Account Executive - remote

Shrpa
Posted 2 years ago
Intro Are you a stellar BDR who is looking to advance into an AE role at a fast-growing startup? Shrpa is an adventure platform that helps DMOs highlight amazing experiences in their community. We offer a proven SaaS platform that recently passed our first 100 customer milestone. You will help drive our national expansion and next round of growth. Join a fully-remote, fun, and motivated team to take your sales experience to the next level!

Why Shrpa? At Shrpa (shrpa.com), we are on a mission to connect travelers to memorable local experiences anywhere they travel. We provide communities with the most engaging user-generated content. We deliver authentic experiences that take adventure seekers to entirely new experiences, no matter where they are.

  • Shrpa has a fully remote and extremely flexible work environment.
  • We work in an exciting industry with a fun team - at Shrpa, we’re always exploring!
  • Our solutions have an extremely high close rate with prospects.
  • You can help drive our transition from regional success to national growth.
  • You can be a foundational piece in a growing sales business.
This is an opportunity to make a big impact with a startup that is taking the travel world by storm;all while playing a pivotal role in building out the sales team.


Responsibilities
  • Generating new prospects through outbound efforts, helping us break into new geographic markets.
  • Researching target prospects, engaging them across multiple channels.
  • Testing and iterating on messaging and timing, and helping to scale the ones that generate the best results.
  • Understanding the Shrpa product and educating prospective customers.
  • Guiding prospects through their purchase decision - giving compelling product demonstrations and proposals, addressing objections, and engaging decision makers to get to a close.
  • Tracking leads, follow-ups, and closes to optimize the sales process and maximize sales.
  • Maintaining accurate records in our Hubspot CRM system

Experience/Skills Needed
  • 2+ years of B2B SaaS BDR or AE experience.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence.
  • Effective prospecting and email follow-up skills.
  • Ability to work interactively with a fully remote team.
  • Bias towards action: You aren’t afraid to figure things out on your own, and would rather connect with a prospect than wait around for direction.
  • Curiosity: You work to deeply understand customers, their processes, and their objectives, to speak their language and translate product value to customer value. You enjoy learning about new industries and roles.
  • Persistence: You take pride in working harder and smarter than your competition, and have the discipline to maintain a consistently high volume of outreach to prospective customers.
  • Highly motivated and results oriented: You are driven by creating impact and you take full ownership of achieving personal and team objectives.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious sales professional to progress alongside the company and help lead this expansion during a pivotal time in our growth.

Compensation
  • $45K base + Tiered Commission (no limit)
  • $30k estimated annual commission at target
  • $1K/mo training bonus for 3 months