Okta
Sales Development Representative
The World's Identity Company
Sales and customer success
Full-time
Office | Sydney, NSW, Australia
Visa sponsorship · No
Junior · A role for someone with some basic skills, good motivation and ability to learn. Typically 1-2 years of experience is required.
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Why Okta
Okta gives you a neutral, powerful and extensible platform that puts identity at the heart of your stack. No matter what industry, use case, or level of support you need, we’ve got you covered.
About the role
The SDR role is a great opportunity to kick-start your sales and marketing career here at Okta and help drive demand for our market-leading cloud adoption and management solution. We are looking for an individual who is curious and motivated. The ideal candidate will possess strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and communication skills. A strong candidate is flexible with change, comfortable in a fast-paced environment, and eager to begin a career in Sales and Marketing.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Previous corporate or business experience, with a preference for inside-sales/Business Development/Lead Generation
- Qualify, nurture and develop a volume of inbound leads on set target accounts.
- Generate sales-ready meetings and opportunities for the Account Executives.
- Research contacts and generate demand through call and email campaigns.
- Utilize active listening skills to uncover customer needs and business outcomes.
- Consistently achieve quota by hitting call, email, and meeting targets.
- Willingness to collaborate with other members of the sales and marketing organization to drive deals forward.
- Attend in-person and online marketing events to represent the xDR Organization.
- Use and maintain our SaaS toolkit (SDFC, Outreach etc) to keep data accurate.
- Achieve and exceed monthly set quotas of qualified opportunities.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Previous sales development/inside sales experience
- Excellent written/verbal communication skills
- Highly motivated, driven and self-starting individual
- Ability to work in a fast paced, team environment
- Ability to understand customer needs and meet that need with a successful product sale
- Excellent time management/organizational skills
What you'll be responsible for
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Sales Pipeline Fulfilment
Ensure the top of the sales pipeline is adequately filled with quality leads
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Outbound Prospecting
Generate new sales opportunities and move them through the funnel by drafting outreach messages and sequences, and identifying the needs of customers
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Lead Qualification
Determine which prospective customers are most likely to purchase the organization's product/service, using a lead specific qualification framework
Skills you'll need
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Resilience
Bounces back from stressful experiences while being optimistic, emotionally aware, and adapts to change
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Creativity
Generates multiple innovative/new/novel ideas to solve a problem
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Results orientation
Focuses on outcomes and the steps it takes to achieve them