What's the opportunity:The
Regional Sales Director (RSD) is a strategic individual contributor responsible for driving ARR growth, market expansion, and regional go to market strategy within an assigned territory. The role directly supports company goals by winning and expanding larger K-12 customers, increasing deal size and win rates, building high quality pipeline, and strengthening customer and channel relationships. The RSD owns the strategy for their region and uses market and customer insight to shape regional priorities across channel partnerships, events, marketing, and other go to market activities.
Here's how you'll do it:- Own an individual ARR quota for the assigned region and consistently achieve or exceed sales targets.
- Develop and execute a regional sales strategy that drives new business, upsell, cross-sell, market share, pipeline growth, and increased average deal size and win rates.
- Own the end-to-end sales cycle for medium to large K-12 school districts, typically serving 5,000 or more students, from prospecting and discovery through negotiation, close, and handoff to Customer Success.
- Build and maintain relationships with senior district leaders, including Superintendents, CIOs, CTOs, and other executive stakeholders.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with prospects, customers, and channel partners, positioning Linewize as a trusted strategic advisor and industry leader.
- Shape regional go to market strategy, including channel partner priorities, events, webinars, marketing activities, and other initiatives that increase awareness, pipeline, and revenue within the region.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in content filtering, classroom management, and digital safeguarding, bringing industry expertise and market insight to customers and internal teams.
- Mentor and support Account Executives by sharing best practices, strategic sales guidance, and expertise to strengthen sales execution across the region.
- Provide accurate sales forecasts, pipeline visibility, and performance reporting to support effective business planning and decision making.
- Provide leadership with regular feedback on competitive trends, customer needs, pricing, and market dynamics.
- Maintain accurate forecasting, CRM hygiene, and reporting while consistently meeting defined sales KPIs and performance expectations.
What you will bring:This role requires:
- Bachelor's Degree
- K-12 Education experience
- 8+ years of technology/SaaS sales or equivalent
- Strong understanding of MEDDPICC, Challenger, BANT, or similar sales methodologies.
- Strong forecasting, pipeline management, and CRM discipline.
- Strong business acumen and ability to translate market intelligence into sales strategy.
- Willingness to travel approximately 25%, generally up to one week per month or 15-25 trips annually. Travel may include local and in-state driving, customer visits, industry events, and occasional overnight or out-of-state travel.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring peers or less experienced sales professionals.
- Demonstrated success consistently achieving or exceeding revenue targets.
To be successful in this role you must have:
- Exceptional business acumen
- High level of proficiency with MS Office, Google Workspace, CRM software
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Ability to quickly build relationships
- Strong negotiation skills in order to realize the best commercial outcome for the Company
- Organizational and time management skills
- Ability to work and thrive in a high activity and competitive environment
- Ability to travel regularly and speak at trade shows and events in front of large groups
- Grit and tenacity
- Strong mentorship skills to develop Linewize Account Executives
- Confidence and credibility in interactions with senior company leadership
In this role, you can expect:- Extensive benefits
- Enhanced holiday & family leave
- Tech Allowance
.... and much more
We'd love to hear from you. Please submit your application if you would like to be considered for this opportunity.
