Business Development Representative

The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.

In partnership with Google, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft, Canonical helps companies become more agile, productive and adopt new technologies faster. Examples of customer success include AI, Blockchain, IoT, Advanced Robotics and self-driving cars, where Ubuntu is the preferred development platform.

The role of a Business Development Representative at Canonical

Canonical is profitable and growing. We consider our sales development organization to be the best technology sales academy in the market, and as such, we select exceptional and ambitious candidates to join our team. You will enjoy this role if you are organized, persistent, charismatic and hard-working. You will need to be interested in tech and its business implications. In this role, you will collaborate with a regional sales and marketing team, and your primary objective will be to find customer projects that fit our product lines and spread the good name of Canonical across multiple different industries and geographies.
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Execute outbound sales & marketing campaigns
Research information about prospective customers and market trends 
Generate high-quality leads for Senior Sellers to fuel a multi-million dollar pipeline
Own and close SMB opportunities within your designated territory
Collaborate across multiple teams and senior stakeholders to drive results 
Help define the processes and policies for the team
Travel to events and conferences worldwide, presenting on booths and driving face-to-face marketing and sales opportunities

Demonstrated success in SDR or outbound sales, with a track record of exceeding annual quotas and consistently driving qualified pipeline growth
Experience navigating prospective accounts from and into a senior executive level to identify new customer opportunities
Experience in enterprise software or technology sales
Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
Passion for business and technology
Commitment to continuous learning and improvement - curious, flexible, scientific
Creative problem solving and cross team collaboration
Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
Verbal and written communication and negotiation skills 
Result driven with an over-achiever spirit
Persistence & perseverance
Growth mindset - people from our team develop into all departments within the sales organization (Channel, IoT, Enterprise Sales, etc)
Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long