Sales Development Representative - German Speaking London, England
Job description
Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly's edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers' applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly's customers include many of the world's most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.
We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.
Sales Development Representative - German Speaking
Looking to get into tech sales? No tech experience? That's okay - we'll teach you everything you need to know through our extensive onboarding program! Fastly is looking for individuals who are passionate about an extraordinary work environment and are motivated to exceed expectations and advance their career in B2B software sales. Your efforts directly contribute to Fastly's top-line revenue growth. As a Sales Development Representative, you are responsible for uncovering, sourcing, educating, nurturing, and developing sales leads into qualified opportunities from key accounts that will close and add to Fastly's growing customer base. You are focused on identifying opportunities and building relationships with prospects and leveraging your experience to make an impact.
What You'll Do
- Research and prospect into Target Accounts
- Cold call, email & leverage LinkedIn for strategic outreach
- Utilize lead generation tools like LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Salesforce, Outreach, ZoomInfo, LeadIQ
- Act as a collaborative strategic partner to Account Executives
- Exceed specific daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly pipeline metrics to help achieve sales goals
Work Hours: This position will require you to work during scheduled hours from 9:00 am - 6:00 pm GMT with 1 hour break for Lunch, Monday to Friday.
What We're Looking For
Basic Qualifications:
- Proven track record of success and thrive in a metrics-driven culture.
- Fluent in German.
- At the core, you are curious and desire to meet a customer's unarticulated and unmet needs.
- Demonstrate an insatiable desire to learn and improve.
- Adaptable, professional, courteous, and motivated with a strong work ethic.
- Can get things done despite obstacles or challenges.
- Ability to proactively resolve problems in a timely manner; develop alternative solutions.
- Understands customer requirements and identifies business challenges that Fastly can solve.
- Have a desire to work hard, exceed expectations, and outperform their quotas.
- A student by nature - not only accepts feedback but seeks it out. Not afraid to ask for help.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in sales or the tech space
- SaaS/cloud experience, Salesforce experience, Outreach, Zoominfo, Cognism, Drift
- Proven ability to influence others and create a sense of urgency
Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements
Preferred locations for this position are:
- London, United Kingdom
Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.
This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.
Benefits
We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings?
- We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to meet your needs. Our offerings may vary depending on the country where you work and are subject to change.
Why Fastly?
We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
We love distributed teams. Fastly's home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe.
We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful - every day.
We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we're not 'one size fits all'. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.
We're always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.
Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your Recruiter, or the Fastly Employee Relations team at [email protected] or 501-287-4901.
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