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From the employer's careers site First seen 27 Oct 2026

Retirement Sales Activation Specialist

Human Interest United States, Remote Remote senior full-time

Salary

$63,000 - $65,000 per year

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Description

Human Interest is on a mission to ensure that people in all lines of work have access to retirement benefits.

As a Retirement Sales Activation Specialist, you will support the setup and launch of new clients' 401(k) plans. You'll be on the front lines with new clients, working with a wide variety of companies, helping them set up and launch their new 401(k) plans. You'll own keeping the sales activation process on-track while ensuring that customers are engaged and happy.

Responsibilities:

  • Communicate extensively with customers to identify their needs and help them establish their 401(k) plans
  • Educate, guide, and inform newly signed customers about the choices they have to help their employees save for retirement
  • Meet monthly activation targets by closely working client pipelines, managing client timelines, objection handling to keep clients in the flow and ensuring adherence to process and talk tracks
  • Actively follow onboarding workflows to increase velocity, remove bottlenecks, and drive operational excellence
  • Partner cross-functionally with internal teams and Leadership to resolve customer escalations and continuously improve the sales activation experience
  • Work cross-functionally within the organization to make sure customer needs are met
  • Drive processes forward, managing internal and external stakeholders to keep customers engaged, happy, and on-track
  • Identify potential areas for process improvement to help the team scale

Requirements:

  • Possess knowledge and experience with retirement plan design, particularly in 401(k) plans
  • 3+ years of customer implementation or sales experience in a SaaS environment or retirement industry
  • A 'people person' who truly enjoys interacting with clients and can communicate difficult concepts fluidly
  • Energy and passion- the concept of onboarding 40-50+ customers a month excites you
  • A strong work ethic, proactively following up with customers and keeping them on track
  • Excellent organizational skills, able to juggle multiple tasks with varying deadlines and stakeholders without dropping the ball
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Benefits:

  • A great 401(k) plan with dollar-for-dollar employer match up to 4% of compensation
  • Top-of-the-line health plans, dental and vision insurance
  • Competitive time off and parental leave
  • Unlimited access to digital tools, financial professionals, and a knowledge center
  • Enhanced mental health support for employees and dependents
  • Fertility healthcare and family forming benefits
  • Monthly work-from-home stipend; quarterly lifestyle stipend
  • Engaging team-building experiences

Skills

Required

  • retirement plan design
  • 401(k) plans
  • customer implementation
  • sales
  • SaaS

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/humaninterest/jobs/8223541

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