Crimson Education
Sales Development Representative - Mandarin Speaking
CRM
Salesforce
Edtech.com's Summary
Crimson Education is hiring a Sales Development Representative - Mandarin Speaking to serve as the first point of contact for potential Chinese clients, primarily parents, ensuring a smooth customer experience across various programs. The role involves qualifying leads, managing client information in Salesforce, coordinating meetings with Academic Advisors, and supporting marketing outreach efforts.
Highlights
- Monitor and report on leads and enrollments from multiple marketing channels including Events, PR, WeChat, Facebook, Content, Emails, and SEO.
- Qualify inquiries from parents and students with calls and response management.
- Manage and update customer data and sales pipeline movements within Salesforce CRM.
- Schedule appointments between leads and Academic Advisors.
- Support outreach events such as expos, webinars, seminars, and school talks.
- Native or proficient Mandarin and proficient English speaking and writing skills required.
- Experience with Chinese marketing platforms, customer service, and CRM systems like Salesforce.
- Preferred background in education sector, college consulting, or professional services.
- Work in collaboration with marketing and sales teams across North America targeting Chinese clients.
- Role embedded in Sales & Marketing department with focus on managing sales KPIs independently and as a team.
Sales Development Representative - Mandarin Speaking Full Description
Sales Development Representative - Mandarin Speaking (remote)
About Crimson
Crimson Education is the world’s leading college admissions consulting firm, with over 1,490 Ivy League offers and 2,410 to the US Top 15. We help ambitious students gain admission to the world’s top universities through expert-led guidance and proven, data-driven strategies. Crimson students are 7x more likely to get into the Ivy League than their peers. We were recently featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.
We’re the only college admissions consultancy that brings together:
We’re the only college admissions consultancy that brings together:
- Former Ivy League and Top 20 admissions officers to rigorously review and refine applications
- Professors and PhD teaching fellows from leading universities to guide students through original, independent research — with pathways to selective peer-reviewed publication or conference presentation
- Past ISEF winners and judges who coach students to compete for state, national, and international science fair awards
- Capstone project mentors who help students design and scale leadership initiatives with real-world impact, measurable outcomes, and credible external validation
We’re backed by leading VC firms, including Tiger Global, Heal Partners, IceHouse Ventures, and Movac, and recently closed a USD $40M Series D funding round at a USD $640M valuation. We now operate across 21 markets worldwide, including the US, Canada, UK, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.
What are the main responsibilities for this role?
Working closely with the Marketing Manager and the North America Chinese marketing and sales team. This role will be focused on being the first point of contact for incoming potential Chinese clients (primarily parents), ensuring a smooth customer experience across a variety of Crimson programs, by:
- Monitor leads and enrollments from marketing across all channels (Events, PR, WeChat, FB, Content, Emails, SEO & more) with weekly/monthly progress reporting, customer behavior, and user experience.
- Making calls and responding to enquiries from parents and students to qualify them for sales processes, ensuring that data is diligently and accurately entered and managed within Crimson’s Client Relations Management (CRM) system Salesforce.
- Establish, develop and maintain positive and professional customer interactions and relationships for Crimson creating a positive first impression that aligns with the company’s dedication to a high quality service
- Updating the record of these leads and tracking their movements to the next stage of the sales pipeline in Salesforce
- Schedule meetings for the leads to meet with Crimson’s Academic Advisor
- Continuously improving sales techniques, processes and enhancing industry
- Able to manage sales target and KPI independently and as a team
- Support in coordination of specific outreach tactics including expos, seminars, webinars, school talks, and related event support.
What skills and experience are required?
- Native or Proficient in Mandarin
- Proficient in English - Spoken/Written
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent organization skills
- Professionalism, Time and Stress Management, Confidence, Positive attitude (patience, empathy), Willingness to learn and go the extra mile
- Experience in Chinese Marketing platforms and channels
- Experience in Customer Service, Customer Success
- Experience in the Education or professional services (e.g. marketing agency, financial services, management consulting, hospitality, etc.) sector and using CRM (Salesforce) and multiple systems and platforms
- Experience in the education sector — for example, the high school or higher education space(s) (preferred but not mandatory)
- Background in college consulting or similarly parent focused roles (preferred but not mandatory)
Why work for Crimson?
- Flexible working environment, you will be empowered to structure how you work
- Option to work from our many locations/remotely around the globe (role dependent) with us!
- Limitless development and exposure- our internal promotions/role changes made up 33% of all recruitment last year.
- $1,000 training budget per year- we love to level up!
- Psychologist on staff
- Impressive fireside chats and workshops to help the team continuously level up
- Radical Candour is a feedback approach we live by
- We’re a global player with 28 markets (and growing) across the globe!
If you're passionate about education and people and looking for a fast-paced, collaborative environment, and want to work with cutting-edge technology then we'd love to hear from you!
Please keep an eye on your spam / junk email folder for correspondence from Team Tailor.
Department
Sales & Marketing
Role
Sales Development Representative
Locations
California, Washington, Phoenix, Portland
Remote status
Fully Remote
Sales & Marketing
Role
Sales Development Representative
Locations
California, Washington, Phoenix, Portland
Remote status
Fully Remote
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