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Account Director – Higher Ed
Location
Alabama + 6 moreAll locations: Alabama | Florida | Kentucky | North Carolina | Oklahoma | South Carolina | Tennessee
Posted
112 days ago
Salary
$125K - $155K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Account Director – Higher Ed
OneStream Software
• Drive new logo acquisition through strategic prospecting, outbound outreach, marketing leads, and partner referrals. • Identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities by understanding evolving customer needs and aligning them with OneStream’s solutions. • Build and maintain a healthy pipeline through self-sourced efforts and collaboration with Customer Success, Business Development, Marketing, and Alliances. • Maintain clean, accurate, and up-to-date Salesforce records to support data-driven decision making, forecast accuracy, and cross-functional alignment. • Prepare and present tailored business cases, proposals, and SaaS agreements that align customer objectives with OneStream’s value proposition. • Balance new business and existing account growth to meet or exceed sales targets. • Serve as a consultative partner, delivering insights and value that support long-term customer success and retention. • Clearly articulate OneStream’s differentiators through compelling written, virtual, and in-person presentations. • Accurately track and forecast sales opportunities while ensuring timely knowledge transfer across internal teams and external stakeholders. • Conduct discovery sessions, research, and demos to assess and align OneStream offerings with client challenges. • Create high-impact proposals and responses to client requests, supporting revenue growth and strategic alignment. • Act as a role model across the sales organization by demonstrating professionalism, accountability and collaborative selling behavior.
Job Requirements
- 3+ years of experience selling into the Higher Education vertical
- 5-10+ years of B2B sales experience, with a strong focus on new business; high-potential candidates with less experience will also be considered
- Proven track record of consistently exceeding quotas through net-new customer acquisition
- Demonstrated success in prospecting, pipeline generation, and closing complex deals
- Hunter mindset with ability to drive outbound efforts and convert leads from multiple channels
- Skilled at articulating solution value to senior stakeholders and navigating multi-threaded sales cycles
- Strong command of sales methodologies such as MEDDPICC or Challenger to manage complex sales cycles
- Strategic thinker with business acumen to align solutions with customer pain points and goals
- Comfortable operating independently in fast-paced, high-growth environments
- Experienced in collaborating with Marketing, Product, Business Development, and Pre-Sales to accelerate deal velocity.
Benefits
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- Medical
- Life
- Dental
- 401K
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