Account Executive
Job Title: Account Executive, The Movement Social (Multiple Positions Available)
Territory: Rockville, Gaithersburg, Germantown, Silver Spring - Montgomery County, MD
Schedule: Paid Internship, Part-Time (potential for full-time)
Office: Remote with local travel throughout a small territory in Montgomery County, MD
Position Summary:
This is a unique opportunity to work for a tech startup, help grow the company and support local businesses and college students!
Account Executives will learn valuable business, communication, sales, event management, public relations, entrepreneurship, networking, and account management skills. You will have the flexibility to work as your schedule allows (part time or full time) and from wherever you prefer (home, office, coffee shop, traveling). The position also provides a potentially rewarding financial opportunity and potential career path for high performers.
Your role is to generate new merchant partnerships, increase student user acquisition, and foster brand awareness for The Movement Social in the areas surrounding Montgomery College (Rockville, Gaithersburg/Germantown, and Silver Spring). The Account Executive handles assigned and acquired merchant partnerships, college student outreach, and event management.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Weekly Leadership Check-In Calls – 15-minute virtual meeting a couple times a week
a. Time is set in collaboration with your supervisor and other team members
b. Used to set, review, and troubleshoot goals and objectives
c. On-the-Job Training and Mentorship is provided for all team members
- Merchant Partnerships
a. Ensure existing merchant relationships are handled in a professional manner
b. Engage with new merchant leads to secure activation and partnerships
c. Develop innovative ways to exceed monthly goals set by partnering merchants
- Student User Acquisition
a. Attend student outreach events (Tabling, directory distribution, etc.)
b. Promote student engagement with merchant partners
c. Encourage students to post and share on The Movement-Social platform
d. Coordinate with student clubs, organizations, and events to promote The Movement
- Brand Awareness
a. Attend community events
b. Network with local business professionals
c. Other Initiatives as deemed appropriate
- Any other duties as assigned by the supervisor
Tools used:
- Personal Cell Phone
- Personal Laptop or Tablet
- Tabling & Event Supplies (Consistent with event or meeting needs)
Qualifications or Job Knowledge Skills Required:
• Reliable transportation is required
• Comfortable using and demonstrating digital technology
• Comfortable interacting with people
• Ability and willingness to show up to appointments/commitments on designated days/times and to communicate to appropriate individuals as issues may arise.
• On-the-job training, shadowing, and mentoring will be provided.
Qualifications or Job Knowledge Skills Preferred:
• Sales & Marketing or small business experience is preferred
Compensation:
• During the initial weeks/months of onboarding and training, you will receive a bi-weekly stipend based on numbers of student users and/or merchants you sign up to participate in the platform. (Increased student users means more customers for the businesses you help to sign up.)
• Following this initial period, you will be paid 25% of revenue generated through the businesses and revenue generated through users that join the platform. Your income grows as more users and businesses join the Movement. There is great potential for residual income.
• Revenue is generated primarily through advertising and e-commerce tools.
Apply:
• Interested students/applicants are encouraged to apply by submitting their resume/CV to carol.sardinha@my.movement.college. Upon review from our team, qualified candidates will be contacted for an interview.
About The Movement Social:
Twenty-four years in the making, The Movement Social is an experimental, mission-focused, technology-based organization that seeks to harness the power and potential of social media engagement to combat some of today’s largest global challenges, including income inequality and climate change. The Movement Social seeks to revitalize local businesses and empower people by creating the world’s first digital economy in which revenues and profits flow to individual users of its social media platform, not Wall Street investors: https://movement.college/