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Canada's 2SLGBTQI+ Chamber of Commerce (CGLCC)

Diversifying Canadian business, one connection at a time.

Head of Partnerships

Account ManagerSalesFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 1-10H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

Washington

Posted

88 days ago

Salary

Not specified

Seniority

Lead

Bachelor DegreeEnglish

Job Description

• Sell into the US higher-education and workforce ecosystems with credibility and depth—navigating cabinet-level decision cycles, funding models, procurement constraints, and complex stakeholder dynamics. • Engage and influence cabinet-level institutional and workforce leaders—Presidents, Provosts, VPs—building executive alignment around multi-year, outcomes-driven partnership models. • Work closely with our US ecosystem leader and co-founder on high-impact pursuits—aligning on strategy, strengthening value narratives, and supporting execution for major ecosystem-led opportunities. • Build and accelerate a healthy, predictable pipeline to drive new logo acquisition across a named-account sales motion, partnering with GTM Strategy & Solutions. • Drive disciplined qualification and deal inspection, bringing and enforcing a structured, qualification-driven sales methodology that increases predictability and improves win rates. • Lead cross-functional pursuit teams in collaboration with GTM Strategy, Product, Employer and Delivery to shape solutions, remove blockers, and advance complex opportunities. • Partner with Revenue Operations to maintain inspection-ready forecasts, pipeline discipline, and clean, reliable reporting. • Play an executive role in the region’s most strategic opportunities, supporting sellers and strengthening senior-level engagement where needed. • Own a material portion of Riipen’s new bookings target, delivering predictable enterprise revenue performance and shaping the standards of excellence for the sales organization. • Set the standard for enterprise selling excellence—modeling rigor, professionalism, preparation, and a consultative, outcomes-driven approach

Job Requirements

  • A proven track record leading enterprise, high-ACV, multi-stakeholder sales in B2B SaaS + services, including complex, long-cycle pursuits.
  • A history of building trust with senior academic and workforce leaders quickly, including comfort navigating politics, ambiguity, and competing institutional priorities.
  • Experience shaping or selling multi-year transformation initiatives (e.g., curricular redesign, statewide programs, workforce pathways).
  • Evidence of strong commercial judgment—balancing revenue opportunity, risk, operational feasibility, and institutional readiness.
  • You bring an enterprise leadership mindset—able to operate at executive altitude while driving disciplined execution across complex pursuits
  • A track record as a player/coach building and scaling an agile sales team.
  • Experience in work-based learning, experiential learning, or related workforce/education impact models.
  • Experience working with government-funded workforce programs or policy-driven initiatives.
  • Familiarity with marketplace models or dual-sided platforms (educators/employers).
  • A collaborative leadership style that elevates cross-functional partners, integrates multiple perspectives, and prioritizes enterprise outcomes over individual wins.****
  • We ask that if you feel like you don’t check all the boxes but have the potential to learn what you don’t know, that you still apply! We believe that diverse teams are high performing teams and we strive to employ individuals with a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

Benefits

  • Remote/travel working opportunities (when appropriate)
  • 4-weeks of annual vacation
  • Extended Health and Dental benefits from your first day
  • Flexible health spending account
  • Work from home stipend
  • Note: compensation listed is inclusive of variable ****
  • We appreciate your interest and application. Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted. *
  • Riipen is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, and not on race, colour, creed, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. *
  • Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request.*

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