Business Development Representative

Salt Security
United States
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience in technology sales and thrive in a startup environment.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 2-5 years of tech sales experience and a proactive mindset for lead generation
    — “2-5 years of business development/sales development experience, preferably in the technology space”
  • Individuals who can manage multiple tasks efficiently and adapt to different industries
    — “Ability to absorb value prop of Salt technology and adapt across different prospect industries and roles”
  • Those comfortable with data management and using Salesforce.com for daily operations
    — “Create and maintain clean data in Salesforce.com records and other shared resources”

Things to consider

  • This role requires frequent outbound prospecting and communication across all organizational levels
    — “Ability to build relationships at all levels of an organization over the phone and email”
  • The position involves a balance of inbound follow-up and proactive lead generation
    — “Manage time across a variety of competing demands - inbound follow-up, research, prospecting”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your ability to research and profile prospects effectively in your resume
    — “Research and profile prospects”
  • Showcase your proactive nature and ability to meet activity targets consistently
    — “Achieve weekly, monthly, and quarterly activity targets”
  • Demonstrate your experience with organizing events and managing territory-based initiatives
    — “From time to time, assist in organizing territory events”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Individual

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What success looks like

  • follow-up on inbound leads
  • schedule meetings with qualified leads
  • achieve activity targets
Typical background
2-5 years of business development/sales development experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Business DevelopmentSalesProspectingLead GenerationCommunication SkillsTime Management

Preferred

Technology Industry ExperienceFamiliarity With Salesforce

Stack & domain

Sales DevelopmentBusiness DevelopmentResearchProspectingTime ManagementCommunicationTechnology

About the role

Original posting from Salt Security

About Salt Security

Salt Security is the leader in agentic and API security, protecting the world's most innovative enterprises from AI agent and API attacks. Agentic security is the practice of discovering and governing the relationships between LLMs, MCP servers, and the APIs that let AI agents take action. The Salt Security Agentic Security Platform secures the full agentic ecosystem, discovering all agents, MCP connections, and APIs, stopping attacks in real time, and eliminating vulnerabilities before they reach production. Salt Security was founded in 2016 and is backed by Sequoia Capital, S Capital, Tenaya Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Advent International, and other leading investors. For more information, visit salt.security.   

At Salt, we’re passionate about what we do. We work as a team and embrace new ideas, wherever they come from. We also enjoy all the benefits of a startup environment, including quickly seeing the results of your work, making an outsized impact on our company, and solving diverse challenges.

Want to make a big difference? We encourage you to apply!

Responsibilities:

Follow-up on all inbound leads in the assigned territories

Work closely with Territory Account Managers to target priority accounts in specified territories.

Research and profile prospects

Proactively reach out to prospects via phone calls, social media (LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.), and email

Schedule meetings for Territory Account Managers with qualified leads

Prepare background notes for reps to leverage in calls with prospects

Manage time across a variety of competing demands - inbound follow-up, research, prospecting

Create and maintain clean data in Salesforce.com records and other shared resources

From time to time, assist in organizing territory events

Achieve weekly, monthly, and quarterly activity targets

Attend conferences and tradeshows as needed

 Requirements:

2-5 years of business development/sales development experience, preferably in the technology space

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Ability to absorb value prop of Salt technology and adapt across different prospect industries and roles

Ability to build relationships at all levels of an organization over the phone and email

Skill in navigating organizations and leveraging social media to find the right prospect to contact

Strong time-management skills plus a results-driven, proactive nature

Ability to learn quickly and to adapt easily to change

Proficiency in SFDC is strongly preferred

Bachelor’s or technical degree preferred

Source: Salt Security careers

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