Outbound Business Development Representative, AMER

Notion; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in San Francisco is hiring an early-career sales professional to join its Outbound Sales Development team. In this role, you will help define the outbound sales strategy and engage with Fortune 500 companies while working closely with product and marketing teams. Candidates should have at least 6 months of sales experience in a SaaS environment and a passion for understanding customer needs. The position offers a competitive salary range of $100,000–$115,000 per year, plus commissions.

Qualifications

• At least 6 months of outbound sales development experience, preferably in SaaS tech.
• Energized to contribute to the revenue team in a growth environment.
• Curiosity and willingness to adopt AI tools for better performance.

Responsibilities

• Sell a product that Fortune 500 companies use.
• Experiment with pipeline generation tactics.
• Conduct high-level discovery calls with executives.

Skills

Outbound sales development experience

Proficiency in SQL

Creativity and tenacity in outreach efforts

Passion for customers

Empathy for customer needs

Tools

Salesforce

Outreach

Job description

About Notion

Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work. In today’s world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.

In-person collaboration is essential to Notion’s culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in‑office workdays.

About the Role

We’re looking for a motivated early‑career sales professional with an entrepreneurial and building spirit to join our San Francisco Outbound Sales Development team! As a member of the team, you’ll be instrumental in helping define our outbound sales motion, meaningfully shape our future product, and drive business revenue all while having a blast doing it.

What You’ll Achieve

• Sell a product people love that solves real problems: Fortune 500 companies use Notion to run huge teams—while your friends and family can use it to take notes, display photos, and more. Some non‑profits even use it to conserve wildlife!
• Work with our early-stage outbound sales team to experiment with pipeline generation tactics and strategic approaches.
• Identify and analyze target prospects based on market, firmographic, and product signals.
• Identify target customer segments by analyzing customer data across Salesforce, Gong, in‑product user metrics, financial data, data in Snowflake, Hex, Excel, and GoogleSheets.
• Proficiency in SQL is preferred. Also experience generating and analyzing Salesforce reports.
• Reach out to prospects via email, phone, and LinkedIn to educate them on our products.
• Experiment with different audiences, messaging, and channels to generate Enterprise opportunities.
• Conduct high‑level discovery calls with Executives in target and prospect accounts for the AMER (Canada, USA, and Latin America) territory.
• Demonstrate technical knowledge of coding languages and APIs in the SaaS industry to consult with customers, analyze needs, and recommend IT solutions based on their business requirements.
• Utilize your active listening skills to understand and uncover customer needs and business problems to effectively communicate how Notion can solve them.
• Qualify prospects to determine whether or not they’re a good fit for Notion.
• Organize and take thorough notes on prospects in Notion and in Salesforce.
• Help build the foundations of outbound sales at Notion: As a member of our outbound sales team, you’ll be instrumental in helping define our outbound sales motion.
• Build internal reports and dashboards using Salesforce.com to analyze business performance, application, and market trends.
• Meaningfully shape our future product: As you engage with customers, you’ll gain insights to help us serve them better—and work with product to inform what we do next.
• Join a fantastic team at a magical time: We’ve hit profitability and over 20 million users with a small team, which gives us a huge greenfield to work with. You’ll join at the perfect time to shape how we grow from here.
• Work with the AMER Sales leadership team to build, analyze, and streamline pipeline generation strategy and tactics for the AMER market.
• Work with our Marketing and Product teams to build strong program feedback loops.
• Elevate your skills as we tackle our most impactful challenges: We’ve achieved more than teams 10x our size in less time—and there’s so much more to do and learn.

Skills You’ll Need To Bring

• At least 6 months of outbound sales development experience, preferably in SaaS tech or a high‑growth environment.
• Energized to be part of the building phase for the revenue team in a hypergrowth company.
• A passion for customers and a natural empathy for their needs.
• A growth mindset and view challenges as learning opportunities, not failures.
• Creativity and tenacity in how you approach outbound prospecting (calls, emails, LinkedIn, video, social) efforts.
• Curiosity and willingness to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results.

Nice to Haves

• Technical understanding of SaaS products and business workflows.
• Prior experience with Salesforce, Outreach, and other prospecting tools.

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and are enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.

Equal Opportunity Employer – Notion is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For this role, based in San Francisco the estimated hourly rate is $33.65 – $38.70 per hour with a 30k annual commission target, annualized to a salary range of $100,000 – $115,000 per year.

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