Sales Development Representative

EdX is an open-source eLearning platform with a mission to provide high quality education for everyone, everywhere. Founded by Harvard and MIT, edX is focused on transforming online and on-campus learning through groundbreaking methodologies, game-like experiences and cutting-edge research on an open-source platform.

edX is looking for our first SDR to join our newly formed Sales team. If you are looking for a sales position that is a little different than the others...this is it! Leverage your brain power while you sell into Fortune 2000 companies that are looking for quality alternatives to educating their workforce. This is a multi-billion dollar industry that is ripe for disruption and edX has the ideal product. Time to apply your qualifying and selling skills to a market hungry for an improvement in continuing education and employee upskilling.

Responsibilities

• Capture important sales qualification information to pass to senior salespeople
• Proactively prospect, qualify, and grow sales territory of multiple clients simultaneously
• Partner with Marketing to develop content for prospecting
• Cultivate strong relationships with major employers
• Hit (and eventually exceed) your monthly quota
• Consistently pitch new business to inbound client leads
• Become an industry expert within SaaS and EdTech businesses
• Attend industry specific conferences as needed

Requirements

• 0-2 years of experience in a sales position
• Eager to build a career in Sales
• Ambitious and driven to exceed goals
• Experience in a SaaS environment is a plus
• Salesforce experience is a plus
• Bachelor's degree is preferred

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