE.
Job Qualifications
10+ years of sales leadership experience in K-12 with a proven track record of exceeding impact and revenue goals while building and scaling multiple teams with high integrity.
10+ years of experience leading and developing a strategic marketing partnership.
Demonstrated extensive school district and state level relationships with superintendents, curriculum leaders and decision makers.
Operational discipline, exceptional C-level internal partnership experience, and experienced methodology around ensuring accuracy in forecasting is essential.
Demonstrated strong financial acumen, including forecasting, modeling and revenue analysis.
High-energy, driven, confident (while humble) with the ability to establish lasting credibility and rapport with a knowledgeable and passionate OUR sales team.
Proven ability to transform revenue organizations, building new processes, accountability structures and go-to-market strategies.
Ability to create a topnotch strategic, repeatable process for training, and a scalable development of team structure.
Executive level communication skills required; with the ability to inspire teams and present a compelling value proposition to district/state leaders, partners and the Board of Directors.
Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% in order to strengthen internal and external partnerships.