Sales Associate

Summary

Join Instacart's Brand Partnerships team as a Sales Associate and manage a portfolio of brand partners, acting as the primary point of contact for all advertising relationships. You will build and maintain relationships with emerging brands, prospect new advertisers, and exceed KPIs related to activations, advertiser retention, and revenue generation. Responsibilities include managing a high volume of client interactions, generating reports, supporting new program launches, and collaborating with product teams to improve ad products. The role requires 1-4 years of sales experience, strong communication and organizational skills, and familiarity with sales tools. This remote position offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including a sales incentive plan, with base pay varying by location.

Requirements

• 1-4 years of experience in a sales environment
• Strong time management and organizational skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Creative problem-solver
• Comfortable analyzing and speaking to data/insights
• Familiarity with tools of the trade (eg. Microsoft Office, Excel, Google Drive, Salesforce)

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with a book of actively advertising emerging brands
• Prospect new advertisers to the platform, assisting with campaign creation, launch and renewal
• Maintain a high volume of weekly inputs, including scheduled client meetings and emails
• Reach and exceed KPIs including activations, retained advertisers and revenue
• Act as a primary point of escalation for technical issues
• Generate weekly campaign reports and monthly / quarterly reviews
• Support the launch of new programs and features
• Support product teams in determining the right priorities for product improvements to help scale ad products for small to medium sized businesses

Preferred Qualifications

• CPG experience
• Digital media experience

Benefits

• Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work
• This role is remote
• This role also includes a Sales Incentive Plan