Senior Account Executive - Hotels

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Hiring Remotely in Chicago, IL
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eCommerce • Food • HR Tech • Mobile • Retail
Instawork is the leading flexible staffing solution that connects businesses with more than three million hourly workers
The Role
The Senior Account Executive - Hotels will acquire key hotel accounts, expand partnerships, and manage the sales cycle from outreach to closing. This role involves building relationships with hotel clients, conducting sales presentations, exceeding sales targets, and maintaining a pipeline of leads, along with 50%+ travel involved.
Summary Generated by Built In

At Instawork, we’re driven by our vision to create economic opportunity for local businesses and skilled hourly professionals  in communities around the world. With a growing number of hub cities across the world in the U.S., Canada, India, and beyond, we’re looking for top talent to help rapidly scale our high-tech and high-touch labor marketplace. Our accomplished and dedicated team is passionate about our mission and committed to crafting revolutionary products, all with the backing of our world-class investors, including Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock Capital, Y Combinator, and more!

We're looking for passionate, driven, and highly motivated sales professionals to help us scale our enterprise partnerships and continue our rapid growth across the U.S. As a Senior Account Executive - Hotels, you will be responsible for acquiring key Hotel accounts and expanding into multiple departments within each property. You will work closely with well branded and well managed hotel and hospitality companies to understand their staffing needs and provide tailored solutions that meet their workforce requirements. This role requires a strategic thinker with a passion for building lasting business relationships and a strong ability to close deals.

What You'll Do

  • Identify, prospect, and engage potential hotel clients in each assigned region.
  • Build and maintain a pipeline of qualified leads through networking, outreach, and targeted industry research.
  • Conduct consultative sales presentations and negotiations with executive committee members, department heads and key influencers at the property level.
  • Manage the entire sales cycle from initial outreach to closing deals, ensuring a seamless onboarding process for new clients.
  • Consistently meet or exceed sales targets and KPIs.
  • Maintain strong relationships with clients to ensure long-term partnerships and identify opportunities for growth.
  • Stay up-to-date with industry trends and Instawork's service offerings to better serve clients and improve the overall sales approach.
  • 50%+ Travel expected

What We're Looking For

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Hospitality, or a related field (preferred but not required).
  • 2+ years of Rooms and/or Food & Beverage management experience (strongly preferred).
  • Proven track record of meeting and exceeding sales targets.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
  • Self-motivated with a strong desire to achieve high performance and success.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
  • Experience using CRM software (e.g., Salesforce) to manage sales pipelines and reporting.

Benefits Details:

  • The base salary for this position is $80K (BOE) and eligible OTE for a total of $160k and uncapped commissions
  • This position is eligible for equity in the form of stock options
  • This position is eligible for Instawork benefits, including:
    • A variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire
    • Flexible paid time off
    • At least 8 paid company holidays annually
    • Home office stipend
    • Phone stipend
    • Commuter stipend
    • Supplemental pay on qualified leaves
    • Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution
    • Flexible spending plans
    • 401K plan
    • Perkspot - discount program through Lumity

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location.  Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed above.

Instawork Values

  • Bias for Action -- We are a growing team and an evolving product. We want a team of do’ers to drive the company forward, even if it means making decisions with incomplete information or being wrong.
  • Act Like an Owner -- Treat this company as though it is your own. Execute on the fundamentals, and act creatively to drive growth. Your ability to drive impact in any part of our company is only limited by your courage and conviction, not your job title.
  • Always Be Learning -- We are changing an entire industry. We strive to learn from each other and get better each day, week, and month, so that our team’s learnings can compound and we can all improve, together.
  • Empathy, Trust, Candor -- Empathy for our business partners and professionals means we put ourselves in their shoes. Empathy for our colleagues means we are always upfront and honest with each other, which comes from trust.

About Instawork

Founded in 2016, Instawork is the leading flexible work app for local, hourly professionals. Its digital marketplace connects thousands of businesses and more than five million workers, filling a critical role in local economies. Instawork has been featured on CBS News, the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Associated Press, and more. In 2022, Instawork was ranked among the country’s top 10% of fastest-growing companies by Inc. 5000 and was included in the Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startup list. Instawork was also named the 2022 ACE Award recipient for “Best Innovation” and one of the “Best Business Apps” by Business Insider. Instawork helps businesses in the food & beverage, hospitality, and warehouse/logistics industries fill temporary and permanent job opportunities in more than 25 markets across the U.S. and Canada. 

For more information visit www.instawork.com

We value diversity on our team and firmly believe Instawork is stronger when we hire people who make their own unique contributions to our culture. We welcome all applicants and encourage candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. 

To learn more about our company values, please visit: https://info.instawork.com/about
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The Company
San Francisco, CA
600 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Its digital marketplace connects thousands of businesses and more than three million workers, actively working to help bridge the labor demand/supply gap that is crippling so many businesses, as the country continues to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. Instawork helps businesses in food & beverage, hospitality, and warehouse/logistics industries fill temporary and permanent roles in more than 30 markets in the U.S. and Canada.

We have been fortunate to be funded by some of the greatest investors in Silicon Valley including: Benchmark (Bill Gurley), Y Combinator, Spark Capital, Google Ventures, Craft Ventures, and many more. Leveraging our accelerated growth, we will continue to expand throughout the U.S. and globally in order to revolutionize the labor market.

Instawork recently raised $60 million in Series C financing, bringing a total funding to $100 million. The new funding will allow Instawork to continue rapidly expanding into new markets, job categories, and industries, while also investing in more training and development initiatives to help hourly professionals advance their careers.

Our values help us craft impactful products and be extraordinary colleagues to each other:

Empathy, Trust, and Candor
Being empathetic helps build trust in our community and company, and fosters successful decision-making.

Always Be Learning
We learn eagerly, from different teams within and outside the company. Respectful debate makes our company stronger.

Act Like an Owner
We have a strong ownership mentality. Every person on the team has the potential to make a huge impact.

Bias for Action
We practice high-velocity decision-making, despite encountering ambiguity frequently.

Why Work With Us

Our team is composed of talented individuals who are passionate about our mission, continuously learning from one another and encouraging each other to achieve their full potential. We believe that failure is not a setback, but an opportunity to learn and apply those lessons toward future growth. We also make sure to have some fun along the way.

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