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Higher Education Industry Advisor

Canada, Ontario, Toronto💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-08 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead multi-year digital transformation planning and solution sales for Higher Education accounts, serving as a subject-matter expert to co-create transformation visions with senior executives.

Role type

Senior IC Higher Education Industry Advisor (Strategy & Sales)

Builds

Large transformational cloud, security, and AI solutions (e.g., M365 Copilot, agentic solutions) for educational institutions.

Domain

Higher Education / Enterprise Technology / AI & Cloud

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | client delivery

Required skills

Strategic planning, solution selling, deal orchestration, executive engagement, AI use case expertise, cloud technology mapping, education trend analysis, stakeholder alignment

Preferred skills

Thought leadership, public speaking, industry publishing, fluency in additional languages

Technologies

Azure OpenAI, M365 Copilot, agentic solutions

Responsibilities

Lead multi-year digital transformation planning for multiple Higher Education accounts; Originate and advance large transformational cloud, security, and AI opportunities; Engage at CxO and board level to articulate end-state visions and business cases; Drive repeatable partner motions with education ISVs and global integrators; Maintain deep expertise in relevant AI use cases for Higher Education.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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