Account Executive

Avela is a Nobel Prize winning platform for families to navigate their child’s educational journey. Parents can find, apply, register, and pay for school and programs for their children, all from a common application system with saved profiles. Avela also powers backend admissions and operational workflows, making it easy for schools, districts, and educational providers to equitably serve students. We’re like “OpenTable for Education” or “Mindbody for Schools.”

Role

Avela is seeking an Account Executive to help drive sales and go-to-market alongside the founding team. This is a key position at an early-stage company, reporting directly to Avela’s Sales Lead.  

Location

We’re a semi-remote company with hubs in San Francisco and Boston. The San Francisco hub includes the CEO, Sales Lead, and Marketing Lead, so we strongly prefer candidates living in the SF Bay Area to facilitate in-person collaboration and social connection.

Responsibilities

• This position will own the following main functions:
  • New Business Sales (60%): This person will be responsible for closing new accounts and expansion sales within our SMB segment, which includes the following: Public School Districts, Charter Schools and Charter Management Organizations (CMOs), and Local government accounts
  • Account Management (30%): Renewals for all of our existing accounts, excluding the Federal Government. The AE will work closely with our client services team on all renewals. 
  • Other (10%): The AE will work closely with the marketing team, following up on all demand generation activity. This primarily will include attending trade show conferences (10-15 per year), outbound calling on sequences that we establish.  Additional tasks may be added as our GTM strategy evolves. 

Qualifications

• A minimum of three (3) years of experience with an EdTech firm, selling/marketing to school districts or similar public sector institutions.
• A minimum of two (2) years in a quota carrying sales role
• Proficiency and willingness to use/update CRM and sales management tools, HubSpot preferred
• Strong understanding of sales KPIs/metrics, sales operations, and full funnel management.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas clearly and persuasively.
• Entrepreneurial spirit and drive; Extraordinary comfort with ambiguity
• US resident, living within 45 minutes of a major metropolitan airport
• Legal ability to work in the US without Visa sponsorship

Nice To Haves

• SAAS Startups - Experience at early stage, high growth enterprise SAAS startups focused on T2D3.
• Experience as a K-12 Teacher/Educator or School/District Administrator is preferred.  Passion is required.

Compensation 

$100,000 - $140,000 OTE  

Company

  Avela is a Nobel Prize-winning edtech startup building the first platform for families to navigate their child's educational journey and a universal application for PK-12 education, daycare, and enrichment programs, promoting equity and access to education. We’re like “OpenTable for Education” or “Mindbody for Schools.”   For students and families, this simplifies the process of finding and applying to educational programming. For schools and districts, this streamlines operations and helps increase enrollment (and hence, revenue).   We sell our application and enrollment platform directly to school districts, charter networks, other educational providers, cities, and states. We work with school districts and charter networks across the country, including in Oakland, Seattle, Hartford, Tulsa, New Orleans, Newark, and Jersey City. We also work with a range of nonprofits and NGOs, including Teach for America and the Inter-American Development Bank, as well as the US Military.   Our platform has four parts to cover each stage of the application journey, from exploring options to applying and final selection and admission: Avela Explore - Mobile-optimized school finder and opportunity navigator Avela Apply - Streamlined application management system and tracking Avela Match - Research-based admission and student assignment lottery system. Avela Enroll - Online registration, transfers, and enrollment platform with document collection.   We also offer a range of consulting services to help districts implement enrollment reforms and advance equity in educational programs.   Learn more at avela.org.  

Team 

Avela was founded by a renowned team of visionaries, including Nobel Laureate Joshua Angrist, Clark Medalist Parag Pathak, and social entrepreneur Greg Bybee. We have a passionate team of entreprene