About the role
We are looking for a growth-focused (hunter) salesperson based on the East Coast in the US. The role is for an individual contributor with proven business-to-business new sales and account management experience. This is a unique opportunity to join a high-growth startup in an innovative and expanding technology space.
You will be selling advanced data analytics products for unstructured data to a list of named accounts across a defined territory (US). The mix of new sales versus account management is an 80:20 split. You will manage the complete sales cycle from initial prospect engagement to deal close to ongoing account management. Travel will be between 10% - 20%. You will have worked with data analytics/data management product companies. Ideally, you have knowledge of News monitoring for (i) Media Monitoring (ii) Risk Analysis and/or (iii) Alternative Data solutions in investment banking.
Key responsibilities:
- Outbound prospecting across various channels (phone, email, social)
- Target a set of named accounts and achieve revenue goals.
- Build and nurture relationships leading to sales.
- Manage multiple new opportunities as well as existing accounts.
- Take full responsibility for personal revenue targets.
- Manage the pipeline process in CRM.
- Meet and exceed quarterly targets.
- Working at a startup brings new challenges every day, so you need the drive and desire to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
Skills and experience:
- 5 - 10+ years experience in B2B sales
- Proven track record of successfully selling B2B software products to mid and enterprise accounts in the defined territory.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Solution selling approach to sales.
- Self-starting, risk taker and a drive to succeed.
- Experience working in technology and more specifically with data analytics-focused product companies.
- Strong organizational and time management skills are a must
About AYLIEN
AYLIEN is a content intelligence company based in Dublin, Ireland. We make it easy for companies like Sony and Microsoft to not only collect but truly understand large volumes of human-generated (unstructured) content on the web using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing. Our News APIs enable developers and data scientists to extract key business insights from massive amounts of content with extreme ease.
You can learn more about AYLIEN and our products
here.