Field Sales Representative

About Zipline

Zipline is the worlds largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food medicine and essential goods anytime anywhere. We design build and operate the worlds largest autonomous logistics system delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today Zipline operates on four continents makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds and has completed millions of deliveries to date including blood vaccines medical supplies food and retail products.

Our customers include the worlds largest and most prominent healthcare systems governments retailers restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives reduce emissions increase economic opportunity and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what weve built to enable seamless reliable global operations.

Our system strengthens supply chains reduces congestion and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown Zipline is redefining access to healthcare consumer products and food across the globe.

We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct meaningful impact on peoples lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles enjoy facing adversity and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.

About You and The Role

Zipline is transforming the way the world moves. As the worlds largest autonomous delivery system we are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food medicine and essential goods anytime anywhere. We design build and operate the worlds largest autonomous logistics system delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today Zipline operates on four continents makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds and has completed millions of deliveries to date including blood vaccines medical supplies food and retail products.

Now were bringing that mission to Houston and were looking for exceptional salespeople to help build our merchant network from the ground up.

Were looking for a relentless competitive and highly motivated Field Sales Representative to help grow Ziplines drone delivery network across Houston.

This is not an inside sales role.

Youll spend approximately 90% of your time in the field meeting restaurant and retail owners face-to-face introducing them to Zipline understanding their business and helping them become part of the future of local own a defined territory manage your own pipeline and be responsible for signing new merchant partners. While well provide leads and strategic guidance your success will ultimately come down to your ability to prospect build relationships overcome objections and close conversation is an opportunity to introduce a completely new category of delivery technology. Youll become the face of Zipline within your territory and play a direct role in launching one of the most innovative logistics networks in the world.

This is a contract position with a clear path to full-time employment for top performers as Zipline continues expanding throughout Houston.

The best people in this role are naturally competitive.

They enjoy meeting new people arent discouraged by rejection and understand that every no gets them closer to a yes.

They dont wait to be told what to dothey create opportunities.

They enjoy spending their day in the field take ownership of their territory and are motivated by performance-based compensation.

If youre someone who loves building relationships enjoys solving problems for business owners and wants to help launch an entirely new way of delivering goods youll fit right in.

What Youll Do

As a successful Field Sales Representative you will:

Own and grow your assigned Houston 20-40 restaurants and retailers every and maintain a healthy pipeline of prospective merchant an average of 5 new merchant partnerships per a trusted advisor to local business owners by understanding their business and demonstrating how Zipline can help them shape Ziplines commercial playbook as we continue expanding our autonomous delivery restaurants and retailers through in-person visits cold outreach phone calls and the full sales cycle from prospecting through signed partnership compelling product demonstrations and explain Ziplines value in a simple engaging strong relationships with restaurant owners operators and decision exceed weekly and monthly sales your territory with a high level of organization and market insights and customer feedback to help improve our commercial Zipline professionally while building excitement around our mission and technology.

What Youll Bring

Proven success in outside sales field sales or business selling into small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) is strongly ability to consistently generate new business through communication and relationship-building working independently with minimal organized with strong follow-up mindset with a track record of achieving or exceeding sales for technology innovation and helping businesses grow.

What Else You Need To Know

Compensation: $25/hour

$500 commission for every activated merchant partner

No cap on commission earnings

Top performers are expected to close 3-5 merchant partners each week

Opportunity to transition into a full-time Zipline role based on performance

Most sales jobs ask you to sell another product.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws or our own sensibilities.

We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit please apply!