Crowd Content is a fast-growing technology company with a mission to help businesses get high-quality, engaging content at scale via our freelance workforce. Using assistive technologies, innovative workflows and some of the best writing talent on the planet, the Crowd Content platform has served over 6,000 customers, including Fortune 500 enterprises such as Best Buy, Walmart and Bloomingdale’s, across 85+ countries since it was founded in 2013.
What We Do
In today’s content-centric world, businesses need to create and publish engaging content consistently to win customers. But let’s face it—writing amazing content is difficult and time-consuming. Our platform and talented workforce of freelance writers make creating content at scale simple for businesses. Some of our customers order over 1,000 articles per month from Crowd Content.
Why Join Crowd Content?
We’re a fun, energetic team on a trajectory to the top of our industry. When you join Crowd Content, you’re joining a high-performing team and experienced management that are focused on business and career growth. We believe in mentoring and supporting each employee as they work towards their personal and team goals.
This job can be remote and doesn’t require that you live where we’re based (Victoria, B.C.), but as a VIATeC member, Crowd Content employees gain access to special networking events in the Victoria business community and additional career resources.
Perks
- Career-growth opportunities
- Downtown Victoria office (Yates Street) if you live in Victoria
- Flexible work location (home or office)—work from anywhere!
- Excellent benefits package
- Quarterly team events
Job Description
At Crowd Content, we know that the key to growth is in a high-performing sales team. That’s why we’re seeking a qualified and experienced sales-development representative (SDR) to find clients who can benefit from our products and services.
As the first line of communication with prospects, ideal SDRs have a strong understanding of the sales process and are excelling at researching leads, starting new relationships & setting our sales closers up for success. You should be a quick learner with strong communication skills and have the ability to showcase our offerings in a compelling way.
Every potential customer is an opportunity for you to boost top-line revenue growth, customer-acquisition levels and profitability.
Objectives of this Role
- Book 10+ meetings per month with prospects who can benefit from our services
- Generate a targeted amount of leads each month and build relationships by nurturing warm prospects and finding new potential sales outlets
- Manage and maintain a pipeline of interested prospects and engage sales executives for next steps
- Identify best practices to refine the company’s enterprise sales playbook
- Innovate and experiment with new contact methods to warm up cold prospects
- Follow up with warm prospects from webinars, conferences, and other marketing sources to secure sales meetings
Daily and Monthly Responsibilities
- Utilize Hubspot, cold-calling, LinkedIn and email to generate new sales opportunities
- Engaging 150+ prospects on a weekly basis using phone, email, LinkedIn and other tools
- Identify prospect needs and suggest appropriate services
- Build trusting relationships with prospects to qualify leads as sales opportunities
- Proactively seek new business opportunities in the market
- Set up meetings or calls between prospects and sales executives
- Report to the Sales Director with weekly, monthly and quarterly results
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Strong communication skills via phone and email
- Creative problem-solving skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong desire and ability to move up within a sales organization
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency with Hubspot or other CRM software
- Prior experience as a sales-development rep with a track record of achieving sales quotes
To apply, please email your cover letter and resumé to <[email protected]>. Please outline why you would like to join the Crowd Content team and provide your salary expectations.