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Account Executive, Higher Education

Austin, us💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-26

Core

Drive growth and adoption of Canva's SaaS platform for US universities with fewer than 5,000 students.

Role type

Senior Account Executive (Higher Education)

Builds

Scaled Higher Education portfolio for US market

Domain

Higher Education / EdTech / SaaS

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Higher Education sales experience, SaaS sales experience, portfolio management, consultative selling, technology adoption strategy, business planning, cross-functional collaboration

Preferred skills

Experience selling education technology, experience with university stakeholders

Technologies

Canva platform

Responsibilities

Own strategy and execution for portfolio of universities <5k students, manage and grow broad university portfolio, drive university-wide adoption across departments, build healthy and predictable business pipeline, understand Higher Education customer needs, use data to identify growth opportunities, partner cross-functionally to scale impact

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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