Microcosm is hiring a Sales Specialist/Senior Sales Specialist!
We are looking for an experienced salesperson to join our team to help get our books, zines, and decks placed into retail shops.
Do you have experience selling books to specialty retailers, gift shops, and bookstores? Is title curation your superpower? Do you get energized when a new store opens up on your block? Are you driven by results and motivated by a cooperative team environment? Do you have the persistence and motivation to make cold calls? If so, keep reading!
Hours: This is a full-time, 40-hour-per-week job with flexible hours. This job does not require travel.
Location: This position is fully remote. At this time, we can only hire new full-time staff who live in Oregon, Ohio, Washington State, Maine, and California. If you live elsewhere in the US and are open to contract work please apply anyway and let us know. A desk is available in our Portland, Oregon office if desired.
Experience: We are looking for someone with a strong track record of sales experience in the book publishing industry, with five years of full-time b2b sales experience or equivalent.
Core job duties:
- 70-80% active selling (calls, emails, texts, presentations, visits)
- 20-30% strategy, market research, sales analysis, creating sales materials
Requirements:
- Book publishing experience with a successful b2b sales background
- Can quickly onboard and get up to speed
- Easily builds relationships with coworkers and accounts
- Comfortable with presentations, meetings, and phone interactions
- Available to work full-time
- Love of learning, flexibility and comfortable with change, habit of implementing feedback into future projects and systems
- Respectful of a neurodiverse workforce
- Driven without being competitive with teammates
- Fluency in Google Docs and Sheets
- Ability to meet or exceed deadlines without operating in a state of last-minute urgency
- Ability to prioritize between multiple projects and work independently
- Willingness to sell books about topics that may be sensitive to some, including trauma, abuse, recovery, various religions, various marginalized identities, drugs, sexual instruction, and erotica
- Familiarity with Microcosm’s titles and a belief in our mission
Not required, but nice to have
- Experience selling to key wholesale accounts and/or national retailers
Pay and benefits:
Starting wage is $20.50-$24 per hour plus commission, depending on work type, location, experience, and level of responsibility in previous sales positions.
- Company profits are distributed to staff in the form of profit-sharing and raises
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid time off
- Remote work
- Flexible work hours and holidays
- Employee ownership program after five years
- Transparent compensation and clear metrics for advancement
- Meaningful work, humane working conditions, and stellar coworkers
To apply:
Application deadline: June 21, 2026
We will respond to all applicants by July 9th. Please do not contact us about the status of your application!