Inside Sales - Account Executive (Acquisition)

Join ZipRecruiter as an Acquisition Account Executive, where you'll leverage your full-cycle selling skills to bring new subscribers onto our platform. You'll receive world-class training and support, and your primary focus will be on mastering a strong foundation of skills to ensure long-term success. Your responsibilities will include cold calling, scheduling demos, managing client funnels, and developing best practices. Ideal candidates will have prior B2B experience, strong organization and time management skills, and a high need for achievement and competition.

Knowledge of the job board/HR industry (preferred)

1+ year cold calling (preferred)

Responsibilities

• Hit or exceed your monthly new business quota by seeking and securing net new accounts through cold calling and emailing.
• Drive revenue by prospecting and building a pipeline, scheduling and running demos with clients, and managing client funnels from free trials into paying accounts.
• Develop and openly share best practices among your peers, and craft data-driven strategies for prospects based on job seeker insights.
• Thrives under pressure and deadlines

Requirements

• Organized, reliable, detail-oriented
• Active listener, probes for customer needs
• Strong organization and time management
• High output activity (calls, emails, meetings, demos)
• Builds trust and rapport with prospects

Strong interpersonal communication skills

• Proven success as an Account Executive, winning net new business (preferred)
• Regular, reliable, and predictable attendance, along with consistent adherence to scheduled work hours, is an essential requirement of this position
• High need for achievement and competition; loves to win
• Coachable and open-minded to feedback
• Enthusiastic, optimistic, unfazed by rejection
• Familiar with 30-45 day sales cycle

Preferred

• Prior B2B experience (preferred)
• 1+ year prospecting (preferred)

Pay

USD 27,000 - 27,000