✨ One platform, a whole world of opportunity

Right now, the best jobs are limited to people in a handful of the world’s wealthiest cities, yet brilliant people are everywhere. Driven to overturn the status quo and distribute opportunities equally around the world, Oyster launched its global employment platform to help companies hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere.

When it comes to global employment, we walk the walk. We’re proof that companies don't need an office to create a highly-engaged culture. Since the company’s inception in January 2020, Oyster has:

🌏 Created a fully-distributed, vibrant team of 500+ employees across 60+ countries

👩‍💻Featured in Forbes having ranked #9 in Flexjobs Top 30 Companies for remote jobs

🌈 Established a diverse leadership team and an employee base that’s 60% female

🏆 Achieved one of the highest employee engagement scores in its class

🦄 Raised $286 million to date, with a current valuation of $1.2 billion!

💚 B Corp status achieved in 2023

Our momentum speaks to the power of global employment—and we’re just getting started! If you want to change the world with Oyster and be empowered to work remotely while doing so, we’d love for you to apply!

👩‍💻 The Role

Location: To create the best experience for this employee and to meet the business needs, this role requires you to be located within the EMEA region with right-to-work status for the country you reside in.

You'll drive growth by managing a dual-focus sales approach: nurturing a large book of Tier 1 customer accounts while proactively pursuing new business opportunities. Your primary objectives include:

• Delivering net new revenue through account management and lead conversion

• Building and maintaining a robust sales pipeline using structured methodologies like MEDDIC

• Driving commercial negotiations and customer acquisition with a consultative approach

• Expanding customer relationships through land-and-expand strategies

Key Responsibilities:

• Convert qualified leads into new business logos, successfully landing and maintaining them for growth

• Leverage industry and product knowledge, alongside cross-functional resources to identify and deliver value

• Utilize Salesforce and Gong for accurate revenue forecasting

• Maintain rigorous account documentation and system hygiene

• Continuously upskill to align with evolving product and market needs

Ideal candidates are adaptable sales and account management professionals passionate about sustainable business growth and customer success.

Requirements

• Commercial Performance

  • Evidence of being a top performer in driving revenue and quota attainment.

  • Strong opportunity progression metrics

  • Evidence of managing/closing high-volume opportunities through to successful Engagement

  • Demonstrated proficiency with Oyster’s pricing models and qualification of expectations

  • Full-cycle sales experience in small/mid-market deals

  • Experience in both new business sales and account management

• Sales Methodology

  • Proficiency in MEDDICC and 3 Why's frameworks

  • Data-driven pipeline management

  • Structured lead/opportunity qualification and nurturing

• Professional Capabilities

  • Experience/understanding of the global employment environment

  • Navigating internal processes effectively (e.g Empower)

  • Long-term relationship maintenance with senior-level contacts and budget-holders

  • Familiarity in navigating Oyster’s processes and internal teams.

  • Strong team collaboration

  • Autonomous working in distributed global environments

  • Proactive approach, comfortable with ambiguity

• Communication

  • Excellent written English communication

  • Genuine customer curiosity

  • Problem-solving communication skills

• Motivational Drivers

  • Enthusiasm for work

  • Energized to solve customer problems

  • Passion for social impact mission

  • Commitment to global employment opportunities

🦪 How we work together at Oyster

Our values guide the work we do, the decisions we make, and the culture that makes us special. We elevate talent. 🙌 We build trust. 🤝 We thrive together. 🌍

Our mission is to create a more equal world—one global hire at a time. Everything we do ladders up to our mission—and that doesn’t just mean building software. We develop programs, participate in workshops, and create dedicated teams to ensure we successfully support companies and knowledge workers in this new world of work.

We embrace asynchronous communication and collaborative work—and we share how we work in the Oyster Public HQ —to help other global teams learn from our experiences.

💌 How YOU work

Different countries have different statutory benefits, different cultures have different norms, and different people have different needs! In order to best support and encourage our diverse team, we’ve created How YOU Work; a program of policies, practices, and perks to support your whole human experience as an employee at Oyster.

• Work from anywhere: Oyster is a borderless, HQ-less company. As long as your work gets done on time, your team has the support they need, and you're authorized to work where you live, the world is truly your Oyster.

• Paid time off: We’re all about taking breaks—we all need it. Oyster provides employees with 40 days off each year, which includes public/bank holidays and vacation/holiday leave (unless your country mandates more).

• Mental health support: We consider your mental health a top priority. We offer access to Plumm, a mental well-being service, to support your mental health.

• Wellbeing allowance: Each month, Oyster will top up your ThanksBen wallet with a wellbeing allowance. You can get pretty much anything that your heart desires! ThanksBen offers a wide array of options for spending your wellbeing allowance. Check out their benefits catalogue here for inspiration.

• Flexible parental leave: Families are created in lots of different ways. Our parental leave policy applies to all employees who are becoming parents, regardless of how they become a parent. Oysters are eligible for a minimum of three months of paid parental leave and your job will be held for 12 months (or longer if required by local jurisdiction).

• WFH stipend: Stipend to spend on your laptop and any other equipment you need for your home office; we'll get you up and running in no time!

✨ The best jobs should be available to everyone

At Oyster, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences and we’ve intentionally built our product and our company with an inclusive, global mindset. We know from experience that people from underrepresented groups often don’t apply for roles they don’t feel they meet all the criteria for. We’re committed to elevating talent by creating a trust-based environment where we can all thrive together. So if you think you have what it takes, but don’t necessarily check every single box, please consider applying. We’d love to hear how you might contribute to our mission and our team.

Oyster is committed to ensuring equal opportunity of employment for qualified persons with disabilities and actively fosters an inclusive work environment. If you require reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process, please email jobs@oysterhr.com with the subject line: Interview Accommodations.

Our available positions are published on our careers page and should you be invited to interview with us, our recruitment team will only ever contact you directly from an @oysterhr.com email address. We will never ask you to send us money as part of a job offer. If you receive a suspicious email relating to opportunities at Oyster from any other email domain where someone is claiming to be a part of our recruitment team, or are directed to anywhere other than www.oysterhr.com/careers to view our available jobs we encourage you to submit a report through our Compliance and Ethics Helpline.