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[Remote] RVP, Sales, Enterprise Higher Education

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where ambition meets action and innovation drives success. They are seeking a Regional Vice President to manage and develop a team of Account Executives, set sales strategies, and lead initiatives to drive customer engagement in the Enterprise Higher Education sector.

Responsibilities

  • Provide support and mentorship to direct reports by participating and leading in client and prospect meetings or engaging other corporate resources as required
  • Development of a winning team, including recruiting, hiring and training
  • Coaching direct reports on strategies to drive sales wins
  • Accurate reporting on sales activity and forecasting to senior sales management
  • Consistent monitoring of the sales activity of the team, and tracking of results
  • Actively leading and monitoring demand generation activities
  • Leading initiatives to drive customer awareness and engagement
  • Develop and implement successful sales campaigns
  • Engaging at C-level in enterprise customer organizations
  • Capable of successfully leading significant client concerns and issues
  • Work cross-functionally with internal partners and corporate resources for consistent processes and a successful team
  • Develop required Corporate relationships and Executive engagement to support success

Skills

  • 2+ years experience in Sales Leadership
  • 10+ years in software and/or applications sales; ideally an IT centric solution/application software, selling primarily to the CxO level (ideally CIO)
  • Recent experience with the Enterprise customer segment, commercial education, public sector and/or higher education sectors
  • Experience selling to customers in the Public Sector, ideally Higher Education vertical
  • Strong track record of success in leading complex top account teams within a high-growth, matrixed environment. Consistent overachievement of quota and revenue goals
  • Strong track record of recruiting, developing, coaching and retaining a high performing sales organization
  • Strong cross-functional partnership skills to drive collaboration across multiple internal and external stakeholders
  • Excellent presentation and executive engagement skills
  • Excellent negotiation skills

Benefits

  • Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
  • Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.

Company Overview

  • Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications. It was founded in 1999, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.salesforce.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Salesforce has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 324 in 2026, 1883 in 2025, 2296 in 2024, 1850 in 2023, 2849 in 2022, 2124 in 2021, 1960 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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