Senior Account Executive, Zinc Work
£100-120k
OTE
£50-60k
BASE
+ EMI Shares
2 days a week in office
Automated employee reference and background checking software
Job no longer available
Automated employee reference and background checking software
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£100-120k
OTE
£50-60k
BASE
+ EMI Shares
2 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To change the way people prove their work identity.
Role
Who you are
- Prospecting 🕵️♀️: You’ll be responsible for building your pipeline from scratch. Strong prospecting skills mean you can proactively identify and target potential clients, ensuring consistent lead generation and sales opportunities
- Deals → Pipeline Management 📈: Managing a full pipeline is critical for success. We need you to track and move deals forward efficiently, ensuring nothing gets overlooked and everything progresses smoothly toward closure
- CRM Hygiene: Keeping our CRM updated is essential for accurate forecasting and seamless communication across the team. A well-maintained CRM allows everyone to track progress, share information, and align on next steps
- Deal Control: You need to take ownership of each deal from start to finish. This includes managing client expectations, setting timelines, and effectively handling negotiations to close deals on the best possible terms for the business
- Honesty & Transparency: We value openness and integrity in our team. Whether it's good news or bad, we need someone who can share challenges honestly, take responsibility for setbacks, and learn from mistakes to continuously improve
- Openness 💬: Being open, especially in discussions with senior leadership or clients, is key to a successful sales role. You’ll be expected to bring new ideas, voice concerns when necessary, and contribute to broader team goals
- Collaboration: Our sales process is a team effort. You’ll need to work closely with SDRs, marketing, and leadership to ensure alignment and smooth communication across the business, ultimately helping drive sales success
- Business Acumen: You’ll need to have a solid grasp of our business and the market to make strategic sales decisions. Expect to be tested on your ability to negotiate effectively and multithread across different stakeholders
What the job involves
- We’re growing fast and looking for Senior Account Executives to help drive our next stage of growth
- If you’re a skilled closer who thrives on hitting targets and building strong pipelines, this is your chance to make a real impact
- You'll own deals end-to-end, contribute to our revenue strategy, and work alongside a high-performing team in a dynamic, collaborative environment. ⭐️
- Own the full sales cycle – from prospecting to closing deals, with the freedom to shape your approach 🎯
- Build and manage a high-impact pipeline to consistently exceed revenue targets and drive company growth 📊
- Engage with key prospects to deeply understand their pain points and demonstrate how our solution can solve them 🗣️
- Lead dynamic product demos and negotiations to secure high-value deals and long-term partnerships 💼
- Maintain CRM hygiene and provide accurate, data-driven forecasts to guide strategy ✅
- Collaborate closely with SDRs, marketing, and leadership to refine strategies and achieve team success 🤝
- Be a key player in shaping the future of the business – your contributions will directly impact our scale and success
- Growth opportunities – room to expand your role and take on more responsibilities as we scale 🌱
- Reporting to: Frances Arville, Sales Lead
Application process
- Applied
- Review
- Intro Call with Frances 📞
- Talent Discovery Call ✨
- Google Meets Interview 💻
- Final In-Person Interview 🧍♀️🧍♂️
- Hired
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The existing processes for referencing and background checking suffer from notable inefficiencies, marked by biases, time-consuming procedures, and an intimidating experience for candidates. Addressing these challenges, Zinc Work aims to solve these processes by introducing an automated reference and background-checking solution.
Setting itself apart in the market, ZinC Work focuses on the user-friendly design of its solution, its swift integration into existing Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), and its high level of customisation. With a vision to offer a solution for background checks, Zinc covers a spectrum from criminal record checks to financial, education, identity, employment, and reference checks.
Recently securing funding, led by esteemed financial services investor AVP (AXA Venture Partners) and supported by Seedcamp, facilitating the launch of groundbreaking industry initiatives. These include the introduction of the first reusable global Right To Work check, the first Employment verification reference integrated with HMRC, and a background check template library collaboratively contributed to by over 40 Zinc Work customers. This financial injection underscored Zinc's commitment to innovation and reinforced its positon as a trailblazer in the realm of automated reference and background chec king solutions.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
43% female employees
Company
Employee endorsements
Team energy
"Team energy is great, there is lots of positivity and support. Because we only come in 2-3 days a week, when we are in everyone is engaged and happy..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$6.7m
SERIES A
Mar 2022
$1.4m
SEED
Total funding: $8.5m
Company benefits
- 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off
- Apple laptop and latest tech gear for your home workstation
- £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
- Early finish Fridays (16:00)
- Yearly company Retreat - this year in 🇫🇷
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
- Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
- Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
- Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
Company values
- Empathy: Seeking to understand your perspective first
- Collaboration: We will work teogether to solve problems
- Empowered: Empowering candidates with information and data
- Speed: We will work to deliver at pace
- Integrity: We are truth seekers, providing transparent information
- Pragmatic: We're a solutions oriented team that seeks to solve
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Charlotte Lucy Hall
(Co-Founder)Previously a Marketing Manager at Superscript, Podcast Producer at Talent Hacks for Scaleups, and a Marketing Executive at ILTM.
Luke Shipley
(Co-Founder)Previously EMEA Head of Technology at Intelletec for 1 year. Has also co-founded stitch Leggings and Lean Lychee.
People progressing
He was a regular soldier in the Army, after leaving and studying he joined Zinc as an SDR (After a spell gold diving in FLorida). Having come in with no experience he has promoted fast through Zinc.
Tiasha joined Zinc way back in 2021, she highlighted that she wanted to work in Account Managment and has worked hard to make this career change happen.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Zinc Work
- We currently do not record LGBTQIA+ status: our team is small, which means data is hard to anonymise.
- As of January 2024, 48% of the Zinc team are Ethnic Minorities.
- We offer flexible working for everyone from day one.
- Accommodations are available for everyone, regardless of status and never need to be justified: this is outlined in our DEI Statement which is accessible to all employees.
- We offer prayer space at our co-working offices, and flexible diary arrangements for employees to keep their faith.
- We’ve created a ‘Manual of Me’ page in our company Notion: to help foster understanding and allow team members to advocate for their communication style and work patterns.
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