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This job expired on December 15, 2019

Quirky Sales/Event Assistant Avital Tours

  • Date Posted October 16, 2019
  • Location Los Angeles, CA
  • Category Business / Culinary
  • Job type Part-Time
Company description

Avital Tours is a fun, quirky, woman-owned business started in San Francisco in 2011. Our core values are to Create Community, Breathe Curiosity, Communicate Compassion, Embrace Quirky, Seize Ownership, and Build Awesome Experiences. Our Mission is to deepen human connections through storytelling and food. 

We build awesome culinary-focused experiences in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City, and are growing to include more cities in coming years. Our core experience is what we call a "progressive meal" - our quirky culinary guides take guests on a journey through a neighborhood, exploring its people and flavors through 4 different restaurants, with a seated prix fixe course at each. Our guests include corporate team building groups as well as private parties, locals, and culinary travelers. keywords: sales, assistant, admin, administrative, marketing, event planner, associate, food, female, small business

 

Job description

... a note from your future ...
 

Dear Sales Assistant,

I know the word "sales" makes you cringe. Me too, and while that is technically what we do in this department, it never quite feels like the right word for it.
 

Yes, we have sales goals, 'cause this is a business after all, but we try to hit them by being awesome humans that #BuildAwesomeExperiences. If we're not hitting them, we #BreatheCuriosity and figure out why, together. #CreateCommunity
 

Okay - what's with the hashtags? Those are some of our Core Values, which I know you love to quote as much as we do, because around here we #EmbraceQuirky.
 

When we first met you, we knew right away you were cut from the same cloth. That adventurous curiosity, love of exploring, and desire to work smart so you can feed your life passions at the same time - it all lined up. Your slightly-geeky excitement in the interview when we asked you "what's your favorite app/software" and your vivid story about how you felt when Slack changed their logo and how reading their blog post shifted your perspective. #CommunicateCompassion
 

In fall of 2019, when we finally decided to take the plunge and hire a Sales Assistant, we barely could have dreamed about how awesomely you would step up and #SeizeOwnership of the then-new role. We figured, at minimum we needed someone with a flexible schedule, who was solid and dependable, who we could toss 3-5 hours a week of miscellaneous sales support work to - like inputting all the job titles from email signatures into our customer database on HubSpot CRM (yeah, sorry that got backlogged...) or researching lists of interesting mid-size companies in LA that we might target as potential new team-building guests.
 

Little did we know that within the first quarter you'd already be covering for us with clients on days we're out of office, fielding phone calls with style and that honest and authentic way you have of chatting with new people like you've known them for years, plowing through inboxes and Asana task-lists like a productivity machine!
 

We were so excited on your 6 month anniversary with us to offer you more hours and have you take on running LA private event sales! It was an easy "yes" when the leadership team got together to discuss it. Of course they can handle it! They've got the people-skills, creativity, critical listening and thinking chops, attention to detail, understanding of data and trends and they LOVE what we do! They GET IT. And they want to help our guests find an awesome culinary experience for their team that'll be the best team-building they've ever done.


We can't wait to have you in our weekly team meetings, brainstorming solves for issues, coordinating with the Product team about what our guests are looking for next, checking in with the Operations manager to make sure we're on point with guest expectations, and bringing your awesome ideas to the table!

Looking forward,

Corinne

Director of Sales

Avital Tours
 

This job is remote/work-from-home. Candidates must have access to a computer with internet and ideally a smart-phone and be able to adapt to new softwares/apps frequently.

Required Skills:

  • Ease/fluency with online applications, quick to adapt to new platforms/processes
  • Attention to detail, ability to follow written instructions and meet deadlines
  • Positive, growth mindset and community/team-driven approach
 

Programs to know or learn:

  • Slack
  • Asana
  • HubSpot CRM
  • AirTable
  • Google: Gmail, Docs, Sheets
  • Peek Pro (booking/scheduling software)
 

Additional Skills:

  • Customer Service: written and verbal communication skills, ability to adapt to brand voice and match brand messaging/tone
  • Creativity: ability to think outside the box, brainstorm unique solutions to company issues
  • Adaptability: willingness to adopt new systems and procedures, quick to learn new skills and incorporate new processes/habits, mindset for fast growth and new perspectives
  • Love of food/beverage/restaurants is a plus!
 

Position Summary:

  • 3-5 hours to start, possibility to grow
  • part-time, hourly, remote position, possibility to grow to salary w/commission
  • preference for LA-, NYC-, or SF-based candidates, but location not required
Compensation this position is : hourly, $15/hr + Location job can be done remotely Application instructions
This job expired on December 15, 2019
DeadlineNovember 01, 2019

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