{"id":332971,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ellevation-partner-development-associate","title":"Partner Development Associate","company":{"id":4020,"name":"Ellevation","domain":"ellevationeducation.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/ellevation","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":null},"role":"Sales","role_family":"Sales","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":50000,"max":70000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":70000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-24T15:58:55Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-24","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T16:05:35Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":30,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":30},"description":"About the role\nA Partner Development Associate (PDA) is energetic, driven, and resilient, and owns outbound prospecting and lead generation for Ellevation. Working within the Sales team, you'll identify, qualify, nurture, and deliver high-quality opportunities for our Partner Development Managers to present to prospective partner school districts. To hit monthly demo booking goals, you'll combine email, phone, and creative outreach. Along the way, you'll become fluent in the full Ellevation product suite and gain firsthand insight into how our sales cycle works. We're looking for someone independent, curious, and research-oriented.\nYour Growth Path\nYour growth path\nWithin 1 month, you will:\nOnboard and learn about Ellevation and our work improving outcomes for multilingual learners.\n\nLearn your assigned prospecting territory and the key selling points for an initial set of states.\n\nLearn fundamental email marketing and phone outreach skills that drive prospecting.\n\nCollaborate with Partner Development Managers to design a prospecting strategy for key markets that aligns with quarterly and annual sales goals.\n\nGet up to speed on our business systems and sales enablement tools.\n\nBook your first demos.\n\nWithin 3 months, you will:\nWithin 3 months, you will:\nBegin to own your territory strategy and make recommendations to Partner Development Managers on where to concentrate effort; extend prospecting to your full set of states.\n\nRefine cold-calling and email marketing skills, and sustain a consistently high volume of daily outbound calls to drive weekly lead generation.\n\nBuild proficiency with our business systems and sales enablement tools, and find ways to accelerate prospecting.\n\nHit your monthly demo booking goals.\n\nWithin 6 months, you will:\nWithin 6 months, you will:\nBecome an expert on Ellevation's lead-generation process.\n\nBuild proficiency with the Ellevation product suite and deepen product knowledge.\n\nCollaborate with Sales and Marketing on efforts that support brand recognition, product marketing, and pipeline.\n\nMaster fundamental cold-calling and email prospecting skills.\n\nHit and exceed your monthly demo booking goals.\n\nWithin 12 months, you will:\nWithin 12 months, you will:\nMaster Ellevation's lead-generation process and mentor newer PDAs as they ramp up.\n\nRefine your product knowledge to the point where you can speak to how districts use Ellevation to demo our products.\n\nLead or primarily support additional marketing efforts that generate high-quality content for company-wide brand and product marketing.\n\nActively identify and pursue your next role at Ellevation, whether that's a Partner Development Manager position or another growth path; PDAs are expected to move into their next role within their first two years, and your manager will support you as you apply internally.\n\nContinue to hit and exceed demo booking goals.\n\nWhat you'll need:\nWhat you'll need\n[0-2] years of experience in education, sales, business development, or another customer-facing role.\n\nA track record of meeting or exceeding goals in a metrics-driven environment.\n\nComfort with high-volume phone and email outreach, and a willingness to experiment with new outreach approaches.\n\nStrong written and verbal communication skills.\n\nFamiliarity with a CRM and sales engagement tools is a plus.\n\nGenuine interest in education and improving outcomes for multilingual learners.\n\nWhat makes you successful\nWhat makes you successful\nMotivation: You're driven to do what it takes to get the job done, and you hold yourself accountable to your goals.\n\nCompetitiveness: You channel a competitive spirit into meeting targets and pushing through obstacles.\n\nConfidence: You believe in Ellevation as a leader in English learner solutions, and that confidence comes through in every conversation.\n\nInfluence: You can make a compelling case for why a district should invest time in learning about Ellevation.\n\nOrganization: You use best practices and systems to keep your prospecting process clean and repeatable.\n\nIn addition to the above, we look for alignment with Ellevation's mission and values.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4118,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Education","EdTech Platforms","Language Learning"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-05T17:33:53Z"}],"liveness":{"score":59,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.661,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":29,"expected_fill_days":58,"reasons":["conf:2","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":70000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ellevation-partner-development-associate","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ellevation-partner-development-associate.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-23T19:24:06Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}