Symmetry is the payroll infrastructure for software & payroll platforms powering the paychecks of over 64 million workers each year. Our fully integrated suite of payroll tax APIs and software tools allows companies to solve tax compliance issues and build applications across the entirety of the payroll process.
About the Role:
As a Sales Development Representative, it will be your job to identify, qualify, and set up prospective clients with our Account Executives who will consult with those prospects and help them become clients. The Sales Development Representative is a first point of contact for many of our new clients. This role spends much of the day on the phone calling Payroll Service Providers and Employers who are not currently Symmetry clients. The Sales Development Representative is politely persistent and cheerfully competitive. As a Sales Development Representative, you will collaborate with our Marketing and Sales teams to pursue and identify new business opportunities across many sectors: payroll, technology, financial services, large employers, and more.
You will have a direct impact on Symmetry’s ability to deliver our payroll tax tools in pursuit of our vision to touch every American paycheck with accurate withholding. A focus on solving client’s pain points and providing them with the best solution for their needs is essential.
About the Team:
You'll be a part of the team driving Symmetry’s growth by focusing on finding prospects, conducting discovery calls to qualify leads, and then scheduling product demos with an Account Executive. If you have a passion for consultative sales, a collaborative spirit of engagement, and a passion for SAAS payroll products, you may be a great fit for Symmetry Software.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Manage a high volume of outbound calls daily to cold & warm prospects (100+ per day)
- Employ our highly consultative, non-pushy sales methodology
- Resilience. You will face rejection often. You must be resilient and know that each rejection brings you closer to your next success
- Quickly assess the quality of a prospect to determine the viability of sales opportunities
- Become an expert on our technology and our target markets
- Set up product demonstration appointments for our Account Executive teams
- Achieve monthly metrics, and weekly and daily targets
- Work closely with your People Empowerer to constantly improve as a sales person
- Build strong networks in and outside the Symmetry organization
- Collaborate with the team to improve our processes and add efficiencies for the team
- Adapt to changes in your process - we are always testing new ideas
- Track activities and sales touch points in our CRM and update client profiles for broader company awareness.
- Network within the payroll and HCM industry as a Symmetry Software representative.
- Actively increase knowledge about the payroll and human resource industries and about Symmetry products and services.
Requirements:
- 1-2 Years in similar sales or development role required
- Ability to work in a fast paced SaaS Environment
- Ability to quickly develop relationships and establish credibility through consultative needs based conversation
- Strong history of prospecting and cultivating new leads and prospects.
- Ability to think on your feet to creatively solve our prospects’ business needs
- Exceptional and persuasive communication skills, both verbal and written
- Outstanding listener: to the prospect, client, and other Symmetry teammates.
- Comfortable meeting and exceeding monthly quotas and handling rejections
- Must have a positive attitude, confident, and desire to be the best
- Reliable, strong and positive work ethic
- Strong organization and time management skills and ability to work independently
- Content and social media savvy.
- Flexibility and eagerness to try new approaches, continuously learn and develop, and adapt to challenges.
Additional Experience Preferred:
- Prior experience in sales and with sales tools like CRM, Gsuite and Slack
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree
Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted between $86,000- $95,000 OTE in Scottsdale. OTE = on target earnings which includes both base salary and variable commission with a 70/30 split between base salary (70%) and variable commission (30%). Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location, experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Symmetry has a physical office space in Scottsdale. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role).
When approved to work from a location other than the office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.
Working at Symmetry
Being happy at a job goes beyond just doing the work. Where you choose to spend 40 hours a week should be a place that challenges you professionally and aligns with your personal goals and well-being. We truly love what we do, and our customers love what we produce. Our family-owned and -operated business is collaborative, fun, and friendly. We offer the opportunity to work with all kinds of positions across the company, from the CEO to support to sales and everything in between.
Recently, Symmetry became part of Gusto. More than 300,000 businesses use Gusto’s people platform to hire, pay, insure, and support their team–from modern payroll and benefits to distributed work services and international contractor support to expert HR. Together, Symmetry and Gusto are pushing the entire industry forward by helping growing businesses access tools and services that for so long have only been available to larger corporations.
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home with us.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Our company considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Our company is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. We want to see our candidates perform to the best of their ability. If you require a medical or religious accommodation at any time throughout your candidate journey, please fill out this form and a member of our team will get in touch with you.
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About our products
Our products make sure millions of paychecks are right, no matter where people live or work in the U.S. We simplify the payroll process with accurate and dependable payroll withholding tax solutions. Our clients include Fortune 500 companies, like Walmart and Southwest Airlines, and leading payroll service providers, including ADP and Paychex. With a 95%+ customer retention rate, our products always have to be top-of-the-line, and so do our employees.
Symmetry is also the company behind the popular website PaycheckCity.com, which helps millions of Americans better understand their paychecks every month.
What We Do
Symmetry Software's mission is to simplify the payroll process with dependable and accurate payroll APIs and tax withholding solutions. At Symmetry, we believe that to provide great payroll, you need powerful technology! We have been building software tools and payroll APIs for award-winning software applications since 1984.
Symmetry's fully integrated suite of payroll tax APIs and software tools allows companies to ensure that employee and employer taxes are correctly calculated and managed. In other words, deliver "the right taxes the first time." With payroll integrations that range from electronic withholding forms to federal, state and local tax lookup tools, we make our customer's processes more regulatory compliant, automated, efficient, and error-free.
While we do not process payroll, we do the most difficult parts of the payroll process, and payroll and HR service providers and large employers license our payroll APIs and software tools to improve their products and compliance. Contact us to see how payroll tax withholding software can make a huge impact when you are using the right tools.
