Sales Executive
Bogotá
Sales – Sales /
Full Time, Hybrid /
Hybrid
We’re looking for talented individuals interested in joining a growing global company. At Slang, you’ll be an early team member of a global, well-funded startup spun out from MIT. We’re building a world-class team to revolutionize language learning with cutting-edge technology and delightful design.
What we’re working on at Slang
Slang started at MIT as a research project on using AI and NLP to make learning a new language as efficient as possible. Our technology powers a highly adaptive e-learning platform that offers an unprecedented variety of specialized English courses and proficiency tests for career development in over one hundred fields like Sales, Finance, Logistics, Medicine, and Law. With just a small team, we’ve already created the largest professional English offering in the world. Now, we’re scaling up to release 1,000 more courses over the next three years.
What this role is about
We’re a company in our growth stage: our focus is on refining a business model for a novel SaaS product focused on four B2B segments. In this role, you’ll take on the challenge of developing the LATAM market for Slang. You will be responsible for driving the entire sales cycle from initial customer engagement to closed deals, and your main goal will be to devise a strategy to develop new business opportunities in LATAM for the Corporate segments. You will have a significant impact on our LATAM expansion!
Education, knowledge and skills required
- Experience working with consultative selling.
- Experience selling non-tangible assets.
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- Effective negotiation and persuasion skills.
- An eager eye for new sales opportunities.
- Goal-oriented.
- Creative problem-solving skills.
- Forecast Management.
- B2 or higher level of English.
What Slang can offer you
We offer the special experience of being part of a fast-moving and quickly-growing international company within the entrepreneurial ecosystems of Boston and MIT.
Where we're located
Our team is currently split between the United States and LATAM. We are recruiting great people in these locations and all around the world.
Interested?
We'd love to hear from you — apply below!
Slang is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to our inclusive and healthy environment.
For further information related to Slang, check out recent pieces profiling us in Bloomberg, LABS, and Forbes; the portfolios of our investors, Social Capital, an investor in companies like Slack and Intercom; DILA Capital, Alive Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Roble Ventures; our Crunchbase profile; and the profiles of our founders, Diego and Kamran. We're also winners of LearnLaunch and the GESAwards worldwide, and we were named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer in 2022. These are huge achievements of which we're very proud of.
