About SchoolAI
At SchoolAI, we believe AI can meaningfully improve teaching and learning. We combine cutting-edge AI with a deep understanding of classroom challenges to help educators save time, personalise learning, and keep students safe.
This is an incredibly exciting time to join SchoolAI at the edge of a new frontier. As part of our growing international sales team, you’ll have the chance to play a key role not only in shaping the future of SchoolAI but in transforming EdTech on a global stage. If you’re looking for a mission-driven company where you can grow professionally, have fun, and make a real difference, SchoolAI is the place for you.
We’re a US based company expanding internationally to meet rising demand. If you want to help scale a category-defining product across EMEA and grow your career while doing purposeful work, this role is for you.
We want everyone at SchoolAI to make a competitive wage, have fun, and do good. As we build out the team, we optimize for, and invest in, great people who:
- 🪄 Make Magic – Surprise and delight.
- ☀️ Rise to the Moment – Play big.
- 🚀 Find Leverage – Work hard and smart.
- 💪 Overwhelm Constraints – Every second counts.
- 🔗 Connect the Dots – Systems thinking and tight feedback loops.
- ➡️ Simplify and Go – Do the simplest thing that might work.
- 🐻 Run at the Bear – Do the hard thing.
- 🎉 Have Fun Winning Together – All for one.
We use our core values to make decisions, evaluate work, and win. We expect that every team member demonstrate these values. In turn, we'll invest in you and your impact at SchoolAI.
Why this role is unique- Greenfield + momentum: You’ll build SchoolAI’s EMEA presence with strong inbound interest and a proven PLG motion (free → pilot → department/district) combined with strategic prospecting.
- Real classroom impact: You’ll sell solutions that remove teacher admin load and elevate student success.
Career runway: As we scale, so do you - leadership, strategic accounts, and regional expansion opportunities.
About the role
As our Sr. Enterprise Account Executive (EMEA), you will own new logo acquisition and expansion across Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs), Independent & International Schools, Dept of Education and Ministry of Education You’ll run complex cycles (pilots, security reviews, procurement frameworks, panels, grants) and build a durable EMEA pipeline in partnership with marketing, customer success, and select resellers.
You’ll translate SchoolAI’s US success into the EMEA context, aligning to relevant academic term calendars, local policy/priorities and compliance frameworks.
What you'll do
- Own the territory: Build and execute a 12-month EMEA territory plan (segments, target logos, events, partners, public tenders).
- Create & progress pipeline: Blend outbound with product-led inbound (PQLs). Run tight discovery, multi-thread early, and convert pilots to rollouts.
- Deliver compelling demos: Tailor to EMEA curriculum contexts (), assessment priorities, and teacher workflows.
- Guide complex buys: Navigate DoE / MoE frameworks, panels, RFPs, legal/IT security, and data-privacy reviews.
- Commercial excellence: Structure scaled adoption plans (no shelfware), negotiate multi-year agreements, and forecast accurately.
- Partner motion: Register deals, co-sell with resellers and associations, and co-host micro PD/webinars.
- Cross-functional feedback: Channel market signals to Product / Marketing; influence localisation efforts, feature roadmap, and collateral generation.
- Operational hygiene: Maintain precise CRM (HubSpot) notes, MEDDICC fields, and develop Mutual Action Plans (MAPs) to accelerate deal velocity.
- Events & field: Represent SchoolAI at EMEA conferences and targeted roadshows.
Customer advocacy: Build referenceable lighthouse customers and case studies in priority locations.
Qualifications
- 4+ years of quota-carrying SaaS or EdTech sales success; enterprise/education system experience strongly preferred.
- A track record meeting/exceeding targets and running full-cycle deals (prospect → close → expansion).
- Experience selling into public education or government-adjacent environments (procurement, panels, RFPs, security/DPAs).
- Customer-centric discovery and outcome-based selling; comfort with multi-threading and executive alignment.
- Strong commercial acumen (pricing, multi-year structures, phased rollouts) and disciplined forecasting.
- Tech-savvy: confident with CRM (HubSpot/Salesforce), video demos, and (ideally) AI-enabled products.
- Collaboration & ownership: you share, learn, and deliver - especially in a time-zone-distributed team.
- You thrive under pressure - you’ll be operating in a fast-growing startup and dynamic environment, where adaptability, initiative, and a growth mindset are critical.
- EMEA K-12 equivalent (Key Stage 1>5) network, reseller/ISV relationships, or prior EdTech scale-up experience.
- Familiarity with regional curriculum standards, data residency considerations, and school IT ecosystems (incl. LMS/SAM, SSO).
- Public-sector procurement knowledge (buying rules, panels, compliance norms).
- Experience running PLG assisted motions (PQLs, free→paid conversions).
- Competitive base + uncapped commission (OTE aligned to experience; EMEA market competitive).
- Stock options - share in what you help build.
- WFH setup support.
- Flexible hours with overlap to US time zones for team/customer calls.
- A mission-driven team that cares about educators, students and your growth. You’ll work with a team of forward-thinking, motivated, and passionate individuals who are just as excited about what we’re building as you are.
- Start with the classroom: Teacher time saved and student impact guide our roadmap and deals.
- Earn trust: Transparent privacy & security posture; we meet schools where they are.
- Own the outcome: Clear plans (MAPs), crisp communication, and consistent follow-through.
- Our fundamental mission is to Make School Awesome Everyday.
- Be a Champion for Education: Advocate for SchoolAI’s mission and solutions, ensuring that every interaction with customers is aligned with our vision to improve education.
SchoolAI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to an inclusive environment for all employees.
