Merchant Success Associate
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Note: At PerkSpot, the safety and wellness of our employees is our top priority. To provide our employees with the support they may need to maintain their personal health and wellness, our office is open and available for those employees who are interested in using it. Our long term goal is for PerkSpot employees to return to our Chicago office, however working remotely will be an option until everyone is comfortable, and it is 100% safe for all to return.
Hi, welcome to PerkSpot. We're looking for an organized and efficient individual to join our team as a Merchant Success Associate.
At PerkSpot, we are proud to provide exceptional perks and deals to over 19 million users. As our Merchant Success Associate, you will work with account managers and directly with our merchant partners to make sure their advertising is working for them. Your knowledge of digital marketing, coupled with an innate understanding of our product, will help our merchants find success on the PerkSpot platform.
About PerkSpot
PerkSpot is an employee benefits company that works with America's top employers to offer exclusive discounts, rewards, and recognition to millions of employees. These exclusive perks and savings are a great recruitment and retention tool that allows employees to take advantage of unique opportunities and feel great about the company they work for. We help employees from over 1,000 companies like Spotify, Walgreens, McDonald's, and Lyft save on everything from gym memberships and movie tickets to electronics, new cars, and travel.
Profitable and growing, our company was founded in 2006 by good people with a great vision, and we're carrying on the work they started. In 2018, our company was proud to announce an additional investment of $50 million dollars from Susquehanna Growth Equity. As we continue to grow, we're excited about our leadership position in the industry, but we're also committed to doing more - developing better products, reaching more employers, and getting more employees engaged with our platform. Our passion is to make every place a great place to work, starting with our own. We're a big platform, but a small team. That means we're going to trust you with more responsibility than you'd have anywhere else and invest in your success and growth more than any other employer.
Meet the Merchant Partnerships Team
Our Merchant Partnerships team is a team of hard workers whose role is to build and manage relationships with current and future PerkSpot merchants, while passing savings along to our millions of users. In collaboration with other team members, you'll work with hundreds of merchants and their account managers to ensure their partnership with PerkSpot is as successful as possible. Your work will help to optimize and maintain efficiency on the PerkSpot platform.
Life as a Merchant Success Associate:
- Working directly with hundreds of merchant partners on advertising campaigns pertaining to their member offers
- Making sure each merchant's account is optimized and running at max efficiency
- Coordinating creative deadlines for strategy, copy, and design
- Adjusting copy and creative as needed to account for brand guidelines and platform best practices
- Setting up and deploying advertising campaigns; monitoring their analytics and reporting on results
- Designing internal assets for use in various mediums
- Handling overflow duties and special projects for account managers as assigned
- Attending regular team and staff meetings to go over company goals, success benchmarks, and sales strategies
- Constantly thinking of ways to make the PerkSpot experience better and more effective for its customers
What we're looking for:
- 1+ years of experience working directly with outside partners and/or clients; experience partnering with inside sales teams
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field - Communication, Business, etc.
- Experience synthesizing complex data into simple, actionable insights
- Background in design, marketing and/or content production; portfolio strongly preferred
- Proficiency in Salesforce required, experience with Photoshop a plus
- Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, both internally and externally
- Top-tier organizational and project management skills
- Ability to thrive while working independently to meet various deadlines
- Drive to success and see results while maintaining efficiency
- Desire to learn and grow within a fast-paced, constantly changing work environment
- Proven understanding of PerkSpot's values as a whole and a willingness to work hard to achieve company goals
Your First Few Months
You'll begin your PerkSpot tenure by becoming a product expert - attending trainings and meeting team members to understand what we do here. From there, you will build a relationship with the Merchant Partnerships and Marketplace teams, since they are both integral to your success. We will also train you on our most useful tools - Slack, Salesforce, and Outlook, to name a few. We'll also train you on the digital advertising landscape and affiliate marketing industry, so you're able to speak with our merchants with knowledge and confidence. Soon, we will have you familiarize yourself with our most time-sensitive accounts, and begin optimizing their site advertisements to improve overall merchant performance.
The Perks of Working at PerkSpot
We're a big platform, but still a small team. That means we're going to trust you with more responsibility than elsewhere, and invest in you more. You're going to grow - a lot.
We work out of our office in Chicago's River North neighborhood. When we are in the office, we dress how we like, encourage flexible hours and an open time-off policy, stock a good beer selection, and we're pretty obsessive about our coffee. Most of all, we welcome good people with lots of energy and enthusiasm.
PerkSpot offers the full suite of benefits you'd expect from a profitable, established company, including health and dental insurance, a generous parental leave policy, 401(k), pre-tax transit benefits, and fully-funded disability coverage. We have in-office bike storage, a private gym, and a shower on-site.
We hold weekly company get-togethers where we learn from what went wrong and celebrate what went right. Every week at PerkSpot, we aim a little higher and get a little bit better than the previous week.
Because we consider every member of our team to be a fundamental part of our success, we encourage everyone to be invested in our success, regardless of their position. We want every one of our employees to think like an owner: put in the effort to exceed expectations, solve problems before they come up, and always go the extra mile. It's this drive to succeed that makes PerkSpot such an interactive and fulfilling place to work.
How to Apply
All applications will be kept strictly confidential. Please submit a resume AND cover letter (we know it is old school, but a cover letter is very important to us) telling us how you stack up to the qualifications, plus any other information you feel would be relevant to PerkSpot. Don't be afraid to show your spark and personality!
All positions require a full background screening.
Offering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture is a priority at PerkSpot. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.