San Francisco Agency is Finland’s most international PR agency, with a growing client base in the Nordics. Our mission is to help companies and brands spread their honest stories to the world by leveraging the PR industry’s best practices and our own technology.

We’re a team of 13 PR & Comms professionals who appreciate good laughs and value our company culture highly. Before applying, read our Code of Conduct to see if you’re on the same page as us

San Francisco’s award-winning international in-house team consists of top communications and PR professionals –  we have six different nationalities in our team. We work in a variety of languages to help companies and brands get covered by the media while creating effective PR and communication strategies. Our work drives business growth and proactively generates national and international media coverage. Our group consists of San Francisco Oy and its subsidiary, Valosan Oy. We also work closely with the Startup100 media brand (owned by a non-profit Startup Finland ry), which we can leverage in our prospecting work and marketing (a database of 3000+ startups). The job contract will be done with Valosan Oy.  

Now, we’re looking for a data-savvy Sales Development Representative (SDR), which we call a "Sales Hacker," to join our team in Helsinki, Finland.

You get to:

• Work with innovative and creative people and reach out to leaders of companies developing world-changing technologies

• Fuel our growth in Finland and internationally by introducing our tech-driven agency to new prospective clients

• Spend a minimum of 2-4 hours per day to actively reach out to potential clients by phone, LinkedIn, email, and other means

• Work closely with our CEO and the rest of our team to optimize our sales approach and prospecting process

• Dive into our extensive data and build connections and automation to get the best possible sales and marketing value from our data

• Attend startup and tech events and participate actively in the Finnish startup scene to market our services

• In the future, possibility to start building and leading our international sales team

What we offer:

• A dynamic but caring team in a company that has massive growth opportunities internationally

• In addition to your base salary, you will earn a commission on every completed first sales meeting with new prospects

• A possibility to earn €5,000 to €10,000 a month within your first year when you reach your prospecting targets

• In the beginning, we offer you a desk in our roof-top office community in the heart of Helsinki, with an opportunity to work remotely also after your orientation period.

• Private occupational healthcare, specialist health insurance, travel insurance, sports and culture benefits, etc.

• Apple devices and Google tools, as well as the latest sales and marketing technology

• You get to work with an international and diverse team that is, quite frankly, awesome.

Want to learn more about our way of working, team, or company history? Visit our website.

Job requirements

What we are looking for:

• Enthusiastic about sales and the grit to make sales meetings happen for our team, even with the most hard-to-reach people

• Fit in either of the two profiles:

  • A minimum of two years of successful B2B sales/prospecting experience in comms/marketing/professional services field

  • A recent graduate with a Master's degree from a reputable university, with top grades (business or other)

• Experience in working with data (studies apply) and online tools to use the data in sales/marketing

• You are open and honest with your team members and clients, and you love to work as part of a team.

• Working proficiency in English (English is our official internal language)

• You have great organizational skills and are able to effectively work on multiple projects and sales cases in parallel

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of digital advertising and analytics tools (Google, LinkedIn, Meta, etc.) and media planning

• Working proficiency in Finnish or other Nordic languages is considered a plus.

We do our work in a way that’s positive, bold, and optimistic, but we’re serious in what we do. We remain true to who we are, which is an energetic and playful bunch. We prove our professionalism from the first impression with new clients. We are looking for a person who fits our company culture but who also brings something new and fresh to the table.

Please apply by Wednesday, 15 May, 2024, at the latest. We might kick off interviews within the application period, so apply now. When a good fit is found, we will hire as soon as possible.

*** You can find the official application form here: https://sanfrancisco.recruitee.com/o/sales-hacker/c/new