Sales Development Representative II, Activation

Instacart • San Francisco, CA

239d • $46,000 - $62,000 • Remote

About The Position

At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we're building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you're ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team. There's no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it's from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events.

Requirements

• Previous experience in a sales or business development role
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to build rapport and establish lasting relationships
• Proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets and KPIs
• Excellent organizational and project management skills
• Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy and quality
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced and dynamic environment

Nice To Haves

• Strong advertising industry knowledge and understanding of CPG advertising is a plus
• Familiarity with CRM software (e.g., Salesforce) and sales engagement tools

Responsibilities

• Prospecting and activating new advertisers to the platform
• Conducting a high volume of daily activities, including outbound calls, emails, and social selling in a fast-paced transactional environment
• Creating sales collateral, case studies, and custom 'stories' to effectively communicate the benefits of Instacart's platform to CPG advertisers
• Meeting and exceeding key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Utilizing SFDC/Sales engagement tools to prioritize leads and engage brands through the use of cadences and dialing
• Ensuring accurate contact mapping within the book of business and tracking contact movement updates
• Engaging active advertisers within your book to drive increased investments, leveraging your industry expertise and knowledge of the brands' businesses
• Identifying opportunities to standardize materials and processes to provide high-quality support at scale
• Delivering an excellent customer experience through strong project management skills, anticipating and resolving bottlenecks, managing multiple schedules, and maintaining a high standard of execution
• Collaborating with product teams to prioritize product improvements that assist in scaling ad products for small to medium-sized businesses

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation
• Sales Incentive Plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Couriers and Messengers