[Hiring] Head of Education Growth and Partnerships @Global Teaching Partners

Role Description

You will own new-business growth for Vanteo's BDV Cultural Exchange teacher-placement brands: net-new placements, at the volume and speed the business now requires. Renewals and account management sit with a dedicated team, so your focus stays on winning new schools, networks, and districts.

And it's not one brand you're growing — it's five. Vanteo's J-1 teacher business is made up of five distinct organizations — TPG, ITES, Global, J1X, and HRC — each with its own mission, price point, and service model, from ultra-premium, fully white-glove placement down to lean, teacher-funded administrative sponsorship.

This is a leadership seat, not an individual-contributor sales role scaled up. It's also a fast, demanding environment, and an enjoyable one — we move quickly, hit real obstacles, and look to the person in this seat to find the way through them and put the fix in motion, bringing in partners across Vanteo when that's the fastest path.

You'll be building with real backing. The Board has approved the investment to stand up this function: a new sales team, a dedicated national marketing budget, and the sales operations and tools to support them. You'll have both the resources and the mandate to build it right.

What You'll Own

• Right now: a Fall 2027 go-to-market sprint
• Ship a go-to-market strategy fast.
• Get fluent fast.
• Diversify who we sell to.
• Run five go-to-markets, not one.
• Beyond Fall 2027: build the engine that lasts
• Own the budget and resourcing plan.
• Stand up sales operations.
• Stand up revenue & demand generation.
• Build a durable, multi-brand new-sales motion.
• The infrastructure and network this all runs on
• Help build our HubSpot architecture.
• Build a national partner network.
• Own compliance and placement quality.
• Support AI-driven growth.
• Lead J-1 teacher marketing.

Your Team

You'll lead a new function built around this mandate, reporting directly to you:

• A Manager of Sales Operations, owning pipeline infrastructure, forecasting, and deal velocity
• A Manager of Revenue & Demand Generation, owning the pipeline — campaigns, partner referrals, lead scoring — that feeds the sales team's number
• A team of net-new Sales roles, carrying quota against the Fall 2027 target and beyond

This is a build-from-scratch leadership assignment. You'll also be personally hands-on in the areas above (HubSpot, partnerships, marketing) rather than delegating them away entirely.

As their leader, you'll grow and develop this team: set clear goals, coach through regular one-on-ones, build career paths, and promote from within where you can. You'll also build strong collaboration across the five brands and with Enterprise Sales, account management, marketing, and operations, so the whole company wins together.

What You Need

• Senior leadership experience. 12+ years of progressively senior sales, growth, or GTM leadership.
• J-1 program knowledge (strongly preferred).
• K-12 market range.
• New-business sales leadership.
• Multi-brand or multi-product portfolio experience.
• Hands-on CRM/RevOps chops.
• A track record building partner networks.
• A compliance and quality mindset.
• AI fluency.
• Operator instincts.
• Speed under real deadlines.

How You Work

• Creative.
• Self-starting.
• Tech-first.
• An obstacle-clearer.
• Collaborative.

Why This Role

Few new-business leadership roles come with this much runway: a validated market, a board-approved mandate, five distinct brands to build differentiated go-to-markets for, a new org chart, and a goal that makes success unambiguous. It's a senior seat with senior compensation to match. If you want to build a growth engine rather than manage one someone else already built, this is that role.