ETS
Executive Leader, K12 Praxis
🇺🇸 Remote - Washington, DC
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $300K - $350K
💻 Sales
🗓️ December 23rd, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
ETS is hiring an Executive Leader, K12 Praxis. This executive role drives the strategic vision and growth of ETS's K12 division, overseeing product portfolios including Praxis and K12 Skills, managing P&L, and cultivating partnerships with education leaders to expand market share and revenue.
Highlights
- Lead and manage P&L for K12 brands and new initiatives.
- Set strategy and drive growth across K12 education markets.
- Develop and grow K12 Skills products and portfolios.
- Build relationships with state superintendents and key education leaders.
- Direct sales and marketing strategy for Praxis and other K12 offerings.
- Ensure ethical compliance and regulatory adherence.
- 15+ years leadership experience, preferably with a master's or PhD in education or business.
- Experience as an educator and superintendent/state leader and CEO in education sector.
- Strong strategic thinking, operational execution, and financial management skills.
- Proven ability to launch and scale education products and lead high-performing teams.
Executive Leader, K12 Praxis Full Description
Executive Leader, K12 Praxis
- Job Tracking ID : 83080-366842
- Job Level : Any
- Level of Education : Masters Degree
- Job Type : Full-Time/Regular
- Date Updated : 12/23/2025
- Years of Experience : Not Applicable
- Will this position have direct reports? : Yes
- Salary : $300,000 USD Annually - $350,000 USD Annually
Job Description
About ETS:
ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.
Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.
The Executive Leader, K12-Praxis has overall responsibility for the strategic leadership and vision for the K12 division which includes, K12 Education, K12 Skills, Student Assessments and Praxis/Educator Solutions.
This Executive will be responsible for growing our current product lines and defining and entering new markets.
The incumbent will be accountable for P&L, revenue growth, and cost profile, as well as the success of these portfolios within test takers, Educator Preparation Programs, influencers, and decision makers to drive growth, volume, and market share.
Primary Responsibilities
ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.
Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.
The Executive Leader, K12-Praxis has overall responsibility for the strategic leadership and vision for the K12 division which includes, K12 Education, K12 Skills, Student Assessments and Praxis/Educator Solutions.
This Executive will be responsible for growing our current product lines and defining and entering new markets.
The incumbent will be accountable for P&L, revenue growth, and cost profile, as well as the success of these portfolios within test takers, Educator Preparation Programs, influencers, and decision makers to drive growth, volume, and market share.
Primary Responsibilities
- Lead and manage P&L that includes existing brands (E.g., Praxis) as well as new domestic and global initiatives
- Setting strategy and driving growth across K12 markets
- Grow and expand our K12 Skills products/portfolio
- Provide executive leadership in the K12 education space by cultivating strong relationships with state superintendents and key education leaders.
- Oversee external stakeholder engagement and communication, particularly across major partnerships and accounts.
- Direct a unified sales and marketing strategy to accelerate growth for Praxis and ETS’s broader K12 offerings, ensuring full alignment with integrated sales efforts and leading the K12 sales team.
- Maximize value from core products—especially the Praxis suite—through disciplined investment, innovation, and customer-focused commercialization.
- Uphold the highest ethical standards and full compliance with all relevant laws and regulations.
Experience and Skills
- Advanced degree (MA, PhD) in education, business, or similar is strongly preferred
- 15+ years of demonstrated success leading teams
- Previous experience as an educator and Superintendent/State leadership
- Previous experience as CEO of a business/non-profit in the educator development space.
- Commuting distance from ETS's Washington DC office or Princeton, NJ office is highly preferred.
- Demonstrated success leading large, complex organizations with strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, operational execution skills, business management as well as the assessment industry’s key issues.
- Proven ability to develop, launch, and scale new products; adept at applying emerging technologies to real business challenges and to drive high-performing sales and marketing teams.
- Credible, organization-wide leader who balances strategic vision with effective, hands-on implementation. Clear communicator of vision/strategy that inspires commitment, creativity, and performance.
- Skilled at structuring external partnerships that advance organizational goals.
- Significant experience in successfully managing and meeting operational budgets and relevant financial metrics and experienced in strategic planning, contracting, negotiation, and change management.
- Challenges staff to take calculated risks and foster a culture of trust, collaboration, and results; a strong leader who motivates, develops, and educates others.
- Able to set and achieve complex, multi-unit strategic goals in competitive and rapidly changing environments and align business goals with the organization’s mission.
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#LI-REMOTE
ETS is mission driven and action oriented
- We are passionate about hiring innovative thinkers who believe in the promise of education and lifelong learning.
- We are energized by cultivating growth, innovation, and continuous transformation for the next generation of rising professionals as leaders. Â In support of this ETS offers multiple Business Resource Groups (BRG) for you to learn and advance your career growth!
- As a not-for-profit organization we will encourage you to lean in to your passion for volunteering. Â At ETS you may qualify for up to an additional 8 hours of PTO for volunteer work on causes that are important to you!
ETS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law. We believe in creating a work environment where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity.
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