Community Sales & Outreach (Part-Time)

Mission Statement

Mind Your Ink is on a mission to make the tattoo artist admin experience and client booking experience better through tattooer-driven features focused on independence, crafted to be flexible to the way they work best, rather than fitting them into a box. While we started focusing on just the tattoo booking process, we've expanded to help tattoo artists solve their pain points in all parts of the tattooer admin and business experience.

Mind Your Ink is fiercely independent as a business, respectfully supporting the tattoo industry rather than trying to take it over. We seek to empower artists rather than choosing to exploit them. We believe Mind Your Ink's services and platform should be accessible to all and support our tattoo artists' lives and businesses rather than control them. We believe, with the right, thoughtfully-crafted tools, services, and solutions, any tattoo artist can thrive in their art, craft, and business.

We pride ourselves on having an amazing user retention rate, being the only platform (that we know of) with client reviews (and rave ones at that), and for excellent customer service. Most of all, tattoo artists and clients will always come first, in all decisions of our business.

The Role: Part-Time Community Sales & Outreach

What this role looks like

Your job is to tell as many people about our product as possible and help us find artists that will benefit from Mind Your Ink as much as our current customers have, and sign them up as happy paying customers. We want artists that sign up and are delighted to be still using Mind Your Ink years later! We prioritize quality over quantity in signups, which is why there's a retention bonus. In onboarding a tattoo artist to the platform, we're asking them to change a major part of their business process, so we want to make sure it's the right fit.

We expect this role to include three main pillars, done in the best way you see fit:

1) Drive Sales (Primary importance)

You'll own the path from first conversation to onboarded, paying customer. That means being systematic about how you define your outreach, track leads and opportunities, and follow up, plus being comfortable closing, including getting to the negotiation stage and driving signups and retention. Traditional sales experience helps here, especially if you've had to get creative and pivot when the standard method didn't fit. Just as important, we don't push our product on artists it isn't right for. If someone isn't a good fit, we'd rather you help us understand why (see pillar #3).

Typical activities:

• Build and manage your own pipeline of artists and shops
• Guide artists through trial signup as needed and help them move their booking process over to Mind Your Ink so they stick
• Follow up with trial users and recent signups to keep them engaged through their first months
• Track your opportunities and commissions in our internal dashboard

2) Grow the Brand (Secondary importance)

Tattoo artists often find tools through word of mouth and by seeing what other artists use. You'll contribute to Mind Your Ink's presence in the community: the person who shows up where artists already gather, knows the platform inside and out, and can have a real conversation about how it fits into how they run their business. But we'd much rather you have two in-depth conversations than hand out twenty business cards.

Typical activities:

• Represent MYI at conventions, meetups, flash events, etc.
• Run informal demos and walkthroughs for artists and shops
• Build relationships with shop owners, artists, and adjacent businesses (suppliers, studios, educators) that can refer artists to us
• Help us identify the events, communities, and channels worth investing in

3) Market Signal Detection (Tertiary importance)

You'll be closer to new-to-us tattoo artists, which makes you a great source of signal about what they actually need. We take this feedback seriously, and we love hearing "it would be great if Mind Your Ink could…" Probably 80% of the platform's roadmap has been defined hand-in-hand with tattoo artists, and creating connections through collaboration (and us executing on the feedback) ultimately makes signing up new artists easier for you.

Typical activities:

• Relay feature requests, objections, and pain points back to the team
• Flag patterns you notice in why artists say yes, no, or "not yet"
• Share what competitors and workarounds artists are using instead
• Connect artists with us for product conversations or feedback sessions

Ultimately, the best candidate for this role is somebody who's excited to grow a genuinely grassroots business with us. We're very open to the person in this role in the future becoming a full-time integral member of our small team. Our dream is that in a year we can say, "The best thing we did for Mind Your Ink in 2026 was hiring your name here!"

How you'll be measured

Success in this role would be to sign up and retain tattoo artists and shops and build brand awareness for Mind Your Ink in your local community. Your compensation is aligned with the three pillars we stated above. Your contract will pay based on the number of signups you are able to drive, and the monthly fixed base retainer is tied to delivering on a coordinated campaign and your ability to provide us with artist feedback as you engage with folks in the community. We expect a high level of activity in terms of engaging with artists who have not heard of Mind Your Ink, and driving a lot of new signups and happy customers will also drive how much you get paid.

What you're like in our dreams

We're looking for somebody who's curious by nature, easy to talk to, and who might be described as a "super-connector." This role requires the ability to engage someone who's automatically suspicious and skeptical (for valid reasons) of non-tattoo-industry people and companies. We've found that being transparent and genuine is key to building relationships with folks who otherwise might not give you the time of day. You don't have to be tattooed yourself, but should be interested in and passionate about the artist culture and want to help them live their best lives.

Being a small, scrappy team, we're all hyper independent and autonomous. We're not going to tell you what to do! That being said, we hold our team to high standards, and we will expect the same of you. We hope that you'll bring not just sales execution but strategy and campaign thinking and experience. You should have experience in and the ability to build structure from scratch and define processes, both in finding prospects and managing them. And while you know what's worked well in the past, you can take that and adapt it to a new challenge. You'll structure your own approach, but we'll be there to compare notes and provide support.

What a good month looks like

A great month for someone in this role usually includes things like:

• Being introduced to new artists or shops through tattooers already using Mind Your Ink or through other connections in the industry
• Doing demos of the site or app to artists who've expressed interest (either IRL, virtually, or a speedy quick walkthrough at a convention)
• Spending time where tattoo artists are and coming back with leads (conventions, flash days, guest spots, shop events, meetups, etc.)
• Keeping in touch with tattoo artists you've brought on, so they actually shift to using the platform and you earn the retention commission
• Sharing with us a short note on what you're hearing from your conversations. For potential users, things like what artists are looking for, what their pain points are, what other tools they're using, and what's stopping them from switching. For users who've started using the platform, things like feedback on the platform experience, feature ideas or improvements, and where there's friction.

How you organize, execute, and get there is totally up to you. We're here to support and take action on any feedback you give us.

Requirements

• Location: Austin preferred; also open to comparable large cities with a healthy tattoo scene.
• Authorized to work in the U.S.
• Ability to invoice as an independent contractor; this is a non-employee, contractor role where you'll invoice and receive a 1099.
• Your own phone, laptop, and way to get around town. We cover convention and event admission and parking; local travel is on you and is reflected in the retainer.

Compensation

This is an independent contractor role. You'll invoice us monthly for a $500 fixed base retainer plus commission on the artists and shops you bring on. There's no commission cap.

The commission is split into three parts. Signing up to explore a new process is an easy step, but finding a tattoo artist who's actually ready to move their booking process over and stick with it is the work we're paying for.

What that adds up to

A realistic, conservative target for someone working ~15 hours/month is 3 new paid artists per month once you're up to speed and have found an approach that works well for you. At that pace you'd earn about $700/month while your first customers mature, and around $1,200/month from month four on, as the retention commissions start landing. Signing up a small or large shop (our "whale," so to speak) would increase that.

For us, retention isn't a long shot. Tattoo artists who make the switch to start using Mind Your Ink for their booking tend to stay for the long run. Using a booking tool is a big process change for artists, but one that most tend to find genuinely beneficial, and they don't look back. Most of your commission is tied to artists sticking around, and we'll be here to support via onboarding and customer service to help make you and them as successful as possible. The 2-week free trial is usually where we see drop-off, not because they aren't interested, but because they don't have an afternoon or the level of focus to sit down and get the transition done. Sometimes all it takes is a little nudge reminder; other times we'll actually sit down virtually with them to help them get it done. We'll want your help with that, and we'll give you a setup checklist or format that works for you so it's easy.

How to Apply

Email [email protected] and write a paragraph about why you think you'd be successful in this role. Consider sharing any sales, outreach, or community-building experience. No resume required, though feel free to attach one or link to your LinkedIn if you'd like. We read every email and will reply either way.