MinIO is the industry leader in high-performance object storage and the company behind the world’s fastest, most widely deployed object store, powering production infrastructure for more than half of the Fortune 500, including 9 of the 10 largest global automakers and all 10 of the largest U.S. banks. Our enterprise offering, AIStor, is engineered to handle the scale, speed, and pressure of modern AI and analytics, from terabytes to exabytes, all in a single namespace.
We are looking for a Business Development Representative for Europe. We will train the successful candidate(s) on developing outbound sales strategies, managing customer relationships, and leveraging technical tools for effective communication. You will be responsible for identifying potential conversion opportunities (with lots of help), navigating sales opportunities, and fostering long-term relationships with key decision-makers in the industry.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who thrives in a target-driven environment and has a passion for problem solving. BDR career paths can go into sales or marketing as much of the work will depend on your research skills and writing ability.
The BDR role will join an existing team and will have geographic focus and thus will work closely with the sales team in that geography on a day to day basis.
What You Will Do
- Leverage MinIO’s intelligence systems to identify potential prospects and generate leads.
- Develop strategies to convert existing MinIO’s vast ecosystem of open source users into commercial customers.
- Develop strategies to attract new enterprise customers to the MinIO value proposition.
- Craft creative, personalized emails and email sequences to articulate the value of a commercial relationship with the goal of meetings and opportunities. Collaborate with internal teams to create compelling sales presentations and proposals.
- Keep abreast of industry trends, competitors, and market conditions.
- Provide feedback and insights to the sales and marketing team to enhance lead generation efforts.
- Constantly assess the data on the work, continuously optimizing it.
- Manage the entire sales cycle, from prospecting to closure, ensuring customer satisfaction.
- Utilize the full suite of technology tools (SFDC, Hubspot, Outreach) tools to track interactions, progress, and conversions.
Your Skills and Experience:
- 3-5 years of experience in the software industry, with a focus on data infrastructure SaaS solutions.
- Outstanding writing and phone communication skills, capable of engaging and persuading C-level executives.
- Highly creative approach to sales and problem-solving, with a track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets.
- Proficiency in email sequencing and platforms, with a strong understanding of digital communication tools.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Software, Data Analytics or a related field preferred.
- Fluent English and German are a strong plus.
MinIO is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
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What We Do
MinIO has pioneered the creation of high-performance, kubernetes-native object storage. Their open source, software-defined, Amazon S3 compatible object storage system is optimized for the private cloud. It is the world's fastest growing object storage company, with more than 415M Docker pulls and more than 24K GitHub Stars.
Enterprises use MinIO to deliver against ML/AI, analytics, application, backup and archival workloads - all from a single platform.
The world's fastest object storage server, MinIO offers READ/WRITE speeds of 183 GB/s and 171 GB/s on standard hardware. In addition, MinIO was built from scratch in the last four years and is native to the technologies and architectures that define the cloud. These include containerization, orchestration with Kubernetes, microservices and multi-tenancy.
MinIO offers a host of enterprise features including inline erasure coding, bit-rot detection, state-of-the-art encryption, active-active replication, object locking, lifecycle management and identity + access management.
Commercial licenses and support are available through the MinIO Subscription Network. The Subscription Network is designed to optimize deployments of MinIO and reduce the risk associated with data loss and data breach while providing 24/7/365 direct-to-engineering support.
