Offer summary

Qualifications:

3 years of enterprise sales experience, preferably in learning & development., Strong communication, interpersonal, and negotiating skills., Ability to manage complex sales cycles and develop creative solutions for clients., Demonstrable track record of high performance and experience in creating complex client proposals..

Key responsabilities:

Drive revenue growth through new business development and client partnerships.

Prepare and deliver compelling sales presentations and proposals.

Maintain and build rapport with senior executives to foster long-term relationships.

Lead negotiations on prices and contracts while ensuring compliance with legal requirements.

Job description

Since 2011, General Assembly has transformed tens of thousands of careers through pioneering, experiential education in today’s most in-demand skills. As featured in The Economist, Wired, and The New York Times, GA offers training in web development, data, design, business, and more, both online and at campuses around the world. Our global professional community boasts 60,000 full- and part-time alumni — and counting. In addition to fostering career growth for individuals, GA helps employers cultivate top tech talent and spur innovation by transforming their teams through strategic learning. More than 21,000 employees at elite companies worldwide have honed their digital fluency with our upskilling and reskilling initiatives. GA has also been recognized as one of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, and Fast Company has dubbed us leaders in World-Changing Ideas as well as the #1 Most Innovative Company in Education.

GA is at the leading edge of creating practical solutions to one of the most pressing challenges of our time - the future of work. As recognized by The World Economic Forum, BCG, the OECD and more, these are big challenges to which only a few companies are offering real solutions. In this role, you'll be speaking every day to corporate leaders who rely on GA to help them apply these solutions to their workforce of the future.

The Position:

We're looking for an Account Director to join our Enterprise team and help initiate and grow some of our most strategic relationships.

Drive revenue growth through new business development by deeply understanding how GA can partner best with our clients on an ongoing basis
Prepare and deliver compelling sales presentations and coordinate and drive the development of sales proposals
Maintain and build rapport with senior executives to formulate strong, long-term business relationships
Lead negotiation of prices and contracts, and understands the legal ramification of contracts
Maintain a thorough working knowledge of the GA’s product and service offering, pricing structure, contract management parameters, policies, and procedures
Develop and maintain a pipeline according to targets, and provides clear and accurate reporting of sales outcomes and activities
Partner across the business with product, legal, finance, and delivery to close deals

Requirements:

3 years of enterprise sales experience, preferably in the learning & development space.
Ability to manage complex and lengthy sales cycles
The ability to identify client challenges, and develop creative solutions in close collaboration with clients
The ability to effectively and persuasively communicate with Fortune 500 decision-makers (typically SVP level)
A demonstrable track record of high performance
Excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiating skills
Experience creating complex client proposals
An entrepreneurial mindset and practice: you enjoy working as part of a small team, rapidly iterating on strategy, and getting your hands dirty to build something great
This role requires significant travel, up to 50% of the time.

The anticipated compensation range for this role in the US market is $100,000 and $120,000. Compensation will be determined based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Unless otherwise noted, remote positions can be performed from the following approved General Assembly operating countries.

United States of America (states of operation may vary), Canada (provinces of operation may vary), United Kingdom, Australia, and Singapore.

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