Business Development Representative - NL
Algolia
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Posted:
August 1, 2023
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Hybrid
About the position
We are seeking highly driven individuals with strong technical aptitude and natural sales instincts to join our growing sales organization at Algolia. As a Business Development Representative (BDR), you will play a critical role in prospecting and expanding business opportunities for our Dutch speaking Enterprise and Commercial teams. This role requires a hunter attitude, autonomy, and the ability to take direction. We are looking for candidates who are resilient problem solvers, creative in their outreach, and who value transparency and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Enterprise or Commercial teams to build a global pipeline and strategies for approaching targeted accounts
- Identify and prospect key contacts at target accounts to establish strong and lasting relationships
- Execute appropriate strategies by creating content such as case studies, screencasts, presentations, and demo hacks
- Share best practices and participate in projects within the Sales Development organization
- Manage, track, and report sales activities and results using SFDC
- Prioritize problem-solving and perseverance in a changing and growing environment
- Trust co-workers and take ownership of tasks
- Give and receive constructive feedback
- Care about team members, clients, and company decisions
- Learn from others and put ego aside
- Have prior experience in lead generation and sales (SaaS experience preferred)
- Be highly motivated and competitive
- Possess excellent communication and writing skills
- Have fluency in spoken and written English and Dutch
- Quickly learn and adapt to change
- Demonstrate success in overachieving professionally and personally
- Have a keen interest in the tech industry
- Be comfortable in a high-growth, high-change environment
- Live Algolia's values of grit, trust, candor, care, and humility
Requirements
- Prior experience in lead generation and sales (SaaS experience preferred, but not required)
- Highly motivated with a competitive edge
- Communication and writing skills are on point
- Excellent spoken and written English & Dutch skills required
- Strong ability to quickly learn and adapt to change
- Demonstrated success overachieving (professionally/ personally)
- Keen interest in the tech industry
- Experience at our current stage and beyond ($50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure)
- GRIT - Problem-solving and perseverance capability in an ever-changing and growing environment.
- TRUST - Willingness to trust our co-workers and to take ownership.
- CANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback.
- CARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company.
- HUMILITY - Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside.
Benefits
- Flexible workplace model with the ability to work remotely
- Emphasis on individual impact, contribution, and output over physical location
- High-trust environment with autonomy to choose where and when to work
- Opportunities for intentional in-person connection in offices and virtually for remote colleagues
- Global presence with physical offices in multiple locations
- Pioneer and market leader in AI-powered, API-First Search & Discovery platform
- Empowers businesses to compose customer experiences at internet scale
- Powers more than 30 billion search requests a week
- Well-capitalized company with significant funding and valuation
- Inclusive and diverse workplace that embraces talented people from all backgrounds