Sales & Partnerships Lead

Farmchefconnect; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 77,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commission

Growth path

Structured SOP

Job summary

VK Capital Ventures Inc. runs Travel Villa Kitchen, a Houston chef co-op, cooking-class and private-dinner company, plus related ventures. We seek a Sales & Partnerships Lead to drive buyer, sponsor, and developer pipelines from qualified meetings to signed relationships.

You will own corporate, sponsor, and developer prospects with honest offers, coordinating with operations to ensure feasible engagements and maintaining a readable pipeline for founders.

Qualifications

• B2B sales or partnerships experience is required; hospitality, events, food, or sponsorships a strong plus.
• Relationship-first selling: warm, professional, with no pressure tactics.
• Pipeline discipline: same-day logging and follow-through without reminders.
• Houston market familiarity; bilingual English/Spanish a plus.

Responsibilities

• Work the pipeline our intake and call team books: qualified meetings → proposals → closed partnerships.
• Own buyer relationships across corporate, sponsor, and developer prospects with honest offers.
• Coordinate with operations before anything is sold to ensure feasibility.
• Keep the pipeline reconciled in our tracking systems for clear visibility.

Skills

B2B sales

Partnership development

Relationship-focused selling

Pipeline management

Job description

About

VK Capital Ventures Inc. runs Travel Villa Kitchen — a Houston chef co-op, cooking-class and private-dinner company (plus Six Rows Coffee and Farm2Chef, our farmer-chef marketplace). We are Human First service practitioners: healthy communication and people who are happy and emotionally safe in service is how we work — including how we sell. We are hiring a Sales & Partnerships Lead to work the buyer, sponsor, and developer pipeline our intake books: corporate dinners, team experiences, sponsorships, and platform partnerships, carried from qualified meeting to signed relationship.

Responsibilities

• Work the pipeline our intake and call team books: qualified meetings → proposals → closed partnerships
• Own buyer relationships across corporate, sponsor, and developer prospects — honest offers, no promises beyond what operations can deliver
• Coordinate with operations before anything is sold: if we can't staff it or source it, we don't sell it
• Keep the pipeline reconciled in our tracking systems — stages, values, and next steps a founder can read at a glance
• Feed market reality back: what buyers ask for, what they balk at, what we should build next

Qualifications

• B2B sales or partnerships experience — hospitality, events, food, or sponsorships a strong plus
• Relationship-first selling: warm, professional, no pressure tactics, no claims beyond the offer
• Pipeline discipline — same-day logging and follow-through without reminders
• Houston market familiarity; bilingual English/Spanish a plus

Schedule

Full-time, standard business hours, with partner meetings and hosted experiences as scheduled.

Benefits

• $85,000/yr base + commission (commission structure discussed in interview)
• A pipeline that is already being booked for you by our intake lane — you close, you don't cold-start
• A written role SOP and growth path from day one