Senior Solutions Consultant

Ellucian powers innovation for higher education, partnering with approximately 3,000 customers across 50 countries, serving more than 21 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, including data-rich tools for student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners and user community of more than 45,000 provides best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

Ellucian is seeking an experienced Senior Solutions Consultant to help higher education institutions explore the capabilities of Student Flex and envision their technology modernization journey.

As part of our Solution Sales organization, you will combine deep functional expertise in Anthology Student Information System (SIS) with consultative selling and compelling solution demonstrations to connect institutional challenges with meaningful business outcomes.

This is a unique opportunity to help bring Student Flex to market. Alongside leading customer demonstrations, you will take a key role in building, maintaining, and evolving the Student Flex demonstration environment, working closely with Account Executives, Strategic Business Advisors, Platform Architects, and Product teams to deliver engaging customer experiences.

Where You Will Make an Impact

• Lead engaging, customer-focused demonstrations of Student Flex, using your Anthology SIS expertise to showcase capabilities, address institutional challenges, and communicate business value.

• Serve as the lead functional expert for Student Flex demonstrations, providing guidance on Anthology SIS functionality, workflows, and higher education student lifecycle processes.

• Take a leading role in configuring, maintaining, and enhancing the Student Flex demonstration environment, ensuring it remains reliable, relevant, and ready for customer engagements.

• Develop realistic demonstration scenarios, workflows, scripts, and sample data that bring Student Flex capabilities to life and reflect customer needs.

• Partner with Account Executives, Strategic Business Advisors, and Platform Architects to shape pursuit strategies, tailor demonstrations, and deliver compelling solution narratives.

• Collaborate with Product Management and technical teams to incorporate new functionality, resolve demonstration challenges, and continuously improve the customer experience.

• Help establish reusable demonstration assets, Experience Cards, and best practices in partnership with the Solutions Acceleration Office (SAO), supporting consistency and scalability.

• Contribute to competitive positioning, knowledge sharing, and enablement activities that strengthen Student Flex go-to-market readiness and support the wider Solutions Consulting team.

What You Will Bring

• 7+ years of experience in higher education technology, SaaS presales, solutions consulting, or higher education administration, with substantial student information system experience.

• Direct, hands-on experience demonstrating Anthology SIS (Anthology Student) in customer-facing presales, solutions consulting, or comparable roles.

• Strong functional knowledge of Anthology SIS, including student administration, academic records, registration, curriculum, and core student lifecycle processes.

• Practical experience configuring, preparing, maintaining, or supporting Anthology SIS demonstration environments, including developing workflows, scripts, scenarios, and demonstration data.

• Proven ability to independently lead complex software demonstrations, translating technical and functional capabilities into clear institutional benefits and business outcomes.

• Strong understanding of higher education operations, institutional priorities, and the challenges associated with SIS modernization.

• Excellent presentation, storytelling, discovery, and communication skills, with the confidence to engage functional, technical, and executive stakeholders.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience partnering with Sales, Product Management, and technical teams to support complex customer engagements.

• Ability to work independently as a senior functional expert, contribute to reusable demonstration practices, and adapt to evolving product capabilities and customer needs.

• Curiosity and openness to using AI and emerging technologies to improve demonstration effectiveness and customer engagement.

• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision
• Flexible time off
• Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
• 401k w/ match & BrightPlan - to help you save for the future
• Parental Leave
• 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
• Telemedicine
• Wellness
• Headspace Care (mental health)
• Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)
  
  • RethinkCare & Wellthy– caregiver support
  • Diversity and inclusion programs which provide access to internal employee resource groups
• Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
• We Foster a learning culture with:
  • Education Assistance Program
  • Professional development opportunities
  • LinkedIn Learning

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