Account Executive

About Renaissance

When you join Renaissance®, you join a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology! Renaissance’s solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters—creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom. Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve.

Job Description

Does the idea of being responsible for handling and selling assigned products and services, with a focus on Assessment and Analytics, within assigned accounts/territory and achievement of revenue goals through prospecting, qualifying, and closing new business excite you?  

The Account Executive II has meaningful sales experience and brings developing expertise to the customer engagement, solves customer problems with the appropriate Renaissance products. Responsible for cultivation and long-term maintenance of territory and customer relationships, new customer acquisition, and collaboration with Account Managers and other internal partners. 

This position requires regular travel for customer engagements, conferences, and other revenue-generating activities, ideally in the states of Alabama, Kentucky and Mississppi.

In this role as Account Executive II, you will be responsible for:  

• Prospecting: Build and drive plans to identify and qualify net growth opportunities through prospecting (in-person and virtual meetings, emails, phone calls, etc.) and campaigns.    
• Managing Opportunities: Manage opportunity pipeline, engage multiple decision makers to ensure communication and consensus through the life of the opportunity and uses networking for openings to increase opportunity value.  
• Consultative Solution Selling: Research and sell solutions aligned to customers’ unique problems and strategic objectives. Lead across the account team and cross functional internal and external partners to develop winning solutions. 
• Closing Business: Consistently close business that has progressed past needs development and independently develop persuasive presentations to overcome late-stage deal obstacles to win customer confidence and support. 
• K-12 Education Competence: Possess a deep knowledge of the K-12 education space including public, private, and parochial schools. Strong understanding of K-12 districts and school administrative roles, funding, purchasing habits, policies, practices, trends, and school board oversight. 
• Domain Expertise: Possess strong technical knowledge of common tools and trends in ed-tech space; staying current on probable future policies, practices, and information affecting customer prospects or businesses.