Business Development Representative

Posted 15hrs ago

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Business Development Representative generating qualified Cloud and AI pipeline for DigitalOcean. Researching accounts, engaging technical buyers, and qualifying opportunities for Account Executives.

Responsibilities:

  • Support the AMER market and generate high-quality pipeline across Cloud and AI use cases
  • Drive outbound pipeline creation through targeted, data-driven prospecting across email, phone, and social channels
  • Research and prioritize accounts using business, growth, hiring, technology, and intent signals
  • Build prospecting hypotheses and create curated outbound messaging
  • Identify and engage technical decision makers and influencers across engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, data, and AI teams
  • Follow up on inbound leads and understand customer needs, workload, timing, and reason for engaging
  • Conduct first discovery and qualification conversations
  • Set qualified meetings and generate high-quality opportunities for Account Executives
  • Articulate DigitalOcean's value proposition across Cloud, AI, and developer-focused solutions
  • Partner with Account Executives on account strategy, prioritization, messaging, and follow-up
  • Collaborate with Sales and Marketing on outbound motions, campaigns, and account-based initiatives
  • Maintain accurate and timely prospect and customer activity in the CRM for pipeline management, forecasting, and reporting

Requirements:

  • Previous experience in B2B sales development, business development, or another prospecting-focused sales role, with meaningful exposure to outbound prospecting
  • Experience researching accounts and contacts and creating non-generic outreach
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills across email, phone, and social selling
  • Comfort engaging technical personas
  • Ability to learn unfamiliar technical concepts quickly and communicate them clearly
  • Good prioritization judgment
  • Self-driven, results-oriented mindset and ability to work independently in a remote environment
  • Openness to feedback, coaching, and continuous improvement
  • Ownership of results and ability to adjust approach when needed
  • Strong organizational and time-management skills
  • Collaborative approach to working with Account Executives and peers across a distributed team
  • Previous experience selling technology products or services is a big advantage
  • Experience prospecting into engineering, DevOps, platform, infrastructure, data, security, or AI personas is a big advantage
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, developer tools, IaaS, PaaS, data platforms, or AI/ML is a big advantage
  • Experience working in a global or high-growth technology company is a big advantage
  • Experience with Salesforce, Outreach, Salesloft, ZoomInfo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, or similar sales tools is a big advantage
  • Experience working successfully in a remote or distributed sales environment is a big advantage
  • Bachelor's Degree strongly preferred

Benefits:

  • Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Local Employee Meetups
  • Flexible time off policy
  • Bonus eligibility based on company and individual performance
  • Equity compensation, including equity grants upon hire
  • Option to participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Program