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OptTown is Hiring!


OptTown is a young, fast-paced, exciting and collaborative environment of smart-working, committed people.

We're looking for smart, team-oriented individuals to join the OptTown revolution. If you want to learn a lot and make difference, email your resume and cover letter to jobs@opttown.com - Email subject should be the job title.

Opportunities

OptTown is seeking UC Davis students and new college graduates for the position of Sales Representative, Davis, CA

OptTown is seeking Santa Clara University students and new college graduates for the position of Sales Representative, Santa Clara, CA

OptTown is seeking San Jose State University students and new college graduates for the position of Sales Representative, San Jose, CA

OptTown is seeking a recent graduate of UC Davis or person familiar with the UC Davis campus-life and Davis businesses for the position of Sales and Marketing Account Manager for the Davis, CA area.



Sales Representative

OptTown

OptTown is the fun, social network that connects consumers to all of their favorite places to shop, eat, drink and play.

Position

OptTown Sales Representative (Part-Time or Full-Time)

Duties and Responsibilities

Reporting to the VP of Sales, the Sales Representative will be responsible for:

  • Helping identify and prioritize target businesses that serve the University community
  • Selling the OptTown service to local merchants
    • Target minimum of 12 new accounts/month
  • Collecting the initial payments
  • Setting-up business’ initial message content as part of pre-sales activities
  • Handing-off account to Content Manager
    • Facilitating introduction of Content Manager to the business
    • Providing Content Manager with business’ contact information
    • Confirming which previously set-up messages will be used going forward
  • Helping plan and implement Launch Event (venue, invites, materials, pictures and stories for consumer blog)
  • University blast with students (Facebook blast, flyers around school, signage at businesses)
  • Posting to the OptTown University specific Facebook page “OptTown at university name” (student reach out, what businesses would you like to see? Encouraging students to tell those businesses to get on OptTown. A success story and student/business feature every week)
  • Attending/throwing launch meetings with various student groups (sororities, business frat, student clubs, etc.)
  • Surveying student satisfaction. Reporting feedback.
  • Surveying business satisfaction/troubleshooting. Reporting feedback.
  • Helping with acquisition of Sales Representatives for the next universities/colleges. Providing feedback about their position and what was clear/unclear. Helping/advising/creating “standard” sales processes.

Profile, Skills, and Experience

The ideal candidate will have 1-3+ years’ experience in Sales and/or the aptitude, attitude, drive and connections to grow the OptTown network of businesses and consumers.

  • Extremely well-connected to and familiar with both the student body and their favorite surrounding businesses. School Spirit.
  • Ability to exercise sound judgment in prospecting and working with businesses
  • Strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with an orientation to customer satisfaction
  • Confidence, charisma, determination, and quick-witted
  • Self-supervising, honest, responsible, follow-through
  • Team oriented

Education and Qualifications

The following education and qualifications are highly desirable

  • Current student or recent graduate of Santa Clara University or San Jose State University
  • Knows the student body. (Orientation leader, ASB, student athlete, and/or Greek society member)
  • Extensive Facebook network
  • Sales, marketing or business career aspiration

Other

  • Own functioning iPhone or iPad to use in the Sales demo process
  • Own functioning PC or Mac to use in the Sales process
  • Transportation to get to and from multiple businesses
  • Flexible hours

Location

Davis, Santa Clara or San Jose, California

Compensation

Commission, hourly wages for pre-approved activities, and commission accelerators


Sales and Marketing Account Manager

OptTown

OptTown is the fun, mobile app that connects you to your favorite places to shop, eat, drink and play!

Duties and Responsibilities

Reporting to the VP of Marketing, the Sales and Marketing Manager will be responsible for:

  • Training the first-time businesses using OptTown (decision-maker, manager and staff where applicable)
    • OptTown account setup
    • How to use the OptTown browser-based direct marketing solution
    • Creating messages, deals and the loyalty program
    • “What’s a good message”
    • Frequency and freshness of messages
    • Understanding and using analytics
    • How to use the OptTown app
    • Importance of business promoting "their" app to every customer
  • Packaging, delivering and setting-up business signage
  • Monitoring business activity on OptTown
    • Quality of messages
    • Frequency, freshness and mix of messages
    • Employees trained and comfortable using OptTown
    • Employees promoting OptTown app to their customers
    • Signage prominently displayed and understood by staff
    • Achieving growth goals as measured by key metrics
  • Maintaining content quality
    • Frequency and freshness of messages
    • Catchy, exciting and compelling deals and messages
    • Brainstorm ideas and provide helpful hints, tricks and tips to businesses and to OptTown
  • Connecting and maintaining relationships with each business on OptTown
    • Report messaging and promotion status
    • In store visit at least once a month
    • Phone call / email connection at least once a month
    • Being the on-call support for businesses on OptTown
    • Asking for and maintaining referenceability status
    • Securing testimonials from the business
  • University blast with students (Facebook blast, flyers around school, signage at businesses)
  • Attending and help with throwing launch meetings
  • Surveying student satisfaction. Reporting feedback.
  • Surveying business satisfaction/troubleshooting. Reporting feedback.
  • Helping with acquisition of content managers for the next OptTown communities. Providing feedback about their position and what was clear/unclear. Helping/advising/creating "standard" content managing processes.

Profile and Experience

The ideal candidate will have 1-3+ years of experience in sales, marketing, communications and/or customer interactions and/or the aptitude, attitude, and drive to make OptTown as easy, intuitive, comfortable, and fun for both businesses and consumers using OptTown.

  • Ability to "think on your feet" and adapt to various sales and marketing situations
  • Exercise good judgment, patience, and understanding while working with businesses
  • Strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with an orientation to customer satisfaction
  • Comfortable with computers and able to create compelling marketing content
  • Well-connected to and familiar with both the student body and their favorite area businesses
  • Confidence, charisma, determination, and quick-wit
  • Self-supervising, honest, responsible, dependable, with follow-through
  • Team oriented

Education, Skills and Qualifications

The following education and qualifications are highly desirable

  • Recent graduate of UC Davis or familiar with the campus-life and Davis businesses
  • Knows the student body. (Orientation leader, ASB, student athlete, and/or Greek society)
  • Extensive Facebook network
  • Sales, marketing, communications or business degree
  • Sales and marketing experience
  • Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher
  • Adobe: Illustrator and Photoshop

Other

  • Own functioning iPhone, Android smartphone, or iPad (with cellular)
  • Own functioning PC or Mac to monitor and help with content creation
  • Transportation to get to and from businesses in your assigned region

Location

Davis, California

Compensation

Full-time, salaried position with objective-based bonus