Head of Sales

Would you like to be part of the next big disruptive educational technology?

LingoAce is the game changer that could revolutionize the way millions of children learn. We are launching our business into Europe, bringing AI gamified learning to bridge the gap of existing education system, and at the same time make learning fun and productive for millions of learners You would be joining a fast-growing team and have the opportunity to shape our business in France, Europe, and the world

We are looking for an energetic, and driven **Head of Sales** to be part of our founding team, with a direct impact into Lingo Ace’s growth in France.

**Your opportunity**:Head of Sales France

**Where**:Paris

**Your Responsibilities**:

- Lead and own the French sales & sales ops team, dedicated to growing the business through delivering an excellent trial class that will subsequently convert to paid users at scale.
- Spearhead ambitious yet achievable sales planning & forecasting in ensuring business operations achieve the business objective.
- Be a strong customer advocate, quick at identifying user pain-points and issues, and develop solutions to effectively resolve them.
- Manage day-to-day operations of the team, including escalations from your direct reports, the delivery of high-quality conversations and follow-ups with the parents, and ensuring teams meet the monthly revenue and expense targets.
- Collaborate effectively and work closely with various stakeholders ranging from marketing, product, curriculum, learning advisors & operations, to drive rapid and scalable growth for the company.
- Monitor and analyze performance at all levels
- Be the leader to all Education Course/Sales Consultants in France, recruiting, vetting, training, and playing a pivotal part in building the next unicorn in EdTech

**The Requirements**:

- A degree in Business, Marketing, Economics, or related discipline. Master’s degree preferable
- 5 - 10 years of sales experience
- 3 -5 years of sales team management, setting KPIs and goals
- Performance and data driven with excellent analytical skills.
- Entrepreneurial and hands-on capable of managing a fast-growing organization and can operate with ambiguity
- Sensitivity to different cultural norms.
- A good knowledge base of the education system/industry in France would be a plus.
- Passion and experience in EdTech would be a plus.
- Good communication skills and ability to articulate priorities to cross-functional teams
- French native speaker and fluent in English (C2 level).

**What we offer you**:

- A unique opportunity to be an early member of a rapidly growing team with a fast-track career opportunity.
- An amazing and flexible startup atmosphere with highly motivated and open-minded colleagues.
- To gain experience on how a global startup expands its customer base in a fast-paced and competitive environment.
- To be exposed to an open and collaborative culture allowing you exposure to working directly with our cross functional teams including sales, marketing curriculum, and customer service, as well as with the European leadership team.
- To have the opportunity to shape our business in France.
- A competitive salary, and an attractive commission-based incentive scheme.
- Nice work environment and English as a working language.

**About us**

Established in 2017, LingoAce is a venture-backed global education technology (Edtech) start-up, offering an immersive language learning experience tailored to meet the needs of learners aged 3 to 15 years old, across a range of language proficiency levels and diverse cultural backgrounds. A committed partner to both young learners and their parents, LingoAce harnesses the capabilities of passionate teachers along with research-backed digital content, featuring animation, gamification, and AI, to effectively deliver authentic and interactive online language lessons.

By nurturing the next generation of confident multi-lingual communicators, LingoAce aims to broaden their horizons and unlock future opportunities for these students. With a team of more than 1,300 LingoAcers, 4,000 certified teachers currently, and offices in the U.S., Southeast Asia and China, LingoAce serves students across 100 countries and regions.

This year, we are honored to be named in the GSV EdTech 150, a list of the world’s most transformative growth companies in digital learning. In 2021 closed our Series C and B funding rounds, with a total of $180 million raised to date. Some of our great partners and backers include Sequoia Capital India, Owl Ventures, Tiger Global, Shunwei Capital, SWC Global & Decent Capital.