Sales Representative (Account Executive) - Austin / San Antonio

Top Hat; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible schedule

Remote-first environment

Competitive health benefits

Professional development

Job summary

Top Hat in Austin, TX is seeking a Sales Representative to own a territory of colleges and universities, develop relationships with professors, demonstrate value of our platform, and convert prospects into clients.

The role emphasizes on-campus engagement with 40-50% of time on campus, with peak seasons requiring more travel. Local travel within Austin and San Antonio areas is required.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in a sales role, with on-campus selling experience preferred.
• Ability to travel to campuses across your territory.
• Strong prospecting, demo and closing skills across the full sales cycle.
• Comfort working in a metrics-driven environment and adapting to feedback.

Responsibilities

• Find, create, facilitate, and close new business opportunities in assigned accounts.
• Represent and sell Top Hat’s full suite of products and services.
• Position Top Hat's value to professors or department leaders using a mix of strategies.
• Collaborate with Customer Success and product/marketing teams to maximize revenue and ensure a great customer experience.

Skills

On-campus sales

Relationship building

Prospecting

Negotiation

Demos

Tools

CRM tools

Job description

Imagine someone gave you these three things: the opportunity to change the future of education, the autonomy to manage and grow your own territory, and all the necessary tools to be successful. If a job that combines all three of those things interests you, you may be a fit for our Sales Representative role here at Top Hat!

As a Sales Rep, you will be assigned a territory of colleges and universities where you’ll have the autonomy to develop professional relationships with professors, demonstrate the value of our platform and products, and convert them into clients. You will add value by working with professors to enhance their teaching methods and help bring the educational experience into the future. To do this, you will show how our products help both students and professors engage in the classroom experience and how they enable better learning outcomes. In essence, you will be making education better for students: one professor, one classroom, and one school at a time.

This in-territory sales representative position requires approximately 40%-50% of your time to be spent on campus annually. During the sales seasons (approximately mid-January through May and mid-August through mid-December), you may spend up to 75% of your time on campus. You will be responsible for travelling to campuses within your territory to prospect professors.

Due to travel requirements, we are only considering local candidates in the Austin and San Antonio areas.

What You’ll Do:

• You will find, create, facilitate, and close new business opportunities in your assigned accounts
• Represent and sell the full suite of Top Hat and approved partner products and services, including Top Hat’s digital textbook content and SaaS platform
• Effectively position & message Top Hat’s value proposition to professors or department leaders, using a mixture of inside and outside sales techniques
• You will work closely with Customer Success Managers and internal product and marketing partners to ensure a great customer experience for professors and to maximize revenue growth

Who You Are:

• You are highly motivated, achievement-oriented, and excited to join a team driving change in higher education!
• You have 2+ years of experience in a sales role. Experience selling to professors in person on campus is highly preferred
• This role requires 40-50% (up to 75%) of your time travelling to campuses for in-person sales. A valid Driver’s License is required
• You have the sales skills, including the ability to identify, drive, and close large/complex deals, prospect effectively, and run the full sales cycle (including cold calling, demos, discovery, solution presentation, negotiation and closing)
• You are ambitious and have the drive to succeed
• You have experience working in a metrics-driven environment and remain positive when facing common objections
• You have a strong ability to interpret and apply feedback/coaching quickly

Why team members love working at Top Hat:

• A noble mission that creates meaningful, fulfilling work
• A team that cares deeply for customers and for each other
• Flexible, remote first work environment
• Professional learning and development for all role levels
• An awesome and welcoming Toronto HQ
• Competitive health benefits that start on day one
• A management team focused on performance, growth, engagement and connection
• Our winning strategy and market potential
• Innovative PTO policy with lots of time and space for self-care
• Passionate customers that believe in us—and what we do
• A chance to work with new tech like generative AI—and see the customer impact