Inside Sales Lead

Zinc; Shoreditch; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

£1200 annual benefits allowance

Early finish Fridays

Yearly company retreat abroad

30 days to Work from anywhere

Zinc EMI shares

Spill Therapy

Company socials

Nursery workplace benefit

Electric car scheme

Anniversary celebrations

Job summary

Zinc is seeking an Expansion Lead to own a £30M+ expansion opportunity across cross-sell and geographic growth within existing accounts. You will build and run the expansion motion, collaborate with Marketing and RevOps, and drive a new commercial pipeline while shaping the future team from a senior IC position.

You will work in a hybrid model, reporting to Rakeem, and navigate expansion opportunities within renewal conversations.

Qualifications

• Experience leading end-to-end sales motions from strategy to close.
• Ability to read benchmarking data and size opportunities.
• Forecasting with Finance and RevOps.
• Collaborating with Marketing and outreach partners without direct ownership.

Responsibilities

• Own expansion plays: cross-sell and geographic/subsidiary growth.
• Design and track expansion pipeline; ensure reliable forecasting.

Skills

Full-cycle sales

Data-driven forecasting

Pipeline design

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic deal judgment

Job description

Description

About the Role

At Zinc, we're rapidly technologising how we serve candidates, recruiters, and customers, without eroding what makes our service genuinely good. The Expansion Lead is a new, senior individual-contributor hire reporting to Rakeem, and will be brought in to own a £30M+ expansion opportunity (cross-sell into existing accounts and geo/subsidiary growth) that's currently unowned. This role exists to build and run that motion directly and to spot more expansion opportunities within the renewal conversations the Account Management team are already having.

We're looking for someone who's built a sales motion from scratch before: commercially sharp, hands-on, and just as comfortable shaping strategy as closing a deal themselves. You'll own expansion revenue across cross-sell and geographic growth, addressing a pipeline that today goes largely unclaimed because our account management team, focused on retention, doesn't have the capacity to chase it proactively.

Growth trajectory

This is a build role. If it proves out, it becomes the seed of a wider Customer Revenue Growth team spanning upsell, cross-sell and expansion. We're starting narrow on purpose (a small number of clearly defined plays, broadened as they prove out).

The Complexity (why this role isn't for everyone)

• No existing playbook, team or pipeline to inherit: you're proving a brand new commercial motion.
• Real judgement required: expansion into new markets or subsidiaries needs careful handling so it doesn't put existing customer relationships at risk.
• Influence without full authority: you'll work closely with Marketing and an outreach partner.
• The role's future shape is genuinely open — it could stay a single senior IC plus outreach support, or grow into a wider team.

Key Responsibilities

Own expansion, directly

Own two growth plays: cross-sell (new products into existing accounts) and geographic/subsidiary expansion (opening up new markets within accounts we already serve). Volume-driven, market-led upsell stays with the AM team as part of renewals; this role is about the pipeline nobody currently owns.

Build how pipeline gets tracked

Design how expansion pipeline gets built, tracked and reported, and keep forecasting reliable in partnership with Finance and RevOps.

Partner with a dedicated outreach hire

Work alongside a paired outreach role that handles prospecting volume, so you can stay focused on strategy and the highest-value conversations rather than volume outbound.

Partner with marketing

Work with Marketing on lifecycle campaigns (usage triggers, NPS, engagement signals) that scale outreach without replacing genuine, relationship-led conversations.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Hard skills

• Full-cycle sales experience: has run a complete sales motion before, from strategy through to closing, not just managed one that already existed.
• Data-literate and commercially numerate: comfortable reading benchmarking data, sizing opportunity and building a forecasting model with Finance.
• Pipeline and mechanism design: able to design how pipeline gets built, tracked and reported, ideally with RevOps support.
• Cross-functional delivery: gets real output from Marketing and an outreach partner without owning either function directly.
• Risk judgement on complex deals: able to spot when an expansion opportunity needs careful sequencing to protect the wider account.

Soft skills

• Builder, not inheritor: genuinely energised by standing up something from nothing.
• Collaborative without authority: motivates others to prioritise this work alongside their day job.
• Strategic and hands-on in the same week: equally comfortable shaping strategy and getting into an individual deal or coaching conversation.
• Drives visibility: makes sure the business notices and keeps investing in this work.
• Comfortable with ambiguity: the shape of this role, and what it becomes if it works, isn't fixed yet.

What we offer

• 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off
• £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
• Early finish Fridays (16:00)
• Yearly company retreat abroad
• 30 days to Work from anywhere
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (13 weeks full pay, 17 weeks half pay, then SMP for maternity, 1 month full pay for paternity/adoption)
• Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
• Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
• Unlimited access to Spill Therapy
• Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
• Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
• Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
• Celebrated Zinc anniversaries

Who are Zinc?

We believe in better background checking: making them easy, instant and delightful - for candidates and HR teams across the world. Founded in 2017, we've grown year-on-year, reaching the Times Top 100 fastest growing businesses, the Deloitte EMEA fast 500 and winning the 2026 HSBC x WIRED Award in the Trailblazers Category.

But we're not all work, our founders Luke and Charlotte are hot on being a culture first business. By this, we don't just mean an active calendar of company and team events (although these are great!) - our culture is defined by respect, fostering support for new ideas, promoting flexible work environments and operating with autonomy and low ego.

It's not just us who think they've done a stellar job - we've won awards for being a Top Place To Work in 2025 and 2026 from Tembo and SeedLegals.

What are our values?

Our values are: Pragmatism, Integrity, Empathy, Collaboration, Empowerment and Speed. We call them the PIECES that make Zinc (see what we did there).

How do we work?

We operate on a hybrid working model, with everyone coming to our Shoreditch Offices on Mondays and Thursdays, and working from home on the others. We believe this is a great balance between having space for deep work and in-person collaboration.