Overview
Freelance Sales Consultant Jobs in Cape Town at Shortlisted
About Shortlisted
Shortlisted is a bespoke job search consultancy. We take the two most painful parts of job hunting — endless searching and tedious application tailoring — and handle them for our clients. A short intake call, curated job matches delivered daily, and ready-to-submit application packets straight to your phone or email. From recent graduates to C-suite executives, our clients get a service that feels like texting a knowledgeable friend, not navigating yet another platform.
We’re early, growing fast, and well-positioned in a category — reverse recruiting — that’s expanding rapidly. We need one more person to help us reach the people who’d benefit from what we do.
The role
We’re looking for a Growth Partner to bring new clients into Shortlisted. This is a freelance, fully remote, commission-based role with significant room to grow as the business scales.
You’ll define a lot of this job yourself. The mandate is simple: find the right people, tell them about Shortlisted, and bring them through to a conversation with the founder. How you do that — outreach, content, partnerships, events, network referrals, paid channels you want to experiment with — is largely up to you. You’ll have direct access to the founder, full visibility into the business, and all the materials and positioning you need to be effective from day one.
What you’ll do
- Identify and reach out to potential clients across our target segments (graduates, career switchers, mid-career professionals, senior executives).
- Build a small, repeatable outbound process that works for you — whether that’s LinkedIn outreach, warm intros, content, partnerships, or something we haven’t thought of yet.
- Represent Shortlisted in conversations and online with warmth, professionalism, and clarity.
- Hand qualified leads to the founder for the intake call; help close where it makes sense.
- Share what’s working and what isn’t, so we can refine positioning and pricing together.
Who we’re looking for
We’re more interested in attitude and aptitude than CV length. You’re likely to be a strong fit if you are:
- A final-year student, recent graduate, or someone 1–3 years into their career with spare capacity for a side project.
- A self-starter who would rather be given a goal than a checklist.
- A clear, warm communicator — written and verbal. The kind of person friends already go to for career advice.
- Genuinely interested in careers, hiring, and helping people land roles they actually want.
- Organised enough to manage your own pipeline without being chased.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and excited (not anxious) about defining a role as you go.
Bonus points for experience in sales / Business development / recruitment / marketing, content creation skills
What we offer
- Uncapped commission on every client you bring in. The more clients sign up, the more you earn — no ceiling.
- Full flexibility. Work the hours that suit you, from wherever you are.
- Direct mentorship from the founder. You’ll be one of the first people on the team, with a real seat at the table.
- Room to grow. As Shortlisted scales, this role can grow into something much bigger — a salaried position, a team lead, a co-owned function. We’d like the person who joins now to be the person who runs growth in 12 months.
- A product you’ll be proud to sell. Real outcomes, real testimonials, fair pricing, and a service that genuinely helps people.
To apply
Find the Founder’s email and let them know:
- Why this role caught your eye.
- One thing you’d try in your first two weeks.
- (Optional) Anything you’ve built, sold, written, or organised that you’re proud of.
If you have a CV or Resume, great, attach that too, but keep in mind we care more about how you think than how your résumé is formatted.
Job Type: Temp to perm
Contract length: 3 months
Pay: R1,00 – R40 000,00 per month
Work Location: Remote
Title: Freelance Sales Consultant
Company: Shortlisted
Location: Cape Town
