About Modern Campus
Modern Campus empowers institutions to move with confidence across the modern learner journey. Our platform spans web content management, curriculum and catalog management, student engagement and lifelong learning — giving more than 1,700 colleges and universities the infrastructure they need to support the entire learner-to-earner lifecycle and deliver personalized, scalable experiences.
We partner with the education community to create new pathways for learning and opportunity, reimagining how institutions serve the modern learner and shape the future of education.
Our purpose — our north star — is to empower institutions to confidently serve and support the modern learner.
This mission and purpose come to life through how we show up every day:
- We exist to create empowerment through education.
- We lead with honesty and empathy.
- We shape the future through innovation.
- We become trusted partners.
- We make the complex feel possible.
Position Summary
We are seeking a Sales Development Representative with relevant business experience to support lead generation and conversion efforts within the Sales team. The ideal candidate is comfortable working independently while also collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams and uses proven sales strategies to engage and develop prospective accounts.
- Collaborate with the business development team to research and prioritize target account lists
- Generate new business opportunities by performing outbound sales activities (prospecting)
- Explain the value proposition of our product and communicate key information on our products
- Gather information on prospects, including fit and timing
- Educate prospective customers on how our software works and how it can benefit them
- Nurture leads through ongoing phone and email communications
- Use Salesforce to track prospects and keep information current
- Work with marketing to create materials that support lead generation and nurturing activities
- Actively build product knowledge to ensure a high level of literacy on our product
- Focus on achieving monthly quotas of outbound calls, appointments set, opportunities created and sales accepted leads
- Build a strong ongoing pipeline of prospects and leads
What You'll Bring
Required Qualifications
- University degree or College diploma in Business Administration, Computer Science and/or relevant work experience
- 1-3 years’ experience working in Sales or similar capacity role
- Strong understanding of consultative sales skills with potentially long sales cycles
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Goal oriented with a strong desire to succeed
- Ability to work independently, meet deadlines, and work under pressure with changing priorities
- Detail oriented and highly organized
- Good working knowledge of computer software (i.e., Microsoft Office applications)
- Proficient in a multi-task environment; can type, text, email, and present via web and phone
- An understanding of web technologies and computer programming – a plus but not required
Why Join Modern Campus?
At Modern Campus, we're transforming how higher education institutions engage learners throughout the entire student lifecycle. We believe meaningful growth comes from understanding our customers, connecting their challenges to the right solutions, and creating experiences that deliver measurable value.
This role offers an opportunity to shape the future of demand generation at Modern Campus, building innovative, data-driven marketing strategies that strengthen customer engagement, accelerate growth, and connect marketing impact to business outcomes.
Skills Required
- University degree or college diploma in Business Administration, Computer Science, or relevant work experience
- 1-3 years of experience in sales or a similar capacity
- Strong understanding of consultative sales skills, potentially involving long sales cycles
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Goal-oriented with a strong desire to succeed
- Ability to work independently, meet deadlines, and work under pressure with changing priorities
- Detail-oriented and highly organized
- Good working knowledge of computer software, including Microsoft Office applications
- Ability to multitask using typing, texting, email, and web- and phone-based presentations
- Understanding of web technologies and computer programming
What We Do
Modern Campus is obsessed with empowering its 1,800+ higher education customers to thrive when radical transformation is required to respond to lower student enrollments and revenue, rising costs, crushing student debt and administrative complexity. The Modern Campus engagement platform powers solutions for non-traditional student management, web content management, catalog and curriculum management, student engagement & development, conversational text messaging, career pathways, and campus maps & virtual tours. The result: innovative institutions can create a Learner-to-Earner Lifecycle that engages modern learners for life, while providing modern administrators with the tools needed to streamline workflows and drive high efficiency. Delivering personalization, AI-driven recommendations and a modern e-commerce engine all purpose-built for the unique needs of higher ed, Modern Campus creates a student-first digital experience and removes silos across campus. Presidents and provosts, marketing and IT teams, admissions, registrars, student affairs and CE divisions can partner to attract, enroll, empower, retain, credential and re-engage students with pathways for lifelong learning.
