SchooLinks is changing communities by providing the resources for ALL students to pursue their dream career, while simultaneously building the company into a category defining leader.
SchooLinks is one of the fastest growing Saas companies in Texas, and the number one college and career readiness platform, changing the way school districts unleash their students’ potential. Fresh off our Series A, this rapidly growing company is looking for a Business Development Representative to join our scaling, fast-paced team. This role will work closely with our VP of Sales and Account Executives on our core prospecting activities. Our 12 - 15 month program is centered around lead generation and talent development. From their first day, our BDRs are trained weekly on core sales skills that help them drive impact through lead generation and qualification during and after the BDR role. Successful graduates from our BDR program progress into more advanced sales roles which provides increased earning potential, and our promote-from-within culture propels our most committed and innovative BDRs into leadership roles within sales and business development. Our team is invested in talent who is committed to growing, learning, and performing in this role and beyond. Our ideal candidate for this role is someone who has grit and a great work ethic, is passionate, and full of intellectual curiosity.
Overall your responsibility is to generate new business sales leads through a mixture of cold calling, follow up marketing campaigns, and catering to inbound inquiries
Specifically, these are some examples of your day to day activities:
- Contact potential clients through cold calls and emails
- Generate new business opportunities to fuel company's growth
- Make outbound phone calls and outbound emails each day
- Manage your named accounts, own your territory, and help maintain data integrity in Salesforce.com
- Support marketing efforts by assisting in demand generation campaigns
- Achieve, or exceed, weekly and monthly metrics including sales activities, meetings set, qualified leads, and new contacts prospected
- Present our company to potential clients
- Identify client needs and suggest appropriate products/services
- Build long-term trusting relationships with clients
- Proactively seek new business opportunities in the market
- Set up meetings or calls between (prospective) clients and Account Executives
- Report (weekly/monthly/quarterly) sales results
- Stay up-to-date with new products/services and new pricing/payment plans
What We Do
SchooLinks is the most modern, robust college and career readiness solution on the market. Supporting 80+ interactive experiences from interest discovery to academic and post-secondary planning - SchooLinks offers internship matching, career mentorship, industry partner management and other features that help districts broaden the definition of college and career readiness. Our platform is powered by modern technologies such as machine learning, virtual reality, and mobile-enabled experiences.
Why Work With Us
You have the opportunity to work with proven and passionate team, on a product that is defining a whole new category, creating a meaningful difference in the lives of a million students today. Get in at an early stage at the quickest growing company in the category, that has line of sight to be an incredibly valuable business.