Top Hat
Sales Representative (Account Executive) - Portland
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Portland, OR
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Sales
🗓️ October 28th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Develop and close new business opportunities within an assigned territory of colleges and universities.
- Sell Top Hat’s full suite of products including digital textbook content and SaaS platforms.
- Use a mix of inside and outside sales techniques to position and communicate Top Hat’s value to professors and department leaders.
- Collaborate with Customer Success Managers and product and marketing teams to ensure excellent customer experience and drive revenue growth.
- Required to spend 40-50% of time on campus annually, up to 75% during sales seasons, traveling within the Greater Portland area.
- Must have a Bachelor's degree and at least 2 years of sales experience, preferably selling in-person to professors on campuses.
- Must possess strong skills in managing the full sales cycle, including cold calling, demos, discovery, negotiation, and closing complex deals.
- A valid Driver’s License is mandatory due to travel requirements.
- Ability to work in a metrics-driven environment and effectively respond to feedback and objections.
- Opportunity to work with innovative technologies such as generative AI to impact educational outcomes.
Sales Representative (Account Executive) - Portland 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 youâll 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 the travel requirements, we are only considering local candidates located within the Greater Portland area.
What Youâll 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 Hatâs digital textbook content and SaaS platform.
Effectively position & message Top Hatâs 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 have a Bachelor's degree. You are highly motivated, achievement-oriented and excited to join a team that is 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 Driverâs License is required.
You have a Bachelor's degree.
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 usâand what we do
A chance to work with new tech like generative AIâand see the customer impact
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