Key Account Leader, Campus

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight, the key technology for the future of drones and aerial mobility. The Skydio team combines deep expertise in artificial intelligence, best-in-class hardware and software product development, operational excellence, and customer obsession to empower a broader, more diverse audience of drone users, from utility inspectors https://www.skydio.com/solutions/energy-and-utilities to first responders https://www.skydio.com/solutions/public-safety, soldiers in battlefield scenarios https://www.skydio.com/solutions/national-security/tactical-isr, and beyond https://www.skydio.com/solutions. About the Team: Public safety is where drone technology faces the highest stakes. Agencies across the country are standing up Drone as First Responder (DFR) programs that put an aircraft over an emergency within seconds of a call. As drone programs move from the age of tools to the age of infrastructure, we are expanding our public safety sales team to meet that demand. A major university is a city in miniature: a residential population, often its own dispatch, large events, and a sworn police department responsible for all of it. Campus public safety leaders are under pressure to respond faster to welfare checks and active threats, to manage game days, commencements, and protests safely, and to show students, parents, and trustees that the institution is serious about safety. DFR is becoming a serious answer to that, and this segment is where we prove it. About the role: As a Key Account Leader, Campus at Skydio, you will own a territory within a national segment of large universities and colleges with dedicated police departments. This is a full-cycle, quota-carrying role: you find the opportunities, run the deals, and close them. Your number is yours, and so is the territory plan behind it. You will be the person an institution trusts with one of the most visible programs it will stand up this decade. That means understanding how the institution actually works, who has to say yes, and what it will take to get there, then running a process that gets the program funded, approved, and deployed. You will report to the Key Account Director, Campus, and work alongside Sales Engineering, Business Development, Channel, Marketing, Strategic Relationships, Government Relations, and Mission Success. Campus is a new segment for Skydio, and you will be one of the first sellers in it. The buying committee is wider than in a city, the academic calendar decides when budget moves, and the campus community scrutinizes surveillance more closely than most. You will help write the playbook as you run it. We sell autonomous flying robots and the artificial intelligence that powers them. Every seller here uses AI tools as a normal part of running a territory: researching institutions, preparing for meetings, responding to RFPs, and analyzing pipeline. We expect you to as well. This is a highly competitive market, and much of the work happens alongside our channel. You will sell against incumbent platforms and well-funded challengers, and win on the merits. Location: Remote, U.S. We’re hiring in the Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, and Southwest regions. How we work These are the standards we hire to, and they describe how the best people on this team already work. - High integrity. Public safety is a tight-knit community. Campus public safety leaders, who benchmark against peer institutions constantly, talk to each other, and a reputation for straight answers travels fast. We sell what the ecosystem is actually capable of, we are clear about where the product is today and where it's headed, and we win on our own merits. There's no compromise here. - Sales is a team sport. One team. No lone wolves. Deals are won by account leaders, sales engineering, business development, channel, marketing, strategic relationships, government relations, and mission success pulling in the same direction, and our partners are part of that team, not a channel to be managed around. The best people here care more about the collective number than their own slice of it. - Great conversationalists. This is the craft of the job: asking better questions than anyone else in the room, listening for what a chief or a vice president isn't saying, real curiosity about how an institution operates. Not polish, not a rehearsed pitch. Trust in this market is built one honest conversation at a time, and it is the thing competitors cannot copy. - Curious, and fluent with the tools. Everyone on this team uses AI as a normal part of their work: researching institutions, preparing for meetings, analyzing pipeline, drafting and then editing. That takes taste more than technical skill: knowing what a quality result looks like, describing a problem precisely enough to get it, and catching the tool when it is confidently wrong. The same muscle makes a great seller. Discovery is specifying the problem; qualification is checking the output. We hire people who are curious about how things work, whether that's a university's budget, a board of trustees' politics, or the aircraft's autonomy, and who have spent the last two years embracing AI rather than waiting to be told to use it. How you'll make an impact Build pipeline - Own your territory plan: know the institutions in it, which are likely to move this year, and why - Generate your own pipeline through outbound, events, and partners rather than waiting on inbound demand - Get in early and shape the criteria the institution will use to make its decision Win - Run full-cycle deals from first conversation to award: discovery, demonstration, proof of value, proposal, procurement, and approval - Qualify with MEDDPICC rigor, and walk away from deals that are not real - Build consensus across the people who have to say yes: the chief, the vice president who oversees public safety, general counsel, risk, procurement, and often student and faculty governance - Sell against incumbents and challengers: frame Skydio's unique differentiators, run displacement plays, and defend accounts under attack - Build a case that survives a procurement office, a general counsel's review, and a skeptical campus community Partner - Sell with and through channel partners, and structure deals that get customers to yes - Bring in Sales Engineering, Business Development, Government Relations, and Mission Success at the right moment, and keep them pointed at the same outcome - Hand off cleanly to Mission Success after award and stay close enough to the account to grow it Run your territory - Forecast honestly and keep your pipeline clean enough that your Director can trust it - Use AI tools daily for institution research, call prep, RFP response, and pipeline analysis, and never let anything AI-drafted reach a customer unreviewed - Bring what you hear in the field back to the team: competitive intelligence, product gaps, and what is changi