Account Executive - Higher Education Mid-Market
The posting
At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform - we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention - but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.
When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities - ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.
Why We Have This Role
Our Higher Education Account Executive team is a group of highly driven individuals dedicated to closing experience gaps in Education. This role will specifically focus on driving exceptional experiences that improve staff and student engagement, satisfaction, academic research, and retention in Higher Education. Our SaaS platform is used to help some of the largest institutions in the world drive action with pre-built experience management (XM) programs and projects that anyone can use.
How You’ll Find Success
- You are known for your strong work ethic
- You are passionate about education
- Hunter mentality
- You thrive in a competitive, collaborative environment
- Creative problem-solving
- Consistently raise the bar for yourself and others around you
How You’ll Grow
- Structured promotion process/auto promotion process
- Career Action Planning with Manager
- Qmobility
Things You’ll Do
- You sell the Qualtrics platform and become a trusted advisor to C-Suite, Director, and VP level leaders in HIgher Education
- You engage with and guide clients and prospects through all points of the sales cycle - including prospecting, product demonstrations, on-site presentations, through close
- You drive net-new revenue growth through new logo acquisition and expansion of current accounts
- You identify key strategic accounts and customers that help tell the Qualtrics story, and drive organic growth through networking and events
- You educate clients on packages and options applicable to their needs and challenges, demonstrating how features and benefits match their goals
- You develop and execute strategic plans for your territory and create reliable forecasts
- You focus on self-development through daily training and enablement
- You strive to add to your pool of contacts, relationships, and opportunities
- You strive to have consistent, productive days
What We’re Looking For On Your Resume
- You earned a Bachelor's degree
- You have experience navigating Salesforce.com, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and other prospecting applications
- You have a proven track record of hitting and exceeding quotas
- You love closing complex, consultative deals
- You are able to travel when necessary
- You have 2+ years of sales experience
What You Should Know About This Team
- Qualtrics’ Higher Education Account Executive team is dedicated to changing the way our customers focus on Experience data. Forrester reports that companies generate a 674% return on investment when using Qualtrics. Now that’s a solution you can get behind!
- As an Account Executive, you will focus on growing new revenue through strategic, relationship-based selling, a hunter mentality, and educating prospective and current customers on the value of Qualtrics XM. Our most successful Account Executives have a track record of exceeding quota, acting as trusted advisors to clients, and being passionate teammates.
- The challenge? Qualtrics XM is a very versatile platform, adding value to a limitless array of decision makers. If you love a strategic, analytical sales process and working with a variety of stakeholders, selling Qualtrics XM will always keep you learning and growing.
Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits
- Salary + Uncapped Commissions and Accelerators
- 100% Performance based promotions -- not politics or tenure
- Catered lunch
- Culture - Incredible work environment - you can wear jeans and bring your dog to the office, anytime
- Quarterly team activities, winter and summer parties, and lots of Qualtrics swag
The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life. #hybrid
Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.
Applicants in the United States of America have rights under Federal Employment Laws: Family & Medical Leave Act , Equal Opportunity Employment , Employee Polygraph Protection Act
Qualtrics is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please let your Qualtrics contact/recruiter know.
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Taken from Qualtrics's own posting, last seen live on 3 Nov 2026.
The application
Your details and CV, then 22 questions (2 written).
- 1.Where have you seen Qualtrics prior to applying? Select all that apply.Pick any (10 options)
- 2.Are you of legal age to work in the country in which this position is based?Yes or no
- 3.Are you legally authorized to work in the country in which this position is located?Yes or no
- 4.Do you now or will you in the future require Qualtrics to commence ("sponsor") an immigration case in order to employ you (for example, an H-1B, TN or other employment-based immigration case)? This is sometimes called "sponsorship" for an eYes or no
- 5.Are you willing to undergo a background check as part of this hiring process?Yes or no
- 6.Have you ever worked at Qualtrics or Press Ganey Forsta in the following capacities? (check all that apply):Pick any (9 options)
- 7.What languages do you speak with professional proficiency?Short answer · optional
- 8.Have you completed a bachelor's degree or international equivalent?Yes or no
- 9.What month/year did you graduate with your bachelor's degree?Short answer
- 10.Have you been selling SaaS?Yes or no
- 11.What is your average deal size? (in local currency)Short answer
- 12.What is your average sales cycle?Short answer
- 13.What is the largest deal you have ever closed?Short answer
- 14.Do you specialize in any verticals? What size of accounts have you been selling to?Written answer
- 15.What territories do you cover?Short answer
- 16.What is the percentage of net-new logos vs current accounts do you sell into?Short answer
- 17.Who are your key stakeholders that you sell into?Short answer
- 18.What is the percentage of quota attainment against target for the past 3+ years? Have you achieved any awards for your performance (such as President's Club)?Written answer
- 19.Internal purposes only - no need to answerShort answer · optional
- 20.Are you related to a current employee of Qualtrics? A "relative" is defined as one of the following: spouse or significant other, parent/step parent, child/step child, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, fiYes or no
- 21.If you answered yes to being related to a current Qualtrics employee, please specify name and relationship (N/A if not applicable).Short answer
- 22.What is the zip code of the location you're based in?Short answer
From Qualtrics's apply page, checked 2 Nov 2026.
About Qualtrics
Customer, employee and product experience management software for large organizations.
Pay schedule: Base salary plus uncapped commissions and accelerators, as several of its sales postings put it.
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