If you don't have experience, it can be hard to find a work-from-home job that doesn't pay a low salary.
Luckily, there is a type of remote job that I've noticed can pay well while also not requiring related experience to apply.
You can look for the Sales & Business Development Rep positions.
At some companies, you can get paid very well, enjoy great benefits and even earn high commissions or other performance-based incentives with these jobs.
Here are a few examples of these jobs at some great companies:
Sales Development Representative at HubSpot
HubSpot is a marketing, sales, customer service, and CRM software company that pays around $99k/year for these positions.
Here are more details:
What you'll do:
- Work closely and collaboratively with account executives (also known as sales reps) to develop and implement appropriate prospecting strategies
- Conduct high volume prospecting (60-100 activities per day) to qualify leads through calls, emails, and social media
- Schedule marketing assessments and discovery meetings for an account executive to further assess a prospect's business and potential for partnership with HubSpot
- Conduct needs qualification calls with specific prospects as assigned
- Help small and mid-sized companies realize the potential of digital marketing
- Set yourself up for a successful career by learning the necessary fundamentals to be a great salesperson, leader, and executive
- Get a mini-MBA! You'll learn how a variety of businesses operate, what challenges they face on a daily basis, and how technology can dramatically improve their businesses and employees' lives
Qualifications:
- Previous successful sales experience OR a strong desire to begin a sales career
- Previous sales experience in which you demonstrated the ability to meet or exceed sales quotas a plus (but not required)
- A track record of high achievement
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- The ability and desire to work in a fast-paced, challenging environment with peers who challenge you to be better
- The desire to meet and exceed measurable performance goals
- Are naturally curious and passionate
- The technical aptitude to master our sales tools
- A keenly developed competitive nature
- A “one-speed” energy with a highly self-driven sense of motivation
- The ability to deal with and thrive on objections and rejection on a daily basis
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Superior attention to detail and ability to meet tight deadlines
- Ability to complete complex tasks quickly with little to no guidance and react with appropriate urgency to situations that require a quick turnaround
- Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Demonstrated ability to design and improve processes
- Ability to prioritize and handle multiple assignments at any given time
- High level of integrity and discretion
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision
Benefits/Compensation:
This job pays around $99,000/year.
- Unlimited vacation and global week of rest
- Remote work
- 5-year sabbatical
- HubCare healthcare
- Parental benefits
- Leadership development
- Fitness reimbursements and other health/fitness benefits
- Employee stock options
- Tuition reimbursement
- Ongoing learning
- Employee resource groups
Links:
Inbound Sales Development Representative at Calm
Calm is a software company that produces meditation products.
Here are more details:
What you'll do:
- Efficiently manage a high volume of inbound communications with leads
- Work inbound sales leads in an efficient manner and successfully manage and overcome prospect objections
- Effectively educate and qualify leads to create sales-ready opportunities
- Ensure a seamless hand-off of meetings to the respective sales team
- Accurately follow the established pre-sales process and consistently use Salesforce to document prospect interaction ensuring efficient lead management
- Collaborate closely with Marketing and Sales teams on developing new outreach strategies
- Maintain active engagement with leads using creative follow-up communication and ensure 100% satisfaction with all leads
- Meet and exceed monthly and quarterly targets
Qualifications:
- Interest in beginning and growing into a career in Sales or similar business functions
- Fluency in written and spoken English
- Passion for the mental wellness industry and an ability to speak knowledgeably about the space
- Clear written and verbal communication, a deep sense of empathy and a commitment to integrity
- Excellent written skills with attention to grammar and tone
- Critical reading and active listening skills
- A self-starter who can diagnose inefficiencies and optimize processes to maximize results
- A commitment to learning, being adaptable, and having a great attitude
- Consistent measurable over-achievement in past experiences
Nice-to-Haves:
- Experience with Salesforce, Outreach.io, ZoomInfo or LinkedIn Sales Navigator
- 1-2 years of customer facing / sales experience
- Previous success with selling into HR and Benefits teams is a plus
- College Degree from a 4-year university
- Fluency in another language
Benefits/Compensation:
- Investment + Growth
- Calm can only grow if you do. We offer a great salary, equity, 401(k), and even a generous extended learning budget.
- Health + Wellness
- We’ll cover 100% of your health, dental, and vision, and give you monthly stipends for your fitness and wellness routines too.
- Time + Space
- When we say PTO is Take What You Need, we really mean it.
- Parents + Kids
- Your family is a vital part of our community too. That’s why we offer baby bonding leave to all salaried employees.
- Home + Office
- Your home office should be as functional and inspirational as your office office. We’ll give you a WFH stipend to help.
- Culture + Connection
- Our calendar of (virtual) social events ensures you always feel part of, and close with, the team, no matter where you are.
Links:
Sales Development Rep at Classy ($93k/year?)
Classy is an online fundraising platform for nonprofits.
What we are looking for:
- You are committed to a high standard of integrity and work ethic
- You are adaptable and can think on your feet. When faced with new challenges, or tough conversations, failure simply isn't an option
- You’re an excellent listener, assertive, persistent, and persuasive – show us your grit!
- You are genuinely curious about people, and possess the commitment to inspire passion in others
- You have an appetite for learning! You’re keen on turning training and feedback into action and continuous self-improvement
What You'll Do:
- Making 80-120 cold calls a day to non-profit organizations
- Methodically qualify, build, and manage an accurate sales pipeline in Salesforce
- Consistently surpassing your monthly quotas through hard work and implementing feedback
- Thrive on change while remaining highly organized, optimistic, and coachable
- Become an expert in online fundraising – asking insightful questions, overcoming objections and understanding your client’s needs will be critical to your success.
What you bring (Required):
- Excellent communication skills & dynamic telephone presence – No fear of the phones!
- Positive attitude and a drive to win
- Technically savvy
What would be incredible to have (Preferred):
- 1+ years of inside sales or relevant experience (selling over the phone/web preferred)
- Previously trained in consultative / value based selling
- Experience using a CRM, preferably Salesforce
- Bachelor’s Degree
Why you’ll love it here:
- Market competitive pay
- Rich healthcare benefits including employer paid premiums for medical/dental/vision (100% for employee only plans and 85% for employee + dependent plans) and employer HSA contributions.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
- Hybrid workplace with fully remote flexibility for many roles
- Monetary support for new hire setup, hybrid work & wellbeing, family planning, and commuting expenses
- A variety of mental and wellness programs to support employees
- Generous paid parental leave and family planning stipend
- Supportive time off policies including vacation, sick/mental health days, volunteer days, company holidays, and a floating holiday
- Learning & development and recognition programs
- Gives Back Program where employees can nominate a fundraiser every week for a donation from the company.
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Sales Development Rep at Invision ($101k/year?)
Invision is a digital product design platform.
What you’ll do:
- Evangelize Freehand to prospects and qualify them for sales team
- Respond to requests from inbound leads in a timely manner and conduct qualification calls
- Lead on outbound campaigns to find Freehand pipeline
- Book meetings for qualified prospects with the sales team
- Collaborate and iterate on inbound/outbound emails and messaging
- Target and prioritize prospects within our CRM for re-engagement
- Use chat tools to qualify prospects on our website
What you’ll bring:
- You’re comfortable working in a startup environment; you’re OK with some ambiguity and helping to solve new problems as a team
- Passion, enthusiasm, energy, humor, and the ability to convey this through phone and email communication
- You are someone who pursues your goals with energy, commitment, and process
- Your work ethic is second to none, and you love looking for ways to go above and beyond your role to help others, and drive positive impact across the business
- You can be a great team player, despite working remotely. This means sharing actively and openly to positively influence our culture and team
- You are committed to developing your skills and actively seek out feedback and coaching
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Senior Product Manager at LeadSimple
LeadSimple is a sales and operational process automation company.
What you'll do:
- Develop a solid grasp of our product lines, feature sets, value proposition, business model, pricing, and product development process.
- Become an authority on your assigned product domain, its current capabilities, and roadmap.
- Conduct extensive onboarding calls with customers, and use this feedback to shape roadmap discussions.
- Contribute pitches to our next Betting Table meeting.
- Understanding and representing user needs.
- Monitoring the market and developing competitive analyses.
- Defining a vision for a product domain.
- Aligning stakeholders around the vision for the product.
- Prioritizing product features and capabilities.
- Creating a shared brain across larger teams to empower independent decision-making.
Qualifications:
- Embrace learning new technology
- Learn fast
- Communicate crisply
- Proactively seek solutions
- Own the outcome
- Bring an optimistic “can do” attitude
- Supply your own internet and smartphone
- Have B2B SaaS experience (preferred)
Benefits:
- Pay range of $100,000 to $131,000 USD per year
- Monthly Friday Free Day
- Company Holidays
- Paid Time Off (in addition to the above)
- Monthly Healthcare Allowance
- Yearly Vacation Allowance
- Fun and relaxed work environment with smart, caring people
- Location independence
- Mission driven company and values-based culture
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Part-Time Controller at LeadSimple
LeadSimple is a sales and operational process automation company.
What you'll do:
- ACCOUNTING: Take over all monthly accounting processes within 30 days, including management of our outsourced bookkeeper and providing data to fractional CFO.
- ACCURACY: Implement controls to ensure the accuracy of our financial data, including calculation of commissions and categorization of expenses.
- EFFICIENCY: Analyze our spending patterns and suggest opportunities for savings/efficiency improvements.
- ANALYSIS: Revise and improve our overall company forecast that incorporates the outputs of the departmental forecasts, including a 24 month forecast, budget, actuals and hiring plan.
- COMPLIANCE: Audit our tax & compliance posture, and develop a roadmap for addressing issues found.
- Direct preparation of financial statements
- Prepare financial data for planning and analysis with the COO
- Develop systems for financial operations that are robust and scalable by leveraging technology
- Manage accounting, budgeting, billing, collections, and spend management systems for all company operations
- Oversee compliance and reporting of quarterly and annual reports with tax and regulatory agencies
- Collaborates with the People Operations team to provide financial information to team members
- Partner with People Operations to onboard and offboard team members
- Partner with all leadership team members to share budget and forecasting insight on a monthly basis
Qualifications:
- Embrace learning new technology
- Analyze and strategize
- Communicate crisply
- Proactively seek solutions
- Own the outcome
- Lead in a meaningful way
- Bring an optimistic “can do” attitude
- Supply your own internet and smartphone
- Have B2B SaaS experience (preferred)
Benefits:
- Part-time that could work up to full-time
- Fun and fast-paced work environment with smart, caring people
- Location independence
- Mission driven company and values-based culture
Links:
Customer Support Engineer at Files.com
Files.com is a cloud storage company.
Here are the job details:
What you'll do:
- Responding to customer-initiated interactions such as phone calls and emails (one-on-one communication).
- Identifying software bugs and feature requests and coordinating with the relevant team for handling.
- Providing after-hours emergency support assistance to customers on a rotating basis with other customer support team members.
- Taking a high-touch approach to support, encouraging frequent interaction with customers and working with them to a full resolution of any issues.
Qualifications:
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills and have real world experience deploying those skills.
- You bring a top-notch customer demeanor, including patience, understanding, and empathy.
- You can learn a process and then add to that process. For example, you can learn to use our knowledge base and playbook articles, and then contribute to make them better.
- You are known for being smart and getting things done. When you take on a project, your team knows you will handle it effectively and efficiently.
- You have a general understanding of a SaaS environment, including some experience (not necessarily expertise) with several of the following technologies: web applications, networking, internet communication protocols, APIs and/or programming languages, file integration tools and platforms (e.g., AWS, SharePoint, Zapier), and single sign-on tools (e.g., LDAP, Azure AD, Okta)
Benefits/Compensation:
- Starting Salary for a Customer Success Engineer at Files.com is $100,000 per year. We offer raises and equity as you grow in the organization.
- In-House Training: We will teach you everything you need to know to be an effective Customer Success Engineer. And you'll earn your full rate of pay for all training time.
- High Starting Salaries: As a successful, profitable business that believes in over-investing in our team, we choose to offer industry-leading base salaries for all positions.
- Performance-Based Raises: We reward our high performers for one simple reason: they've earned it.
- Equity Option Grants: As a private equity-backed business, we expect to have a major exit event within the next 5 years. We have set aside a substantial pool of equity options to grant to our employees so they are able to share in the value created.
- 401(k) With Generous Employer Match: Most employer-sponsored 401(k) plans crush you with fees. Our plan features extremely low-fee ETFs, ensuring that you actually keep the money that you save for retirement. Plus, we will match your contributions up to 4% of your salary to encourage you to invest for your retirement.
- Starting Bonus: New Hires receive a $1,000 starting bonus. No strings attached.
- Company-Issued MacBook Pro: You will receive a fully loaded MacBook Pro, reducing time wasted setting up individual rigs.
- Legal Assistance: Option to participate in an employee paid legal plan to gain access to a network of attorneys who assist with basic legal needs including wills, trusts, contracts, tickets, and documents.
- Employee Assistance Program: We provide a confidential and no cost avenue for you to receive 24/7 assistance with issues regarding behavioral and emotional health, family, legal, financial, wellness or other personal matters. You will have access to a certified clinician who can help you one-on-one or refer you to someone in your area for longer-term help.
- Medical Insurance: Comprehensive coverage with low premiums for employees and families. Ability to choose between a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO), Exclusive Provider Organization (EPO), or Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
- Dental Insurance: Coverage for preventive and diagnostic services like semi-annual exams, x-rays, cleanings, and coverage for more major events like fillings, extractions, or root canals.
- Vision Insurance: Plans designed to encourage you to maintain your vision through regular eye exams and help with expenses for contacts, lenses, frames or surgery.
- Life insurance: Employer-provided $50,000 Basic Life & AD&D policy, which employees have the option to supplement.
- Disability Insurance: Coverage for short-term and long-term disability available for purchase.
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA): Ability to set aside pre-tax money for out-of-pocket medical expenses, such as prescriptions, over-the-counter medicine, or vision care.
- Healthcare Providers: Access to providers based on region including Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Delta Dental, Guardian, Group Health, Kaiser Permanente, MetLife, Tufts Health Plan, VSP, WageWorks, and UHC among others.
- Vacation and Holidays: We encourage our employees to take time off and enjoy all that life has to offer. Employees are eligible to accumulate up to 4 weeks (20 days) of paid time off (PTO) and receive 11 company holidays.
- Growing A Family: We offer paid time off for growing a family, whether by birth, adoption, or fostering. Eligible employees may take between 2 to 10 weeks of paid leave.
- Bereavement Leave: Employees may take up to 4 days of paid bereavement leave for the death of an immediate family member. Bereavement days do not count toward an employee's PTO.
- Paid Business Trips: You will travel to in-person meetings with your team and the entire company to meet and work together face-to-face. These meetings are in cities that are fun to visit. In the last few years, we've been to Austin, Orlando, New Orleans, San Diego, Las Vegas, New York City, and Nashville among other destinations. We also support attending trade shows and conventions, especially if you are willing to speak at such an event.
- Continued Learning: We invest in continued learning opportunities for our staff. We reimburse employees who attend conferences, participate in speaking events, and pursue certifications to improve their skills.
Links:
Customer Success Manager at Files.com
Files.com is a cloud storage company.
Here are the job details:
What you'll do:
- Play a critical part of our client facing team. This position will be responsible for client’s utilization but not selling, upselling, and/or renewals. We are looking for individuals who are excited to ensure clients are as happy as possible with our platform.
- Build and cultivate deep, trusted, and transparent relationships with our customers, exceeding their expectations during every phase of the customer lifecycle
- Collaborate closely and effectively with customers to ensure smooth customer implementations, onboarding, training, support, quarterly and annual check-in’s, etc.
- Deeply understand our customers’ goals, ambitions, daily problems, business process improvements, and different use cases
- Communicate clearly and accurately with internal teams regarding customer success updates, new customer requirements, progress updates, and closed-loop product feedback
- Create and iterate on foundational best practice processes, tools, measurement, and the critical foundations of a world-class Customer Success function
- Be a strategic “voice of the customer” thought-partner for our marketing, sales, implementation, support, product, and engineering teams to perpetually identify AgentSync product and customer experience improvements
Qualifications:
No specific requirements are mentioned.
Interview Questions:
- Tell me about yourself
- What's the difference between Customer Success and Customer Support?
- Can you provide examples of customer documentation you've written?
- Your top three strengths – what are they?
- What would you ask of a potential candidate in this interview?
Benefits/Compensation:
- In-House Training: We will teach you everything you need to know to be an effective Customer Success Engineer. And you'll earn your full rate of pay for all training time.
- High Starting Salaries: As a successful, profitable business that believes in over-investing in our team, we choose to offer industry-leading base salaries for all positions.
- Performance-Based Raises: We reward our high performers for one simple reason: they've earned it.
- Equity Option Grants: As a private equity-backed business, we expect to have a major exit event within the next 5 years. We have set aside a substantial pool of equity options to grant to our employees so they are able to share in the value created.
- 401(k) With Generous Employer Match: Most employer-sponsored 401(k) plans crush you with fees. Our plan features extremely low-fee ETFs, ensuring that you actually keep the money that you save for retirement. Plus, we will match your contributions up to 4% of your salary to encourage you to invest for your retirement.
- Starting Bonus: New Hires receive a $1,000 starting bonus. No strings attached.
- Company-Issued MacBook Pro: You will receive a fully loaded MacBook Pro, reducing time wasted setting up individual rigs.
- Legal Assistance: Option to participate in an employee paid legal plan to gain access to a network of attorneys who assist with basic legal needs including wills, trusts, contracts, tickets, and documents.
- Employee Assistance Program: We provide a confidential and no cost avenue for you to receive 24/7 assistance with issues regarding behavioral and emotional health, family, legal, financial, wellness or other personal matters. You will have access to a certified clinician who can help you one-on-one or refer you to someone in your area for longer-term help.
- Medical Insurance: Comprehensive coverage with low premiums for employees and families. Ability to choose between a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO), Exclusive Provider Organization (EPO), or Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
- Dental Insurance: Coverage for preventive and diagnostic services like semi-annual exams, x-rays, cleanings, and coverage for more major events like fillings, extractions, or root canals.
- Vision Insurance: Plans designed to encourage you to maintain your vision through regular eye exams and help with expenses for contacts, lenses, frames or surgery.
- Life insurance: Employer-provided $50,000 Basic Life & AD&D policy, which employees have the option to supplement.
- Disability Insurance: Coverage for short-term and long-term disability available for purchase.
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA): Ability to set aside pre-tax money for out-of-pocket medical expenses, such as prescriptions, over-the-counter medicine, or vision care.
- Healthcare Providers: Access to providers based on region including Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Delta Dental, Guardian, Group Health, Kaiser Permanente, MetLife, Tufts Health Plan, VSP, WageWorks, and UHC among others.
- Vacation and Holidays: We encourage our employees to take time off and enjoy all that life has to offer. Employees are eligible to accumulate up to 4 weeks (20 days) of paid time off (PTO) and receive 11 company holidays.
- Growing A Family: We offer paid time off for growing a family, whether by birth, adoption, or fostering. Eligible employees may take between 2 to 10 weeks of paid leave.
- Bereavement Leave: Employees may take up to 4 days of paid bereavement leave for the death of an immediate family member. Bereavement days do not count toward an employee's PTO.
- Paid Business Trips: You will travel to in-person meetings with your team and the entire company to meet and work together face-to-face. These meetings are in cities that are fun to visit. In the last few years, we've been to Austin, Orlando, New Orleans, San Diego, Las Vegas, New York City, and Nashville among other destinations. We also support attending trade shows and conventions, especially if you are willing to speak at such an event.
- Continued Learning: We invest in continued learning opportunities for our staff. We reimburse employees who attend conferences, participate in speaking events, and pursue certifications to improve their skills.
Links:
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good luck.