How to describe the “vacancy” of a co-founder-seller in a technology project?

Question

Startups

I am a techie, looking for a co-founder-seller in a technology project, I decided to write a vacancy to organize the process.
I want to find a "seller" who will build product promotion channels: advertising, media publications; and will help with organizational tasks as much as possible.
What information about yourself and the startup to provide such a person? And what to ask him?

Answer 1

Hello Ivan, glad to meet you here.
Not so long ago, we faced a similar situation, we were just looking for a developer. I will give you an example, a vacancy that we posted on cofounder.ru

Hello, my name is Danil, I'm a MY DRAFT project manager.
We are looking for a developer who is ready to devote at least 3-4 hours a day to the project implementation.
We need you to have excellent knowledge and skills in: - PHP
- Priority (MySQL, AJAX) or Ruby on Rails
- JS (and jQuery) or Angular JS layout) Additionally: - The ability to plan your work and achieve your goals - Honesty and responsibility - The desire to take an active part in the life of the project What we already have
We have the main layouts made up, the target audience analyzed, the primary monetization has been finalized (we plan to launch it at the beginning of September), the lost month of development is available.
Team communication takes place in Skype, planning in Wunderlist.
Now about financial and career prospects
To begin with, we offer a share = 10%, then, after the successful launch of the pilot version of the project (we really hope that this will be at the end of the summer of 2015), the share will be increased to 15%.
We are looking for a partner for long-term and promising cooperation, who will become the Technical Director in the future.
PS We already have mentoring support and special attention to the target audience.
Contact us:
Project Manager Danil Karimov
and MY DRAFT team
[phone]
Email: [email protected]
Skype: otdelkro
About us: MY DRAFT on the blog ( spark.ru/startup/my-draft)
You are doing much better.
You already have a product and you need to promote it. These events are more or less the same and they will not require special technical specifications from you (unlike our case). When communicating with candidates, we did not hide and provided our TOR, looking at which people assessed their capabilities and, accordingly, we received a response much faster.
In the vacancy, you can describe the tasks that your product will perform. For example:
"I am looking for a partner to promote the product - "Successful task-s"
Task manager with elements of a social network. Unlike the bulk of similar products, our development is aimed at solving problems in the casino industry.
The main shell of the product has already been created, the functionality has been developed and the alpha version has already been released, which is already being tested by 10 hungry students (You say that there is already something to promote ...)
You are required to:
- write articles for the blog, for the media
- actively promote the product on special sites
- organize advertising in Yandex.Direct
, etc.
Participation in the project on an option basis = 25%, after reaching the level of n-yield, the share increases to 40% Even
more information about the product in person decisions You need to get information about a person:
- Is he a copywriter (because those who call themselves a marketer, PR manager or someone else should be able to write texts)
- Has he already promoted any projects (perhaps he even has a portfolio)
- Invite him to describe how he would did it (everyone has a favorite pool of tools, this can explain the question, otherwise they will think that you want to use it "dirty")
But, even having received answers, it is very difficult to determine how good a person is. This point is revealed already in the process.
During personal communication, you need to charge a person, describe your project so that they want to sell it. I think you should not be afraid to lift the veil of secrecy and tell one or two cool differences between your product and everyone else (again, in personal communication). After all, you, as a founder, need to be not only a techie, but also an ideological inspirer and founder.
Good luck with your search, I hope my answer was helpful!

Answer 2

I think it would be quite reasonable to find out from the candidate
where and how he has already built sales channels, and also ask him to tell / develop a plan for promoting your product.
Of course, interesting ideas and approaches do not immediately appear in your head, so offer to prepare a plan before your meeting.
It would be fair to tell the same about yourself, what you have already done and what is your plan / vision for developing a product that he will promote.

Answer 3

vacancy or co-founder!?
If the project is interesting, then I can offer my candidacy.