Account Director – Higher Ed

Role Overview

• Drive new logo acquisition through strategic prospecting, outbound outreach, marketing leads, and partner referrals.
• Identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities by understanding evolving customer needs and aligning them with OneStream’s solutions.
• Build and maintain a healthy pipeline through self-sourced efforts and collaboration with Customer Success, Business Development, Marketing, and Alliances.
• Maintain clean, accurate, and up-to-date Salesforce records to support data-driven decision making, forecast accuracy, and cross-functional alignment.
• Prepare and present tailored business cases, proposals, and SaaS agreements that align customer objectives with OneStream’s value proposition.
• Balance new business and existing account growth to meet or exceed sales targets.
• Serve as a consultative partner, delivering insights and value that support long-term customer success and retention.
• Clearly articulate OneStream’s differentiators through compelling written, virtual, and in-person presentations.
• Accurately track and forecast sales opportunities while ensuring timely knowledge transfer across internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Conduct discovery sessions, research, and demos to assess and align OneStream offerings with client challenges.
• Create high-impact proposals and responses to client requests, supporting revenue growth and strategic alignment.
• Act as a role model across the sales organization by demonstrating professionalism, accountability and collaborative selling behavior.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience selling into the Higher Education vertical.
• 5-10+ years of B2B sales experience, with a strong focus on new business; high-potential candidates with less experience will also be considered.
• Proven track record of consistently exceeding quotas through net-new customer acquisition.
• Demonstrated success in prospecting, pipeline generation, and closing complex deals.
• Hunter mindset with ability to drive outbound efforts and convert leads from multiple channels.
• Skilled at articulating solution value to senior stakeholders and navigating multi-threaded sales cycles.
• Strong command of sales methodologies such as MEDDPICC or Challenger to manage complex sales cycles.
• Strategic thinker with business acumen to align solutions with customer pain points and goals.
• Comfortable operating independently in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
• Experienced in collaborating with Marketing, Product, Business Development, and Pre-Sales to accelerate deal velocity.

Benefits

• Excellent Medical Plan
• Dental & Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short & Long-Term Disability
• Vacation Time
• Paid Holidays
• Professional Development
• Retirement Plan