Growth Business Development Rep

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Prospecting: You'll find newsletters that would be a great fit to grow and earn with our recommendations network
• - Nurturing & Qualifying: You'll establish a relationship with the awesome newsletters in our inbound/outbound pipelines and help them understand the potential of SparkLoop for their business
• - Closing: (Optional) Over 6-12 months you'll have the opportunity to transition into an Account Executive role, responsible for closing strategically important deals with larger publishers and ensuring a successful handover to our account management team

Required Skills

• - 1+ years experience working in or with successful newsletter businesses (50k+ subscribers or $1m+ in revenue)
• - 1+ years experience in a sales role — likely in an agency, newsletter ad sales or SaaS product
• - Hunger, drive to get results (for yourself and clients) and a ''hunter'' mentality
• - The confidence, presence and skillset to communicate effectively with decision makers at major media brands in native-level English
• - A strong timezone overlap with the US for your working day
• - In-depth knowledge of how to use a major ESP
• - Prior experience using SparkLoop’s products
• - A newsletter of your own
• - A solid existing online network/profile in the media industry/newsletter space

Benefits

• - Hiring as a contractor at our L1-L2 level ($60k base, $120k OTE compensation)
• - Quick, clear career progression opportunities
• - A fully remote team culture
• - Annual team retreats (most recently Portugal, Rome and London, next up Turkey)
• - Stipend towards home-office or coworking space
• - Generous PTO policy
• - Side projects encouraged