Account Executive - Enterprise, Universities (Higher Ed)
About Coursera
Coursera was founded in 2012 by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller to make world-class learning accessible to everyone, everywhere. Today, over 190 million learners and 375+ university and industry partners use our platform to gain skills in fields like AI, data science, technology, and business. As a Delaware public benefit corporation and Certified B Corp, we’re driven by the belief that learning can transform lives through learning.
Why Join Us
At Coursera, we’re looking for inventors, innovators, and lifelong learners ready to shape the future of education. You’ll help build global programs and tools that power online learning for millions turning bold ideas into real impact. People who thrive here are customer-first builders who move fast, simplify ruthlessly, and iterate relentlessly on the metrics that matter.
We’re a globally distributed team and let you choose the best way you work, whether it's from home, a Coursera hub, or a co-working space near you. Our virtual hiring and onboarding make it easy to join us and start making an impact from anywhere. If you’re ready to make a global impact, scale unique products exclusive to Coursera, and expand your career horizons, apply below.
Job Overview: The Enterprise Solutions team serves global organizations, including leading companies, governments, and nonprofits, who seek to upskill or retrain their workforce with the world’s best education. This team is made up of three sub-teams: Sales, Customer Success, and Revenue Strategy & Operations. The teams operate globally.
As part of Coursera’s Enterprise team, you will play a key role in increasing global access to a world-class education. You will help build Coursera’s Enterprise business and work with higher education institutes in service of Coursera’s growth and long-term success.
As an Enterprise Account Executive at Coursera, your mission is to consistently surpass quarterly and annual sales quotas by leveraging your expertise in prospecting, developing, and closing new enterprise sales opportunities. Crafting strategic territory plans, you will proactively drive revenue growth within your designated area, focusing on acquiring net new logos to expand Coursera's market presence. Drawing on your in-depth knowledge of industry trends, you will consult and support prospective customers, ensuring Coursera's solutions align seamlessly with their needs. Additionally, you'll serve as the voice of Coursera's Enterprise partners, sharing valuable customer-driven insights across our organization, including product, engineering, business development, and legal teams. Together, we are redefining how individuals acquire knowledge and skills, and we invite you to be a driving force as we transform lives through learning.
Responsibilities:
- Effectively prospect, develop, and close new enterprise sales opportunities; create strategic territory plan and drive revenue within that territory
- Drive new business with net new logos
- Meet and exceed all quarterly and annual sales quotas
- Accurately forecast quarterly and monthly sales
- Use in-depth knowledge of industry trends to consult and support prospective customers
- Be the voice of Coursera’s Enterprise partners, sharing customer-driven insights across Coursera, including product, engineering, business development, and legal
Basic Qualifications:
- 15+ years of direct selling experience Enterprise SaaS solutions or other solutions to Enterprise customers, higher education institutes and Government entities
- Demonstrated experience selling enterprise solutions into large/complex accounts and over-achieving quarterly and annual sales targets
- Business development and revenue closing sales experience
- Ability to travel 25% of the time to customer meetings, trade shows, and events as needed
Preferred Qualifications:
- Enterprise sales experience at a SaaS company
- Experience consistently exceeding quota of $1 Million+, with proven success in accurately forecasting targets, and achieving sales commits
- Ability to hold your own in meetings with president, provosts, and deans from prospective partners and speak as a thought leader and visionary in the learning space
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, strong analytical and creative problem solving abilities, excellent interpersonal skills, organizational, and operational skills
- Entrepreneurial drive and ability to work autonomously in fast moving, quickly-changing environments
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