Business Development Representative, Zip

Salary not provided

Equity available

Junior level
San Francisco Bay Area

3-4 days a week in office

Zip

Business procurement software

Open for applications

Zip

Business procurement software

501-1000 employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsAutomationProcurement

Open for applications

Salary not provided

Equity available

Junior level
San Francisco Bay Area

3-4 days a week in office

501-1000 employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsAutomationProcurement

Company mission

Zip's mission is to bring a consumer grade user experience to B2B purchasing.

Role

Who you are

  • Zip is looking for a highly motivated, outgoing, and tech-savvy sales representative with strong business acumen to join our growing Business Development team
  • Applicants should have a growth mindset and be excited to work collaboratively across the Revenue organization
  • We’re looking for a customer-focused, highly motivated, and driven individual with a desire to grow and advance in a career in sales
  • If you have a proactive and customer-first mentality with the passion to demonstrate Zip’s commitment to our merchants, we’d love to talk to you!
  • 6-12+ months or equivalent sales experience
  • A consistent track record of meeting and exceeding goals
  • Be a highly strategic thinker and problem solver with a solutions-first and adaptable mindset
  • Ability to work from our downtown office 3-4 days per week

Desirable

  • Experience with Salesforce, Outreach, ZoomInfo, ScratchPad, Gong, and/or SalesNavigator
  • Tech experience or proven success in a fast-paced environment
  • A strong passion for fintech is a plus
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a paramount focus on detail
  • An ability to celebrate change and embrace accountability

What the job involves

  • As a Business Development Representative, you will generate new business by prospecting outbound leads through cold outreach and work collaboratively across our sales organization to set high-value meetings
  • This is a highly strategic role that requires creativity, resilience, and the ability to partner effectively with an Account Executive to create new business opportunities
  • You will learn consultative selling and hone in on our best-in-class outbound motion in order to execute our sales strategy
  • High-performers in the BDR role will open up new opportunities for their career growth within our rapidly growing organization
  • Partner closely with our VP of Sales and Account Executives to identify and source meetings that lead to pipeline and closed revenue
  • Prospect across a high volume of accounts, with a keen eye on strategically prioritizing your time
  • Become a market expert – researching and understanding our target industries and personas, and what makes them tick
  • Build a point of view on how to help customers with their needs and the right qualifying questions to ask
  • Be adaptable and flexible – as part of an early-stage hyper-growth company, we are rapidly growing our process but we want you to help shape our sales process
  • Within 2 weeks, you will..
  • Complete Zip’s new hire training & onboarding program alongside other new Zip team members
  • Gain a broader understanding of our products and how your role fits into the organization
  • Partner with the Director of Business Development on key success metrics for your role and how you will measure against them
  • Partner with the Director of Business Development to discuss your personal and professional goals
  • Begin developing familiarity with our business, platform, and applications, as well as our company’s key metrics
  • Acclimate yourself with the day-to-day responsibilities of Zip’s Business Development team by shadowing team members, listening to recorded customer calls, and working closely with our Account Executive team
  • Within 1 month, you will..
  • Identify and contact prospective clients to build a pipeline through a variety of methods including, but not limited to cold-calling, emailing, social media outreach, and mass email campaigns
  • Create a professional and engaging first impression with our prospects and customers
  • Create, maintain, and update our database of prospects with complete information and emails
  • Thoroughly qualify all outbound opportunities and collaborate with Account Executives for a smooth and sophisticated customer experience
  • Generate net new business through outbound prospecting
  • Prioritize leads, research prospects, and position relevant product features to solve business needs while strategically managing your time
  • Manage follow-up with calls-to-action to consistently build a sales pipeline
  • Within 2 months, you will..
  • Achieve department standards for activity that include:
  • Making a minimum number of quality outbound calls per day
  • Scheduling a minimum number of new quality discovery calls per week
  • Become a market expert by researching and understanding our target industries and personas
  • Exceed activity and pipeline goals on a monthly basis
  • Consistently reflect on your own skill and development gaps along with the Director of Business Development to identify personal and professional goals
  • Become a mentor to new hires entering the Business Development organization
  • Become a key stakeholder in Zip’s growth as we continue to scale our core business

Our take

Business-to-business purchases are a far more difficult process than the experience of buying goods and services as a consumer. In large enterprises ordering a piece of equipment or hiring agency expertise kicks off a laborious process requiring sign offs from a multitude of decision makers before any purchase can take place. Zip exists to solve this problem with a procurement workflow platform which is aimed at simplifying enterprise procurement functions.

Using its platform procurement teams can initiate a purchase which is then routed across all relevant departments in a streamlined and transparent way. It can also automate the issuing of purchase orders, invoice processing, and payments. This solution to a painful problem for all large companies has seen Zip adopted by a large and growing customer base which includes the likes of Canva, Databricks and Udemy, with over $1 billion a month in spend is approved over the platform.

Zip has raised significant capital which has aided its launch of Zip Premier, a suite of new enterprise capabilities and a low-code integration tool. The company is also expanding geographically, opening a new office in Dallas. While Zip is beginning to face competition from procurement automation platforms Keelvar and Focal Point, these moves, continued updates to its product range and solid funding seem likely to cement its leading position in the procurement management space.

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Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

May 2023

$100m

SERIES C

May 2022

$43m

SERIES B

Total funding: $180.9m

Company benefits

  • 📈 Start-up equity
  • 💸 401k plan
  • 🦷 Full health, vision & dental coverage
  • 🍽️ Catered lunches & dinners
  • 🚍  Commuter benefit
  • 🚠 Team building events & happy hours
  • 🌴 Flexible PTO
  • 💻 Shiny new Apple equipment
  • 🪑 Generous office stipend for remote employees

Company values

  • We take ownership and leave things better than we found them
  • We communicate openly, frequently, and transparently, even when it's hard
  • We listen to customers to solve problems and build loyalty
  • We learn quickly and operate with an underdog mindset
  • We appreciate our teammates and celebrate achievements
  • One Zip - we collaborate and win as a company and team

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Was previously Product Manager at Airbnb. Before that they co-founded FlightCar and Drinking Water for India.

Was Head of Engineering at AirBnB Experiences. Before that was a Course instructor in Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley.

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