Client acquisition associate

ZenAI International Corp; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 140,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Flexible schedule

1099 independent contractor

Job summary

ZenAI International Corp is seeking an entrepreneurially minded salesperson for an early-stage, fully remote role in the United States. You will own real outreach from day one, learn what resonates with prospects, and help define our US market strategy.

You’ll connect with business owners and decision-makers across channels, supported by case studies, pricing materials, and sales resources. The role offers flexible scheduling and 1099 contractor engagement.

Qualifications

• Experience in outbound sales and cold outreach.
• Ability to identify and engage new prospects.
• Comfortable speaking with business owners and decision-makers.
• Strong communication skills and adaptability.

Responsibilities

• Find good potential customers, start conversations, and convert interest into qualified meetings.
• Use phone, email, LinkedIn, and other channels to reach prospects.
• Work with provided lists and sales materials to support outreach.
• Book discovery calls and follow up with interested prospects.
• Maintain an accurate pipeline and activity in HubSpot.

Skills

Cold calling

Outbound outreach

Prospect research

HubSpot

Strong spoken English

Tools

HubSpot

Job description

We’re growing our US business and looking for someone who can help us open new conversations with potential customers.

Our company develops AI and software solutions for businesses across the US and Asia. That includes AI voice agents, custom-built AI tools, and software designed around specific business needs. Our voice agent product is already being used by paying customers to handle incoming and outgoing calls around the clock.

This is an early-stage sales role, so you won’t be stepping into a process where everything has already been decided. You’ll be doing real outreach from day one, seeing what messaging works, learning what prospects care about, and helping us refine the way we approach the US market.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

The Opportunity

We’re growing our US business and looking for someone who can help us open new conversations with potential customers.

Our company develops AI and software solutions for businesses across the US and Asia. That includes AI voice agents, custom-built AI tools, and software designed around specific business needs. Our voice agent product is already being used by paying customers to handle incoming and outgoing calls around the clock.

This is an early-stage sales role, so you won’t be stepping into a process where everything has already been decided. You’ll be doing real outreach from day one, seeing what messaging works, learning what prospects care about, and helping us refine the way we approach the US market.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

The goal of this role is simple: find good potential customers, start the conversation, and turn that interest into qualified meetings.

You’ll work across phone, email, LinkedIn, and other outbound channels to connect with business owners and decision-makers. We’ll provide prospect lists, case studies, pricing materials, sales resources, and support from the rest of the team.

Your day-to-day work may include:

• Contacting prospective customers through cold calls, email, and LinkedIn
• Researching companies and identifying the strongest potential opportunities
• Learning enough about a prospect’s business to understand whether our solutions are relevant
• Booking discovery calls with qualified leads
• Following up with prospects who showed interest but have not yet moved forward
• Keeping your pipeline, outreach activity, and meetings updated in HubSpot
• Identifying which opportunities are worth pursuing and which are unlikely to convert
• Sharing objections, questions, and feedback you repeatedly hear from prospects
• Testing different outreach messages and helping us improve our sales process over time

You are not expected to be the technical expert on the call. When a conversation becomes more technical, an engineer or another team member can join to explain integrations, product capabilities, implementation, or custom requirements.

Your responsibility is to build the initial relationship, understand what the prospect needs, and move the right opportunities forward.

How You’ll Be Paid

This is a commission-based 1099 independent contractor role. There is no base salary and no fixed earnings cap.

Compensation includes:

• 25% commission on AI voice agent deals
• 8–12% commission on custom AI and software projects
• $30–$50 bonus for every qualified meeting booked

Payments are made monthly. Deal commissions are paid as client payments come in.

Because you also receive a bonus for qualified meetings, you do not have to wait until your first closed deal to begin earning.

Who We’re Looking For

You don’t need a long enterprise sales background. We care more about whether you are comfortable speaking with new people, handling rejection, and consistently following up.

You’ll likely be a good fit if you:

• Communicate in a direct, conversational way instead of relying heavily on scripts
• Are comfortable reaching out to people who have never heard of us before
• Don’t get discouraged by unanswered calls, ignored messages, or rejection
• Know how to ask questions and keep a conversation moving
• Can recognize when a prospect is genuinely interested versus when an opportunity is unlikely to go anywhere
• Are willing to experiment with different outreach approaches
• Can organize your own work without needing someone to constantly check in
• Feel comfortable speaking with business owners, managers, and other decision-makers
• Have strong spoken English

Some previous sales experience is expected, but it can come from many different places. Experience in cold calling, SDR/BDR roles, telemarketing, retail sales, campus sales, upselling, door-to-door sales, or similar customer-facing work can all be relevant.

Mandarin-English bilingual ability is strongly preferred, since our team operates across the US and Asia and some of our workflows involve cross-border communication.

Work Setup

This position is:

• Fully remote
• Flexible in schedule
• Structured as a 1099 independent contractor engagement

You can organize your own working hours, although you should be available during appropriate times for the prospects you are contacting.

Applicants must currently be based in the United States. Being located in California is a plus, but it is not required.

You must also already have valid US work authorization. This can include:

• US citizenship
• Permanent residency / Green Card
• OPT or CPT authorization
• H4-EAD

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

What We’ll Give You

You won’t be expected to build the sales operation entirely from scratch.

We provide:

• Prospect and lead lists
• Pricing information
• Case studies and sales materials
• HubSpot access for managing your pipeline
• Technical support from engineers during qualified calls
• Guidance directly from our GTM lead
• Feedback and support as you develop your outreach approach

Since you’ll be joining while our US sales operation is still growing, you’ll also have more influence than you would in a large, established sales organization. Strong performers may have the opportunity to take on a larger role and potentially transition into a full-time position as the US team expands.