Heja is on a mission to connect the 1.5 billion people in the world of youth sports. This is an opportunity to make a real social impact on children's health and lifestyle at scale. In a few years, we've grown to over 2.6 million users in 50+ countries with our main markets in the U.S., UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Thousands more are joining every day to meet, unite, and develop together.  

Our growing Partnerships team is looking to add a sales driven, team-first leader to come in, roll up their sleeves and find future digital advertising partners of all shapes and sizes to purchase premium ad space inside Heja’s app while leading the existing team on those efforts. Heja has a very unique (and captive) audience to offer our partners and we are looking for the perfect person to help maximize our outreach to brands at a time when our user base is rapidly accelerating globally. 

We're a talented, passionate, and ambitious product-driven company from Sweden (and Chicago) on a global mission. Join our small and growing team of talented high-achievers!

In this position, you will... 

• Lead our team of existing Brand Partnership Managers and maximize ad-revenue inside and outside of the Heja app. 
• Generate your own leads through outreach to potential partners: advertisers purchasing premium ad space in Heja’s fast-growing app.
• Identify, develop, and secure new business opportunities in the US (and globally).
• Maintain a pipeline and work within the Partnerships team to achieve established goals.
• Be part of the management team 

The role is perfect for you if you...

• Desire an opportunity to help scale the Partnerships team at a growing international startup. We are a year into our Partnerships journey and this is very much an opportunity to help take the team and company to new heights. 
• Enjoy the challenge and creativity required to initiate conversations with companies that may be interested in Heja's audience but may be unaware of Heja.
• Have experience in brainstorming potential categories to send outreach.
• Have experience in leading a sales team while being extremely organized and diligent. 
• Love sales, are highly motivated, never complacent.
• Have experience with Account Management. 
• Qualifications
  • Have experience with (mandatory):
    
  • Minimum of 6-10 years of business development, sales, and/or sponsorship experience.
  • Minimum of 3 years with people leadership 
  • Sales tools such as CRM, lead generation etc. 
  • Nice-to-have experience (bonus):
    • Have experience in selling digital assets.
    • Have experience with sports-based assets.
    • Love sports. 
    • Have existing connections with potential partners and youth sports/membership organizations. 

We’ll support you with…

• Remote work setup with great flexibility - you can utilize our top-of-the-line office in Chicago while working from home a couple of days per week - plus the chance to fly in for our fully-compensated team events organized in Sweden!
• Basic salary plus commission
• Stock options plan and benefits

If this makes you excited, please apply even if you don't check all the "boxes" above.

We are not superhumans and we don’t expect you to be one either. We will all make mistakes, we just expect that we will learn from them and that we always embrace new challenges.

Recruitment process

• Introduction Call
  We'll get to know each other better.
• Skillset Interview
  We deep dive into your skills and knowledge together with the team. All positions require some form of case/assignment/project. 
• Culture Interview
  The final interview is where we discuss the Heja culture and your/our values.

We value diversity of perspective and are committed to building an inclusive workplace that welcomes people from all different backgrounds 💚

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