Impact Director, Texas

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Are you interested in a senior director role that combines executive relationship management with regional strategy and pod leadership?

Amira Learning accelerates literacy outcomes by delivering the latest reading and neuroscience with AI.
Trusted by more than 4,000 districts and numerous state education agencies
, Amira is helping 4 million students worldwide become motivated and masterful readers.

They seek an Impact Director in Texas to serve as the strategic leader and GM of a dedicated portfolio of school districts. The Impact Director is accountable for driving measurable student and district outcomes, ensuring long-term partnership health and executive alignment, and securing sustainable revenue growth through world-class retention and expansion.

Major Responsibilities

• Strategic Account Leadership: Own the overall health, success, and commercial outcomes for all districts within the regional Pod. Develop and execute comprehensive, long-range strategic account plans for each district.
• Executive Partnership Management: Build and maintain trusted-advisor relationships with senior district leadership, including Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents, Chief Academic Officers, and School Board members.
• Pod Leadership & Management: Lead the Impact Pod as a unified team. Set clear goals, facilitate collaborative planning, remove obstacles, and ensure the pod is operating efficiently and effectively to serve its Districts.
• Risk Mitigation: Mine for high-level customer concerns and issues, getting ahead of problems by tracking early-warning signs throughout the customer lifecycle and mitigating them creatively and thoroughly.
• Value Realization & ROI: Proactively and consistently demonstrate the educational and financial return on investment (ROI) of Amira to district stakeholders through formal Executive Business Reviews (EBRs) and informal strategic check-ins.
• Commercial Ownership: Hold ultimate accountability for the pod's Gross Revenue Retention (GRR) and Net Revenue Retention (NRR) target (post 18 months). Drive the renewal strategy and identify and qualify expansion opportunities in partnership with the District Coordinator and Regional Manager (Account Executive).
• Voice of the Customer: Serve as the primary advocate for the districts within Amira, synthesizing feedback on product, services, and strategy to inform the broader organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in customer success, account management, or school district leadership (e.g., as a Principal, Superintendent, or District Administrator).
• Proven track record of managing and growing a multi-million-dollar project in a SaaS environment.
• Deep understanding of K-12 education systems, including funding cycles, decision-making processes, and key political dynamics.
• Exceptional executive presence and communication skills; comfortable presenting to C-level audiences.
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing a team.
• Network of educators within the region, particularly at the C-suite level, who can speak to your excellent work.
• 50% travel
• Live in the territory

Amira Learning accelerates literacy outcomes by delivering the latest reading and neuroscience with AI. As the leader in third-generation edtech, Amira listens to students read out loud, assesses mastery, helps teachers supplement instruction and delivers 1:1 tutoring. Validated by independent university and SEA efficacy research, Amira is the only AI literacy platform proven to achieve gains surpassing 1:1 human tutoring, consistently delivering effect sizes over 0.4.…