At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the charge in expanding into the university sector and create new market opportunities.
- Company: High-growth SaaS company with ambitious plans and strong funding.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, uncapped commission, equity, and excellent benefits.
- Other info: Hybrid work culture with genuine progression opportunities.
- Why this job: Own a brand-new market and shape the future of education technology.
- Qualifications: Experience in EdTech sales and building markets from scratch.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
We’re working with a high-growth SaaS company entering a major new phase of expansion, launching into the Higher Education and University sector. They’re hiring a New Markets Senior Account Executive, someone who knows how to open doors in academic environments and build new markets from the ground up. This isn’t a role where you inherit a territory or a playbook. You’ll be responsible for finding the opportunity, shaping the narrative, and building pipeline from scratch. Paying £60 – 80k base with another £40k OTE in year 1 which is uncapped plus equity and excellent benefits too. This role is hybrid with 3 days a week in their Central London offices.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead commercial expansion into the university and education sector
- Build and execute outbound prospecting campaigns to generate new opportunities
- Shape early positioning, messaging and value propositions for a new vertical
- Run full early-stage sales cycles from discovery to validation and internal handover
- Work closely with product and leadership to feedback market insights
- Develop repeatable GTM frameworks that can scale
What You’ll Bring
- Experience selling into universities, higher education, or within EdTech
- Proven track record of building new markets or verticals without an established playbook, this needs to be focused to more complex, multistakeholder/multi-threading experience etc
- Comfortable with outbound–writing sequences, cold outreach, and opening new conversations
- Strong communicator able to engage senior academic or operational stakeholders
- Commercially curious, data-aware, and comfortable iterating quickly to find what works
Why This Role?
- Opportunity to own a brand-new market from day one
- Direct influence on GTM strategy and commercial direction
- Backed by strong funding and leadership with ambitious growth plans
- Hybrid culture with in-office collaboration and startup pace
- Genuine progression as the new market develops into a wider function
If you’re energised by creating something from nothing and believe universities are a market ready for innovation, this is a chance to build it your way. Interested? Let’s talk.
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