Sales Manager

AI Forge is seeking a talented and motivated Sales Manager with our mission to provide support and resources to early-stage AI start-ups, helping them bring their innovative ideas to life. They key areas for this role would include the following:

- Identifying Corporates interested in running an Innovation Hackathon

- Generate sponsorship for AI Forge hosted events or activities

- Understand from our Founders the most useful corporates for each company

- Negotiate with suppliers to extract exclusive special offers and perks

Innovation Hackathons:

- Identify Corporates to run an Innovation Hackathon on their behalf

- Identify the best ‘consultants’ to visit the Corporate to secure a detailed brief

- Work with the Outreach Manager to generate interest from the Firepit community

Sponsorship:

- Generate sponsorship: The Forge will host up to 43 different events that could be sponsored

- Revisit the sponsorship comms to improve and make more relevant to secure £ budgets

Corporate Interest:

- Work with our start-ups to identify the key B2B benefits of their solution and help them craft their one-pagers to help you sell their proposition into corporates

- Get buy-in from corporates across multiple industry verticals to validate Founder solutions

Perks & Special Offers:

- Identify and negotiate great deals & perks with suppliers for the Founders

Remuneration Package:

1. 1.5% equity in AI Forge London

2. £40k salary – plus generous sales commission

3. Flexibility of being in Forge anticipated to be 5 x weeks in-person per Cohort (15 weeks PA) plus team meetings – the rest would be virtual days

4. 23 days holiday increasing by 1 x day a year up to 30 x days paid holiday

5. Being part of the founding team to create your own work environment (ideally a fun, quirky, flexible and stimulating environment)

6. Working with the smartest, sharpest people on the planet

7. AI – is here and everyone will soon want to climb on board the juggernaut