Sales & Marketing Manager
Zenblen is looking for a passionate, visionary, and entrepreneurial individual to join as the company’s Sales & Marketing Manager.
Zenblen has created the world’s first robotic smoothie bar to revolutionize access to healthy, convenient food. We recently launched our first pilot location and you will help expand our kiosk to additional locations in the coming months.
As the Sales & Marketing Manager, you will represent Zenblen in the field and become the company’s gateway to customers. This will be an interdisciplinary opportunity that puts you at the front lines of how our end users experience and interact with our product. You will also build strong B2B relationships with our initial location partners and play a pivotal role in executing the company’s go-to-market strategy.
This is a unique role where you will be a startup’s first hire within this department, providing unparalleled growth opportunities and impact. As such, you should be comfortable being at times the sole person within work streams and rolling up your sleeves.
For more info on what you can expect, see what it’s like to be the first marketer at a startup & advice for the first sales rep at a startup.
Your responsibilities will include:
Understanding the customer personas for our product, including conducting customer interviews, running product sampling, and observing customer behavior in the field
Building relationships with our location partners to understand their needs and providing support to ensure client satisfaction & success
Crafting the company’s initial product marketing strategy (messaging & positioning, sales tools creation, customer acquisition, content creation, etc.)
Building the foundational marketing assets for the company both digitally as well as on-premise
Spearheading the brand vision & customer experience to inform product roadmap & go-to-market strategy
This is an opportunity to join an early-stage, venture backed startup and have a major impact on the venture. You will work extensively with the Founding Team as well as our world class advisors. We will provide valuable mentorship in entrepreneurship, venture capital, and open a vast professional network in the Chicago area.
Plus, you will enjoy all the fresh delicious smoothies you can drink!
Interested candidates should send any questions to Founder & CEO Tom Zhang at [email protected]
What we are looking for:
Someone uniquely hungry for the opportunity to supercharge their career, learn from the best in the field, and isn’t afraid to work hard to challenge the status quo
Those who deeply value ownership of work and thrive in environments with high degree of flexibility
Great people & communication skills to with genuine desire to build relationship with customers & clients to preach about health, wellness, and smoothies
Desire to roll up one’s sleeves and get in the weeds, hungry to run with on impactful work streams with limited guidance & resources
Visionary thinker with the ability to thrive in dynamic & ambiguous environments - you’ll be building the plane while flying it
An eye for creative execution and artistic design
A desire to work in a fast-paced startup environment, alongside passionate colleagues who are experts in their fields
Be a “player coach”, mentoring others on the team and setting company’s expectations for excellence in their field
A love for nutrition, wellness, and healthy living – extra points for being a smoothie lover!
Key Qualifications
3 - 5 years of experience in marketing (marketing agency, CPG marketer, etc.), sales (sales coordinator, retail field rep, etc.), client facing role (consulting or tech), or other relevant positions
Mentored by or worked directly with VP level marketer or sales leader
Experience in early stage startup environment as the “first marketer/salesperson” or as member of the Founding team
Knowledge of the ideation stage where the product & customer experience continue to iterate based off market feedback
About Zenblen:
Zenblen offers freshly blended smoothies via a robotic smoothie bar. Our smoothie kiosk dispenses and blends ingredients right in front of the consumer, fresh to order.
We are a fast-paced, high-momentum startup that graduated from Chicago Booth’s New Venture Challenge, one of the top-ranked accelerators in the nation. Our company has also been featured in the Chicago Venture Summit as a leading innovator in the food tech space. We are proud to have brought on expert investors and world-class advisors to join us on this journey.
Our mission is to make healthy eating more accessible for everyone. We believe how someone fuels their body has a tremendous impact on all aspects of their life and therefore democratizing nutritionist curated smoothies will positively impact countless people across the globe. Just like how Starbucks forever changed coffee culture, we look to revolutionize how the world experiences smoothies!
About our culture:
The beauty of an early stage startup is that every member of the team has an imprint on the culture. We take pride in empowering each member on our team with a high level of ownership and the ability to run with their ideas. The speed at which our team executes and the organization grows makes it a haven for those looking for opportunities to accelerate their own career trajectory.
We invest in the growth of our team and encourage each member to explore personally meaningful pursuits. Do you want to spearhead campus engagement and recruiting at your alma mater? How about engaging in meetups supporting diversity in the Chicago tech ecosystem? Or championing health & wellness at local events to share the benefits of smoothies? If we have the resources, Zenblen will throw its support behind you each step of the way!
Most importantly, we promise an environment of highly motivated individuals who are aligned on our team's mission and who will run through walls on each other's behalf. We are all motivated to do the best we can and produce the highest achieving results possible, while also taking the time to truly get to know each other and laugh with one another. We hold ourselves to high expectations, but know the importance of slowing down to enjoy the happy moments of being a close-knit team who love to drink smoothies together!
Learn more about our journey: