Sales Development Representative, Canonical
Enterprise open source solutions
Job no longer available
Enterprise open source solutions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Canonical's mission is to make open source software available to people everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree required, 2:1 minimum from a good university
- Fluency in English and in German
- Experience in telephone sales or telemarketing preferred, but not required
- Passion for technology
- Verbal and written communication skills
- Result driven with the mentality to always exceed targets
- Persistence & perseverance
- Customer service
- Motivation for sales
What the job involves
- Handle inbound customer inquiries across all channels (email, phone, chat)
- Execute various outbound sales & marketing campaigns
- Travel to events and conferences worldwide, presenting on booths and driving face-to-face marketing and sales opportunities
- Collaborate across multiple teams and with senior stakeholders in order to drive results
- Work directly with marketing, collaborating on new campaigns and improving existing ones
- Research information about prospective customers using available resources
- Maintain a multi-million pound pipeline
- Identify prospects and market trends through a combination of outbound techniques
- Help define the processes and policies for the team, maintaining current operations whilst reporting/suggesting changes needed
- Liaise with new and existing customers, setting up and attending meetings whilst actively account mapping to identify new opportunities
- Accurately create, update, maintain and nurture leads an opportunities globally
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Canonical originally started as a company to help distribute Ubuntu (an operating system based on Linux). It is now a leader in delivering open source to the world quickly, securely and cost effectively.
With a community of 200,000, Canonical publishes an operating system which runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers. Just some of its partners include Microsoft, HP, Dell, aws, and Intel.
The founder has highlighted that Canonical's biggest challenge has been that demand is bigger than the company’s ability to service it. Originally a not-for-profit, Canonical is now monetising and is planning to go public. It also announced its product Ubuntu has a comprehensive subscription version called Ubuntu Pro, likely to aid monetising efforts.
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
18% female employees
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2013
$9.8m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $9.8m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Learning and personal professional development budget
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual leave
- Generous parental leave
- Priority Pass for travel
Company values
- Truly distributed: Exceptional, self-motivated, organised and passionate people deserve the freedom to live where they want. Our teams travel regularly to meet colleagues and customers.
- Best in class: We rate top for Linux security. We run more hosts, more workloads and more devices than anybody else, because we strive to do everything insightfully, properly, fairly, and openly
- Enterprise focused: The world is moving to Ubuntu – open source that's faster, cheaper and better. Empower engineers, secure precious data, share knowledge and lead the change
Company HQ
Southwark, London
Founders
Mark Shuttleworth
(CEO)Serial entrepreneur. Previously founded Thawte Consulting (sold to VeriSign for $575m)
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