Account Executive – Enterprise - Texas
About The Position
At PowerSchool, we are a dedicated team of innovators guided by our shared purpose of powering personalized education for students around the world. From the central office to the classroom to the home, PowerSchool supports the entire educational ecosystem as the global leader of cloud-based software for K-12 education. Our employees make it all possible, and a career with us means you’re joining a successful team committed to engaging, empowering, and improving the K-12 education experience everywhere. The Sales team gets PowerSchool into the hands of the educators and students who need it. Working side by side with Solution Consulting and Customer Success, we build executive relationships, lead account planning, and run deals end to end to renew on time and expand multi-suite adoption, delivering predictable bookings and revenue retention that empower better K-12 outcomes.
Requirements
- Consistent attainment against bookings and revenue retention targets, including multi-suite expansion across assigned accounts.
- Experience leading 6- to 9-month sales cycles centered on cross-sell, orchestrating overlay teams through public-sector procurement across multiple buying personas; able to turn a champion in one persona into wins with others (for example, CFO to CHRO or CAO).
- Demonstrated pipeline and forecast discipline in Salesforce, inspection-ready for weekly reviews.
- Proficiency with a modern deal methodology and mutual close plans, for example MEDDPICC, with all elements captured and kept current in CRM and used to drive stage exits.
- 8+ years enterprise SaaS sales experience, ideally in CRM, ERP, Analytics, or EdTech.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
Nice To Haves
- K–12 or public-sector fluency, including funding cycles, board approvals, RFPs, and use of co-ops or state purchasing vehicles.
- Established references from K–12 district leaders or directors who can speak to integrity, reliability, collaborative problem solving, and joint value creation.
- Ability to build executive relationships across Superintendent, CIO, CHRO, Curriculum, Finance, and Procurement, with demonstrated whitespace planning that scales across a large book.
Responsibilities
- Deliver targets for bookings, on-time renewals, net revenue retention, and multi-suite expansion by creating and executing sales plays within an assigned territory of accounts.
- Build and refresh quarterly territory plans tied to whitespace, executive personas, funded initiatives, services attach, adoption gaps, and next plays by buying persona.
- Create and progress pipeline by running named plays, executive outreach, and multi-threaded engagement across Superintendent, CIO, CFO, CHRO, CAO, Procurement.
- Run deals end to end from discovery through close, including RFP strategy, pricing and terms, commercial approvals, legal negotiation, and procurement timeline control.
- Maintain forecast accuracy and CRM standards, including contacts, activities, next steps, and stage exits that map to PowerSchool’s standard deal methodology.
- Orchestrate Solution Consulting, Services, Customer Success, and Partners to drive value realization, run QBRs, meet SLAs, and renewal readiness.
- Capture and relay market signals and customer feedback to product, pricing, and go-to-market teams to improve offer structure, sales plays, or guidance for product, pricing, and marketing.
- Mentor other sellers on executive communication, pursuit strategy, and MEDDPICC rigor to raise win quality across the team.
- Travel regularly (50–60%), including multi-state trips, to support high-impact initiatives such as advancing strategic deals, leading onsite demos, and facilitating executive workshops, especially during peak business cycles.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy benefits, Life Insurance and AD&D)
- Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts
- Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
- Comprehensive 401(k) plan
- Generous Parental Leave
- Unrestricted paid time off (known as Discretionary Time Off - DTO)
- Wellness Program, including ClassPass & Employee Assistance Program
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Optional Benefits: Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Student Debt Repayment Program and Prepaid Legal coverage
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
