Business Development Rep

knak; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

competitive salaries

equity in the company

great benefits

paid vacation

Life leave days

team lunches

off-sites

Job summary

Knak, based in Ottawa, is seeking an extraordinary Business Development Representative to seek new business opportunities by contacting and developing relationships with potential customers. You will be instrumental in driving growth through proactive outreach, relationship building, and market research.

Ideal candidates are curious, personable, and motivated, with a track record in customer-facing roles and strong communication and negotiation skills.

Qualifications

• University Degree (Commerce or STEM is a plus).
• Experience in a customer facing, service environment.
• Understanding of sales performance metrics and how to utilize them.
• Familiarity with MS Excel (analyzing spreadsheets and charts).
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Naturally curious and confident.

Responsibilities

• Generate leads by leveraging sales strategies to draw in new customers.
• Contacting potential clients through cold calls, emails, and creative outreach strategies
• Presenting our company and product value to customers by identifying client needs and suggesting appropriate products/services
• Building long-term trusting relationships with customers and potential clients
• Proactively researching and seeking new business opportunities by identifying markets or potential partnerships.
• Following up with existing clients and leads that went cold to develop new opportunities.
• Stay up-to-date with new products/services and new pricing/payment plans
• Contributing to the development of our outbound sales strategy.

Skills

communication skills

negotiation

customer facing

curiosity

Education

University degree

Tools

MS Excel

Job description

Knak is a mission-driven company

Why? Because our time is limited, our competition is fierce, and our margin for error is small. For us to have the greatest impact on the world, we need to be laser focused on our core mission, which is...

Empowering people to be creative.

That's why Knak exists.

We are a world-class enterprise email and landing page creation platform with a focus on making successful and happy customers by providing them with an incredibly powerful, yet easy to use creation platform.

Our industry leading SaaS solution is built by Marketers, for Marketers. We know that it's the small things that make the biggest impact and that emails and landing pages are where the rubber hits the road when it comes to Marketing Automation. We change the way Marketers work by making them more efficient, while improving conversion rate of their campaigns and helping them stay on brand.

Oh, and we have a bit of fun while doing it, too!

The Role

We are searching for an extraordinary Business Development Representative. Your role will be to seek new business opportunities by contacting and developing relationships with potential customers. To be successful in this role, you should be innately curious, passionate, focused and driven. You will use your communication skills to cultivate strong relationships with customers and will be a big part of helping drive our continued success.

What You'll Do

• Generate leads by leveraging sales strategies to draw in new customers.
• Contacting potential clients through cold calls, emails, and creative outreach strategies
• Presenting our company and product value to customers by identifying client needs and suggesting appropriate products/services
• Building long-term trusting relationships with customers and potential clients
• Proactively researching and seeking new business opportunities by identifying markets or potential partnerships.
• Following up with existing clients and leads that went cold to develop new opportunities.
• Stay up-to-date with new products/services and new pricing/payment plans
• Contributing to the development of our outbound sales strategy.

What You Bring

• University Degree (Commerce or STEM is a plus)
• Experience in a customer facing, service environment.
• Understanding of sales performance metrics and how to utilize them.
• Familiarity with MS Excel (analyzing spreadsheets and charts)
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Naturally curious and confident.

What We Offer

At Knak we have four foundational pillars. Culture, customers, product and growth. Culture is our number one pillar because we know that is at the core of building a strong company that can build amazing products and delight our customers. We do this with a laser focus on hiring the right people who are smart, positive and who want more than the typical nine-to-five offers.

We offer an extremely rewarding, second to none work environment as acknowledged by Ottawa's Best Places to Work 2025 !

• competitive salaries
• equity in the company
• great benefits
• paid vacation
• Life leave days (because life happens)
• team lunches
• off-sites

and most importantly our commitment to YOUR career growth.

We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientations, and life experiences to apply. Knak believes in creating an inclusive, barrier-free working environment.

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