Business Development Representative
Work, Play and Grow at BlackLine!
Make Your Mark: In your role as a business development representative (BDR), you will be responsible for developing demand for BlackLine's products and solutions. As BDR, you will play an integral part in conveying the value of the BlackLine platform to prospective clients and, in doing so, you will have a direct impact on the future success of BlackLine.
Qualifications
- Qualify marketing-generated leads from campaigns, website programs, conferences, and other channels.
- Discover and qualify meetings with prospective clients through outbound prospecting into target contacts and organizations.
- Handle software capability questions in the sales qualification process.
- Achieve, and exceed, weekly/monthly/quarterly metrics (appointments, qualified leads, new contacts, etc.).
- Assist and coordinate with marketing campaigns as necessary.
- Manage prospecting status, data integrity, and weekly forecasting in Salesforce.com and Outreach.
What You'll Bring
- You're a self-starter—motivated, driven, and focused on achieving goals.
- You always bring your A game—you don't do average.
- You're comfortable in a fast-paced, high-energy environment.
- You can think on your feet in a conversation and answer unexpected questions with ease.
- You're willing to learn, be coached, and can adapt easily to change.
- You have excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
- You have a commitment to professionalism and have solid organizational skills.
What You’ll Get
- Articulate the complex B2B sales cycle.
- Learn the ins and outs of tools, such as Salesforce.com, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Outreach, Hoopla, ZoomInfo, DiscoverOrg, InsideView, ClearSlide, and Kapost.
- Understand the technical landscape of our target audience.
- Call into a greenfield that has more than 90% total available market.
- Successfully handle objections both on the phone and through email.
- Be a part of an exciting, fast-paced culture both on the team and throughout the company.
- Have conversations with C-suite executives and Fortune 500 companies.
- Participate and contribute to new marketing campaigns and ideas.
Requirements
- You have at least 1 year of sales or cold-calling experience.
- You have some accounting knowledge (CPA eligible or Audit experience).
Pay & Benefits
Salary Range: USD $48,800.00/Yr. - USD $61,000.00/Yr. Pay Transparency Statement: Placement within this range depends upon several factors, including the applicant's prior relevant job experience, skill set, and geographic location. In addition to base pay, BlackLine also offers short-term and long-term incentive programs, based on eligibility, along with a robust offering of benefit and wellness plans. We are committed to pay transparency and ensuring candidates have clear information about compensation expectations.
Equal Opportunity Employer
BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.
Company Information
Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance. Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.