Sales & Marketing Associate

Status: PT and FT opportunity available
Location: Remote
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Start date: Immediately
Application requirements: Please submit your resume and a cover letter to hello@thoughtfulhuman.co with subject line "Sales & Marketing Associate" (any relevant work samples/portfolio welcome).

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Are you interested in social impact, sustainability, and mental health advocacy? Do you want to help us expand our digital and retail footprint to help our community connect and heal through meaningful communication?

Thoughtful Human is fast-growing stationery and communication brand on a mission to help people create the space for difficult conversations (think cancer, grief, addiction, strained relationships, etc.), and we are looking for the brightest, kindest, most passionate sales and marketing professionals to join us!

This will be an exciting, hands-on opportunity to learn and support our growth across a variety of sales and marketing functions.

We are looking for candidates who dream big, work hard, and are down to join us on this startup ride — from our most glamorous to our most monotonous moments (spoiler alert: role will include both!).

Sales responsibilities:

• Identify prospective customers and sales opportunities in retail and mission verticals (e.g. zero waste, mental health, etc.)
• Prospect corporate partnership opportunities
• Manage and up-sell existing wholesale accounts
• Monitor sales in key accounts (Whole Foods Market, Cost Plus World Market, Barnes & Noble, etc.) and contact stores/regions to support as needed
• Quote custom sales projects as needed
• Meet quarterly sales objectives

Marketing responsibilities:

• Create and run email marketing campaigns to D2C and wholesale customers (via Faire and Klaviyo)
• Update and refresh website content, add new products, and manage inventory/out of stock items
• Develop content strategy and asset creation (photography, graphics, blog) for website, podcast, and social channels
• Support on retail launches with key accounts
• Create channel growth campaigns (email list building, influencer outreach, Giveaways, co-branding, etc.)
• Analyze and report on channel insights to optimize marketing and sales efforts
• On-site tradeshow and event support (e.g. consumer shows, industry tradeshows, non-profit events, corporate events, etc. NOTE: all in person events will follow current COVID safety precautions)

Our ideal candidate:

• Diligent, self-starter who is passionate about green business, health/mental health advocacy, communication, and design
• An ideator – someone who goes beyond the tasks at hand and offers new ideas, feedback, and strategies to help support our business objectives
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proficiency with Gmail, Google Docs, Google Sheets & Microsoft Office products
• Familiarity with posting and running campaigns on mainstream social media channels (Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit)
• Preferred: Experience with Shopify, Faire, Adobe Creative Suite, and basic product photography 

Learn more about Thoughtful Human:

• our story & mission
• our current initiative/beneficiary w/Success Stories Program
• instagram
• podcast
• planting
• press
• retailers