Sales Development Representative

Akamai; United States; Remote; USD 6,000 - 8,400; Full time

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Senior Sales Development Representative to join our remote team in Indonesia. You will identify and qualify enterprise opportunities, build relationships, and help generate demand for our sales organization.

The role focuses on outbound prospecting, qualification of leads, and collaboration with Account Executives to schedule meetings. Strong English communication and cybersecurity/cloud experience are valued.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years in Sales/Business Development or Telemarketing.
• Experience in Cybersecurity or Cloud computing preferred.
• Skilled at identifying business needs through information gathering to pre-qualify opportunities.
• Comfort with online research and using various software.
• Team player with growth mindset and fluent English.

Responsibilities

• Prospecting for new business opportunities via outbound initiatives.
• Qualifying, nurturing and developing a volume of inbound leads on set target accounts.
• Generating sales-ready meetings and opportunities for the Account Executives.
• Researching contacts and generating demand through call and email campaigns & attend marketing events.
• Developing lead qualification and prospect engagement using phone and chat system to achieve/ exceed set quotas.
• Using and maintaining our SaaS toolkit (CRM, Sales engagement platform) to keep data accurate.

Skills

Sales experience

Business development

Telemarketing

Cybersecurity exposure

English communication

CRM

Sales engagement platform

Tools

CRM

Sales engagement platform

Job description

Sales Development Representative

Location: Indonesia; Remote

Are you interested in pursuing a sales career?

Would you like to work in a dynamic sales environment?

Join our exciting sales development team

Our Sales Development Team partners with Akamai's Sales organization to identify and qualify new customer opportunities for the sales team to pursue. We work closely with our Marketing team to follow-up on campaigns and events to increase pipeline and generate demand for new customer revenue.

Become a trusted advisor to customers

As a Senior Sales Development Representative, you will identify and qualify enterprise account leads and opportunities. You will focus on analyzing business needs by information-gathering, pre-qualify opportunities via phone, social & email engagement. You will be generating qualified opportunities for regional sales teams.

As a Sales Development Representative, you will be responsible for:

• Prospecting for new business opportunities via outbound initiatives.
• Qualifying, nurturing and developing a volume of inbound leads on set target accounts.
• Generating sales-ready meetings and opportunities for the Account Executives.
• Researching contacts and generating demand through call and email campaigns & attend marketing events.
• Developing lead qualification and prospect engagement using phone and chat system to achieve/ exceed set quotas
• Using and maintaining our SaaS toolkit (CRM, Sales engagement platform) to keep data accurate.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have at least 5 years of experience in Sales/Business Development or Telemarketing
• Prior experience in Cybersecurity or Cloud computing
• Have an interest in analyzing and identifying business needs through information gathering to pre-qualify opportunities
• Have a comfort level doing online research and leveraging various software
• Have a desire working in a team and growing in the organization
• Able to communicate in English

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai:

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As a Senior Sales Development Representative, you will identify and qualify enterprise account leads and opportunities. You will focus on analyzing business needs by information-gathering, pre-qualify opportunities via phone, social & email engagement. You will be generating qualified opportunities for regional sales teams.