Would you like to work in a dynamic sales-growth role?
Do you enjoy facilitating the early stages of sales cycles?
Join our exciting sales development team
Our Sales Development Team partners with the Field Marketing organization to guide the early stages of the sales cycle and assist with new customer acquisition. We work closely with other teams to follow-up on campaigns and events to increase pipeline and generate demand for new customer revenue opportunities.
Become a trusted advisor to customers
As a Sales Development Representative, you will identify and qualify enterprise account leads and opportunities. You will focus on analyzing business needs by conducting information-gathering and pre-qualify opportunities through phone, social and email engagement. You will be generating qualified opportunities for regional sales teams.
As a Sales Development Representative, you will be responsible for:
- Identifying, prospecting and penetrating target accounts to achieve pipeline and booking sourced goals
- Updating lead and prospect activity in SalesLoft to optimize sales and marketing processes
- Collaborating in a business-to-business sales environment to position our technology solutions to a varied audience
- Setting qualified introductory meetings for sales representatives and nurturing top-of-funnel pipeline
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 2 years of related industry work experience and a bachelor's degree or demonstrate relevant, equivalent experience
- Have experience identifying business needs through information-gathering and pre-qualifying opportunities
- Have experience engaging with customers and prospects via phone, email and social strategies
- Be comfortable speaking with IT decision makers via various mediums
- Have experience with Microsoft Office, Salesforce, or similar CRM solutions
- Enjoy working in a team and have a desire to grow in the organization
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
Skills Required
- Two years of related industry work experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience
- Experience identifying business needs and pre-qualifying opportunities
- Experience engaging customers and prospects by phone, email, and social channels
- Comfort speaking with IT decision makers
- Experience with Microsoft Office, Salesforce, or similar CRM solutions
- Team-oriented mindset and desire to grow within the organization
Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.
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What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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