Paragon One (www.ParagonOne.com) is helping corporations become the classrooms of the future for real work. We're a team out of MIT and YCombinator building scalable remote extern programs to upskill thousands of underrepresented students per year on behalf of corporates like Home Depot, Meta, PwC, HSBC, HP, and National Geographic. After a 6-8 week cohort-based extern program, students earn a certificate from the company and get to put the externship under professional experience on their resume. Nearly 80% of students are from underrepresented backgrounds, and we see 1 in 2 students land Fortune 1000 jobs within 6 months of completing an externship. Our platform and process handles recruiting, training, collaboration, workflow management, and assessment.
We are looking for a strategic and entrepreneurially-minded Account Executive with a hustle mentality, focus on results, product-mindset, and strong relationship building skills. The Account Executive is a visionary leader who is a proactive, a charismatic communicator and adept at influencing executive leaders at Fortune 500 organizations. This tenacious person embraces challenges, is highly organized, and leverages research to become highly knowledgeable about customers and their problems.
Ideal candidates will have a passion for the Corporate Social Responsibility and DEI spaces, have strong client management skills, and possess the ability to build meaningful relationships at senior levels. We seek aspiring leaders who are passionate about solving extremely hard problems in the education-to-workforce movement as aspire to become a sales and business development leader.
Competitive startup salary with equity.
Responsibilities
Build relationships with stakeholders at Fortune 500 companies
Educate corporate leaders on how to enhance their CSR and DEI strategies
Build a strong pipeline of qualified enterprise customer leads
Prospecting leads via lists, conferences, channel partners, consultants, and other relationship-driven approaches
Conducting effective sales calls that first identify prospective customers goals, challenges and needs and culminate in the recommendation of an appropriate solution to meet those needs
Reporting sales activities within Hubspot CRM
Partner with product team to understand ideal customer profile, and iterate on that profile together over time by sharing learnings
Skills and Experience
Grit and perseverance to tackle the hardest problems
8+ years of sales and business development experience with large enterprise customers
Strong relationship development skills with senior leadership and stakeholders
Strong sense for how to navigate complex corporate environments in order to close deals
Ability to connect and effectively communicate with people of all levels
Exceptional teamwork and multi-tasking skills
Strong sense of ownership and roll-up-your-sleeves attitude
High attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
Experience in the worlds of CSR, DEI or recruiting is a bonus
Experience thriving and prioritizing in a constantly changing environment
Media
PwC extern highlight video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UtPw6Kud80
HP extern highlight video: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/paragon-one_hp-hptechventures-work-activity-6856711255571390464-NV75/
Yahoo! Finance TV interview: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6797983228197257216/
Human Capital Innovations podcast: https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/podcast/episode/2c57482f/s38e23-the-benefits-of-externship-programs-for-the-student-and-for-organizations-with-matt-wilkerson
Recruiting Daily Article: https://recruitingdaily.com/remote-externships-the-future-of-student-recruitment/
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