Sales Manager, Wattpad
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Platform for sharing original writing
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Platform for sharing original writing
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
Wattpad's mission is to create a world where everyone's story can be heard, and anyone can belong.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years in publishing sales with national account or licensing experience strongly preferred
- Familiarity with financial modeling, building budgets and managing forecasts a strong plus
- Ability to work independently as well as in groups across all internal teams, departments, and levels to drive meaningful business results
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
- Detail oriented with excellent follow through and a positive attitude
- Dynamic analytical skills with the ability to innovate
What the job involves
- We are seeking a dynamic, hardworking, results-driven, and analytical individual with a positive attitude and a passion for book selling. They will be expected to meet and ideally exceed annual sales goals for our boutique press, which publishes under 60 books annually across four imprints
- This is a unique opportunity to dedicate true time and energy to the growth of the press and to really know each and every book published. In addition to managing day-to-day tasks with our distribution partner, you will also provide feedback and market insights internally across the entire team and work with external publishers on third party licensing deals
- This position reports to the Director, Rights & Sales
- Oversee the sales and merchandising of our titles across the marketplace in close collaboration with our Distribution Partner
- Regularly review P&B and In-Release reports to ensure frontlist titles are reaching our forecast sell-in goals and work with Marketing and Publicity leads to improve sell-in and reorder activity
- Regularly review sell-through forecasts and actual sales, analyzing opportunities to maximize title growth in the market
- Identify backlist titles that have ongoing sales potential and develop materials that will enable the sales reps at our Distribution Partner to reposition and advocate for larger reorders
- Work closely with the Marketing team to plan eBook promotional opportunities
- Build and maintain strong relationships with N.A. publishers for licensing opportunities
- Explore retail marketing opportunities available outside of our traditional sales channels and in collaboration with our merchandising team
- Communicate sales updates, marketplace news and retail opportunities to internal teams
- Work with Distribution Partner and the Publicity team to plan regional trade shows
- Attend regular meetings and provide relevant input. Meetings include weekly sales, acquisitions, launch, and sales conferences
- Actively participate in all publishing meetings
Our take
Content is king and Wattpad has managed to create a platform that aggregates the most loved original writing content in the world, turning the traditional publishing industry on its head.
Where authors used to submit drafts to dozens of publishing houses in the hope of getting some eyeballs on their work, Wattpad opened up the process to millions of young authors by letting them easily submit their work, and fostering a community around their software that offers feedback and help.
The e-reading platform is now looking to double down on its strategy of taking its user-generated fiction and turning it into successful intellectual property upon which original series and movies can be based. However, a significant challenge for Wattpad is in producing original, marketable content from its platform, given the popularity of fanfiction, stories which are based on existing intellectual property.
Another challenge for Wattpad is the current economic conditions, which have affected much of the tech sector and are not sparing digital publishing. Having shelved bold plans for the future, it also laid off 15% of its workforce in March 2023. Having realigned for its current business needs, however, it is now well placed to weather the current market downturn.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2018
$51m
LATE VC
Apr 2014
$46m
SERIES C
Total funding: $117.8m
Company benefits
- Full health benefits
- Career development & Mentorship opportunities
- RRSP matching
- Generous parental Leave top-up
- Flexible hours
- Regular hackathons
- Healthy snacks & drinks
- Your choice of hardware
- Monthly work-from-home allowance
- Beautiful offices in Toronto and Halifax
- Easy access to transit
Company HQ
St. Lawrence, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Allen lau
(Co-Founder)Lau attended University of Toronto where he earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering followed by a master's in the same subject. Thereafter he briefly worked as a software engineer for Brightspark before founding his first notable company, Tira Wireless, a mobile development startup. He is also the co-founder of Two Small Fish Ventures, a fund that invests in Toronto and Waterloo-based early-stage internet companies with strong network effects.
Ivan Yuen
(Co-Founder)Prior to Wattpad, Ivan co-founded FeedM8 and served as the company’s CTO. Before that he was one of the first employees of Tira Wireless, where he helped grow the technical team and developed new and emerging wireless technologies. Ivan graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Computer Engineering and also earned an MBA from the Rotman School of Management.
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