Jobs at Instructure

Provides strategic consulting to organizations using Instructure products, especially Canvas, to drive change, adoption, instructional effectiveness, and learner engagement. Responsibilities include stakeholder collaboration, training, coaching, resource and course development, change planning, presentations, progress monitoring, and customer relationship management. The role requires educational technology expertise, Canvas experience, leadership, strong communication, and travel to client sites.

Leads finance for the R&D organization, including planning, forecasting, reporting, financial modeling, P&L analysis, headcount planning, and cost of goods sold management. Partners with engineering, product, platform, and corporate FP&A teams to guide resource allocation and strategic decisions. Presents financial insights to senior leadership, improves financial processes, mentors a senior analyst, and identifies AI-driven automation opportunities.

Drive new business sales for Canvas to higher education institutions across the West/Central US. Responsibilities include developing sales strategies, building executive relationships, conducting needs analyses, delivering tailored presentations, managing purchasing processes, forecasting performance, achieving quotas, and maintaining accurate Salesforce CRM records. The role requires enterprise SaaS sales experience and travel up to 25%.

Drives new-logo growth, upselling, and cross-selling of Instructure’s education software across an assigned K-12 territory. Builds district relationships, conducts needs analyses, creates tailored proposals and presentations, manages purchasing processes, forecasts sales, maintains Salesforce records, and achieves quotas. Requires enterprise SaaS sales experience, consultative selling skills, executive-level engagement, and willingness to travel up to 50%.

Leads and builds Instructure’s decision science function, including hiring, team development, roadmap ownership, experimentation, causal and predictive modeling, executive insights, and data literacy. Partners with product, engineering, marketing, finance, and executives to guide product, pricing, retention, go-to-market, and operational decisions. Establishes analytical standards, supports data infrastructure, and ensures ethical, privacy-conscious use of student data.

Lead enterprise strategy, planning, and execution governance (OKRs, QBRs). Manage cross-functional strategic initiatives and the enterprise portfolio, build strategy scorecards and dashboards, establish systems and decision-rights, and mentor/scale the BizOps team to drive data-informed, strategy-driven execution.

The Account Executive creates, manages, and closes new sales pipeline within an assigned U.S. territory. Responsibilities include prospecting, conducting initial meetings, developing territory plans, managing SaaS sales cycles, maintaining opportunity data, forecasting in Salesforce, negotiating contracts, cross-selling products, and transitioning closed customers to Customer Success. The role requires relationship-building, communication, multitasking, independent work, and proficiency with Salesforce, Google Suite, Outreach, and Highspot.

Drives revenue growth by managing strategic accounts, developing account plans, identifying and closing new business, managing the full sales cycle, presenting education technology solutions, forecasting opportunities, negotiating contracts, and building executive-level client relationships. Collaborates with sales engineering, customer success, and product teams while maintaining accurate CRM data and achieving sales quotas.

Sell enterprise SaaS and LMS solutions to new clients within a designated region. Responsibilities include consultative selling, needs analysis, proposal development, relationship building with executive buyers, pipeline and sales strategy development, quota achievement, forecasting, referrals, and maintaining accurate Salesforce CRM records. The role requires up to 50% travel and collaboration with clients and other Regional Directors.

Drive revenue growth in the BizGov sector by developing sales strategies, managing key accounts, prospecting, conducting executive presentations, negotiating complex contracts, and closing business. The role includes upselling and cross-selling, forecasting, CRM pipeline management, customer relationship development, cross-functional collaboration, competitive research, and industry event representation. Travel of up to 50% is required.

Lead and grow the Parchment regional sales team, exceed revenue targets, expand market share, and drive customer acquisition. Develop sales strategies, coach high-performing teams, manage executive relationships, forecast performance, and partner with marketing, customer success, and product on go-to-market execution. Represent the company at industry events and promote its values.

Technical leader responsible for architecting, building, and scaling the developer portal and PaaS. Drive architectural direction, write and review code, mentor engineering teams, collaborate with SRE and stakeholders, evaluate new technologies, troubleshoot complex issues, and improve engineering processes and platform reliability.

Manage strategic higher education accounts by developing success plans, leading executive business reviews, monitoring customer health, driving product adoption, and supporting retention and expansion. Use data and generative AI to identify risks, improve workflows, and strengthen customer engagement. Collaborate with Product Management, Sales, Renewal Representatives, and leadership while maintaining CRM records and managing a substantial SaaS portfolio.

Lead a two-person pod to find, validate, build, and sell AI-enabled products. Own product specs, prototype quickly, secure pilot customers, prove revenue, and manage P&L and stage-gates until scale or fold.

Serve as the primary Sales Operations partner for a North American business unit. Coordinate forecasting, pipeline reviews, performance reporting, planning, territory segmentation, quota modeling, and business reviews. Analyze sales metrics, identify risks and opportunities, improve data quality, and deliver leadership recommendations. Partner cross-functionally with Finance, Marketing, Customer Success, and technical teams to define requirements, automate reporting, streamline workflows, and lead analytical projects.

Senior leader responsible for shaping and scaling Instructure's partner ecosystem and channel programs to drive revenue. Builds and manages reseller, integration, ISV, and strategic technology partnerships, aligns cross-functional GTM plans, forecasts bookings, and manages budgets. Measures partner performance, expands government and consortia relationships, and discovers alternative revenue models.

Lead go-to-market operations for New Markets pods: design sales motions, build Salesforce and Excel reporting, run launch readiness, shape pricing/packaging, and define graduation handoffs to core sales.

Owner of positioning, go-to-market, demand generation, content, and lifecycle for AI-built early-stage products. Drive pipeline from early access to renewal, craft messaging, launch products, measure funnel performance, and enable founders to sell.