Business Development Representative | Commercial

Business Development Representative | Commercial

Remote, United States

 

About Blumira and Our Culture

Blumira is the security operations platform built for growing teams and partners supporting them, integrating comprehensive visibility, tools, and expert guidance to give IT and security teams peace of mind from knowing they never have to go it alone. Every business needs strong security and deserves tools built for them, not just the largest enterprises. In helping them, we help their customers, and, overall, make the Internet a safer place.

Our team is passionate about putting resilience in reach for every organization and team, keeping the business running smoothly and helping teams build their own expertise through daily security practice. To realize our vision, we're looking for inquisitive and driven teammates, like you! Be part of a friendly and supportive team that embraces who you are and offers you the opportunity to help build and scale the Ann Arbor tech security scene and to learn and grow with experienced SaaS security leaders. You will have the ability to make a big impact in the initial build of Blumira’s Department organization and take Blumira to the next level!

 

About the Opportunity

As a Business Development Representative at Blumira, you will drive future growth by working with the marketing and sales team to build a pipeline. Our team is passionate about IT, cybersecurity, and speaking to people, and takes pride in being able to identify great new opportunities for Blumira in SMB IT. Blumira's BDRs enjoy being on the phone and aren’t afraid to make over 100+ outbound calls daily; they are focused, thoughtful, inquisitive, and confident.

In this role, you will not only gain expertise and experience in prospecting and selling, but also mentorship and training. Our ideal candidate will have a highly entrepreneurial spirit with a data-driven mindset, and is motivated by achieving your and overall sales numbers. If you focus on quality and are a strong team player, willing to roll up your sleeves to help get work done, we encourage you to apply! 

 

Key Responsibilities 

• Actively make 300+ outbound touches per week, confidently ready to engage new customers
• Align with the sales, revenue operations, and marketing teams for mutual success
• Become a product expert of Blumira and seamlessly verbalize our value proposition
• Develop and execute outbound strategies to set qualified meetings
• Drive effective discovery conversations to understand users’ needs and goals in to provide them the appropriate resources
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records in Hubspot
• Nurture, develop and use a relational approach with prospects not ready to take the next step by executing long-term outreach campaigns
• Prospect, qualify, and proactively engage new accounts, introducing them to Blumira
• Support inbound leads and live chat activity as needed
• Travel to and work industry trade shows and conferences
• Use research and data to prioritize and customize outreach to target prospects and accounts via email and LinkedIn

 

Accountabilities

• Daily and weekly activity metrics
• Qualified sales opportunities resulting from personal outbound efforts
• Quantity and quality of meetings scheduled

 

Required Key Skills and Qualifications

• 2+ years of cybersecurity sales experience; B2B sales is a plus
• A competitive, passionate, and enthusiastic personality, with a powerful work ethic and a hunter mentality
• Advanced understanding of cybersecurity concepts and the ability to understand/explain concepts and industry-related information in a clear, concise, and logical manner
• Passion, energy, and proven