We are currently recruiting for opportunities on our SDR team in Phoenix, AZ. If you're passionate about sales and excited by the opportunity to join a high-growth, innovative company, we encourage you to submit your profile. We’ll reach out when a suitable role becomes available.
In support of our continued growth, Darktrace is looking for smart, coachable, and ambitious teammates to join our Sales Development Academy. Learn more about the program by visiting darktrace.com/sdr-academy and discover how you can launch your career in tech sales with a global leader in AI cybersecurity.
In this role, you will attend courses to learn cyber security 101, Cold Calling 101, and Sales Development 101, helping you establish the skills needed to grow Darktrace’s business. You’ll be reaching out to potential new customers, pitching Darktrace as a solution to their cyber security needs. This is a hybrid position (50% in office / 50% remote).
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Engaging with new prospective customers and representing Darktrace across your region, identifying all potential business opportunities.
- Identifying key decision makers whilst developing and qualifying new business opportunities within the targeted markets through cold calling, event recruitment and high-level prospecting.
- Articulating the value proposition and helping the customer understand how it will improve their business’s information security.
- Earning trust and developing relationships with senior executives by displaying knowledge, professionalism and relevance to business issues.
- Meeting set targets and working closely with Marketing and Sales by methodically working on and following up on a variety of sales campaigns.
- Maintaining quality relationships with your manager and external customer-facing Account Executives to support new business growth.
- Consistently achieving quarterly and annual KPIs.
- Booking direct one-to-one meetings at customers’ sites and at trade shows.
- Writing succinct emails to highlight the capabilities of our offering.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Strong execution of sales plays.
- Confident and well versed in cold calling. Ability to pivot and handle objections well.
- Ability to analyze and use account data to strategically map territories.
- Create Territory Plans and manage weekly execution.
- Consistent use of creative channels and research.
- Master on all sales tools and features (Salesforce, Salesloft, Zoominfo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator)
- Ability to build strong relationships with collaborating teams.
- Visible leader of the team, helping drive adoption of new initiatives and motivating others.
- Ability to consistently achieve quotas.
- Hybrid work model 3 days a week in office
