Account Executive - Sporting Goods and Outdoors job in Minneapolis

About the Role:

The Account Executive will be responsible for sourcing potential customers and nurturing them through the sales cycle. This person will initially be a “hunter,” tasked primarily with attracting and closing merchant customers. This will include cold calling, cold emailing, conducting phone and in-person meetings, and attending events and conferences. There is also a great deal of opportunity for the role to grow within the company!

About Sezzle:

Sezzle is a cutting-edge fintech company whose long-standing mission is to financially empower the next generation. Only one in three millennials own a credit card, and the vast majority of millennials possess a subprime credit score or no score at all. To address these problems, Sezzle has built a payment platform that increases purchasing power for consumers by offering interest-free installment plans at online stores. This increase in purchasing power for consumers leads to increased sales and basket sizes for the 44,000+ eCommerce merchants that currently work with Sezzle.

As the first and only B-Corp in the payments space, Sezzle’s goal is to help everyone pursue financial freedom, and to invest in social good and ethical initiatives that shape a better world.

At Sezzle, we’re committed to putting purpose alongside profitability. We work hard to maintain rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency to build a better world. The employees at Sezzle lean into significant societal and cultural shifts, ensuring internal and external focus on positive impacts that benefit our community.

Ideal Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher.
• At least 2 years of sales experience, preferably in payments, software brands, and/or retail.
• Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Understanding of alternative payments market is a plus.
• Proficient in Google Apps.
• Proficiency in Salesforce.com and Salesloft is a plus.
• Organized, with an ability to prioritize time-sensitive assignments.
• Self-motivated and passionate about sports and/or outdoors
• Experience selling payment solutions to eCommerce merchants is a plus.

About You:

• A+ character. We are team-first here at Sezzle.
• A hard-working mentality. It’s early and there is still a lot to build.
• An excellent communicator.
• A fun attitude. Life’s too short. We can have fun while we work hard on cool things.
• Smarts. We need people that are smart enough to make decisions on their own and also smart enough to know when they need input from others.

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Life and long term disability insurance
• 401k with match
• The opportunity to join Minneapolis’s fastest growing startup alongside a team of motivated and driven individuals

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome?

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog- lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.

Sezzle provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, familial status, veteran or military status, status regarding public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.