Sales Coordinator

The California Academy of Sciences is a globally renowned scientific and cultural institution located in the heart of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Home to a world-class planetarium, aquarium, research center, and natural history museum—all under one living roof—our mission is to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration.

Our extensive collections span plants, animals, fossils, and cultural artifacts from across the globe and throughout history. We are a diverse team of leading biodiversity scientists, educators, storytellers, designers, and communicators who work collaboratively to advance knowledge and inspire action through science and storytelling.

When you join the California Academy of Sciences, you become part of a mission-driven community that values curiosity, collaboration, and innovation. Whether you're working behind the scenes in research or engaging the public on the museum floor, your work will help connect people to the natural world and empower them to protect it.

The Sales Coordinator is responsible for conducting sales activities to promote Academy products and programs. Reporting to the Associate Director of Travel Industry Sales, and helps the Academy achieve annual revenue goals.

Interested candidates should submit a resume and application through our Careers Page portal.

• →Attend tradeshows, community events, and other tabling opportunities to actively promote Academy programs and products
• →Research new sales channels and opportunities to promote and sell Academy programs 
• →Research new strategic partners for sponsorship and marketing partnerships for Academy programs
• →Utilize Salesforce to record all sales activities and communications, and upload and segment lead lists
• →Manage sales email accounts and phone lines, and ensure timely follow-up to product inquiries, and qualify inbound inquiries where applicable
• →Work with Academy program stakeholders to get program information to properly promote products
• →Utilize POS (Point of Sale) to book Academy program sales and update CRM systems, including Tessitura and Salesforce
• →Assist with on-site group coordination and work orders for all sales programs
• →Assist with NightLife programming research and with NightLife logistics, completing work orders as required, and attend NL events to assist with event execution as required
• →Assist with all aspects of sales programs as needed, including but not limited to licensing, membership, tours, events, tourism, NL, Education, and new products
• →Process payments and vendor agreements for the Sales departments
• →Ability to attend evening and weekends events and travel within the nine Bay Area counties is required
• →Other research assignments for revenue generation as assigned
• →Other duties as assigned