Job Specifications
We're considering remote candidates, in France.
About GitGuardian
GitGuardian is a global post-Series B cybersecurity scale-up, with team members in France, Europe and in the USA.
Among our early investors who saw our market value proposition, are the co-founder of GitHub, Scott Chacon, along with Solomon Hykes, Docker's co-founder. American and European top-tier VC firms have also invested in GitGuardian.
GitGuardian leads the way in Non-Human Identity security, offering end-to-end solutions from secrets detection in code, productivity tools and environments to strong remediation, observability and proactive prevention of leaks. Our solutions are already used by more than 600K developers worldwide!
About Your Team And Your Mission
As a member of a team of 8 BDRs split between France and the USA, you will play a pivotal role in identifying and generating new business opportunities, as well as nurturing marketing qualified leads. You will be responsible for building relationships with prospects, qualifying their needs, and collaborating with internal and external resources in order to grow revenue.
Your Main Responsibilities Will Be
Lead Generation: Work from various channels such as cold calling, email campaigns, social media, networking and events to identify potential leads and generate new business opportunities.
Qualification and Discovery: Conduct thoughtful research to understand prospect's industry, pain points, and business needs. Engage in conversations to qualify leads, identify decision-makers, and gather relevant information.
Relationship Building: Establish and maintain relationships with potential customers through effective communication, active listening, and understanding their unique requirements.
Collaboration: Collaborate closely with the sales team to ensure smooth handover of qualified leads and provide valuable insights to enhance the sales process.
Sales Outreach: Execute strategic inbound and outbound sales activities to engage prospects and set up meetings or product demonstrations for the sales team.
Pipeline Management: Update and maintain accurate records of lead interactions, progress, and status in our customer relationship management (CRM) system (Bonus Points if you have experience with HubSpot!).
Market Research: Stay up-to-date with industry trends, competitive landscape, and market changes to identify new opportunities and optimize sales strategies.
About You
Here's what we consider essential for success in this role:
Strong German fluency, to grow our German territory (in addition to other European territories).
We're looking for you to also speak English reasonably well.
Previous experience in a sales, business development, or lead generation role is highly desirable. You are familiar with automation tools to build and manage multi-step outreach campaigns.
Cold calling experience: you have demonstrated your ability to generate pipeline mainly through phone outbound.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to engage prospects and articulate product features and benefits effectively.
Ability to overcome adversity: you will have to show resilience, when not achieving your quota.
Demonstrated organizational and time management skills to prioritize tasks and manage a high volume of leads effectively.
Ability to Travel: Approximately 20%
The following skills would strengthen your application but aren't required:
Understanding the Enterprise SaaS sales cycle, which is consultative.
Having addressed developers and/or cybersecurity ICP
The interview process
At GitGuardian, we are committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce.
We will ask for your gender on the application page to help us understand the diversity of our applicant pool and to track our progress in attracting and hiring a diverse workforce. The information is optional and will not be disclosed to the hiring manager or the interview team and will not be considered in the hiring process. We appreciate your willingness to share this with us so that we can continue to improve our diversity and inclusion efforts.
Video call with a Talent Acquisition team member (30min)
Purpose: The goal here is to get to know you, talk about your past experiences, present GitGuardian, who we are, what problems we solve, and answer any questions you may have.
Skills Assessed: We assess your soft skills: like drive and communication.
Interview with your future manager (60min)
Purpose: The goal here is to get to know you, talk about your past experiences, what have you sold and your understanding of your current landscape. We also like to understand your BDR skill sets, former KPIs and ability to achieve them.
Skills Assessed: We assess your soft skills (ownership, communication), motivation and your understanding of your current problem space and ability to perform at a high level.
Business case with your future manager and an Account Executive (60 min)
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About the Company
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We're hiring: building an outstanding tech team in Paris right now! Apply here: https://careers.gitguardian.com/
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GitGuardian is a cybersecurity startup solving the issue of secrets sprawling through source code, a widespread problem that leads to some credentials ending up in compromised places or even in the public space.
The company solves this issue by automating secrets detection for Application Security and Data Loss Prevention purposes. GitGuardian helps developers, ops, security and compliance profess...
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