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