Business Development Representative
About AvePoint:
A five-time winner of the Microsoft Partner of the Year award, AvePoint provides the most advanced platform for SaaS and data management to optimize SaaS operations and secure collaboration. More than 9 million cloud users rely on our solutions to secure digital collaboration data, sustain connections between people and ensure business resiliency in the modern digital workplace.
At AvePoint, we are committed to investing in our people. Agility, passion and teamwork set us up to do our best work and foster a culture where you are empowered to craft your career, make an impact, and own (y)our future. Unleash the power of you!
About the position:
As a Business Development Representative (BDR), your role is to find and create new sales opportunities via prospecting and conducting cold outreach. You’ll identify organizations’ current and future IT challenges to help match AvePoint products and support services to those needs. If you’re driven and eager to hit the ground running with your sales career, as well as learn about the corporate landscape, then we want to hear from you!
Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Researching, identifying, and qualifying potential customer organizations and prospects
- Positioning AvePoint effectively to facilitate a high conversion of leads to qualified pipeline opportunities by executing and communicating effective product and solution based messaging
- Working with sales account executives to help prospect their territories
- Recording accurate customer data into our CRM system
What you will bring to our team:
- You need to be a self-motivated, out-of-the-box thinker with the ability to understand what a customer needs and articulate how AvePoint can help.
- You are also a team player who thrives on working collaboratively with both internal and external teams.
- Bachelor’s degree
- Prior cold calling experience (preferred)
- Excellent communication and listening skills
- A positive attitude and a persuasive manner
- Plenty of initiative and a hunger to learn
- Impeccable organizational and time management skills and the ability to think on your feet
- An ability to understand technical concepts and convey them to customers
AvePoint is proud to employ talent from many different backgrounds, experiences and identities. We believe that diversity and inclusion drives our success and is at the core of how we hire, communicate and collaborate to deliver value and excellence. We are committed to fostering an environment where people can bring their whole selves to work and feel a sense of belonging, and we continue to work toward creating a workforce that represents the diversity of our customers and communities.