Business Development Representative, Pressable

Automattic; United States; Remote; USD 50.000 - 65.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health benefits for US-based staff

401(k) matching

Life and disability insurance

Work from home setup

Open vacation policy

Learning resources

Zusammenfassung

Pressable, part of Automattic, seeks an experienced Business Development Representative to manage inbound leads and drive early sales engagement for WordPress hosting solutions. You will qualify prospects, educate them on features, and set meetings for senior team members in a fast-paced, AI-enabled environment.

You’ll collaborate with the sales team to ensure smooth handoffs, expand existing accounts, and contribute to a data-driven process that leverages AI insights while keeping human

Qualifikationen

• Must have excellent communication and customer-focused approach.
• Experience using CRM tools to manage leads and opportunities.
• Comfort with AI tools to support research and outreach.

Aufgaben

• Inbound Lead Qualification: respond to inquiries and qualify prospects based on needs.
• Prospect Engagement: generate interest via discovery calls, emails and chats.
• Meeting Scheduling: set up meetings for senior sales team.
• Product Education: explain Pressable’s features and benefits.
• CRM Management: maintain accurate lead data and activities.
• Collaboration: coordinate handoffs with senior sales team.

Kenntnisse

Excellent communication

Customer-focused

Self-motivated

Curiosity mindset

CRM experience

AI tools

Automation judgment

Adaptability

Outbound prospecting

Tools

Salesforce

HubSpot

Jobbeschreibung

Pressable (“WordPress hosting that means business") seeks an experienced, motivated, and empathetic professional with the expertise to help us meet or exceed aggressive growth goals for our superb WordPress hosting company, part of the Automattic family. We’re looking for a motivated and detail-oriented Business Development Representative (BDR) to join our sales team. This role is essential in driving the early stages of the sales process by handling inbound leads, answering questions from prospects, creating interest in our product, and setting up meetings for senior members of the team. The role is designed to leverage AI tools to improve speed, quality, and consistency across prospect research, discovery preparation, follow-ups, and internal documentation, while keeping human judgment and relationship-building at the center of the sales process. As a BDR, you will play a crucial role in building relationships with potential customers by understanding their needs, introducing them to our WordPress hosting solutions, and moving them through the sales funnel. You’ll be the first point of contact for many prospects, ensuring they have a positive experience with Pressable from the start. You’ll report to the Head of Sales & Enablement and work closely with our senior sales team to ensure seamless lead handoffs and smooth onboarding experiences.

Responsibilities

• Inbound Lead Qualification: Manage inbound leads by responding to inquiries, identifying potential opportunities, and qualifying prospects based on their needs.
• Prospect Engagement: Create interest and excitement around Pressable’s WordPress hosting solutions through initial discovery calls, emails, and chats.
• Meeting Scheduling: Set up and schedule meetings for senior sales team members to further engage qualified leads.
• Product Education: Educate prospects about Pressable’s features and benefits, ensuring they understand the value of our solutions.
• CRM Management: Track interactions with prospects, manage lead data, and update records in our CRM to ensure accurate information and follow-ups.
• Collaboration: Work closely with the senior sales team to ensure smooth handoffs for qualified leads and help drive deals forward.
• Customer Expansion & Retention: Engage with existing Pressable customers to identify expansion opportunities, support retention efforts, and assist with account-related sales activities, ensuring customers continue to receive sales support and value as their needs evolve.
• Continuous Learning: Stay up to date with Pressable’s product offerings, industry trends, and evolving best practices for AI-enabled sales execution and customer engagement.
• AI-Assisted Sales Execution: Use AI tools to support prospect research, call preparation, follow-up drafting, and deal summarization, ensuring high-quality and timely customer engagement.
• Signal & Insight Capture: Leverage call transcripts, summaries, and AI-generated insights to identify customer needs, objections, and next steps, and reflect those clearly in the CRM.
• Feedback Loop Participation: Contribute structured feedback surfaced through AI tools (e.g., call analysis, objection trends) to improve sales playbooks, enablement, and product feedback loops.
• Own monthly qualified meeting and pipeline generation targets, consistently hitting or exceeding defined conversion and activity benchmarks.

Requirements

• Excellent Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively interact with prospects and qualify leads.
• Customer-Focused: A passion for understanding customer needs and offering solutions to help solve their challenges.
• Self-Motivated: Ability to work independently and manage multiple conversations and tasks at once, ensuring timely follow-ups and outreach.
• Curiosity & Learning Mindset: A desire to learn about Pressable’s product, the managed WordPress hosting industry, and sales techniques.
• CRM Experience: Familiarity with CRM tools (like Salesforce, HubSpot, etc.) and the ability to manage leads efficiently.
• Comfort Using AI Tools: Experience using AI tools to support research, writing, summarization, or workflow efficiency in a professional setting.
• Strong Judgment with Automation: Ability to use AI outputs critically, knowing when to rely on them and when human judgment is required.
• Adaptability: Flexibility to thrive in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Proactively identify and engage target accounts aligned with Pressable’s ICP through outbound email, LinkedIn, and phone outreach, leveraging AI for research and personalization at scale.

Preferred Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience in a BDR/SDR, customer experience or support, or similar role.
• Familiarity with WordPress and managed hosting services.
• Proven track record of generating leads and setting up successful sales conversations.

Perks & Benefits of Joining Pressable!

• Health Benefits for US-based staff (99% Paid Employee Medical, Dental, and Vision)
• Matching 401(k) for US-based staff
• Life and Disability Insurance for US-based staff (100% Paid Life, & LTD)
• Work from home with home office setup and coworking allowances
• Open vacation policy (no set number of days per year)
• Hardware and software, books or conferences that promote continued learning

Salary range: $50,000 – $65,000 USD, plus 25% variable compensation. We are currently looking for candidates in North American timezones.

ABOUT AUTOMATTIC

Now in our 20th year, we’re the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Beeper, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, PocketCasts, and more. We believe in making the web a better place. We’re a distributed company with more than 1500 Automatticians in nearly every corner of the globe, speaking over a hundred different languages. Enriched by this diversity, we’re united by a singular mission: to democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging so anyone with a story can tell it, anyone with a product can sell it, and everyone can manage their communications from a single source. In short, we help maintain a balance in society, creating and continually refining powerful tools people can use to compete fairly—regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or where they live in the world.

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