Senior Business Development Representative

The Role:

Territory: You will be working closely with the Sales Leadership Team and our Enterprise Account Executives to continue our growth in the MEA region. Fluent Arabic and English language skills are required.

Our Business Development Representatives (BDRs) form the core of MicroStrategy's ambitious revenue growth engine. They help connect senior enterprise prospects with our Sales Teams through a variety of different channels. As a BDR, you will be responsible for conducting strategic business development activities to new targets within both prospect and existing accounts with the objective of introducing and positioning MicroStrategy's products and services to key decision-makers. This will include setting up an initial meeting between the prospect and our Account Executive and may also include conducting presentations and participating in demos as your experience grows.

As a BDR, you will set the highest standards and learn to demonstrate best practice in business development activities. At MicroStrategy, you will learn how to prospect and communicate with senior enterprise professionals and learn how to qualify genuine business opportunities using BANT and MEDDPICC methodologies driving business value beyond expectation every day. Alongside this, you will gain access to all the latest sales tools (i.e. LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Salesloft, ZoomInfo, Lusha, Salesforce, etc.).

We understand the importance of ongoing education and training and we invest heavily in continuously improving our team's skillsets. We offer a stimulating and rewarding work experience in a fast-paced sales culture that offers exciting career opportunities set within a collaborative and supportive environment. This is a great opportunity to demonstrate success and progress your career in Enterprise Software Sales.

Your Focus:

• Working closely with the Sales Team, you will qualify leads to deliver sales-ready opportunities by engaging with potential customers through various outbound communications (phone, email, and social media).
• Be able to effectively communicate the value proposition of MicroStrategy to specific buyer personas in a clear and compelling way that drives interest and results in qualified leads/initial meetings.
• Drive participation to MicroStrategy events and set up onsite meetings at tradeshows with MicroStrategy presence.
• Work closely with the Marketing Team to support on inbound event follow-up, content downloads, and optimize pipeline generation through additional outbound efforts.
• Drive pipeline and revenue for MicroStrategy in line with our ambitious revenue goals.
• Utilize social networks, internal databases, and BDR tools to research and enrich prospective accounts.
• Keep track of your prospecting efforts on our CRM system (Salesforce).
• Achieve and exceed your individual targets on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Share best practices with your colleagues and be open to learning from others.
• MicroStrategy Product & Bitcoin Knowledge: Understand our MicroStrategy ONE AI BI Platform, be able to connect it to business value and provide introductory demos to prospects. As we are the first Bitcoin treasury company, you are to become as educated as possible about Bitcoin and be able to effectively communicate MicroStrategy's Bitcoin strategy.
• Interact regularly with all areas of Marketing and Sales, including the Marketing Operations team to discuss the lead qualification process and recommend improvements.
• Collaborate with the Marketing team in developing new ways to increase awareness of MicroStrategy's products and services.

Qualifications :

Required Experience and Skills:

• Proven sales experience in the SaaS software industry.
• Ideally some exposure to working in one of the following technology areas: Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Intelligence (BI).
• Experience working with Salesforce or similar CRM systems.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills to successfully build relationships with internal and external customers.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• Self-driven, motivated, and results-oriented.
• Ability to adapt and excel in an ever-changing industry and environment.
• Willingness to learn new concepts, industries, and tools.
• Effective time-management skills.
• Experience working in a results-driven environment.
• Degree educated or equivalent academic/work experience.
• Fluent Arabic and English language skills.

Additional Information :

MicroStrategy is an Equal Employment and Affirmative Action employer F/M/Disability/Vet/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, sex, age, genetic information, or any other legally protected basis.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time