Business Development Representative - MENA(South Africa or Kenya)

Bitgo
Remote
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Geared toward mid-level sales professionals comfortable with hunting new leads in digital assets or financial services, with a remote work arrangement in South Africa or Kenya.

Best fit for

  • Sales professionals with crypto or fintech experience seeking remote work in Africa.
    — “sales professionals within cryptocurrency, financial services and/or technology sales
  • Individuals who thrive in fast-evolving industries and enjoy learning new technologies.
    — “Agility and appetite for learning new products/technology in a fast-developing environment
  • Candidates with CRM experience and a focus on lead qualification.
    — “Experience with CRM Tools such as Salesforce

Things to consider

  • Fluency in Arabic is advantageous but not mandatory.
    — “bonus if speak Arabic as well
  • Role requires proactive lead generation and cold outreach.
    — “hunting for new leads and identifying qualified opportunities

How to stand out

  • Showcase specific examples of lead generation success in digital assets.
    — “Identify and engage potential leads through various channels
  • Highlight any experience with Salesforce or similar CRM tools.
    — “Capture lead information and interactions in Salesforce
  • Demonstrate enthusiasm for digital assets and new industry concepts.
    — “Enthusiasm for the digital asset industry and curiosity of new concepts
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · IndividualLevel · Junior

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • Identified and engaged potential leads
  • Scheduled meetings for the Sales team
Typical background
2+ years of experience in sales and/or business development

Skills & requirements

Required

Lead GenerationCold OutreachCRM ToolsSales StrategiesDigital Asset Industry Knowledge

Preferred

Arabic Language FluencyCryptocurrency Experience

Stack & domain

SalesBusiness DevelopmentDigital AssetsFinancial ServicesFintechSaasCryptocurrencyCrm ToolsSalesforceCritical ThinkingOpen CommunicationOwnership MentalityDigital Asset Industry

About the role

Original posting from Bitgo via Greenhouse

BitGo is the leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since our founding in 2013, we have focused on enabling our clients to securely navigate the digital asset space. With a global presence and multiple Trust companies, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of retail investors worldwide. As the operational backbone of the digital economy, BitGo handles a significant portion of Bitcoin network transactions and is the largest independent digital asset custodian, and staking provider, in the world. For more information, visit www.bitgo.com.

BitGo is currently looking to expand our team with the hire of a Business Development Representative based in South Africa or Kenya. This role is a great opportunity for sales professionals within cryptocurrency, financial services and/or technology sales. This is an individual contributor role with the predominant responsibility of hunting for new leads and identifying qualified opportunities for our Sales team.

Responsibilities

Identify and engage potential leads through various channels such as professional networking, online research, marketing campaigns, industry events and cold outreach.

Collaborate closely with Sales and Marketing to align initiatives and develop target lists, campaigns and other strategies for engaging with prospects.

Qualify leads as sales opportunities and schedule meetings for the Sales team.

Capture lead information and interactions in Salesforce and maintain a high standard of CRM hygiene.

Skills and Experience

2+ years of experience in sales and/or business development in digital assets, financial services, fintech or SaaS

Enthusiasm for the digital asset industry and curiosity of new concepts such as protocols and tokens, staking, NFTs

Fluency in English and a bonus if speak Arabic as well

Agility and appetite for learning new products/technology in a fast-developing environment

Experience with CRM Tools such as Salesforce

Critical thinking, open communication, and ownership mentality  

Experience working in the Digital Assets/Crypto space

Why Join BitGo?

Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.

Source: Bitgo careers (Greenhouse)

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