Local Partnership Coordinator
SpotHero is seeking a Local Partnership Coordinator to join our Marketing Team. As one of the first members of this team, you’ll be responsible for building relationships with local events, venues, companies, and influencers who would benefit by recommending SpotHero as a parking solution. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to work at a rapidly growing startup with a highly collaborative team and energetic environment. You’ll be responsible for becoming an expert on your region – you’ll build relationships with event planners and get to know all venues and upcoming events in your markets. You’ll focus on uncovering these relationships and forming partnerships in mutually beneficial ways.
Who we are: SpotHero is a rapidly growing tech company that’s making life easier for the daily driver. Drivers across the nation use the SpotHero mobile app or website to reserve discounted parking on-the-go or in advance.
What will you do?
- Become a local expert on multiple SpotHero markets.
- Identify, close, and manage relationships with potential channel partners.
- Serve as the face of SpotHero to all potential and current partners over the phone, through email, and in-person.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with SpotHero teams to support the partnerships you build.
- Keep detailed record of your sales process in our CRM.
- Continue to grow SpotHero partnerships and further solidify the partnership process.
- Drive awareness of our brand as well as new driver acquisition.
- Support the marketing team and local General Managers with ad hoc marketing initiatives.
- Function as a SpotHero brand ambassador at all the events you attend.
- Analyze and measure the results of your work using our business intelligence tool.
You are:
- A relationship-builder. Relationships are the key to closing partnerships and continuing to work together in the future. If someone likes and trusts you, they’ll want to work with you and partner with SpotHero.
- Self-motivated. You are solely responsible for everything related to partnerships, so you need to be driven by the excitement of helping grow the SpotHero brand.
- A team player. There are many people who have a hand in and help with the partnership process, so you need to be able to work well in a team, whether it be with marketing, supply, or customer care.
- Positive and outgoing. Whether you’re communicating with the SpotHero team or one of our partnerships, it’s important to always have a positive attitude and be outgoing!
- Extremely organized. You must be diligent in recording all your steps because there are so many moving parts in the partnerships process.
- Skillful with analyzing data. You need to be able to analyze data and report this information to the team in order to learn and share whether or not an event was successful.
- A creative thinker. Most partnerships aren’t cut-and-dry, so being able to think outside the box and come up with creative solutions is key.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree
- 0-2 years experience in sales, business development, partnerships, or marketing
- Comfortable prospecting via phone/email and building relationships
- Impeccable written and verbal communications skills
- Able to aggressively meet deadlines
What we are offering:
- Career game changer – A truly unique experience to work for a fast growing startup in a role with unlimited potential for growth.
- Excellent benefits – We cover 90% of Medical Premiums, 50% of Dental & Vision Premiums, and offer company sponsored Life Insurance.
- Flexible PTO policy, generous parental leave, and great work/life balance – We value and support each individual team member.
- Fun perks like snacks, catered lunches, happy hours, wellness programs, and SpotHero swag.
- Annual parking stipend (duh – we're a parking company!).
- The opportunity to collaborate with fun, innovative, and passionate people in a casual, yet highly productive atmosphere.
- A workplace recognized as the Startup of the Year by Built in Chicago, a Top Workplace by Chicago Tribune, and one of Chicago’s Best Places to Work for Women Under 35 by Crain’s Chicago Business.
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