Madrid, Madrid, Spain
As the Outbound Sales Development Representative, you will:
- Lead the development of new business and represent Upbound as the first touch of the sales cycle.
- Help grow sales and marketing operations from the ground up.
- Act as the critical bridge between sales and marketing lead lifecycles.
- Work directly with our Crossplane community and evangelize high-impact solutions to an engaged open-source user base.
This role will be working directly with our AE in Ireland (UTC +1 / Irish Standard Time).
Responsibilities include:
- Conduct outreach to community-qualified leads and engaged accounts, finding creative ways to engage with the Crossplane community and help businesses scale.
- Research and outreach to high-intent, marketing-qualified accounts, leveraging marketing data to identify key personas at large companies.
- Generate new sales opportunities by engaging with community members and target accounts.
- Identify companies in specific market segments, target personas, and generate SQLs.
- Make outbound calls, send emails, and LinkedIn messages to qualify potential clients.
- Engage in meaningful conversations to understand prospects' challenges.
- Assist with sales and marketing operations, including event coordination.
Qualifications:
- 1-2 years of experience as an SDR, demand generation specialist, or related field.
- Experience in at least one of the following areas: DevOps, GitOps, cloud native, or similar industry.
- Experience selling to an open-source community.
- Comfortable working in a technical space; open-source and infrastructure experience is preferred.
- Strong relationship-building, networking, and communication skills.
- Experience with marketing and sales tools such as Hubspot, Salesforce, Marketo, Zoominfo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, etc.
- Thrives in small teams and makes a significant impact.
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or related sales field, or equivalent experience.
Preferred qualifications:
- Familiarity with Crossplane.
- Knowledge of CNCF open-source projects.
- Experience working at a Series A, B, or C startup.
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