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. The key areas for this role include the following:

Responsibilities:

1. Identifying Corporates interested in running an Innovation Hackathon
2. Generate sponsorship for AI Forge hosted events or activities
3. Understand from our Founders the most useful corporates for each company
4. Negotiate with suppliers to extract exclusive special offers and perks

Innovation Hackathons:

1. Identify Corporates to run an Innovation Hackathon on their behalf
2. Identify the best ‘consultants’ to visit the Corporate to secure a detailed brief
3. Work with the Outreach Manager to generate interest from the Firepit community

Sponsorship:

1. Generate sponsorship: The Forge will host up to 43 different events that could be sponsored
2. Revisit the sponsorship communications to improve and make more relevant to secure budget

Corporate Interest:

1. Work with our start-ups to identify the key B2B benefits of their solution and help them craft their one-pagers to sell their proposition into corporates
2. Get buy-in from corporates across multiple industry verticals to validate Founder solutions

Perks & Special Offers:

1. 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