Role: Sales Representative
Company: Volley
Location: Remote Position (Chicago, IL Vicinity Preferred)
Company Overview
Volley is the trailblazer behind the world’s first AI-powered racquet sports simulator. Leveraging breakthrough AI and Vision platforms, Volley delivers a fully immersive, real-time feedback loop that personalizes training like never before. We focus on racquet sports such as Tennis, Pickleball, Padel, and Platform Tennis—bringing modern training tools to a space that has seen little innovation in decades.
Role Overview
Volley is seeking a high-energy, self-starting Sales Representative to join our growing team. This role is focused on identifying, contacting, and closing new leads across the racquet sports landscape. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced sales environment, has a passion for racquet sports, and is motivated by high-volume outreach and conversion.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a startup that’s revolutionizing racquet sports, build relationships with passionate players and facilities, and directly contribute to our customer growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Generation & Outreach: Actively prospect with team and connect with individual customers and facilities through email, phone, social, and in-person outreach
- High-Velocity Selling: Manage a fast-paced pipeline of leads from first contact to close with urgency and attention to detail
- Sales Process Execution: Conduct product demos, communicate value propositions clearly, and consistently hit conversion and revenue targets
- Customer Insight & Feedback: Gather and relay market feedback to help evolve our messaging and product positioning
This role is ideal for a creative, tenacious, “make it happen” salesperson who thrives in a startup environment and is eager to make a significant impact
Key Qualifications
- 2–4 years of experience in direct sales, inside sales, or business development, ideally in a high-touch, high-volume environment
- Proven success in outbound prospecting and lead conversion
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; comfortable conducting virtual and in-person demos
- Familiarity with or experience in racquet sports (e.g., tennis, pickleball, padel, platform tennis) is highly preferred
- Energetic, self-driven, and comfortable working independently in a startup setting
- Comfortable using CRM systems and sales productivity tools
Education Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
What We Offer
- Comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Free long-term and short-term disability, and life insurance policies.
- Simple IRA with company match.
- Flexible PTO and 8 paid holidays.
If you’re passionate about driving innovation in the sports industry and ready to help shape Volley's future, we’d love to hear from you!
Top Skills
What We Do
Volley is on a mission to revolutionize racquet sports. We are the world’s first digitally enabled robotics as a service (RaaS) training platform focused on sports such as platform tennis, pickleball, tennis and padel. Combining a digitally controlled ball trainer with an AI vision network, Volley creates opportunities for players, pros and clubs.
Players experience workouts that provide tailored live-play scenarios, receive video footage of their play, and gain instant access to pro feedback. Pros gain access to creative tools that can help energize established programs and build new ones, while expanding their coaching reach and engagement through prescribed training, video feedback, and same-side on-court instruction. Clubs can provide members an innovative new service without investment. Volley offers unlimited training opportunities to those looking to up their game