Current Openings – Sales Development Representative (SDR)

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 is focused on business and career growth. We believe in mentoring and supporting each employee as they work toward their personal and team goals. As a VIATeC member, Crowd Content employees gain access to special networking events in the Victoria business community and additional career resources.

Perks

1. Career growth opportunities
2. Downtown Victoria office (Yates Street)
3. Flexible work location (home or office)
4. Excellent benefits package
5. 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 and screen potential customers 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, excelling at researching leads, starting new relationships, and 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

• Represent Crowd Content’s enterprise services, starting with a comprehensive understanding and leading to consumer research to identify how our solutions meet needs
• 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

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities

• Utilize Hubspot, cold calling, LinkedIn and email to generate new sales opportunities
• Identify prospect’s needs and suggest appropriate services
• Build long-term trusting relationships with prospects to qualify leads as sales opportunities
• Proactively seek new business opportunities in the market
• Set up meetings or calls between (prospective) customers and sales executives
• Report to sales director with weekly, monthly, and quarterly results

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or at least 2 years of relevant work experience
• 2-3 years of sales experience, with a history of exceeding lead targets
• Strong communication skills via phone and email
• Proven creative problem-solving approach and 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 resume in Word or PDF format referencing “Sales Development Representative” to [email protected]. Please outline why you would like to join the Crowd Content team and provide your salary expectations.