Role Description Prospecting and qualification of conversion franchise opportunities in KY, OH, TN and WV for the Baymont, Wingate, Dazzler Select and AmericInn brands. - Negotiation of deal terms and Property Improvement Plans. - Execution of hotel franchise agreements. - Relationship management and attendance at industry events. - Submittal of Forecasts and general reporting. What you'll do: - Prospecting and Qualifying Deals - Networking/Industry Event Attendance - Negotiate Terms and Execution of Contracts - Manage Relationships - Forecasting/Reporting - Assisting other members of development team on special projects - Maintaining in-depth knowledge of major purchase/sale transactions, activities of debt and equity, providers and other hospitality related trends within the US Qualifications - Extensive sales experience - Hotel franchise development experience - Proven achievement in sales by exceeding quotas - Excellent organizational and communication skills - Ability to build and maintain relationships - Effective presentation skills - Hotel conversion experience - Aptitude to evaluate pro-forma and feasibility studies for conversion projects - Excellent judgement in evaluating opportunities for the company - A desire to travel Requirements - Bachelor’s degree preferred - A valid Drive’s License - Must have demonstrated proven achievement in sales by exceeding quota - Required to travel approximately 80% of time (4 out of 5 days per week). Travel will be predominantly focused on lead generation and customer relationship management in the U.S. Benefits - Health insurance with HSA and FSA options - Dental insurance - Vision insurance - Life/AD&D insurance - Short- and Long-Term Disability coverage - 401(k) with generous company match - Vacation time - Accrue 2.692 hours of paid vacation per week - Paid holidays - 11 Core Scheduled Paid Holidays with potential additional paid days off as business operations and the calendar permit - Paid sick leave accrued as state and local laws require - Additional paid time off in the form of one volunteer day, bereavement time, as well as jury duty time

Role Description The HPE Managed Services Sales team in North America is hiring a Sales Specialist. This role is responsible for driving Managed Services sales across North America, partnering closely with HPE account teams, pre-sales, and channel partners to position and embed managed services into complex solution deals. This individual will lead customer engagements, identify and qualify opportunities, and develop compelling service-led value propositions that enhance HPE’s broader portfolio. They will own pipeline development, influence deal strategy, and ensure managed services are positioned as a critical enabler of customer outcomes, operational excellence, and long-term value realization. Responsibilities: - Responsible for creating and driving their sales pipeline. - Capture leads outside of specialization and use closed-loop lead management to ensure assignment and follow-up by others. - Maintains knowledge of competitors in account to strategically position the company's products and services better. - Use specialty expertise to seek out new opportunities and expand and enhance existing opportunities to build the pipeline in and drive pursuit. - Provide support to Account managers and provide input regarding business development and solution expertise. - Development of quota objectives and future direction for defined product category. - Some specialists also responsible for selling outsourcing deals. - Establish a professional, working, and consultative relationship with the client, up to and including the C-level for mid-to-large accounts. - May invest time working with and leveraging external partners to deliver sale. - For Services Consultants: Focus on growing contractual renewals for mid-to-large accounts with more complexity, to higher-total contract-value renewals. - Directs or coordinates supporting sales activities. Qualifications - University or Bachelor's degree. - Directly related previous work experience. - Demonstrated achievement of progressively higher quota, diversity of business customer, and higher level customer interface. - Extensive selling experience within industry and on similar products. - Typically 8+ years of advanced sales experience. - Project management skills required. - 2+ years of product sales in the desired specialty. Requirements - Is considered an expert in knowledge of products, solution or service offerings as well as competitor's offerings. - Understands the industry and market segment in which key accounts are situated, and integrates this knowledge into consultative selling. - Understands and applies program/project management methods and processes to define, plan, cost, resource, track and ensure successful pursuit. - Understands the role of IT within area of specialization and how the company's solutions differentially address specific vertical industry challenges as well as their cross-segment capabilities. - Account planning and accurate account revenue forecasting skills. - Collaborates with management and sales teams in shared accounts to ensure seamless integration of specialist sales with other sales activities. - Cultivates & maintains positive relationships with customers to ensure account retention & growth. - Establishes a professional working relationship, up to the executive level, with the client. - Demonstrates leadership and initiative in successfully driving specialty sales in accounts - prospecting, negotiating and closing deals. - Demonstrates high service or product knowledge and professionalism in researching and sharing service-related information with account teams and customers. - Deep knowledge of products, solution or service offerings as well as competitor's offerings. - Understands how to leverage the company's portfolio and change the playing field on our competitors. - Utilizes Siebel as an expert and accurately forecasts business. - Understands and sells high value software solutions. - Understands selling of services sales. - Leverages services as part of strategic product sales. - Maintain expertise of industry trends, associated solutions, and key partner/ISV solutions. - Maintains expertise on IT at all levels - new applications, maintenance, typical budgets of the CIO's, typical objectives, measures, metrics. Benefits - Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial and emotional wellbeing. - Personal & Professional Development: Specific programs catered to helping you reach career goals. - Unconditional Inclusion: A commitment to inclusivity and flexibility in managing work and personal needs.

Role Description We are sharing a specialised part-time consulting opportunity for experienced retail supervisors with strong backgrounds in frontline sales leadership, operational problem-solving, and real-world domain expertise. This role supports an exciting collaboration with a leading frontier AI research laboratory focused on advancing research and infrastructure for next-generation machine learning systems through domain-specific deliverables and review workflows. Selected professionals will create deliverables based on common requests within their professional domain and review peer-developed outputs to support AI research quality. This opportunity is especially well-suited to retail supervisors with strong written communication skills, independent working ability, and hands-on experience managing frontline retail operations, team performance, and customer-facing workflows. Key Responsibilities - Domain Deliverable Creation - Create deliverables based on common requests within the retail supervision domain - Contribute practical, experience-based outputs grounded in real retail operations and frontline leadership workflows - Help ensure that project outputs reflect authentic supervisory decision-making, store operations, and team management realities - Peer Review & Quality Improvement - Review peer-developed deliverables to improve AI research quality - Apply strong operational judgment to evaluate clarity, usefulness, structure, and professional relevance - Support high standards across domain-informed research workflows through careful written review - Professional Expertise & Independent Execution - Apply real-world retail supervisory experience to structured project work - Work independently and remotely while maintaining strong writing quality and consistency - Help support AI-related workflows through clear, accurate, and professionally grounded contributions Qualifications - 4+ years of professional experience as a first-line supervisor of retail sales workers or in a closely related retail leadership role - Excellent written communication skills with strong grammar and spelling - Strong practical judgment in store operations, team coordination, and frontline retail problem-solving - The ability to review peer work thoughtfully and improve output quality through clear feedback - The ability to work independently and manage structured project work effectively Preferred Qualifications - Experience supervising retail teams, handling customer-facing operational issues, and supporting sales floor execution - Ability to translate real-world retail leadership knowledge into structured, high-quality deliverables - Familiarity with workflows that require clear communication, practical judgment, and operational consistency - Comfort contributing to AI-related research work through realistic professional scenario design and output review Why This Opportunity - Contribute specialised retail leadership expertise to a cutting-edge AI collaboration - Help improve next-generation machine learning systems through realistic domain-based deliverables and review workflows - Work on high-impact project tasks with strong practical relevance to real retail supervision environments - Flexible remote work with structured expectations and competitive hourly compensation Contract Details - Independent contractor role - Fully remote with flexible scheduling - Hourly compensation of $60–$80 per hour - Expected workload of approximately 30 hours per week, with flexibility to scale up to 40 hours - Project starts immediately and is expected to last approximately 3–4 weeks - Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on project needs and performance - Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise - Work will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution - Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time - Start date: Immediate About the Platform This opportunity is available through a leading AI-driven work platform that connects domain experts with frontier AI research projects. Experts contribute to improving advanced AI systems by providing specialised expertise across real-world workflows, structured evaluation, model training support, and domain-specific content validation.

Role Description We are sharing a specialised part-time consulting opportunity for experienced retail and wholesale trade professionals with strong backgrounds in commercial operations, merchandising, trade workflows, compliance-sensitive decision-making, and practical real-world domain judgment. This role supports an exciting collaboration with a leading frontier AI research laboratory focused on improving the quality, accuracy, and safety of AI-generated responses across retail and wholesale trade subjects. Selected professionals will assess AI-generated responses across retail and wholesale topics, helping improve the reliability of advanced AI systems in high-stakes contexts where inaccurate guidance can create serious practical risk. This opportunity is especially well-suited to professionals with real-world practitioner or advisory experience who can evaluate factual accuracy, regulatory correctness, reasoning quality, and practical usefulness with strong domain judgment. Key Responsibilities - Prompt Writing & Real-World Scenario Design - Write realistic prompts that reflect how professionals and consumers seek domain-specific guidance across retail and wholesale trade contexts. - Help ensure that evaluation tasks reflect practical, real-world usage scenarios. - Contribute domain-informed examples that support high-quality model assessment workflows. - AI Response Evaluation & Quality Review - Evaluate AI-generated responses for factual accuracy, regulatory correctness, and practical usefulness. - Identify fabricated claims, incorrect references, or misleading reasoning across model outputs. - Help maintain strong standards for quality and reliability in retail and wholesale-related AI evaluation tasks. - Structured Scoring & Written Justification - Score and rank multiple model responses using structured rubrics across defined dimensions. - Provide written justifications with specific evidence for each evaluation. - Apply professional judgment consistently across high-stakes domain review workflows. Qualifications - A Master's degree in a relevant professional field. - Professional experience applying retail or wholesale trade expertise in a practitioner or advisory capacity. - Familiarity with industry-specific standards, regulations, and operational expectations. - Strong written communication and critical reasoning skills. - Comfort evaluating both factual correctness and practical usefulness in domain-specific responses. - The ability to apply structured judgment across high-quality evaluation tasks. Preferred Qualifications - Experience with merchandising, trade operations, wholesale distribution, retail operations, category management, store or channel strategy, or related commercial functions. - Familiarity with retail and wholesale environments where practical accuracy, operational clarity, and commercial judgment are critical. - Ability to assess nuanced domain responses for both accuracy and practical reliability. - Comfort working within structured rubrics and written evaluation workflows. Benefits - Contribute specialised retail and wholesale trade expertise to a cutting-edge AI collaboration. - Help improve how advanced AI systems respond to real-world retail and wholesale questions. - Work on high-impact evaluation tasks with strong practical relevance and clear real-world value. - Flexible remote work with structured expectations and competitive hourly compensation. Contract Details - Independent contractor role. - Fully remote with flexible scheduling. - Hourly compensation of $23–$30 per hour. - Expected commitment of approximately 20 hours per week. - Application process includes resume submission and a Model Response Evaluation assessment. - Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on project needs and performance. - Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise. - Work will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution. - Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time. - Start date: Immediate. About the Platform This opportunity is available through a leading AI-driven work platform that connects domain experts with frontier AI research projects. Experts contribute to improving advanced AI systems by providing specialised expertise across real-world workflows, structured evaluation, model training support, and domain-specific content validation.