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To enhance our team we are seeking an experienced Senior Account Executive, Education (EDU) to expand new business across our higher education accounts in the Americas.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to do the most impactful work of your career, elevating your craft while contributing to a team that values lifelong learning.
As a Senior Account Executive, Education (EDU), you will serve as the commercial engine driving our growth across colleges, universities, and educational institutions in the Americas. You will uncover, navigate, and close high-value business agreements with higher education institutions looking to transform how they teach, learn, and manage video knowledge infrastructure. This role requires a consultative partner who can lead academic stakeholders, Provosts, CIOs, and instructional technology teams through complex institutional procurement, LMS integrations, and security evaluations to achieve successful campus-wide deployments.
You'll also have opportunities to contribute to other initiatives that directly advance our core values and support you in elevating your craft.
Acquire New EDU Logos: Drive net-new annual recurring revenue (ARR) by converting higher education prospects into long-term Panopto partners.
Navigate Complex Institutional Procurement: Map out university organizational structures to build alignment across executive leadership, Provosts, CIOs, faculty committees, and procurement leads.
Run Consultative Discoveries & Demos: Master Panopto's technical capabilities to deliver tailored demonstrations that address specific instructional technology, VCMS, and LMS integration friction points.
Maintain Salesforce Integrity: Manage your pipeline with disciplined accuracy, providing leadership with clear visibility into forecasting, account health, and deal progress.
Execute Competitive RFPs: Partner with solutions engineering, legal, and security teams to assemble highly accurate, compelling responses to institutional higher education RFPs and tenders.
Partner with Customer Success: Align with Account Managers to design clean handoffs, ensuring high adoption rates that pave the way for future account expansion.
Complete product and market onboarding, successfully delivering your first consultative demonstration to an academic prospect.
Audit your assigned Americas higher education territory to identify, prioritize, and build a strategic outbound target list of colleges and universities.
Secure initial discovery meetings and build a validated pipeline equal to at least twice your ramped quota.
Close your first higher education deals in the Americas, generating predictable Net New ARR.
Improve deal cycle velocity by establishing standardized proof-of-concept plans that address common security and technical objections early.
Collaborate with Marketing to refine target persona messaging based on insights gained from your active deal cycles.
Establish a repeatable, highly scalable higher education sales blueprint that helps other team members shorten academic sales cycles at Panopto.
Deepen Panopto’s footprint in the educational technology space, making our video platform the gold standard for higher education across the Americas.
Customer First, Always: You proactively surface friction points in the customer experience before they are escalated — and propose solutions, not just reports.
Thrive Together: You share work-in-progress for early feedback, knowing that challenge improves the outcome. You separate critiques of ideas from critiques of people.
Elevate the Craft: You hold the bar high on your own work and invest in developing those around you. You treat every project as an opportunity to learn something new.
Act with Ownership: You define success by outcomes, not activity. You flag problems early and bring a proposed path forward, not just the problem.
Clarity Over Complexity: You default to the simpler solution. Your written communication — internal or external — is direct, specific, and free of filler.
"You’ll join a team where we challenge ideas, not people, knowing our success depends on our collective wisdom. We believe in simple elegance and holding ourselves accountable to outcomes, not just activity"
In the Education Sales team, we operate on mutual support and real-time collaboration. We hold weekly virtual deal clinics to brainstorm complex academic procurement hurdles and review upcoming presentations together. When a strategic deal stalls, we rally as a team to unlock the account, leveraging our collective network and resources to help you cross the finish line.
EdTech SaaS Expertise: Proven experience successfully managing full-cycle SaaS sales within higher education or academic technology environments.
Complex Deal Orchestration: Demonstrated ability to manage multi-stakeholder higher education deals, engaging smoothly with Provosts, CIOs, Instructional Designers, IT Security, and Procurement.
Technical Literacy: Strong technical aptitude allowing you to confidently discuss LMS integrations (Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace), video infrastructure, and data security with campus IT departments.
Account Planning: Experience building and executing systematic territory plans to target, warm up, and break into target higher education accounts.
Outcome-Driven Mindset: A history of consistently meeting or exceeding quarterly and annual sales quotas through strategic ownership of your business.
Direct experience selling SaaS platforms into Higher Education, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Video Content Management Systems (VCMS), or adjacent EdTech spaces.
Familiarity with enterprise video technologies, digital multi-media, or enterprise search platforms.
An active network of Higher Education decision-makers, CIOs, Provosts, or Instructional Technology leaders in the Americas.
By day 90, you will have completed your onboarding, successfully delivered an outcome-based platform demonstration to the sales team, and validated your strategic territory expansion plan. You will have initialized outreach into your target higher education accounts, leading active, qualified conversations with key academic stakeholders.
