Identify and acquire new customers, nurture existing relationships, recommend product/service upgrades, collaborate with marketing, coach staff on sales skills, gather and act on customer feedback, and track market trends to keep offerings relevant.
This is a remote position.
- Familiarizing yourself with all products and services offered by our company
- Procuring new customers through direct contact, word-of-mouth, and collaboration with the marketing department
- Maintaining meaningful relationships with existing customers to ensure that they are retained
- Suggesting upgrades or added products and services that may be of interest to customers
- Equipping staff with the technical and social skills needed to enhance sales
- Reviewing customers' feedback and implementing necessary changes
- Remaining in tune with trends in consumption to ensure that our offerings remain relevant
Requirements
- Extensive sales experience
- Intuitive and insightful, particularly regarding human behavior
- Ability to generate revenue by identifying pain points and suggesting suitable products or services
- Professional yet affable disposition
- Great networking skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Resourceful, with outstanding research skills
- Emboldened by challenges
Benefits
- Opportunity to be a part of a dynamic growth focused tech startup
- Great learning opportunities to develop new skills and understanding of cutting edge software tools and processes
- Opportunity to work closely with serial tech entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley
- Fun loving environment and caring team mates and inclusive culture of the company
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