Salesforce Consultant - Chicago, IL (Remote)

A Salesforce Consultant works closely with our clients to implement Salesforce, leads client meetings, mentors clients and team members on best practices, and ensures our clients are successful. General Responsibilities: - Serve as the primary consultant on a wide variety of projects. - Manage project teams including software developers and implementation specialists with assistance from the Project Leader. - Maintain an efficient response time to client communications. - Plan customer calls and define weekly agenda topics with assistance from the Project Leader. - Lead weekly customer calls with limited assistance from the Project Leader. - Present Salesforce solutions to clients during customer calls. - Conduct internal debrief meetings immediately following each client call. - Execute and delegate project action items to the implementation specialist team. - Architect and design software solutions. - Aid the Project Leader in managing customer expectations. - Aid the Project Leader in maintaining project timelines. - Create weekly project status reports. - Communicate with clients and project team members. - Attend daily team standup meetings to review the status of each project, discuss team workload, and collaborate on any complex problems. - Build complex software systems within the Salesforce platform. - Build software solutions using many different technology stacks. - Design and implement complex databases. - Design solutions according to client needs and constraints. - Design and implement web-based, multi-tenant software solutions. - Implement quality assurance processes. - Identify risks and issues in order to prevent fires before they occur. - Work with agile and other methodologies. - Help identify and implement process improvements in order to improve our current processes and avoid repeating the same mistakes. Estimated Percentage of Time: - Client interaction (co-leading meetings & communicating with clients): 40 percent - Delegation/working with team: 25 percent - Salesforce build: 25 percent - Project scoping: 10 percent Unmatched Benefits: - Flexibility to work from wherever you want. This position is 100% remote. - Flexibility to work your own hours – just get your work done and keep our clients happy. - Our desire is for this to be the highest-paying job you’ve ever had. - Health/dental insurance. - Vision insurance. - Flexible spending account (FSA) - Long-term disability insurance. - 401(k) with company match. - Employee profit-sharing. - Home office expense. - Payment of certification exam fees. - Employee care services. - Referral program. - Bonus plans. Why Work at Fast Slow Motion? Fast Slow Motion is a Salesforce Partner and Summit Tier consultancy. We know how hard it is to grow a business, and we are passionate about helping others build their business the right way. We want to be a blessing to leaders as they grow businesses. FSM team members are Salesforce experts, growth business consulting masterminds, and always looking to learn and grow personally and professionally. Exponential Growth There are limitless opportunities for professional and personal development for our employees, and lots of room for promotions and upward mobility. Our team has grown from 30 people to 100+ in the past 12 months, and we want to exceed expectations again in 2022 by continuing to provide the highest standard of work and service to our clients, while also providing more opportunities for the fantastic Salesforce professionals who join us. Lots of Variety We work with every cloud, product, and tool in the Salesforce suite, and every day looks a little different. We are a one-stop shop for our clients, and we always work to be a blessing to anyone we encounter. At FSM, you’ll work with different clients on various projects, and you’ll never get bored with the endless opportunities to learn and be challenged. We work with Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, CPQ, Field Service Lightning, Marketing Cloud, Pardot, Health Cloud, Financial Services Cloud, and more. In addition to a variety of Salesforce product exposure, you’ll work with a diverse blend of business problems that will empower you to rapidly level-up as a consultant. Unique Consulting Experience We are business operations experts, which means we work with our clients to develop better business processes prior to building out any systems. We are expert business consultants, and we love technology and use the powerful tool of Salesforce to help business owners scale in ways they couldn’t accomplish alone. We are experts in Salesforce implementation for small, medium, and mid-market businesses, and we’re highly developed consultants that have solved an extensive amount of business problems. Do you want to advance your consulting skills? Let us help you take your career to the next level! Immense Impact We partner with growth businesses to help them scale and create sustainable companies. In every case, we fully own the project lifecycle and make transformational changes every day. We treat our clients’ businesses as our own, and we see the needle move fast. We do not provide managed services to our clients, so the majority of our work is exciting and greenfield. Our projects are well defined, and designed to move clients forward. The concrete impact we have is visible and extremely fulfilling. Flexibility FSM has been working remotely since day one—not out of necessity, but to create a culture of flexibility and autonomy. You can work wherever you would like, and business travel is typically not required since we work remotely with our clients. At FSM, we do not micromanage, and we expect our people to be self-motivated. You control your own schedule and decide the hours you work. High Achievement Check us out on the Salesforce AppExchange to see the reviews of our work. We are a collaborative and team-based company that pursues excellence in everything that we do. We do things the right way, and we do them together, as a team.

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