How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Sales Director
Build the Sales Engine Behind the Next Stage of EdTech Growth
Mission-led business
UK focused with international growth
Hybrid. North London team meetings, and customer visits.
We are partnering with a fast-growing edtech business who supports schools to improve teaching, and student results, through a high-quality platform and implementation model. This has led to impressive growth, 60% of their new business comes from word-of-mouth and referrals. Commercially, they have little in place.
The company is entering its next stage of growth and is seeking a senior commercial leader to build a more scalable, data-driven sales engine. This is a hands-on leadership role with responsibility for new business growth, team development, sales process, and cross-functional commercial strategy.
The opportunity
This role will suit a commercially strong leader who enjoys building, coaching, and improving systems, rather than simply managing business as usual.
Reporting to the Managing Director, you will:
- Build a systematic sales engine
- Grow business across new priority segments
- Develop the existing team and recruit new sales talent
- Improve forecasting, CRM, and KPI discipline
- Work closely with marketing and customer success
- Contribute to pricing evolution
- Help shape UK and international growth plans in new priority segments
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Candidate profile
We are looking for someone with:
- Senior sales leadership experience building a systematic sales process
- A track record of scaling sales in edtech or B2B SaaS, ideally internationally
- Experience building repeatable revenue pipelines including multi-year high value contracts
- Strong analytical and operational capability
- A collaborative, mission-led approach, keen to partner within the business especially with other commercial functions.
- The judgement to balance growth with quality and trust
Experience in the education sector, K-12 SaaS, international schools, or similar markets would be highly advantageous.
Some good reasons why this is an opportunity to explore are
- It’s a real scale-up opportunity: The business has a clear growth plan, strong market need, and room to expand materially.
- It’s strong mission: The product is tied to school improvement and better student outcomes, which will resonate with candidates who want commercial work to have visible social value.
- It’s build, not inherit: This is a chance to create a sales engine rather than simply manage one.
- It has senior influence: The role has genuine seniority, with access to the board and real influence over strategy.
- It has clear growth potential: There is a realistic path to broader C-suite responsibility.
- It has attractive business fundamentals
- Strong brand
- Strong referral base
- High trust in the market
- Good margins and growth ambition
- Investor support
- The important market opportunity: There is significant white space in existing markets, plus meaningful international upside.
- It’s mission and culture: A values-led culture with people who care deeply about what they do, this is not a transactional sales environment.
- The scope to modernise
- The role offers the chance to improve:
- Sales process
- CRM
- Forecasting
- Team structure
- Pricing
- Incentives
- Outbound strategy
- The role offers the chance to improve:
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
To apply:
If you are an experienced commercial leader who wants to make a meaningful impact in a growing and values-led business and fits the candidate profile above, we would welcome a confidential conversation.
If you are interested, please apply with your CV. Given the very high volume of responses typically received through LinkedIn you can expect us to be in touch within 10 days of your application if we consider you to be a strong fit with our detailed brief.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location