Sales Development Representative at AppZen

Sales Development Representative

AppZen, Tempe, Arizona

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Duration: Full-Time

AppZen is the leader in AI software for finance teams. Over 1,800 global enterprises use AppZen to automate manual finance processes, reduce expenditures, and gain real-time insights into their business spend trends. Our patented software technology delivers AI deep learning, semantic analysis, and Star Match™, the only automated spend validation that processes intelligence from thousands of data sources, documents, and images to understand financial transactions and make decisions based on finance policies. AppZen is the platform of choice for today’s digital CFO and their teams, including four of the top five banks, four of the top ten media companies, four of the top ten pharmaceutical manufacturers, two of the top five aerospace companies, and six of the top ten software providers.

We’ve taken off this year! Since releasing our platform in 2016, over 1,800 enterprises have standardized on AppZen, including four of the top five banks, four of the top ten media companies, four of the top ten pharmaceutical manufacturers, two of the top five aerospace companies, and five of the top ten software providers. We were a Gartner Cool Vendor, and have been recognized as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the market. In 2019 we received $50 million in Series C funding from Lightspeed, Redpoint and other leading venture capital firms.

We’re looking for an experienced Sales Development Representative (SDR) to generate sales opportunities and build sales pipeline with prospective clients.

The ideal candidate will possess confident communication skills when engaging with potential customers, building relationships and identifying new sales leads. To be successful in this role, the candidate should have previous experience generating leads from inbound and outbound Sales and Marketing activities, and collaborating with account executives in order to meet and exceed pipeline development and lead generation goals. The candidate should also have experience building pipeline utilizing call scripts, generating leads by phone and leveraging social media to target prospects and manage interaction.

Responsibilities:

Daily outreach to prospective customers via calls, emails and social media
Utilize social media to identify, target and engage prospective customers and develop leads
Qualify and develop leads from Marketing campaigns
Conduct high-level conversations with C-level Finance executives
Identify customer needs and present potential products and solutions
Arrange meetings and product demonstrations for Account Executives
Assist and participate in product demonstrations with Account Executives
Consistently meet or exceed phone call and social media outreach activities, pipeline development and qualified opportunity quota goals
Collaborate with Marketing to research accounts, identify key players, and develop scripts and messages

Must Have:

1+ years of previous software SDR work experience or similar role
Bachelor’s Degree
Proficiency with cold calling, social media and other sales development techniques
Ability to work in a time-sensitive, fast-paced environment
Excellent communication skills
Passionate about technology, business, and winning
Highly motivated, competitive self-starter
Ability to work onsite in Tempe, AZ

Physical Requirements:

Ability to come into office for at least 8 hours per day, or ability to work from home with reliable internet service when office is closed due to public health guidelines
Ability to sit or stand at a desk for extended periods of time
Ability to look at a computer screen for extended periods of time
Ability to use a keyboard and mouse to navigate a computer
Ability to talk on the phone for several hours per day

Come as you are, we do not discriminate! We celebrate, support, and thrive upon our diverse customer and employee base.

About AppZen

AppZen delivers the world’s leading AI platform for modern finance teams. Starting with business spend, we automate manual process, uncover problems, and optimize decision making for enterprises around the globe, including one-fourth of the Fortune 500. Our platform combines patented deep learning, computer vision, and semantic analysis with intelligence from thousands of online data sources to understand financial transactions in business context and make decisions before those transactions happen. AppZen is a must-have for CFOs and their teams to reduce spend, comply with policy, and streamline process.