Sales Manager, Zen Educate
£70-80k
OTE
Uncapped commission. Offers equity
Mid and Senior level
London
5 days a week in office
Education recruitment platform
Posted today
Education recruitment platform
201-500 employees
B2BMarketplaceEducationRecruitment
Posted today
£70-80k
OTE
Uncapped commission. Offers equity
Mid and Senior level
London
5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
B2BMarketplaceEducationRecruitment
Company mission
To make a positive impact and bring about meaningful change within the education recruitment sector.
Role
Who you are
- You don’t need to have worked in education before — we’ll teach you that. But we think you’ll thrive if you’re:
- A proven track record of delivering against targets in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Experience leading and developing successful B2B or SaaS sales teams
- Passion for coaching and upskilling both experienced sellers and emerging talent
- Strong commercial instincts with the ability to balance strategic thinking and hands-on execution
- Experience managing complex, relationship-led sales cycles alongside faster transactional sales
- A highly organised leader who can effectively manage pipelines, forecasting, and performance metrics
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Someone who thrives in ambiguity and enjoys building processes in scaling environments
- No ego — confident bringing ideas to the table while remaining collaborative and open-minded
- A genuine motivation to build something meaningful that positively impacts schools and teachers
- ✅ You might love this role if:
- You want to combine serious commercial impact with a meaningful mission
- You like selling products that make a tangible difference to people’s lives
- You thrive in fast-paced, scaling environments where things are always improving
What the job involves
- We’re now looking for a Sales Manager to help take our commercial engine to the next level
- You’ll play a critical leadership role, responsible for helping grow and retain long-term school partnerships while building a high-performing sales culture that can scale with the business
- Deliver on ambitious growth and revenue targets across your team
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Account Executives and sales talent
- Improve sales processes to increase efficiency, shorten sales cycles, and accelerate customer value
- Drive accountability through strong pipeline management, forecasting, and performance coaching
- Collaborate with Customer Success, Product, Marketing, and Operations teams to ensure sales convert into long-term customer usage and retention
- Support the team on strategic opportunities, complex negotiations, and multi-school partnerships
- Help refine our go-to-market strategy as we continue expanding into new regions and customer segments
- Inform product development by sharing feedback and insights from schools and school groups
- Build a strong, performance-driven culture focused on continuous learning and improvement
- Align team priorities with company goals as they evolve throughout the academic year
- It’s fast-paced, hands-on, and full of variety. You’ll be a key part of shaping how we grow
Application process
- If your salary expectations do not meet our banding, please do still apply - salary banding is based on transferable skills, tenure, industry experience, and interview performance
- 🌱 How we hire:
- We like to move quickly and keep things simple:
- Intro chat – A short conversation with our recruiter
- Sales interview – Let’s talk about your approach to prospecting, discovery, and closing
- Practical task & role play – Show us how you’d run a realistic school meeting
- Culture chat – Meet the wider team and make sure it’s a great fit both ways
- If it’s a yes, we’ll let you know fast — no endless waiting around
- Due to the high volume of applications, we regret that we are unable to provide individual feedback on initial submissions
Salary benchmarks
Our take
With UK schools under immense financial pressure, Zen Educate is providing a smarter approach to education staffing. Recruitment in schools often relies on inefficient and expensive practices. Zen Educate is focused on tackling the pain points in the industry and providing a way to ensure schools get the best teachers possible.
It provides an online platform as an alternative to recruitment agencies, which is the only online platform accredited by the UK's Department of Education, helping schools fill staffing needs quickly and cost-effectively. Schools using the platform have reportedly saved 20-30% on supply cover costs.
On top of this, the company has also raised significant funding to support acquisitions in the UK and the US, plus the expansion of its operations and offering.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Top investors
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2025
$17.7m
SERIES B
May 2024
$37m
SERIES B
Total funding: $103.6m
Company benefits
- Macbook and tech equipment provided
- Regular "lunch 'n' learns" every month on a range of topics
- Investment in your professional development
- Regular socials
- Ownership in the company
- Pension scheme
- 25 days of holidays + all UK public holidays off
- Central London dog-friendly office with perks like fresh fruit, bike parking, showers, and an on-site gym and café
- Life insurance
- Vitality health insurance and benefits
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Electric Car Scheme
Company values
- Commit to the mission- We commit to our mission, our customers, and our teams. We work hard because we care more
- Choose greatness over comfort- Greatness and comfort rarely coexist. We seek greatness. We understand success takes grit & determination so we seek colleagues that possess it
- Act like an owner- We all take responsibility for driving the company forward and making it a success. If we see something that could be better, we fix it. We offer stock options to all employees
- Help each other be better- Every person at Zen is someone we can respect and learn from
- A culture of trust- We hire people who are great at their jobs and we let them get on with it while being there to lend a hand when needed
- Challenge the status quo- We take action when we can see opportunities for improvement. We are in it to make our customers' lives better and to fix a broken system
- Embrace learning over perfection- We make decisions quickly and we don't hesitate. We may disagree with a decision, but we support the team and the mission by committing to it. We embrace making unknowable mistakes and learning from them
Company HQ
HQ, London
Articles
Leadership
Slava Kremerman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a member of the Leadership Team at Nutmeg a FS startup, they also worked at Barclays and Aon.
Oren Cohen
(Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer)Ran the UK office of Optimizely, a Silicon Valley tech company. Prior to this, they worked at G-STAT and Intel.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Zen Educate
- At Zen, we strive to build a culture of equity and inclusion, where everyone is respected, valued and appreciated for their unique traits, experiences and perspectives. We are committed to creating a safe, inclusive and equitable environment where our team can thrive, regardless of age, ethnicity, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, disability, religion or beliefs. We value our differences and believe that practices of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion help us create a fairer, more compassionate environment for all
- We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and different experiences and perspectives — just like the staff who teach through Zen and the children at the schools we work with. We believe in hiring the best people from the widest pool and creating an inclusive culture where people’s voices are heard and all our team can look forward to coming to work
- We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of our community and promoting an equitable and inclusive environment for all. We seek out diverse opinions, beliefs, and experiences because they collectively make us stronger; we’ve had former teachers, pilots, fundraisers, engineers, lawyers, marketers, social media experts and more join our team
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