Company Description
Riipen’s mission is to end graduate underemployment and empower emerging talent to gain relevant skills to find the jobs that they love. We provide online work-based learning experiences that focus on developing employer-relevant skills development for those about to enter or re-enter the workforce.
Riipen is the leading technology platform in North America for higher education institutions providing work-integrated micro-experiential learning to their students. Over the past three years, we have supported 70,000 students to gain 4,500,000 learning hours with our network of over 10,000 employers.
Job Description
Riipen is looking for talented sales and marketing professionals to help Riipen achieve its mission of ending graduate underemployment, through supporting our thriving Employer Partnerships team. This is a 6-month independent contract position.
As a Riipen Affiliate, you will work directly with the Employer Partnerships team in order to develop and implement strategies that accelerate our customer base and increase activity on our platform. These strategies include, but are not limited to sales strategy, sales enablement, demand generation, and client support. This role is 100% commission-based.
Your goal will be to help new companies and nonprofits join our platform to connect with educational institutions and provide their students with virtual work-integrated learning projects and virtual internships. As a fast-growing company, you’ll be providing critical support in enabling Riipen to reach wider audiences and expand our social reach.
Responsibilities:
- Work within the team to execute sales & marketing strategies by conducting innovative, team-directed prospecting and personal lead generation (eg. personal networking, and web-based searches)
- Educate and promote the Riipen Platform (www.riipen.com) among your own business networks to generate new leads
- Convert leads into Riipen Users through a personalized promotion code
- Dream, innovate, and help the Riipen team become the technology leader in the education/recruitment technology space
Qualifications
- Entrepreneurial spirit with a desire to promote tech products and work in a fast-paced startup environment
- Experience in sales or marketing roles
- Ability to consistently deliver sales & marketing results in a sales contract role
- Strong communicator with the ability to explain concepts clearly both in writing and speech
- Detail-oriented, creative, and strong analytical skills
- A hunger and willingness to learn - we don’t expect you to tick all the boxes; however, you should be curious and ready to take on anything thrown your way
- Bonus: Previous experience as an Influencer marketer
Additional Information
What we offer:
- Great work environment with amazing people
- Commitment from the entire team to help you learn and grow. No question is off-limits and we'll do everything we can to help accelerate your personal growth.
We appreciate your interest and application. Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted.
Please note, candidates must be legally able to work in Canada.
Riipen is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, and not on race, colour, creed, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances.
Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request.
What We Do
Riipen is enabling transformative opportunities for companies to collaborate with post-secondary students on real-time, real-world challenges that are embedded directly into coursework. To date, Riipen has enabled over 190,000 learner experiences and over 10.4M+ hours of applied learning at 590+ post-secondary academic partnerships & portals with more than 31,000 employers. Riipen’s mission is to be the experiential learning platform on which learners of all backgrounds and employers of all sizes engage actively, frequently and authentically – through real projects.
