Business Development Representative, SchooLinks
Career planning platform
Job no longer available
Career planning platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To transform school districts into talent pipelines.
Role
Who you are
- Have a strong desire to launch a career in the world of software sales
- Enjoy working in a collaboratively competitive and fun environment. Achieve your goals while also making others around you better too!
- Be comfortable in a fast-paced, high energy, ever changing environment
- Possess a go-getter attitude! You strive to turn any “No!” you get into a “Yes!”
- Proven work experience as a Business Development Representative, SDR or similar role
- Hands-on experience with multiple sales techniques (including cold calls)
- Track record of achieving sales quotas
- Experience with CRM software (e.g. Salesforce)
- Familiarity with MS Excel (analyzing spreadsheets and charts)
- Understanding of sales performance metrics
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- Ability to deliver engaging presentations
What the job involves
- Contact potential clients through cold calls and emails
- Generate new business opportunities to fuel company's growth
- Make outbound phone calls and outbound emails each day
- Manage your named accounts, own your territory, and help maintain data integrity in Salesforce.com
- Support marketing efforts by assisting in demand generation campaigns
- Achieve, or exceed, weekly and monthly metrics including sales activities, meetings set, qualified leads, and new contacts prospected
- Present our company to potential clients
- Identify client needs and suggest appropriate products/services
- Build long-term trusting relationships with clients
- Proactively seek new business opportunities in the market
- Set up meetings or calls between (prospective) clients and Account Executives
- Report (weekly/monthly/quarterly) sales results
- Stay up-to-date with new products/services and new pricing/payment plans
Our take
SchooLinks provides a framework to help students figure out what careers might suit them - and how to get there - through a multitude of features from personality tests to financial aid calculators.
Founded in 2014, the company has grown its market position with an increasing number of customers, and continued to develop and improve both its features and integrations. For example, a partnership with Common App has enabled students using SchoolLinks to directly apply to over 900 higher education institutions with ease.
SchooLink's most notable competitor is Naviance, another company supplying college and career readiness tools, which has also seen significant progress in the market. That said, SchooLink's strong history of growth coupled with having substantial funding at its back should allow it to solidify its own place and capture further success moving forward.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2021
$8.3m
SERIES A
Jan 2018
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $10.6m
Company benefits
- Fully covered healthcare that includes vision, dental, and other perks, with partial dependent coverage
- Company sponsored 401k and up to 1% matching contributions
- (If you're on site in Austin) snacks and catered lunch at least once a week
- Asynchronous, results-first work culture
- 3+ Weeks PTO and 8 national holidays off
Company HQ
Govalle, Austin, TX
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Leadership
Katie Fang
(CEO)Founded SchoolLinks soon after attaining a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Finance at the University of British Columbia.
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