Pearson

Principal, Business Architecture

Pearson$150K — $190K *
US-Anywhere
+ 2 other locationsRemote
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in sales, strategy, operations, or go-to-market roles (B2B tech or learning environments preferred)
  • Hands-on experience in customer segmentation, territory planning, and sales process design
  • Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills
  • Proven ability to drive strategic initiatives as a Senior Individual Contributor without direct reports
  • Effective cross-functional collaboration and influencing skills across teams (Sales, Marketing, Product, Finance, Ops)
  • Curiosity and adaptability with a growth mindset

Responsibilities

  • Create customer segmentation frameworks to identify high-value sales opportunities.
  • Optimize sales resource deployment across various teams to enhance market coverage and productivity.
  • Define roles within the sales funnel and orchestrate their interrelations to boost revenue.
  • Design incentive structures that align seller behavior with business goals, working with Finance and HR.
  • Establish metrics and processes for each sales stage, ensuring alignment with CRM and forecasting needs.
  • Gather insights from field teams and customers, translating them into actionable recommendations for product and marketing.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape and influence sales strategy for a leading educational company.
  • Engagement with a centralized Business Architecture team for collaborative growth initiatives.
  • Focus on data-driven and customer-centric sales processes that enhance market penetration.
  • Remote workplace flexibility that promotes work-life balance.
  • Access to an incentive program tied to performance outcomes.
Full Job Description
Pearson is seeking a Sales Strategy Architect for our Enterprise business to shape how we go to market unlock new paths to growth. This role is part of the centralized Business Architecture team within Revenue Operations and is responsible for shaping the GTM blueprint & sales strategy -who we sell to, how we engage them, and how internal resources come together to deliver impact.

You will lead the planning and design work behind customer segmentation, territory modeling, and sales process architecture, ensuring that the revenue engine is scalable, data-driven, and customer-centric. This role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution and plays a pivotal role in aligning Sales, Product, and Marketing functions around growth.

You're structured, analytical, entrepreneurial, curious, and excited to apply your passion to defining the right sales coverage models to accelerate our ability to serve our customers and mission.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Design Customer Segmentation: Create frameworks using firmographics, buying behavior, and lifecycle data to identify high-value opportunities and guide sales toward segments that drive growth and learner impact.
  2. Resourcing, Territory & Coverage Modeling: Optimize how we deploy sales resources across Field, Inside Sales, Renewals, and Channel teams. Your designs will balance market coverage, productivity, and equity while supporting our growth targets.
  3. Sales Motions & Role Design: Define the roles we need across the entire funnel and orchestrate how they work together to convert demand into revenue. You'll create the playbook that turns prospects into long-term learning partners.
  4. Sales Compensation Strategy: Design and refine incentive structures that align seller behavior with business priorities. Partner with Finance and HR to build comp plans that drive the right outcomes across segments, roles, and sales motions - ensuring pay-for-performance clarity while supporting retention and talent acquisition goals
  5. Sales Stage & Process Architecture: Establish clear definitions, metrics, and expectations for each stage of the sales process, aligned with CRM and forecasting needs from lead qualification to close and renewal. Drive consistency, predictability, and pipeline visibility.
  6. Voice of the Field & Customer: Build systematic ways to gather insights from field teams and customers, translating them into actionable recommendations for Product & Marketing.

What Success Looks Like
  • A clearly defined and adopted GTM model aligned across Sales, Product, and Marketing
  • Territory and role designs that support scale, clarity, and growth
  • Measurable improvements in seller productivity, market coverage, and pipeline performance
  • Field teams executing consistently against defined motions and processes
  • A repeatable GTM planning process that evolves with the business

Who We Are Looking For
  • 5+ years in sales, strategy, ops or GTM roles (B2B tech or learning environments preferred)
  • Deep understanding of sales orgs and GTM models, with hands-on experience in segmentation, territory planning, sales process design, or enablement
  • Role Type: Senior Individual Contributor - you'll drive strategic initiatives through expertise and cross-functional collaboration without direct reports
  • Strategic Thinker: You see the big picture and can break down complex business challenges into actionable frameworks. Strong analytical skills and a structured approach to solving business problems
  • Execution Catalyst: You don't just create plans-you drive them to completion. You thrive in ambiguous environments and iterate rapidly toward impact.
  • Collaborative Influencer with ability to align and influence cross-functional teams (Sales, Marketing, Product, Finance, and Ops)
  • Growth Mindset: You're curious, adaptable, and excited by the challenge of scaling systems that directly impact how people learn and grow.

Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York State, New York City, Vermont, Washington State, and Washington DC laws, the pay range for this position is as follows:

The minimum full-time salary range is between $150,000 to $190,000.

This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here.

Applications will be accepted through June 26, 2026. This window may be extended depending on business needs.

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Job: Sales Enablement

Job Family: GO_TO_MARKET

Organization: Corporate Strategy & Technology

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Workplace Type: Remote

Req ID: 23034

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About Pearson

Pearson is a publishing and education company that provides educational materials, learning technologies, and assessments to schools, universities, and professional organizations. The company's products and services include textbooks, online learning platforms, and certification exams. Pearson's customers include the University of Phoenix, the British Council, and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
Learn more about Pearson
Size
20,744 employees
Market Cap
$8.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$265 million
Founded
1997
5 Year Trend
-5.5%
Revenue
$3.5 billion
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