Sales Development Representative

Posted 7 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in USA
Remote
Junior
Edtech
Meaningful classroom learning for every student.
The Role
The Sales Development Representative (SDR) role involves researching, prospecting, and qualifying leads to support the Sales organization. Responsibilities include responding to inquiries, conducting cold outreach, and providing product demonstrations to drive qualified opportunities for the Sales team.
Summary Generated by Built In

The role:

  • As a Sales Development Representative (SDR) you will work across Newsela’s Sales organization to support aggressive growth by researching, prospecting through calls and emails, and qualifying leads in order to build pipeline for Sales Representatives. 
  • Your days will be composed of responding to inbound inquiries, proactive cold outreach to potential new customers, and providing online product demonstrations that draw prospects into initial discovery calls and identify key needs that ultimately lead to qualified opportunities for our Sales team.

Why you'll love this role: 

  • You will collaborate within the Sales organization to inform strategy and process that enhances sales performance
  • You will be part of a team that has incredible support through sales training and enablement, as well as through marketing and operations
  • As the initial point of contact with prospects, you’ll represent the future of education, enhancing how districts and teachers engage students, and helping provide approaches that allow educators to design customized learning for different levels of reader
  • Your feedback from the market will also help drive future product enhancements

Why you're a great fit:  

  • You have 1+ year of lead generation or inside sales experience
  • Your pipeline generation experience includes engaging prospects through email and  phone conversations that lead to qualified meetings
  • You leverage your Salesforce.com experience and sales process training to tactfully manage a pipeline to meet and exceed team goals 
  • You are familiar with sales platforms such as Salesloft, Outreach.io, or Yesware 
  • You are an excellent communicator who can truly empathize with the challenges our different buyers face 
  • You’re able to establish clear value propositions that connect buyer/user needs to the product and services we offer 
  • You thrive in a fast-paced environment and use your creativity when partnering with team members to ensure flawless execution

Compensation:

  • Base salary: $55,000
  • On-target commission (OTC): $25,000
  • On-target earnings (OTE): $80,000

Total compensation for this role also includes incentive stock options and benefits. 

The Company
HQ: New York, New York
476 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

We are on a mission to deliver meaningful classroom learning for every student. We’re an edtech company that brings together digital content with integrated assessments and insights. The result is more engaged readers—and engaged readers are better learners.

Why Work With Us

Newsela is built on a mission of providing meaningful classroom learning for every student. We’re not only making a difference in the classroom; we’re focused on building an inclusive and supportive culture internally by encouraging continued learning, celebrating what makes our team unique, and working together to empower minds everywhere.

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