Vice President, Education

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Acumatica is hiring a Vice President, Education! The purpose of this role is to manage Acumatica’s education assets worldwide, including curriculum, content, and delivery. These assets are used across a variety of audiences and play a foundational role in both compliance efforts and competency improvements across the partner ecosystem, as well as Acumatica’s end-user customer community. This is a full-time job and reports to the SVP Partner Programs and Strategy.

Responsibilities:

•             Become the go-to expert: Working with various subject matter experts in departments across Acumatica, set the appropriate curriculum framework for the delivery of content, and enable the delivery of content through online module, instructor-led online training, and in-person instruction.

•             Make Acumatica training materials distinctly “Acumatica”: Orchestrate the harmonization of Curriculum and Content to an Acumatica look-and-feel, standardized across areas, for both Partner training (by partner type) and end-user Customer training. Drive salient decisions on systems including but not limited to LMS, delivery mechanisms for content and content deliverables into “production.”

•             Keep Education at the fore of Acumatica’s offerings: Build a plan for how Acumatica ought to move education in the future – remain current on best practices related to Education delivery, create an Acumatica point-of-view and evolve Acumatica’s assets and offerings in line with it.

•             Ensure Compliance in a Dispersed Ecosystem: Set the direction and priority for, and execute the day-to-day management of, the plan to maintain badging and compliance as required by the regulatory and legal framework of the Partner Programs.

•             Help Partners and Customers Succeed by Staying Current: Create a competency framework against which assets can be created – separately to compliance assets – that offer both partner and customer end-users in various roles a path against which they can continuously improve.

•             Measure and Refine, to Continuously Improve: measure effectiveness and improve it over time across all educational assets; continuously analyze the competency of target audiences, making data-driven adjustments for maximum impact.

•             Lead and Manage: help a geographically dispersed, functionally diverse team of both direct and indirect reports, and emphasize informed decision-making; interface with the executive team members whose functions contain the subject matter experts and integrate fully the “education team” from education FTEs embedded across functions.

•             Bind to Acumatica’s DNA: foster a culture of continuous learning and development within the organization, promoting the value of education and its role in driving business success.

Qualifications:

•             Bachelor's degree in business and 10+ years of SaaS Education.

•             5+ years of experience with ERP education, mid-market, channel sales.

•            Experience working with, and delivering key initiatives for, C-level executives.

•             Demonstrable experience building an education function for a technology company. B2B SaaS and mid-market ERP both strong pluses.

•             Team leadership capability to resolve complex issues through orchestration of resources rather than direct intervention.

•             Strong project management skills, with the ability to effectively plan, organize, and execute multiple projects simultaneously.

•             Deep understanding of adult learning principles and instructional design, with the ability to develop and deliver effective education programs.

•             Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functionally and take overall responsibility for outcomes in collaboration with other functions (e.g., within Partner Strategy & Programs, Marketing, CSMs, Sales, Consulting).

•             Ability to manage multiple discrete business functional areas simultaneously, each with unique challenges and stakeholders. 

•             Comfortable with ambiguity and adaptable to shifting priorities. 

Acumatica is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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For this role, the salary range is $190,000-$220,000 annually. This range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job and may vary based on location. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant elements.

At Acumatica, certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role.