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Sales Development Representative

Harness

Harness

Sales & Business Development
Delhi, India
Posted on Jan 8, 2024
Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers’ pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.
Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We’re backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.

Position Summary

This position involves generating pipeline reports and providing strategic guidance to the sales ecosystem through valuable insights and robust sales approaches, with a specific emphasis on the Harness software and services.

About the role

  • You will work alongside business stakeholders to prepare and execute sales campaigns and pipeline generation activities. These activities are crucial to Harness's go-to-market strategy
  • Build Pipeline Generation (PG) kits, Org Charts and Contact Lists
  • Prospecting, lead generation, qualifying leads, setting appointments for account executive
  • Research potential target markets based on our product and technology offerings and on the overall markets’ needs, and create actionable target prospects lists, also leveraging an existing network
  • Research prospects’ goals, market, strategic objectives, and pains to create tailored material to run highly productive sales campaigns (email templates, presentations)
  • Run a consultative sales process, whereas acquiring actionable information on clients’ needs and defining market opportunities accordingly is as important as closing deals, in this phase
  • Collaborating closely with account executives or sales representatives to ensure alignment in messaging and strategy
  • Research individuals online to identify and build lists of key roles
  • Respond to inbound queries

About you

  • Four year university/college degree
  • 2-3 years of work experience in Sales Development or Sales for API-based, fast-paced SaaS companies with hands-on experience in Lead generation/Sales research
  • High career trajectory and potential
  • Demonstrable experience and proficiency in high pressure, competitive situations
  • You would be responsible for generating a target no. of qualified leads in a month for the sales team using outbound outreach (email, cold calls, social selling)
  • Consistent overachievement in previous roles.
  • Experience in working with Salesforce, LinkedIn sales navigator and other sales research tools
  • Demonstrated success in achieving and surpassing ambitious sales targets and quotas
  • Exceptional communication skills, both oral and written, coupled with excellent listening skills and a positive presence
  • Have the ability to collaborate across different teams effectively and efficiently

Work Location

Delhi/Gurugram

What you will have at Harness

  • Experience building a transformative product
  • End-to-end ownership of your projects
  • Competitive salary
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefit
  • Flexible work schedule
  • Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team-building events
  • Monthly internet reimbursement