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 Inside Sales Representative role here at Top Hat!
As an Inside Sales Rep, you will be assigned a list 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 achieve this, you will demonstrate how our products facilitate both students' and professors' engagement in the classroom experience, enabling improved learning outcomes. In essence, you will be making education better for students: one professor, one classroom, and one school at a time.
Due to the territory, we have a preference for candidates located in the Central US (Oklahoma, Kansas, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, and North & South Dakota).
What You’ll do:
Own an expansive list of accounts within a defined region.
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 and message Top Hat’s value proposition to professors or department leaders, using a mixture of 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 that is driving change in higher education!
You have 1 year of experience in a sales role. Previous experience selling to professors is highly preferred.
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
Skills Required
- At least 1 year of experience in a sales role
- Experience selling to professors
- Ability to identify, drive, and close large or complex deals
- Prospecting experience, including cold calling
- Experience conducting product demonstrations and discovery
- Experience with solution presentations, negotiation, and closing
- Experience working in a metrics-driven environment
- Ability to handle objections positively
- Ability to interpret and apply feedback and coaching quickly
What We Do
Top Hat is a higher education teaching app that makes active learning come to life. Our suite of easy-to-use tools address four teaching challenges: student engagement; textbook affordability and customizability; student comprehension; and secure test administration. More than 3 million students at 750 of the top 1,000 colleges and universities in North America have used Top Hat.
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