Senior Director, Sales

🔥 4 hours ago

🦌 Connecticut – Remote

🦌 Connecticut – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤑 Sales

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Finalsite

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 1998

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 Debt financing on 2014-12

Education • SaaS • B2B

Finalsite is a provider of web and communications technology for K–12 and higher education institutions. Finalsite offers an education-focused CMS and website design (Composer), AI chatbot tools, mass notifications and messaging, mobile apps, enrollment and admissions management, and marketing services aimed at helping schools build community, improve communications, and grow enrollment. The company serves school districts, independent schools, international schools, charter schools, and faith-based schools and notes it has been trusted by schools for more than 25 years.

📋 Description

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of individual-contributor Education Sales Consultants selling Finalsite’s full product portfolio into Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 public school districts. • Own the segment’s full sales lifecycle — from outbound prospecting and new-logo acquisition through cross-sell, upsell, and expansion within the existing client base. • Carry and deliver against the team’s new-business and expansion (cross-sell and upsell) targets, driving consistent quarter-over-quarter performance. • Provide hands-on, front-line coaching — including live call coaching, deal strategy sessions, and pipeline reviews — to elevate individual and team performance across the entire selling motion. • Recruit, hire, onboard, and ramp Education Sales Consultants, building team capacity ahead of growth targets. • Partner closely with Marketing and Business Development to build, qualify, and convert pipeline, ensuring tight alignment between demand generation, outbound prospecting, and field selling. • Partner closely with Customer Success to surface and win cross-sell and expansion opportunities in the existing client base, coordinating on account health and a seamless client experience, with Customer Success owning renewals. • Develop and continuously refine sales playbooks, methodologies, and qualification frameworks tailored to the public school district buying and budgeting process. • Forecast pipeline and revenue with precision, reporting regularly on KPIs, conversion rates, expansion, and team performance to the Chief Sales Officer and broader leadership. • Lead and facilitate weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews to align the team on goals, blockers, and strategy. • Ensure Finalsite’s product vision, value, competitive differentiation, and pricing are clearly and consistently articulated across every stage of the new-business and expansion cycle. • Build a culture of accountability, urgency, and high performance, where the team is continually pushing to exceed individual and collective goals. • Maintain rigorous sales process discipline — qualification criteria, CRM hygiene, activity logging, and deal documentation — to protect forecast accuracy and pipeline integrity. • Represent the voice of the public school district market in cross-functional strategic planning, surfacing market trends, competitive intelligence, and customer feedback to leadership. • Travel as needed to support team development, customer engagements, and market presence.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience. • 10+ years of SaaS or technology sales experience, including a minimum of 5 years in a front-line sales leadership role. • Proven track record of leading teams across the full sales lifecycle — from outbound prospecting and new-logo acquisition through cross-sell and expansion. • Experience selling into K-12, public school districts, or the broader education technology market strongly preferred. • Demonstrated success partnering with Marketing, Business Development, and Customer Success to drive new-business growth and account expansion. • Deep fluency in modern sales methodologies and demonstrated ability to coach a team on them. • Strong command of Salesforce or equivalent CRM, plus sales engagement and forecasting tools. • Demonstrated success recruiting, developing, and retaining top sales talent in a competitive hiring market. • Sharp analytical skills, with the ability to translate pipeline and performance data into actionable strategy. • Excellent negotiation and executive communication skills, with the ability to operate credibly with senior stakeholders internally and externally. • Willingness and flexibility to travel as required to support team and market needs.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits • Professional development opportunities • Collaborative culture built on partnership and purpose