Learning Pool
Senior Account Executive
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Sales
🗓️ June 13th, 2025
CRM
SaaS
Edtech.com's Summary
Learning Pool is hiring a Senior Account Executive. This role involves generating revenue by building and maintaining client relationships, developing a sales pipeline, and designing SaaS solutions that drive business impact. The Senior Account Executive will work with various departments to lead virtual teams and meet quarterly sales targets.
Highlights
- Responsible for revenue generation through pipeline creation and client relationship management.
- Requires a strong sales background in SaaS and experience in B2B prospecting.
- Involves strategic collaboration across marketing, pre-sales, bid management, and product management teams.
- Targets mid-market to enterprise-size deals in the learning and development industry.
- Utilizes MEDDICC and Value Selling methods for sales opportunity progression.
- Emphasizes communication and relationship-building with professionals of varying levels, including C-Suite stakeholders.
- Requires proficiency in CRM systems to maintain client and opportunity information.
- Candidates must demonstrate a proven sales track record within the SaaS industry.
- Aids in driving Learning Pool's ambitious growth targets over the next 3 to 5 years.
- Learning Pool is recognized as a Great Place to Work and boasts numerous accolades.
Senior Account Executive Full Description
Senior Account Executive (US Remote)
Learning Pool · Remote ·
Job Description
Wherever you find ambitious companies investing in their people, you’ll find Learning Pool
Learning Pool creates learning experiences that deliver extraordinary employee performance outcomes for companies and their people. Global organizations choose Learning Pool for its comprehensive, data-driven digital learning solutions. Learning Pool’s passion for impact, innovation, and people is why they stay. As a leader in e-learning innovation, we empower over 1,200 organizations globally and millions of learners through our engaging courses, advanced platforms, insightful analytics, and tailored content solutions.
Our dedication to excellence is demonstrated by accolades such as Platinum Investors in People and triple Gold at the 2024 Learning Technologies Awards. We are also recognized as a Great Place to Work in the UK and North America 2024, and proudly hold B Corp certification, reflecting our commitment to social and environmental responsibility. Be it for onboarding, upskilling, compliance, or the whole business, Learning Pool develops an effective and agile workforce through learning. Wherever you find ambitious companies investing in their people, you’ll find Learning Pool.
So if you’ve got what we’re looking for and the desire to join a team that values creativity and empowerment, then get in touch.
About the role
Learning Pool’s Senior Account Executives are responsible for revenue generation, combining effective self-sourced pipeline generation, a methodical approach to opportunity progression and developing strong and effective relationships with potential clients; positioning our compelling and exciting story while providing a first-class client experience in a highly consultative manner.
You’ll use your high energy and strong sales background within SaaS to design solutions that deliver real business impact. Working collaboratively with functions across Learning Pool including marketing, pre-sales, bid management, and product management, you’ll want to regularly lead an expert virtual team to success.
As a member of the Learning Pool sales team, this role represents significant potential for the right candidate to help the company deliver ambitious growth targets over the next 3 to 5 years. You will thrive in a fast paced environment, where autonomy, proactivity, positivity and the ability to adapt to change will be essential to your success.
We want to create an environment for you to thrive, by providing clear and high expectations, and providing the tools, support and coaching necessary for you to exceed and succeed.
Location: US Remote
For more information about our benefits and why you should join learning pool, read more here:https://learningpool.com/why-work-for-learning-pool/
What you will be doing:
Roles and responsibilities include:
Pipeline Generation
- Get prospects excited about our learning solutions and the opportunities they offer to enhance employee skills and drive business growth. You have the will and skill to self generate pipeline.
- You’ll also collaborate on prospecting activities, and work with the marketing team and SDRs to ensure you have enough pipeline to meet your revenue goals.
- Our prospects come in many shapes and forms: speak with Learning and Development, legal, finance, compliance and C-level stakeholders on how Learning Pool can help them on their learning and development journey.
- Strategically build and maintain a solid pipeline to ensure we meet our plans for growth
Opportunity Progression
- Lead sales opportunities autonomously, following a methodical approach (MEDDICC and Value Selling ideally but not essential) from initial identification and qualification all the way to successful closure.
- Understand the prospects pain points, through curiosity, connecting with multiple stakeholders to unlock big budgets.
- You’ll build champions, involve XFN partners, use mutual action plans and show rigour in a methodical way to drive your pipeline forward.
- Fully understand and evangelize Learning Pool’s products and propositions to prospects, aligning solution value to key client requirements in all proposals.
- Make full use of Learning Pool’s CRM system, ensuring this is up to date with opportunities and client information at all times.
- Meet/exceed quarterly/annual sales targets in line with the company’s growth plan.
Who we are looking for
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
- Proven track record: You will have a history of sales success as a high performer within SaaS, and preferably the learning and development industry, or HR tech, with full-cycle sales experience and a demonstrated ability to close mid-market to enterprise size deals.
- Aligned to our core focus: You will be focused on driving pipeline growth and effectively moving opportunities through the funnel. Experience with the digital tools and tactics of B2B prospecting.
- Critical thinking: You will have the ability to understand and translate complex client needs and drivers into winning solutions, showcasing a genuine curiosity in your customers’ businesses.
- Commercially focused: You will be commercially driven and strategically focused, utilizing data-driven strategies to generate and manage your sales pipeline effectively.
- No ego’s: You will enjoy the teamwork required to help drive the business forward, and proactive and confident to share best practices, leading without a title.
- Communications: You will have strong communication and interpersonal skills with aptitude in persuasive writing and building relationships with professionals at all organizational levels
- Organizational skills: You will ensure you meet deadlines through a well maintained operating rhythm.
- Ability to manage complex opportunities: You will have the ability to present complex information concisely and clearly to audiences ranging from C-Suite executives to administrators and end users.
- Embrace and showcase proactivity: You will have a first mover attitude, and set high standards. Your contributions will make the wider team better, and we will continuously improve.
Working at Learning Pool
The Learning Pool team is filled with people who have a real passion for what they do and a fresh approach to partnering with customers.
Learning Pool is a Platinum Investor in People, listed annually in the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For and wins numerous industry awards for our work with clients including the Queen's Award for Enterprise (Innovation) and recent Brandon Hall, Learning Technologies, e-Learning Industry, Stevie Customer Service and Institute of Customer Service awards.
Closing date for receipt of applications is 27th June 2025 at 5pm UK time.
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