Senior Sales Account Executive - South Africa

Location : Remote (occasional travel & on location work required)

Type : 40 Hours / week

Currently reports to : CEO

About The Folklore

The Folklore is a technology platform that empowers brands to launch products across multiple marketplaces, social media, and search engines in seconds, ship anywhere affordably, and sell more with stronger photos and content. We primarily serve brands in emerging markets—Africa, LATAM, and Asia—as well as emerging brands in the U.S. and Europe.

The Folklore is a Techstars (Techstars Seattle 21’) and venture capital-backed company that has been featured by Vogue, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., Bloomberg, and Entrepreneur. The company has worked with top companies including Nordstrom, Farfetch, Shopbop, and Revolve.

The Role

The Folklore is seeking a Senior Sales Account Executive to source and close sales deals for prospective brand members. This individual will aid in executing the company's brand membership growth strategy, through building pipeline, hosting sales calls, and onboarding members. This is an opportunity to join at the ground level and work closely with management to develop a barrier-breaking, world-class company that will change the landscape of how emerging brands can manage and scale their business globally.

Responsibilities

• Prospect, build, and consistently update pipeline of potential customers
• Reach out to prospects through trigger email sequences and cold calling
• Field inbound sales demo requests
• Host demo sales calls to pitch the value of membership and convert prospects into customers
• Attend in-person trade shows, conferences, and other events to prospect and pitch brands
• Occasionally host in-person events and have in-person meetings to prospect and close deals
• Support Member Success team with the successful onboarding of brands
• Consistently track and log KPIs and monitor progress of your goals and share reports
• Source prospective strategic partners and host webinars and events with partners with the purpose of converting new subscribers
• Gather feedback from brands and be an advocate for member feature requests, working cross-functionally with our Product team to ensure member satisfaction leading to membership retention
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners in engineering and marketing to stay up to date on product offerings, align on appropriate messaging, feedback, and work on projects

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