Business Development Representative Chicago, Illinois

Intercom; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Fin, now part of Salesforce, is a leader in AI-driven customer experience solutions. The Base salary range for the Greater Chicago Area is $40.10-$47.91 per hour, with annual OTE $83,400-$99,653. Fin offers a hybrid policy and emphasizes growth from within the Sales organization.

We are seeking a Business Development Representative to drive revenue growth by engaging with prospects, generating pipeline, and helping customers understand Fin’s value. Join a fast-moving team at Fin.

Qualifications

• 1+ year of customer-facing work experience (Sales and/or SaaS experience is a +).
• Experience with enterprise sized accounts.
• Strong prospecting and multi-channel outreach skills.
• Familiarity with SFDC, Outreach, Cognism, Zoominfo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Account Targeting: build and prioritize target account lists with executives.
• Expert Enterprise Prospecting: generate pipeline via cold calls, emails, LinkedIn.
• Exceptional Prospect Experience: spark interest and introduce Fin's value.
• Product & Market Acumen: understand Fin's product suite and value.
• Cross-Functional Optimization: work with Marketing, Sales Ops, and Product.

Job description

Fin , now part of Salesforce, is on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences.

Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey, from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk, giving modern support teams one single system.

Together with Salesforce, the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success, we're building the future of customer experience. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword, it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing, and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI.

Ready to level up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place. Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

What's the opportunity?

As a Business Development Representative, you will play a critical role in driving revenue growth for the Fin Sales organization through effective pipeline generation. Our role is to lay the foundation for Fin Sales by engaging with prospects and customers, helping them understand the value of Fin through creative & engaging prospecting.

We invest in our BDRs. We strongly believe in giving our team the opportunities to grow & develop at Fin, to push themselves outside of their comfort zones to achieve goals they never thought possible. In joining the Business Development team at Fin, you join a community that believes in development and promotion from within. We’re looking for people who are excited to work in a fast-moving company, make an impact, and rapidly develop their career in sales.

As a BDR team, we empower one another to achieve our goals, exceed expectations and continue to deliver real business impact. We’re looking for a teammate to do the same!

What will I be doing?

• Strategic Account Targeting: Partner with Enterprise Account Executives to build and prioritize highly strategic target account lists. This includes deep dives into firmographics, technographics, and intent data to identify top opportunities.
• Expert Enterprise Prospecting: Generate new business pipeline through expert cold calling, highly personalized email, and targeted LinkedIn social selling. You'll consistently attract new, large-scale customers by crafting hyper-personalized messaging for C-level executives, orchestrating multi-threaded outreach campaigns, and leveraging sales intelligence tools to uncover critical insights and pain points.
• Exceptional Prospect Experience: Deliver an outstanding and tailored experience for prospective enterprise customers, acting as the initial point of contact and ensuring a high-value introduction to our solutions. You'll articulate Fin's value as a trusted advisor.
• Product & Market Acumen: Maintain a comprehensive understanding of Fin's product suite and its value proposition.
• Cross-Functional Optimization: Collaborate with Marketing, Sales Operations, and Product to improve business processes that directly impact enterprise pipeline generation and conversion, providing valuable field feedback.

What skills do I need?

• Strong desire to build a career in Sales, you want to be an Account Executive or a closing based role in the future
• 1+ year of customer-facing work experience (Sales and/or SaaS experience is a +)
• Experience and success from working with Enterprise sized accounts.
• Operational Excellence: You can use your time in an effective and efficient manner to complete revenue driving activities, you can quickly identify where to focus your efforts to drive more pipeline.
• Competitive Landscape & Industry Knowledge is crucial. You’ll bring an understanding of the SaaS landscape and our target verticals. You always want to stay on top of the latest news & industry trends.
• Prospecting skills (cold calling, email, social): You know how to leverage modern sales engagement tools to deliver prospect engagement across multiple channels (phone, email, LinkedIn)
• Communication: You can articulate your thoughts and express ideas effectively using verbal, written and non-verbal communication skills (to inform, instruct, and persuade), to different audiences. You listen effectively and love to partner and collaborate with your peers
• Growth Mindset: You’re self-aware and understand both your strengths and weaknesses. You understand every day is an opportunity to be 1% better than the day before. You proactively seek feedback.
• Results Oriented: You bring a never settle approach to quota, progression and team development. Results oriented BDRs are hungry to succeed and raise the bar.
• Bachelor's Degree preferred
• Familiarity with these systems and tools: (SFDC, Outreach, Cognism, Zoominfo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator)

The base salary range for candidates within the Greater Chicago Area is $40.10-$47.91 per hour, along with incentive compensation ranging from approximately $25,020 - $29,896. For full-time employment, the estimated all-in annual compensation range (OTE) is $83,400 - $99,653. Actual hourly rate will depend on a variety of factors such as education, skills, experience, location, and other relevant considerations. The hourly pay rate and incentive compensation is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This range is a good faith estimate only; actual compensation will vary based on hours worked and individual and company performance. This is a non-exempt, hourly position, and employees in this position are therefore eligible for overtime compensation in accordance with applicable law. All regular employees may also be eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive, as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

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