Sales Development Representative

Akamai Technologies
Japan
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Geared toward candidates comfortable with enterprise account prospecting and B2B engagement, with a focus on collaboration and CRM tools in a Japan-based setting.

Best fit for

  • Individuals who thrive in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment
    — “partners with the Field Marketing organization to guide the early stages of the sales cycle”
  • Professionals who can adapt to a Japan-based work arrangement and are open to hybrid setups
    — “We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.”

Things to consider

  • The role requires a minimum of 2 years of experience in a related industry
    — “Have 2 years of related industry work experience and a bachelor's degree or demonstrate relevant, equivalent experience”
  • This position involves a high level of communication with IT decision-makers
    — “Be comfortable speaking with IT decision makers via various mediums”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with lead qualification and CRM tools like Salesforce in your resume
    — “Have experience with Microsoft Office, Salesforce, or similar CRM solutions”
  • Emphasize your ability to follow up on marketing campaigns and events effectively
    — “follow-up on campaigns and events to increase pipeline and generate demand”
  • Demonstrate your capacity to nurture top-of-funnel leads through various engagement methods
    — “nurturing top-of-funnel pipeline”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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

What success looks like

  • pipeline growth
  • qualified opportunities
  • customer engagement
Typical background
salesmarketingIT

Skills & requirements

Required

Sales DevelopmentLead GenerationCRM ManagementCommunication

Preferred

Sales AnalyticsIT Decision-making

Stack & domain

Sales DevelopmentCRM SolutionsMicrosoft OfficeSalesloftCommunicationTeamworkProblem-solvingEnterprise Sales

About the role

Original posting from Akamai Technologies

Would you like to work in a dynamic sales-growth role?

Do you enjoy facilitating the early stages of sales cycles?

Join our exciting sales development team

Our Sales Development Team partners with the Field Marketing organization to guide the early stages of the sales cycle and assist with new customer acquisition. We work closely with other teams to follow-up on campaigns and events to increase pipeline and generate demand for new customer revenue opportunities.

Become a trusted advisor to customers

As a Sales Development Representative, you will identify and qualify enterprise account leads and opportunities. You will focus on analyzing business needs by conducting information-gathering and pre-qualify opportunities through phone, social and email engagement. You will be generating qualified opportunities for regional sales teams.

As a Sales Development Representative, you will be responsible for:

Identifying, prospecting and penetrating target accounts to achieve pipeline and booking sourced goalsUpdating lead and prospect activity in SalesLoft to optimize sales and marketing processesCollaborating in a business-to-business sales environment to position our technology solutions to a varied audienceSetting qualified introductory meetings for sales representatives and nurturing top-of-funnel pipelineDo what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

Have 2 years of related industry work experience and a bachelor's degree or demonstrate relevant, equivalent experienceHave experience identifying business needs through information-gathering and pre-qualifying opportunitiesHave experience engaging with customers and prospects via phone, email and social strategiesBe comfortable speaking with IT decision makers via various mediumsHave experience with Microsoft Office, Salesforce, or similar CRM solutionsEnjoy working in a team and have a desire to grow in the organizationAbout us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.

Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.

AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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Source: Akamai Technologies careers

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