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Inside Sales Account Executive | EdTech

EQL Tech (sales & engineering talent)
Remote (United States)
Full-time
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Full Description

Inside Sales Account Executive | EdTech | Remote US (TX Preferred)

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing, venture-backed AI-powered grading and feedback platform for K-12 educators, used by teachers in schools across the US to save hours of grading time while delivering higher-quality, standards-aligned writing feedback to every student. Teachers adopt the product bottom-up, and the company has sold into schools across 30+ states.

The opportunity

The inbound engine is compounding, and most of your pipeline comes to you: quote requests arrive every day, teachers apply to become advocates, and schools where teachers are already using the product are waiting for someone to call. We're looking for a high-velocity closer to join the founding sales team and own the inside motion end to end: discovery, demos, proposals and closes over Zoom, plus self-sourcing a slice of your own number. You'll work directly with the CEO.

Location: Remote (US, TX preferred). Type: Full-time | Inside Sales | Early-stage equity. Experience: 2–6+ years in SaaS sales, ideally K-12 EdTech or another high-velocity inside sales motion.

What you'll do - Own Sales (80%)

• Work the inbound engine end-to-end: quote requests, advocate teachers, and warm usage signals, with tight speed to lead

• Run discovery and demos with teachers, principals and curriculum directors over Zoom

• Convert bottom-up adoption: turn schools with active teacher clusters into school and district deals

• Navigate school and district procurement: quotes, purchase orders, IT and privacy reviews

• Self-source part of your pipeline through outbound and referrals

• Manage pipeline, CRM, and forecasting

• Create sales assets for the inside motion: collateral, one-pagers, email sequences

What you'll do - Grow Accounts (20%)

• Own renewals: grow ACV, adjust pricing, grow to multi-year deals, cross-sell adjacent product lines

• Own internal expansion: expand school deals into district-wide contracts by identifying champions across buildings

• Own external expansion: generate referrals from happy customers, and get warm introductions from champions to open new admin relationships

• Build and maintain relationships, and deliver successful admin onboarding to drive loyalty, usage and retention

• Collaborate with the customer success team to ensure customers get adequate training and sustain healthy usage

• Be the voice of the customer: synthesize admin and teacher feedback to inform the product roadmap

Why you'll love it

• Impact: help students across the country become better writers

• Growth: the company grew 5x last year and just crossed seven figures in ARR, with most of that growth organic

• Velocity: you will close every week, not every quarter

• Ownership: shape core GTM processes as a founding team member with equity

• Learning: work directly with the founders daily

Requirements

Essential

• Top-performing sales rep with a track record of exceeding targets

• 2–6+ years in SaaS sales, with EdTech and K-12 experience selling to principals or district administrators

• Thrives on volume: many conversations a day, many deals in flight, nothing dropped

• Excellent on Zoom and on the phone, and writes clearly and concisely

• Highly organized and proactive, and thrives with autonomy in an early-stage environment

• Ambitious, scrappy, driven, and comfortable selling in ambiguity

• Looking for a founding team role with equity and major career upside

Particularly valuable

• High-velocity inside sales experience: short cycles, multiple closes per month

• Former English teacher (1+ year) or school administrator (principal, AP, curriculum specialist, or Director of Curriculum)

• Experience selling to US K-12 Directors of Curriculum

• Previously worked at K-12 SaaS companies such as Nearpod, Newsela, Pear Deck, Edpuzzle, Writable, NoRedInk, Seesaw, ClassDojo, Brisk Teaching, SchoolAI, MagicSchool AI, Khanmigo, Diffit, Formative, Quizizz, or Kami

Benefits

• $100k+ OTE in Year 1

• Health insurance

• 25 days PTO

• Home office stipend

• Early-stage equity

• Team retreat days both nationally and internationally

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