Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Newsela is a company that transforms authentic content for K-12 classrooms, making it instruction-ready for diverse learners. The School Sales Representative will be responsible for building relationships with school decision-makers and selling Newsela’s products to enhance classroom engagement and learning.
Responsibilities
- As an individual contributor who is part of a regional sales team, you will have the opportunity to own your territory, manage the entire lifecycle of a sale, and build new business relationships that bring Newsela’s solution to classrooms
- In addition to achieving your own revenue targets, you will get to work with an enthusiastic, cross-functional team to catapult Newsela’s growth as we scale our national sales organization
- You will have a direct impact on the expansion and adoption of Newsela products, which will ultimately scale Newsela’s ability to bring engaging, culturally responsive learning content to K-12 classrooms nationwide
Skills
- 1+ years hitting or exceeding your quota of selling SaaS products
- Demonstrated expertise in seamlessly navigating multiple stakeholders to engineer the right solution for each customer
- High volume / transactional approach to sales, and proven experience building a book of business
- Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment and can drive sales quickly to a close
- Might have been a teacher at one point, or have a good grasp of pedagogy and can truly help connect the challenges in the classroom to the solutions Newsela is building
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical benefits with employer contribution to premiums and to HSA accounts.
- Pet insurance
- Free access to the Calm app
- Inclusive benefits to support you and your family, including parental leave, fertility support, adoption, and more!
- Invest in your future with our 401(k) plan, which includes a employer match to help you build long-term financial security.
- Flexible PTO plus 10 company holidays plus winter break (Dec 24th - Jan 1st).
- Newsela offers an annual learning and development allowance to employees to attend external training sessions, classes, workshops, conferences, and educational materials to foster professional growth within their current role and career aspirations at Newsela.
Company Overview
Newsela is an Ed-tech startup that takes content from trusted providers and turns it into learning materials. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://newsela.com.