Vice President of Sales

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Vice President of Sales leading sales efforts for an educational technology startup. Driving revenue growth and managing sales teams across various functions.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead, coach, mentor, and direct front-line sales managers and direct reports across sales, SDR, and RevOps functions.
  • Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous learning, and customer obsession.
  • Establish performance expectations, structured methodologies, and a clear culture of accountability.
  • Conduct regular pipeline reviews, deal coaching, and performance management.
  • Recruit and hire additional sales talent as the organization scales.
  • Personally manage key relationships with large school districts, childcare providers and strategic partners.
  • Consistently meet or exceed team and individual revenue quotas.
  • Directly target, negotiate, and close complex enterprise opportunities with large school districts and childcare organizations.
  • Lead complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles from prospecting through contract execution.
  • Support team members on high-value opportunities and executive-level negotiations.
  • Carry an individual quota focused on strategic and enterprise opportunities.
  • Develop and execute the company's sales strategy in partnership with the CEO.
  • Build predictable pipeline generation and forecasting processes.
  • Optimize CRM hygiene, sales metrics, and reporting.
  • Define KPIs for pipeline health, conversion rates, sales velocity, and customer acquisition.
  • Improve sales playbooks, messaging, pricing strategies, and competitive positioning.
  • Identify new market opportunities and expansion strategies.
  • Partner closely with Operations to ensure smooth and successful fulfillment of new contracts sold.
  • Collaborate with Customer Success to maximize renewals, expansion, and customer advocacy.
  • Channel direct client and market feedback to Product leadership to inform roadmaps and competitive positioning.
  • Represent BrightBee at conferences, customer events, webinars, and industry meetings.

Requirements:

  • At least 5 years of B2B sales experience in education technology.
  • At least 3 years of management experience, preferably within sales.
  • Willingness to undertake heavy domestic travel for regional conferences, client visits, and industry gatherings
  • Proven history of consistently meeting or exceeding individual and team revenue quotas.
  • Experience managing people in either direct territory/sales management or related operational management roles.
  • Demonstrated success as a player-coach carrying an individual quota while managing others.
  • Strong consultative selling and executive relationship-building skills.
  • Experience managing complex sales cycles with multiple decision makers.
  • Fluency in both using and building out CRM systems (HubSpot is our current CRM).
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment with evolving priorities.

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and other insurance benefits
  • Generous vacation policy
  • Remote work