Business Development Representative, Project Wayfinder

$60k

+ Commission

Salesforce
Outreach
Slack
Junior, Mid and Senior level
Remote in US

More information about location

Project Wayfinder

Social educational programmes for schools

Job no longer available

Project Wayfinder

Social educational programmes for schools

21-100 employees

B2BEducationLearningMental healthSocial Impact

Job no longer available

$60k

+ Commission

Salesforce
Outreach
Slack
Junior, Mid and Senior level
Remote in US

More information about location

21-100 employees

B2BEducationLearningMental healthSocial Impact

Company mission

To help students and schools confidently navigate the transition between school and life with purpose, confidence, and the social emotional skills to succeed.

Role

Who you are

  • Bachelor’s degree or at least 2-5 years of relevant work experience
  • 1-2 years of sales experience, with a history of exceeding lead targets
  • Strong communication skills via phone, Slack, and email
  • Proven creative problem-solving approach and strong analytical skills
  • Self- starter mentality: Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing and scaling environment
  • Experience cold calling or objection handling in a previous role

Desirable

  • Experience working with Salesforce or other CRM software
  • Prior experience or demonstrated interest in EdTech and/or K-12 education

What the job involves

  • This seasonal position will be effective approximately between September 3rd, 2024 to December 3rd, 2024
  • Wayfinder is looking for a seasonal Outreach Coordinator who will be responsible for outbound sales prospecting
  • Your work revolves around generating and qualifying new leads- and creating opportunities for new pipeline
  • The Outreach Coordinator will build a solid understanding of the industry and our product, in order to spark meaningful conversations
  • As a result, they will spend much of their time reaching out to potential clients through the early stages of the sales funnel, either preparing prospects to speak with a closer or screening their true intention to buy our curricula
  • Represent Wayfinder’s products and services, starting with a comprehensive understanding and leading to consumer research to identify how our solutions meet needs
  • Generate leads and build relationships by nurturing warm prospects and finding new potential partners
  • Manage and maintain a pipeline of interested prospects and engage partners for next steps
  • Utilize Salesforce, Outreach.io, cold calling, and objection handling to generate new sales opportunities
  • Expertly speak to Wayfinder’s value propositions to effectively overcome objections
  • Set up meetings or calls between (prospective) schools and sales executives

Application process

  • Applications will close on August 9th, 2024

Our take

First born in Stanford Design School's lauded k12 Innovation Lab in response to growing youth mental health crises, Project Wayfinder set out to reimagine adolescent education.

The platform is now used by over tens of thousands of students around the world, and is focused on developing adolescents' sense of belonging, purpose and meaning. Wayfinder's system is a constantly evolving, research-based social-emotional learning curriculum that can be integrated into schools' wellness programs.

Wayfinder has repurposed to focus on building digital versions of its curriculum as a result of the pandemic. Further, recent seed funding will be used to accelerate product development, scale Wayfinder's sales efforts, and to support research into the program's impact.

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Steph

Company Specialist

Insights

Led by a woman

98% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Jan 2022

$6.6m

SERIES A

Mar 2021

$1.5m

SEED

Total funding: $8.1m

Company benefits

  • Stock: Ownership in a fast-growing venture-backed company
  • 401k: We care about your ability to save for your future
  • Family Focus: Parental leave and flexibility for families
  • Time Off: Flexible vacation policy to encourage people to get out and see the world
  • Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision policies
  • Goodies: Whatever hardware and software you need to get the job done
  • Team Fun: Regularly scheduled events, annual retreat, and celebrations
  • Learning: Learning & Development Opportunities to grow your skills and career
  • Great team: Working with fun, hard-working, kind people committed to making a difference!
  • Flexible culture: We are results-focused. We don’t work at the office every day
  • ...And much more! Lots of other perks make this company an incredible place to work

Company HQ

Old Bend, Bend, OR

Leadership

Studied Education at Brown and Stanford. Was a Fulbright Scholar with the US State Department, and worked as a mindfulness instructor with UWC ISAK Japan. Lectured at Stanford.

Claudia Biçen

(Head of Content)

Studied Philosophy and Psychology at Oxford, and has a Master's in Anthropolgy from UCL. Worked in Business Development and Marketing at BlueOak Resources.

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