Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on-demand. As an Enterprise Sales Development Representative, you will drive business growth by identifying opportunities with target clients and generating new business through cold outreach and relationship nurturing.
Responsibilities:
- Understand current and future demand. Enable, educate, and directly support the sales force to best position this practice with Toptal clients and win new business
- Lead client conversations, presenting Toptal’s perspective on innovation and experience topics, and ask exploratory questions to better understand client needs
- Through lead-generation activities and cold-calling, you will prospect, educate, qualify, and develop sales-ready leads and opportunities from unsigned clients and accounts
- You will enthusiastically explain Toptal’s vision, pinpoint opportunities, and generate interest
- As the first point of contact for future Enterprise clients, you will be building rapport through strategic outreach and a well-rounded client and industry knowledge
- Researching clients and staying informed on industry trends will be key to your success
- You will collaborate with your team and Sales Executives to pursue opportunities, recommend appropriate follow-up actions, and schedule qualified meetings
- Communicating via Zoom and Slack is critical to maintaining a high level of collaboration and clear communication within the team
- Our team has an aversion to complacency. We are always looking to improve both individually and as a team
- Being open to and implementing feedback will be critical success factors in this role and at Toptal
- In the first week, expect to onboard and integrate into Toptal, learn Toptal’s model, our value proposition, and our story
- Work with cross-functional teams to understand how you can utilize our incredible global team to build client relationships and drive success
- Learn the breadth of Toptal’s impact on the world’s largest companies
- Grasp the importance of the SDR function to the success of Toptal
- Understand our sales method and our selling process to set you up for success
- In the first month, expect to complete our personalized sales training program with mock calls, cold calls, and role-play scenarios
- Learn how to use Salesforce.com (our CRM) and other SaaS outreach tools (ZoomInfo, SalesLoft, LinkedIn Sales Navigator)
- Integrate into your pod, partner with Enterprise Sales Executives and Client Partners, and begin targeting strategic accounts
- Learn the process for outreach, including calling, emailing, and LinkedIn messaging
- Implement an outreach process and hit 1-month objectives
- Learn how to analyze industry drivers, business problems, and target buyers
- In the first three months, expect to become fully ramped on the SDR team, attaining your metrics, which include calls, emails, and other sales activities
- Exercising discretion and independent judgment, uncover new opportunities within existing accounts and target accounts that result in revenue-generating engagements for Toptal
- Hit call/email quotas and fully ramped objectives
- Become proficient in using our SaaS tools
- Learn how to maintain excellent data integrity in Salesforce.com
- In the first six months, expect to continuously hit fully ramped quotas and objectives
- Assist with training and onboarding new SDRs
- Build new and existing client relationships, expand Toptal’s partnerships, and continue to execute account plans
- Suggest, implement, and experiment with new lead and demand generation activities
- In the first year, expect to have built a portfolio of net new accounts from the strategic account list
- Become a mentor to new members of the team, helping them learn about Toptal, our model, and how proper sales development practices can improve relationships and increase revenue
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree is required
- 1-3 years of experience as an Enterprise SDR
- Broad understanding of business challenges encountered by Enterprise clients
- Critical thinking
- Perseverance
- Passion
- Curiosity
- Conscientiousness
- Motivated
- Resourceful
- Proactive
- Communication
- Team
- Ownership
- Problem Solver
- Prioritization
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and handle a wide variety of challenges, deadlines, and a diverse array of contacts