Pleasant Solutions Careers

Positions Available:

• 2-3 positions ranging from entry level incoming sales representative up to intermediate incoming sales representative (based on skill and potential skill, regardless of the amount of experience or education).
• Positions related to software that is B2B focused (but don't let that scare you).
• Additional positions for specialists. Tell us your strengths in your cover letter and we’ll go from there.
• Other Positions: We are also hiring for other positions (senior enterprise business development, business analyst, project manager, marketing-project manager). You may apply for multiple positions separately. If you know someone in any of these areas, please do them a quick and friendly favour by letting them know about this posting.

Position Overview:

• Full time and permanent.
• Mentorship to get into the routine work quickly and learn about the particular software you are assigned to work with, smoothly.
• Lots of time communicating with clients, over email and by phone. Understanding their needs and what features they care about.
• Not cold calling: these companies are all contacting us or have involvement with us already.
• Not high pressure sales where you try to get people to commit to something right on the spot abruptly.
• Flexible hours (for example: choose to start your day between 6am and 10am, work late some days and shorter on others).
• A lot of the communication is around negotiating renewals, generating quotes when they ask, coordinating finding answers to product questions, providing comparisons to competition, and leveraging email templates and AI when it makes sense to.
• Delivering reports to management on metrics and sales forecasts.
• Spotting opportunities and trends for product changes to increase sales.
• Learning all about the software product and the industry (lots of learn).
• Does not involve a lot of travel outside of the city.
• Does not involve selling a commodity that is the same as numerous other companies. All our B2B software sold has a very unique place in the market.

Requirements:

• Superb communication and language skills, both written and verbal.
• Enjoys learning about the software, about the clients, and talking to clients.
• Hard working.
• Very comfortable with software in general.
• Understands business mindset of customers (ROI, up-front discounted versus pay as you go, etc)
• No specific requirements for formal education or industry experience. We evaluate each applicant based on merit and potential rather than formalities.

Nice To Have:

• Pragmatic approach to balancing perfectionism with getting the job done.
• Ideally, has experience selling to businesses.
• Ideally, has experience selling software.

About The Work Environment:

• Friendly, non-threatening, and non-political environment.
• Mid-sized company but retaining the speed and flexibility of a smaller company.
• We are a great environment for both outgoing people and those who are very shy and introverted (applicable to non-client facing positions).
• We strive to have every employee sitting near a window for natural light and to have plenty of plants throughout the office; we care about employee health.
• Free onsite massage therapy (resuming soon, stopped during Covid)
• Private nap rooms for isolated thinking time or for taking a nap if you didn’t sleep well last night.
• Atrium to enjoy the sun during lunch.
• Social events worth remembering (fencing competitions, curling, video game or board game parties, coding competitions, commando combat training, robotics club coming soon, etc). (Resuming soon, stopped during Covid)
• An example of our culture: Lunch together is in a very comfy sofa room, and even the quiet types are comfortable there.
• Unlimited access to pillage our kitchens for caffeine, sugar, healthy snacks, soups, and more :)
• Additional perks that are cost-shared like motorized sit-stand desks.
• Task focused: everyone in the company heavily uses centralized to-do lists to stay organized, prioritize, and coordinate.
• Fast paced
• Consistent work/life balance: mandatory overtime is very rare.

About The Company:

• Pleasant Solutions is a dynamic company headquartered in Edmonton.
• Silicon Valley kind of excitement and growth potential.
• Fast growth: Has been one of the 200 fastest growing technology companies in North America with 955% growth over 5 years (based on growth rates in published rankings of the 2014 Profit 500 and 2013 Deloitte Technology Fast 500). Canadian Profit Guide ranked us #88 out of 500 for fast growth in Canada, announced in Sept 2015.
• Stable and well diversified.
• Full of smart and passionate people whom you can learn from.
• Very low employee turn-over rate, attesting to the value of working here.
• Embracing AI, in a logical step by step manner.
• As of 2021, we are more focused on in-house product development than previous years which had a focus on consulting services. Currently, our lead focus is on Sheetcast, a tool that lets non-technical people build their own full-blown web applications using spreadsheets, and which is beginning explosive growth (see Sheetcast.com) as well as privacy products as seen under Paranoid.com. We still do some software development services, electronics manufacturing, marketing services, and IT services. Other in-house products include the high-security Pleasant Password Server.
• An innovative technology company with an aim of achieving results in creative ways.
• We develop high quality software you will take pride in. Our company name says it all.
• Socially conscious (for example, we pay for employees to sponsor hundreds of WorldVision children).
• Achieved zero layoffs throughout Covid.

Applying:

• What do you have to lose by exploring the possibility? Applying does not take long and we keep your application confidential (never disclosed to existing employer).
• Apply online today at https://pleasantsolutions.com/careers/apply/entry-incoming-sales (we do not accept resumes sent by email).
• Even if you don't have your resume updated or ready to go, apply anyway; we want to hear from you!

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