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As an Account Executive, you'll own the full sales cycle — from qualified pipeline through close — for colleges and universities adopting our AI-powered CRM and enrollment platform.
You'll navigate a genuinely unique buying environment: multiple institutional stakeholders, longer procurement cycles, and decision-makers who care as much about student outcomes as they do about ROI.
What You'll Do
- Own deal progression from discovery through negotiation and close for mid-market and enterprise higher-education accounts
- Build trusted relationships with multiple institutional stakeholders — admissions, IT, and executive leadership
- Run a consultative, value-based sales process using a defined methodology (MEDDIC, SPICED, or similar)
- Partner with Marketing and Product to refine messaging and stay ahead of higher-ed market trends
- Use AI-powered sales tools to improve productivity, forecasting accuracy, and account planning
- Forecast accurately and manage a healthy, well-qualified pipeline end to end
- Collaborate with Solutions and Customer Success on smooth handoffs and long-term account health
What You Bring
- A track record of owning and closing complex B2B SaaS deals, ideally at mid-market or enterprise scale
- Comfort navigating multi-stakeholder, longer-cycle sales — higher education, public sector, or enterprise experience is a strong plus
- Fluency with a modern sales tech stack (CRM, conversation intelligence, AI-assisted workflows)
- Strong discovery and qualification skills, with the ability to connect institutional pain points to platform value
- Genuine curiosity about the higher-ed market and how technology fits into institutional decision-making
- Confident, credible communication with both practitioners and C-suite stakeholders
How You'll Show Up
- A trusted advisor, not a pitch machine — you understand the buyer's world before you talk about the product
- Organized and disciplined in pipeline management and forecasting
- Collaborative across Marketing, Product, and Customer Success — you see the full customer journey as your responsibility
- Adaptable to a market and product that continue to evolve quickly
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Element451
View Company ProfileElement451 (operating via element451.com) is a leading AI-first student engagement platform and higher education CRM engineered to fundamentally reshape how colleges and universities recruit, enroll, and support their students. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, the enterprise eliminates the friction of legacy higher education software by weaving artificial intelligence directly into the entire student lifecycle. Moving far beyond disconnected administrative systems and basic admission trackers, Element451 natively unifies advanced student recruitment campaigns, 24/7 AI-powered student inquiry responses, and seamless application management into a single cohesive platform. The company partners with educational institutions to simplify and personalize every interaction, adapting to individual student behavior to drive engagement without adding complexity for staff. Under the hood, their technology core utilizes modern full-stack architectures—including a robust Angular front-end, complex NX monorepos, and deep GraphQL/REST integrations—to build scalable AI agents and "copilot" experiences. Capturing massive market acceleration and backed by strategic investments from firms like PSG Equity, Element451 remains a definitive cornerstone of modern EdTech, allowing institutions to stop managing heavy administrative workloads and start focusing entirely on moving students forward.
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