Emerge Career
Founding Govt Account Executive
New York, USA
Sponsorship not specified$150k-$200kDetected 347 days ago
CRMSalesAccount ManagementProcurementCommunicationCollaborationPublic Speaking
About the role
- To date, all of our contracts have been a founder-led effort.
- This role blends traditional sales with public policy, program operations, and strategic leadership.
- What We're Looking For (Minimally): Willing to relocate and work in-person in New York City 5+ years of professional experience in sales, partnerships, public sector engagement, or government affairs.
Responsibilities
- identifying and researching potential clients, contacting leads through various channels, and assessing their needs, interest levels, and purchasing power.
- Demonstrated experience setting up and operating Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems to track interactions, manage client information, and analyze sales performance for strategic planning.
- Demonstrated work with lobbying firms and political stakeholders to drive funding or programmatic initiatives.
- Building and nurturing partnerships with clients and other relevant stakeholders to foster long-term relationships and collaborative opportunities.
- All of us believe that, with the right mix of technology and hands-on practice, we can redefine workforce development and deliver true second chances at scale.
Requirements
- Willing to relocate and work in-person in New York City 5+ years of professional experience in sales, partnerships, public sector engagement, or government affairs.
- Experience closing multi-year, 7-figure contracts with state or federal agencies (this is the primary marker of success in this role).
- Strong understanding of state and federal government agencies, their budgetary cycles, and procurement processes.
- Experience leading RFP writing.
Skills
- recidivism, fueled by post-incarceration unemployment and poverty, and labor shortages in key industries.
- Over 60% of formerly incarcerated people remain unemployed a year after incarceration, seeking work but not finding it.
- A more in-depth discussion about your background, experiences, and goals.
- Reference checks.
- All travel expenses will be covered.
Compensation
- $150K - $200K (50/50 base and commission split) Who We Are: Emerge Career's mission is to break the cycle of poverty and incarceration.
- We're not just building software; we're creating pathways to real second chances.
- Through an all-in-one platform deeply embedded within the criminal justice system, we recruit, train, and place justice-impacted individuals into life-changing careers.
- Today, the federal government spends billions annually on education and training programs, yet only about 70% of participants graduate, just 38.6% secure training-related employment, and average first-year earnings hover around $34,708.
- By contrast, our seven-person team has already outperformed the job centers in two entire states (Vermont and South Dakota) in just the past year.
- With an 89% graduation rate and 92% of graduates securing training-related employment, our alumni aren't just getting jobs-they're launching new lives with average first-year earnings of $77,352.
Benefits
- our vision has attracted support from Alexis Ohanian (776), Michael Seibel, Y Combinator, the Opportunity Fund, and public figures like Diana Taurasi, Deandre Ayton, and Marshawn Lynch.
- Demonstrated experience drafting and writing compelling proposals tailored to client needs and objectives, highlighting the value and benefits of the product or service after client meetings or calls.
- Deep familiarity with corrections, workforce development, or education services is a plus.
Company info
- Emerge Career's mission is to break the cycle of poverty and incarceration.
- We're not just building software; we're creating pathways to real second chances.
- Through an all-in-one platform deeply embedded within the criminal justice system, we recruit, train, and place justice-impacted individuals into life-changing careers.
- Our vision is to become the country's unified workforce development system, replacing disconnected brick-and-mortar job centers with one integrated, tech-powered solution that meets low-income individuals exactly where they are.
- Today, the federal government spends billions annually on education and training programs, yet only about 70% of participants graduate, just 38.6% secure training-related employment, and average first-year earnings hover around $34,708.
- By contrast, our seven-person team has already outperformed the job centers in two entire states (Vermont and South Dakota) in just the past year.
- With an 89% graduation rate and 92% of graduates securing training-related employment, our alumni aren't just getting jobs-they're launching new lives with average first-year earnings of $77,352.
- The results speak for themselves, and we're just getting started.
- Before Emerge, our founders Zo and Gabe co-founded Ameelio, an award-winning tech nonprofit that is dismantling the prison communication duopoly.
- Backed by tech luminaries like Reid Hoffman, Vinod Khosla, and Jack Dorsey, and by major criminal-justice philanthropies such as Arnold Ventures and the Mellon Foundation, Ameelio became a recognized leader in the space.
- Because of this experience both Zo and Gabe understood what it took to create change from within the system.
- After serving over 1M people impacted by incarceration, they witnessed firsthand the gap in second-chance opportunities and the chronic unemployment plaguing those impacted by the justice system.
- Emerge Career is committed to solving this issue.
- Our students are at the heart of our work.
- Their journeys have captured national attention on CBS, NBC, and in The Boston Globe, and our programs now serve entire states and cities.
- And we're not doing it alone: our vision has attracted support from Alexis Ohanian (776), Michael Seibel, Y Combinator, the Opportunity Fund, and public figures like Diana Taurasi, Deandre Ayton, and Marshawn Lynch.
- Why We Do This: Emerge Career was designed to tackle two systemic issues: recidivism, fueled by post-incarceration unemployment and poverty, and labor shortages in key industries.
- The reality is shocking, workforce development programs are severely limited inside prison, with only one-third of incarcerated people ever participating.
- To worsen, the available prison jobs offer meager wages, often less than $1 per hour, and often do not equip individuals with the skills for long-term stable employment.
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