Love working with customers and providing outstanding service and support? Enjoy being part of a team that revolves around efficiency and satisfaction? Percona is adding to our sales team with a focus on building long-lasting relationships with our customers.
The primary focus of the Inside Sales Representative is to sell solutions and services to new and existing Percona customers. This is a hunter role, with a heavy emphasis on new business development.
As an Inside Sales Representative, you will sell to an assigned geographic territory with the goal of generating revenue and managing customer relationships. This is a role for a person who can thrive in an environment that is continually growing and changing.
The territory for this role will be Northeast.
What You Will Do
- Sell products and services in high volume, low value, short cycle transactions
- Sell via inbound/outbound calls
- Manage and close opportunities through accurate forecasting, account strategy, and planning
- Generate sales leads and increase pipeline through demand generation and targeted campaigns
- Collaborate with Marketing and business development team design territory prospecting strategy
- Have in-depth knowledge of Percona products and technologies, competitors, industry trends
- Executive level discussions from VP to CXO and solution selling
What You Have Done
- BS or BA degree or equivalent experience
- Software sales experience with a heavy focus on net new logo a must
- Minimum of 2 successful years in a customer facing, closing role
- Proven ability to manage complex sales cycles
- Track record of successful revenue attainment against quota
- Excellent communication/negotiating/closing skills with customers/prospects
- Aggressive, great attitude, strong organizational skills
- Advanced knowledge using Microsoft Office or Google Docs
- Experience using SalesForce.com
- Customer-first approach
- Team player and capable to work independently
- Adaptable to changes and open minded
Percona is a leader in providing best-of-breed enterprise-class support, consulting, managed services, training and software for MySQL®, MariaDB®, MongoDB®, PostgreSQL® and other open source databases in on-premises and cloud environments. Our services and software accommodate rapid growth and application development, help companies develop and deploy agile solutions and improve your ability to keep up with customer needs.
Percona open source database expertise helps businesses avoid downtime and outages, meet customer experience expectations, foster operational and developer collaboration and manage enterprise risks through sound database architecture frameworks.
Discover what it means to work with some of the smartest people in the industry, and help solve some of the most challenging customer problems. We offer flexible hours, competitive salaries, the ability to work remotely and the amazing experience of working with a multinational team of experts.
What We Do
Percona is a leader in providing best-of-breed enterprise-class support, consulting, managed services, training and software for MySQL®, MariaDB®, MongoDB®, PostgreSQL® and other open source databases in on-premises and cloud environments. With Percona's open source database expertise, your business can avoid downtime and outages, meet expected customer experience, foster operational and developer collaboration, and manage enterprise risks through sound database architecture frameworks.
Our global experts are available 24x7x365 and have worked with over 3,000 clients worldwide – including the largest technology companies.
Percona is the champion of unbiased open source database solutions and provides the best solution for our customers regardless of their database architecture or platform. Our software is 100% free and open source, and is a drop-in replacement for MySQL and MongoDB databases.
Percona was founded in August 2006 by Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko and now employs over 250 people (and growing!) located in almost 40 countries. Our large and diverse customer list boasts one of the highest renewal rates in the business. Our expertise is visible in our widely read Percona Database Performance blog and our book High Performance MySQL.
