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Senior Account Executive
hace 2 días
City of London
The Opportunity 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.