Storyvine is hiring a Sales Manager! 

Are you looking to use your enterprise sales experience in a creative environment?
Have experience in finance or banking - BONUS!
READ ON!

About the Position:
Location - Denver or Remote

If you’re a talented and motivated enterprise sales professional with a hunter mentality (bonus points if you have some banking or financial industry chops), this might be the perfect position for you. But most important is enterprise sales experience.

A Storyvine Sales Manager is a mid-level position so we’ll help fill in any gaps with training to get you acclimated to our unique and beneficial product. We are looking for someone with a strong sales orientation, but who also genuinely enjoys people and problem-solving, too. Critical thinking, curiosity, and taking pride in your work are essential. A sense of humor and the ability to see the bigger picture are a close second. 

Position Mission
Expand Storyvine’s Financial Sector Clients

Storyvine is changing how banking and financial companies use video to tell stories to clients, investors, and members of their ecosystem. The mission of the Sales Manager is to build Storyvine’s financial industry business via New Business development and potentially expand out into other industries. 

This position is a full-fledged sales role with a quota. You need to have energy, persistence, and strong persuasive and organizational skills to be successful in this role. This person will bring wisdom to our proven sales process while leveraging the experience of the team. 

Job Summary
Identifies sales prospects, pursues sales relationships, and transitions prospects into Storyvine finance and banking clients. Supports the Client Experience team with expanding those client relationships and revenue as needed.

The sales manager has no direct reports and reports to the Director of Sales.

Accountabilities and Deliverables
• Effective and comfortable producing results that exceed sales quota.
• Strong internal core motivation to make phone calls, send emails, talk to people, schedule meetings, and bring in business. 
• Excellent communication and persuasion skills with a professional demeanor on the phone, via email, and in person. 

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Work one-to-one with decision makers to help them see the value of our one-of-a-kind, proprietary platform and get them onboard.
• Responsible for prospecting and developing Storyvine new Finance clients.
• Sustains and expands Finance prospects, and partners through new business and client expansions.
• Travels to and attends conferences or business trips either individually, or with the leadership team for the purposes of lead generation. (Outside of public health emergency times.)
• Builds trusting long-term relationships with clients and serving them proactively and empathically.
• Employs critical thinking, curiosity, and pride in every project.
• Uses effective verbal and written communication skills while interacting with clients, prospects, partners, and fellow employees.
• Follows Storyvine methods, protocols, and processes with diligence and integrity.
• Uses smartphones and tablets to take video with your camera and Storyvine’s application.
• Hunting! Performs a high level of outbound activity to engage prospects on a daily basis, using phone, email, and LinkedIn. 

Performs other related duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities
Process Skills
• Demonstrates drive and initiative and is highly self-motivated.
• Proficient at working independently while being part of a strong, fun team. 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Effective time and priority management skills with an ability to achieve goals and positive outcomes.
• Actions = Outcomes! You know and LIVE this equation.
• Meets all deadlines or communicates proactively to relevant parties as early as possible.
• Uses resourcefulness and tenacity to accomplish personal sales goals.
• Exhibits integrity by putting ethics of the organization above self-interest. 

Interpersonal Skills
• Shows confidence in client and prospect engagements.
• Uses effective active listening skills and collaboratively works through issues and conflicts to optimize outcomes and maintain relationships.
• Strong interpersonal, relationship-building, and emotional intelligence abilities.

Technical Skills
• Consistently maintains meeting or exceeding sales quotas.
• Demonstrated ability to prospect and research potential clients.
• Able to work effectively with Google Drive/G Suite, Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Salesforce, Trello, Slack, and others.
• Clear and empathic written and oral communication abilities.
• Comfortable with software video applications.
• Self-edits own writing for clarity, grammar, and typographical errors.

Preferred Abilities
• Desire and ability for personal professional self-development.
• Demonstrated sales experience in banking or financial institutions.

Education and Experience
College degree or certificate. Or related job experience showing ability to serve clients and manage sales prospects successfully. Work experience in finance or banking is highly preferred.

Physical Requirements
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer/phone.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.

Work Environment:
• Storyvine is now moving back into its Denver office. Therefore, this position can be working from the Denver office or your own home remotely. 
• Storyvine is located at The CATALYST Building off Brighton Blvd. in RiNo. It’s a shared office space: fun to work out of, and the area has a plethora of restaurants.
• In the Denver office, we work 9am to 5pm MT, but since our clients are national and global, you may want to work flexible shifts to best serve your clients and communicate with your co-workers, arranging with your supervisor.
• Due to the requirements of our some of our clients, a national criminal background check is required on each employee who has access to certain clients’ data. This position may also be required to attend HIPAA training if contractually obligated with certain clients.

Compensation
While the compensation for this position is ultimately dependent upon the individual candidate's experience and qualifications, the base pay range is $60-70,000 with an uncapped commission plan that is paid out monthly. It is a full-time, salary-exempt position. Additionally, you will be provided a computer and a $100 monthly work-from-home allowance. We have full health insurance benefits (including mental health, dental, vision, and a free employee assistance program (EAP). After six (6) months on the job, you will have access to unlimited vacation time.

Still interested?  
Please send your resume and a cover letter to hireme@storyvine.com explaining why you’d be a great fit for us and this position.