Associate, Sales
Expert Institute
About the Role
The Associate role is a high-impact position designed for individuals looking to accelerate their career in legal sales. This role serves as a critical talent pipeline, with a structured 12-24 month path toward promotion to Sales Director.
Key Responsibilities
- Execute outbound prospecting strategies to identify and engage new legal firm leads — including cold calling and self-sourcing meetings.
- Manage and close inbound leads to maintain a healthy sales pipeline.
- Own a full-cycle, transactional sales process from first touch to close, aggressively following up on open pipeline to keep deals moving.
- Lead trial closing efforts, ensuring a seamless transition from initial interest to platform adoption.
- Consistently meet success KPIs, including call volume, transaction counts, and trial starts, to qualify for promotion.
Who You Are
- An extremely self-motivated hunter who takes ownership of their pipeline.
- A proactive and highly organized professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment.
- A collaborative people person who builds strong internal and external rapport.
- Adaptable and capable of working effectively in a decentralized or physically remote setting.
- Ambitious and goal-oriented, with a clear desire to grow into a Sales Director role.
Qualifications
- Prior experience in a fast-paced transactional sales organization, ideally as a top-performing SDR/BDR, or SMB AE.
- Comfort and confidence picking up the phone — cold calling is core to this role.
- A true hunter mentality: someone who proactively books their own meetings.
- Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to lead client meetings confidently.
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail and follow-through.
- Collaborative mindset with experience working cross-functionally across sales and customer-facing teams.
Additional Information
- Competitive compensation package with uncapped incentive compensation.
- Full benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) with match.
- Clear career growth opportunity.