Business Development Representative
Salesforce · Posted Oct 15
Customer relationship management, cloud computing, enterprise software, and artificial intelligence solutions
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About the role
The Business Development Representative (BDR) team is part of Salesforce's wider Sales Business, focusing on generating new business and whitespace pipeline through prospecting outbound opportunities. The team supports outbound sales teams with strategic prospecting efforts and extensive account research, generating millions of dollars of new business pipeline each year. This role involves outbound cold calling into existing Salesforce customers and net new logos, nurturing early-stage opportunities, and partnering with core sellers, alongside an intensive sales training program.
What you will do
- Generate new business pipeline primarily through prospecting outbound opportunities
- Nurture early-stage opportunities
- Gain interest through outbound cold calling across a set of existing Salesforce customers and breaking into net new logos in assigned territory
- Partner with core seller to identify and source net new pipeline and assist by researching lines of business and personas
- Align with internal account team
- Identify key decision makers within new accounts
Skills used in this role
Preferred qualifications
- Fluency in English language
- 3-6 years of Experience in business development, sales or related field experience
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment and across many different parts of the organisation to get things done
- Experience researching, account planning, prospecting, and cold calling into a large list of new and existing accounts
- Proven track record of achieving sales metrics and consistent achievement of year-over-year quota attainment
- Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Salesforce
Salesforce, Inc. is a leading global cloud-based enterprise software company specializing in customer relationship management (CRM) and artificial intelligence solutions. Through its integrated Customer 360 platform, the company provides applications for sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, and analytics. Powered by innovations like Agentforce, Salesforce helps businesses bridge human capability with autonomous AI agents to drive customer success.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 87000+ employees
- Founded
- 1999
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $25B raised
- 2026-03Post-IPO Debt$25B
- 2003-01Venture Round$1M
- 2001-06Series D$46.9M
- 1999-11Series C$13.2M
- 1999-06Series B$3.8M
Leadership
Chair, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
President & Chief Operating and Financial Officer
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Slack
President & Chief Strategy Officer
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