Top Hat
Sales Representative (Account Executive) - Arkansas
SaaS
Edtech.com's Summary
Top Hat is hiring a Sales Representative (Account Executive) to manage and grow a territory of colleges and universities in Arkansas. The role involves building relationships with professors, demonstrating Top Hat's educational platform and digital products, and closing sales to improve teaching and learning outcomes. The representative will spend a significant portion of time on campus to prospect and engage clients.
Highlights
- Manage sales territory focusing on colleges and universities, developing professional relationships with professors.
- Sell Top Hat’s full suite of products, including digital textbook content and SaaS platforms.
- Utilize both inside and outside sales techniques to communicate value propositions effectively.
- Collaborate with Customer Success Managers and internal teams to enhance customer experience and drive revenue growth.
- Spend 40%-50% of time on campus annually, increasing to 75% during peak sales seasons, requiring travel within the territory.
- Requires 2+ years sales experience, preferably with in-person sales to professors on campuses.
- Must have strong sales skills including prospecting, full-cycle deal management, and closing complex sales.
- Valid Driver’s License required due to travel demands.
- Demonstrated success working in a metrics-driven environment and ability to apply coaching and feedback quickly.
- Local candidates from the Little Rock and Fayetteville areas only due to travel frequency.
Sales Representative (Account Executive) - Arkansas Full Description
Imagine someone gave you these three things: the opportunity to change the future of education, the autonomy to manage and grow your own territory, and all the necessary tools to be successful. If a job that combines all three of those things interests you, you may be a fit for our Sales Representative role here at Top Hat!
As a Sales Rep, you will be assigned a territory of colleges and universities where you’ll have the autonomy to develop professional relationships with professors, demonstrate the value of our platform and products, and convert them into clients. You will add value by working with professors to enhance their teaching methods and help bring the educational experience into the future. To do this, you will show how our products help both students and professors engage in the classroom experience and how they enable better learning outcomes. In essence, you will be making education better for students: one professor, one classroom, and one school at a time.
This in-territory sales representative position requires approximately 40%-50% of your time to be spent on campus annually. During the sales seasons (approximately mid-January through May and mid-August through mid-December), you may spend up to 75% of your time on campus. You will be responsible for travelling to campuses within your territory to prospect professors.
Due to travel requirements, we are only considering local candidates in the Little Rock and Fayetteville areas.
What You’ll Do:
- You will find, create, facilitate, and close new business opportunities in your assigned accounts
- Represent and sell the full suite of Top Hat and approved partner products and services, including Top Hat’s digital textbook content and SaaS platform
- Effectively position & message Top Hat’s value proposition to professors or department leaders, using a mixture of inside and outside sales techniques
- You will work closely with Customer Success Managers and internal product and marketing partners to ensure a great customer experience for professors and to maximize revenue growth
Who You Are:
- You are highly motivated, achievement-oriented, and excited to join a team driving change in higher education!
- You have 2+ years of experience in a sales role. Experience selling to professors in person on campus is highly preferred
- This role requires 40-50% (up to 75%) of your time travelling to campuses for in-person sales. A valid Driver’s License is required
- You have the sales skills, including the ability to identify, drive, and close large/complex deals, prospect effectively, and run the full sales cycle (including cold calling, demos, discovery, solution presentation, negotiation and closing)
- You are ambitious and have the drive to succeed
- You have experience working in a metrics-driven environment and remain positive when facing common objections
- You have a strong ability to interpret and apply feedback/coaching quickly
Why team members love working at Top Hat:
- A noble mission that creates meaningful, fulfilling work
- A team that cares deeply for customers and for each other
- Flexible, remote first work environment
- Professional learning and development for all role levels
- An awesome and welcoming Toronto HQ
- Competitive health benefits that start on day one
- A management team focused on performance, growth, engagement and connection
- Our winning strategy and market potential
- Innovative PTO policy with lots of time and space for self-care
- Passionate customers that believe in us—and what we do
- A chance to work with new tech like generative AI—and see the customer impact
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