Location: Austin, TX
Start Date: July 7, 2026
Your Opportunity:
As a Tour Consultant, you’ll oversee a geographic territory in the United States and run it like it’s your own business. Your mission? To inspire educators across the United States to lead student tours throughout North America. We give every salesperson here guidance and autonomy to help them thrive and cultivate our business. To achieve success, you’ll create your territory’s roadmap to sustainable growth, resolve business challenges, and work with a diverse set of colleagues that will result in a beautiful customer experience. We onboard, train, and support you with comprehensive sales development programs and ongoing coaching from peers, dedicated trainers, and managers.
Whether your goal is to go from beginner to expert or explore the world of sales for the first time, the Tour Consultant position is a fantastic opportunity to flex your sales muscles, acquire new skills and techniques, and create a foundation for a long-lasting sales career at EF.
What You’ll Do:
Initiate conversations with middle school and high school teachers to generate new business within a given territory through high volume phone calls (60-70 per day) and strategic outreach
Qualify and manage a pipeline of self-generated leads
Be fearless, focused, and excited to sell a product that truly changes students’ lives
Help us maintain our rapid growth and become a market leader while raising the bar on the quality of the customer experience
Refine your sales techniques and support customers through email, phone and online presentations
Collaborate and strategize with the Account Manager team to ensure a smooth customer experience and overall growth in your territory
Sell a product that truly changes students’ lives by being fearless, focused and having fun! And you travel too!
Who You Are:
People from all different professional and educational backgrounds have thrived in this role. Here’s what they have in common—sound like you?
You’re eager to start, or expand, your career in sales with a role that offers real responsibility and accountability
You’re fiercely competitive, in a nice, team player sort-of-way
You’re a great persuasive communicator and natural networkers who loves talking to people
You don’t subscribe to the phrase, “that’s not my job”
You nail the details while moving quickly, never losing sight of the big picture
You know that you can sell and you’re not afraid to prove it
You want to be part of a team that motivates and inspires you
Going above and beyond is the only way you do things
Compensation: First-year Tour Consultants have an on-target earning potential of $60,000 (base salary starting at $50,000 and $10,000 bonus potential). In addition, there is an uncapped bonus for exceeding sales goals. OTE increases to $70,000 after 12 months, and at 24 months you will have the opportunity to apply for a senior sales position with an increase to $85,000 OTE. Full comp plan details, and future earning potential, will be reviewed during the interview process
About EF Explore America:
EF Explore America brings students face to face with iconic history, rich culture, and natural landscapes on class trips across North America. In partnership with educators, our programs amplify the classroom experience through hands-on learning and human connection. We believe having these impactful experiences at a formative age leads to more self-discovery, empowering middle-schoolers to see the world around them in a whole new light.
Learn more about EF Explore America: https://www.efexploreamerica.com/
Why you’ll love working here: Perks, Benefits, and more!
This is the most fun, high caliber place you’ll ever work. Ask any employee why they love EF (whether they’ve been here 10 minutes or 10 years) and they’ll probably tell you the same thing: it’s the people. When you work at EF, you join a purpose-driven, international and energetic community that thrives on continuous learning, fearless innovation and mutual support.
In addition, you can expect:
Commitment to professional growth: robust monthly calendar of trainings and workshops
Four weeks paid vacation your first year, ten paid holidays, and two floating holidays
Exciting business travel opportunities
25% company match on your 401(k) contributions
Market-leading medical, dental and vision coverage, along with options for life and disability insurance, accident and hospital insurance, legal and pet insurance
Dependent care, healthcare and commuter Flex Spending Accounts (FSAs)
Access to fertility care and family-building support
Wellness benefits including a yearly fitness reimbursement
Frequent social and learning events, including access to our employee-run resource groups
Robust Employee Assistance Program
Tenure-based sabbatical eligibility
EF Product Discounts (discounts on travel, international language schools, Au Pair program and more)
Discounts at local venues and businesses
Amazing offices designed to match the caliber of the people who work there, plus the flexibility of working from home one day a week.
