Account Manager II (Strategic)

When you join Renaissance®, you join a global leader in pre-K-12 education technology! Renaissance’s solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters—creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom. Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide.
The Account Manager II is responsible for managing and selling Renaissance Learning’s products and services, within assigned territory, and achievement of revenue goals through prospecting, new business, customer renewals, cross-sell, and up-sell opportunities.
The Account Manager II has meaningful sales experience and brings developing expertise for cultivation and long-term development of customer relationships, maintaining high product renewal rates and strong collaboration with Customer Success partners and members of the Account Executive team. You will operate are the primary account contact for customers, increasing customer loyalty and retention while driving business value and expansion.
This position requires occasional travel for customer engagements, conferences, and other revenue-generating activities. In this role as Account Manager II, you will be responsible for:
Managing Opportunities: Drive new business, cross/up-sell and renewal opportunities proactively by engaging multiple decision makers to ensure communication and agreement through the life of the opportunity and use internal and external networks to increase opportunity value. Grow assigned book of business to exceed revenue goals.
Understand and sell solutions aligned to customers’ unique problems and strategic objectives. Leads across the account team, internal, and external partners to develop winning solutions bringing value for both the customer and Renaissance.
Closing Business: Understand and sell solutions aligned to customers’ unique problems and strategic objectives. Leads across the account team, internal, and external partners to develop winning solutions bringing value for both the customer and Renaissance.
Possesses a deep knowledge of the K-12 education space including public, private, and parochial schools. Strong understanding of K-12 districts and school administrative roles, funding, purchasing process, buying cycles, policies, practices, trends, and school board oversight. Knows customer workflows, contacts, and how they integrate into decision-making processes.
staying current on probable future state policies, practices, and information affecting customer businesses. Builds rapport based on factual accuracy, expertise across offerings, delivering on expectations and proactively providing market insights that inspire customers to think of Renaissance as a partner
For this role as Account Manager II, you should have:
4+ years with prior experience in sales
Outlook, Microsoft Teams, etc.)
Familiarity with CRMs and other sales technology (e.g., Salesforce, MS Dynamics)
Knowledge of education customers, their organizational structures, and leadership personas
Bonus Points:
Experience in education sales
Bilingual in English & Spanish
Demonstrated capacity for resourcefulness and creative problem-solving
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Salary Range: The base range for this position is $61,800 - $85,000 with a total target compensation (TTC) range of $123,000-158,000. This range is based on national market data and may vary by experience and location.
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World Class Health Benefits: Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Telehealth
Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
12 Paid Holidays
Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program
Tuition Reimbursement
Life & Disability Insurance
Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs
Contractor and other non‑employee roles are not eligible for Renaissance employee benefits.
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