Sales Development Representative

Job description

Verkada is excited to announce our Account Executive Development Program, “Verkademy”! As an SDR, you’ll be a part of the fastest growing company in Silicon Valley/SF with a short promotion path into a closing role! Ideal candidates should be passionate, high energy and a self-starter with the ability to adapt in a fast-paced sales organization.

Responsibilities

• Prospect, qualify, follow up and educate a high volume of cold leads into prospects
• Understand and uncover customer needs and business problems to effectively communicate how Verkada can solve them
• Pro-actively generate meetings and opportunities for Account Executives by positioning the value of Verkada
• Generate sales-ready meetings and opportunities for Account Executives
• Provide accurate lead distribution and thorough discovery to your assigned Account Executives
• Use Verkada Salesforce.com systems and sales enablement tools according to Verkada standards; provide metrics on leads
• Consistently achieve quota to ensure territory revenue and growth objectives
• Comfortable talking with prospects and internal/external customers and building relationships and monetizing them.
• Ability to work in a fast paced, changing environment while still providing quality opportunities and driving revenue.
• Strong entrepreneurial personality, self-motivated and self-managing.
• Capacity to develop relationships quickly over the phone with customers and technical audience.
• Strong team orientation and ability to build cross-functional relationships.
• Understanding of sales cycles and required qualification criteria.
• Ability to understand complex business environments and uncover customer issues, process problems, and translate need into business opportunities.

Requirements

• Highly motivated, driven and self-starting individual desire to be #1 and advance a career in Verkada’s sales Org
• Bachelor's Degree or relevant working experience
• Written & verbal communication skills in English
• Salesforce.com and Outreach experience is a plus
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week
• Must be eligible to work in the US
• You must be independently authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role, at this time.

Benefits

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily