We’re looking for a ledgebag to join our crew at We Are Explorers HQ and help us create the best damn brand and content partnerships possible.

 

If you know someone with a couple of year’s sales experience, who’s up for a challenge and game for joining a leading adventure travel publication…well please feel free to share ✌️

Sales and Partnerships Executive

Permanent Full Time

We Are Explorers is an independent media company on a mission to inspire every Australian to live a healthy and adventurous outdoor lifestyle and protect our natural world. We’re a B Corp publisher and content studio that connects brands with Australians through the lens of adventure, travel, and conservation.

We offer unrivalled access for brands wanting to connect with modern-day Explorers with authenticity and impact. Current clients include Tourism Australia, Jeep, Casio, The North Face, and Great Northern Beer Co.

We pride ourselves on creating engaging and inspiring content and recently this was rewarded when we took out Mumbrella’s 2022 Travel Publication of the Year.

We’re looking for an ambitious and highly motivated Sales Executive to join our partnerships team, with the goal of creating meaningful media and content partnerships with top-tier travel, lifestyle, and adventure brands that drive revenue and deliver a positive impact to people and the planet. 

If you’re an adventure-loving individual looking to supercharge your commercial career with a purpose-driven business, then read on!

The Role

We’re offering an amazing opportunity for an entrepreneurially-minded individual to join our partnerships team.

Working closely with our Founder and Sales & Partnerships Manager, you’ll use your natural relationship-building skills and creative thinking to develop proposals that support client growth. We’re looking for a values-driven person who’s after an opportunity to create partnerships with the most exciting brands on the planet.

You’ll be covering our two core offerings: the digital publisher (We Are Explorers) and content production studio (Explorer Studios), with typical projects including branded content across editorial, video, podcast, film production, and events.

Key Responsibilities

  • Respond to briefs through insightful and creative ideas, alongside the campaigns team
  • Generate new opportunities through strategic outreach with brands and agencies in order to meet revenue targets 
  • Help build Explorer Studios as a standalone content agency across film/photo production
  • Collaborate with the Campaigns, Editorial, and Social teams to deliver premium and creative branded content solutions for our clients
  • Achieve individual and team targets whilst supporting the execution of an ambitious long-term sales strategy
  • Have active input in making the sales pipeline more efficient
  • Become a key WAE ambassador within the industry and bring our vision to life

Requirements

  • 1-2+ years of sales experience (ideally at a digital publisher or media agency) with a passion for brand partnerships
  • Proven track record in successfully engaging new clients and maintaining long term partnerships to meet sales targets
  • Demonstrates a fresh and creative approach to ideation, proposals, and presentations
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and client management skills 
  • Highly motivated and process-driven self-starter with a love for team collaboration
  • A genuine love for nature, travel, and the great outdoors – a passion for what our brand stands for is absolutely essential
  • Out-of-the-box thinker with a wild imagination, approaching work with curiosity, empathy, and integrity

Why work with us?

  • 25 days annual leave per year
  • Annual Team Trip – we take the crew away for an adventure weekend somewhere epic
  • Adventure day – 1 paid day per year for you to go on a wild adventure somewhere
  • Volunteer Day – 1 paid day per year to volunteer for a charity/cause that’s important to you
  • A competitive base salary
  • Join the leading travel publisher in Australia and one of the most exciting indie media companies in the country
  • Lots of adventure/travel/gear perks as we’re in the adventure sector!

 

We push boundaries in everything we do – community initiatives, festival-winning films, podcasts, and event series. We genuinely believe the outdoors has the power to transform people and the planet. If you’re a sales pro searching for meaningful, varied work that shifts the needle in the travel and conservation space then we’d love to hear from you.

Location

Flexible (ideally Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane)

The Application Process

Please email henry@weareexplorers.co with your CV and short cover letter. Please use Sales & Partnerships Executive in the subject line.