Oyster is looking for sales and business development people. Please contact me if you are interested elie at oyster dot com and attach a resume and write a short note
Here is some of what we are looking for:
- Charming
- Likable
- Persuasive
- Deeply extroverted
- Articulate
- Loves networking
- Aggressive and ambitious
- Customer focused – the kind of person who answers every email and phone call before going home for the night.
- Customer service oriented
- Concise – no buzzworders please. Nothing is more annoying than someone who speaks – regardless of how eloquently – and delivers many words but no content.
- Presentable – will present well for the Oyster brand, particularly when speaking with advertisers or hoteliers. No one slick please.
- Smart – can understand the needs of the customer and help them become a better marketer as a result.
- Hard working – the sales and marketing team will run on a 9AM to ~8pm schedule 5+ days/week so this is not a job for everyone.
- Number of years of prior work experience – 1 to 6
- Willing to be assessed continuously – Understands that the sales and business development org is a quantitative metric driven environment with the derivative potential (and likelihood) for high churn among those who don’t meet the highest standards of performance. For the right people, that metric driven assessment is a boon, for others it’s a nonstarter.
- Prior experiences preferred; not required for people who have tremendous aptitude but the ideal candidate has at least a few of these.
- Has sold online advertising before
- Has sold to tourism bureaus before
- Understands the Internet. Can easily name 5 sites that they use frequently and explain what makes that site best in class (Google, amazon and any mail program does not count)
- Have sold to hotels before – understand how hotels think about marketing and sales
- Has sold something, anything really, before and liked it
- Has worked in the hotel industry
- Was an entrepreneur – even if their business was not successful, I’m still interested (for obvious reasons, it’s hard to hire the entrepreneurs who have been very successful)
- Passionate about hotels – kind of obvious but worth stating.
- Locations
- NYC – currently the most desirable
- LA
- SF
- Miami
- Vegas
- Orlando
