Appknox

A BIT ABOUT US:

Appknox is a leading mobile application security company, trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises and consistently recognized by Gartner and G2. Headquartered in Singapore with a strong presence in Bengaluru, we enable organizations to secure their mobile applications through fast, scalable, and high-quality security testing solutions.

Today, Appknox partners with 300+ global customers across APAC, the Middle East, the US, and India, helping some of the world’s most recognized brands build and scale secure digital products. We are a profitable, high-growth SaaS company operating at the intersection of cybersecurity and modern application development. As mobile and digital ecosystems continue to expand, the need for robust application security is only accelerating - placing Appknox in a strong position for continued growth.

Our culture is built on ownership, speed, and collaboration. We value people who are proactive, curious, and driven to create impact. At Appknox, you’ll get the opportunity to work closely with experienced leaders, contribute meaningfully to business growth, and be part of a team that is shaping the future of mobile security.

Role Overview:

We are looking for a high-performing Sales Development Representative (SDR) to drive the outbound pipeline across the APAC region (ANZ, SEA, India, and emerging APAC markets). This role is focused on outbound-led pipeline generation for mid-market and enterprise customers, particularly in industries like BFSI, fintech, SaaS, e-commerce, and digital platforms.

You will work closely with the regional sales team to open new accounts, engage senior stakeholders, and convert early-stage conversations into qualified opportunities. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role suited for someone who understands APAC market nuances, is comfortable with early-morning alignment, and thrives in outbound sales environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own outbound pipeline generation across assigned APAC regions
• Prospect into defined ICPs including CISOs, Heads of Application Security, DevSecOps leaders, and Engineering stakeholders
• Execute multi-channel outreach (cold calling, email, LinkedIn, account-based prospecting) with strong personalization
• Leverage modern sales and AI tools to improve research, targeting, and outreach efficiency
• Qualify prospects using structured frameworks (e.g. MEDDPICC / BANT) based on use case, urgency, and stakeholder alignment
• Book qualified meetings and ensure clear, context-rich handoff to Account Executives
• Tailor messaging based on market, industry, and regulatory context across APAC
• Maintain accurate CRM hygiene and track activity, pipeline, and conversion metrics
• Collaborate with Sales and Marketing to continuously refine messaging, ICP, and outbound strategies

What We’re Looking For:

• 2-3 years of experience in SDR/BDR roles within B2B SaaS / IT Sales
• Experience targeting APAC markets (ANZ or SEA) preferred
• Strong cold calling, outbound prospecting, and account research skills
• Ability to engage and build credibility with technical and security stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts into business value
• Hands-on experience with CRM tools (HubSpot, Salesforce, etc.) and sales engagement platforms
• Proficiency in leveraging modern sales and AI tools (e.g., Apollo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Outreach, ChatGPT, Claude) to enhance research, improve targeting, scale personalized outreach, and drive productivity and conversion outcomes
• High ownership, resilience, and a results-driven approach

Nice to Have:

• Experience in cybersecurity, DevSecOps, or developer-focused SaaS products
• Exposure to multi-region outbound sales environments

Growth & Opportunity

High-performing SDRs will have a clear path to progress into:

• Senior SDR / Team Lead roles
• Account Executive (closing roles) as APAC business scales

Interview Process:

• Round 0: Profile Evaluation - TA
• Round 1: Interview with Regional AE
• Round 2: Assignment/Roleplay
• Round 3: Interview with Regional Head
• Round 4: HR Discussion / Final HR Round

Compensation:

Competitive base salary plus performance-based commission tied to pipeline and revenue generated.

Why Join Appknox?

• Global Exposure: Work with enterprise customers across APAC and global markets, gaining firsthand experience in international sales and market dynamics
• High Impact Role: Play a direct role in building pipeline and driving revenue in a fast-scaling business
• Early Finisher: Master the APAC time zone and reclaim your evenings 
• Learning & Growth: Continuous learning through hands-on experience, mentorship, and exposure to cybersecurity and enterprise sales
• Ownership & Culture: Fast-paced, high-ownership environment with a strong focus on outcomes, collaboration, and transparency
• Compensation & Benefits: Competitive salary with performance-based incentives, comprehensive medical insurance, and wellness support for you and your family
• Career Progression: Clear path to grow into senior SDR and Account Executive roles as the business scales

Ready to secure the future of mobile apps? If you’re a driven SDR with a passion for sales and technology, we want you on our team. Apply today to help Appknox continue making mobile apps a safer place for businesses and users around the globe.

A BIT ABOUT US:

Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. A profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.

The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits.

Appknox has helped secure mobile apps at Fortune 500 companies with major brands spread across regions like India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, US, and expanding rapidly. We have secured 300+ Enterprises globally.

We are a 60+ incredibly passionate team working to make an impact and helping some of the biggest companies globally. We work in a highly collaborative, very fast-paced work environment. If you have what it takes to be part of the team, we are excited and let’s speak further.

Role Overview:

Appknox is expanding its Europe business and is looking for a high performing Sales Development Representative based in India to build qualified outbound pipeline across key European markets.

This role is focused on outbound led pipeline creation for mid market and enterprise customers in regulated industries such as BFSI, fintech, telecom, SaaS, and digital platforms. You will work closely with a senior Account Executive to open new logos, penetrate target accounts, and convert early conversations into revenue ready opportunities.

This is a hands-on role for someone who has experience selling into European markets, understands longer enterprise buying cycles, and is comfortable prospecting into senior security and engineering stakeholders while working Europe aligned hours.

Key Responsibilities:

Pipeline Generation

• Own outbound pipeline creation across assigned European markets. 
• Prospect into defined ICPs including CISOs, Heads of Application Security, and Engineering Leaders
• Execute multi channel outreach using cold calling, personalized email, LinkedIn, and account based prospecting.

Qualification and Handover

• Qualify outbound leads against clear criteria including use case, urgency, stakeholder alignment, and buying intent
• Partner closely with the Europe Account Executive to ensure clean, context rich opportunity handover to encourage faster progression.

Market Specific Outreach

• Tailor outreach and messaging based on country, industry, and regulatory context including GDPR and sector specific compliance needs.
• Continuously refine messaging based on conversion data and market feedback.

Collaboration

• Work closely with Marketing to follow up on campaigns and improve lead quality
• Share insights from prospect conversations to improve ICP definition, messaging, and targeting.

Execution and Reporting

• Maintain high CRM hygiene with accurate activity and pipeline tracking
• Consistently meet or exceed weekly and monthly activity, meetings booked, and pipeline/conversion targets.

Requirements:

Experience

• 2-3 years of experience in B2B SaaS sales development or a similar outbound role.
• Prior experience selling into European markets from India is required.
• Experience in cybersecurity, developer tools, or enterprise SaaS is strongly preferred.

Track Record

• Proven ability to consistently meet or exceed outbound pipeline or qualified meetings targets
• Demonstrated success working closely with Account Executives on opportunity creation.

Prospecting Skills

• Strong cold calling, email outreach, and social selling skills
• Comfortable engaging senior technical, security, and engineering stakeholders.

Communication

• Excellent spoken and written English. 
• Proficiency in additional European languages such as German, French, or Spanish is a strong plus.
• Exposure to European business communication styles and buying behavior is important.

Organization and Ownership

• Strong time management and prioritization skills
• Ability to work independently with high ownership in a hybrid setup.

Growth Path-

High performing SDRs will have the opportunity to progress into Senior SDR or Account Executive roles as the Europe business scales.

Interview Process

• Round 0: Profile Evaluation – HR
• Round 1: Interview with Sales Team
• Round 2: Interview with Head of Sales
• Round 3: Interview with Co-founder
• Round 4: HR Discussion / Final HR Round

Compensation

• As per market standards

Why Join Us?

• Global Impact & Innovation: Be part of a cutting-edge cybersecurity company that serves Fortune 500 clients and enterprises across industries. You’ll work on innovative security solutions and gain exposure to global sales strategies.
• Learning & Growth: Access continuous development opportunities – on-the-job training, professional courses, and mentorship. Appknox invests in your career: as one employee shares, the company has contributed “immensely to my personal and professional growth”.
• Flexible Culture: Enjoy a flexible schedule and hybrid work model. Appknox trusts you to manage your work – “flexible schedule empowers us to work at our best”. We also emphasize work-life balance; employees appreciate our “healthy work-life balance… and flexible and positive work culture”.
• Competitive Compensation: A rewarding package with base salary, performance-based commissions/bonuses, and equity options.
• Benefits & Wellbeing: Comprehensive medical insurance for you and your family, participation in a Corporate Pension Scheme (Corporate-NPS) for future security, and wellness perks like gym memberships and mental health support.
• Collaborative Team: Join a diverse, cross-functional team of cybersecurity experts, marketers, and sales pros. You’ll report to the Director of Global Sales and collaborate with colleagues worldwide. We uphold honesty, customer-centricity, and open communication in everything we do.

Ready to secure the future of mobile apps? If you’re a driven SDR with a passion for sales and technology, we want you on our team. Apply today to help Appknox continue making mobile apps a safer place for businesses and users around the globe.

A BIT ABOUT US:

Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. A profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.

The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits. Appknox has helped secure mobile apps at Fortune 500 companies with Major brands spread across regions like India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, US, and expanding rapidly. We have secured 300+ Enterprises globally.

We are a 50+ incredibly passionate team working to make an impact and helping some of the biggest companies globally. We work in a highly collaborative, very fast-paced work environment. If you have what it takes to be part of the team, we are excited and let’s speak further.

The Opportunity:

Customer Success contributes to our efforts to enhance and transform the Appknox customer experience via a customer-centric approach (building and maintaining relationships, proactively identifying potential crises that may be detrimental to the user experience, meeting, and exceeding customer expectations). Thus, helping to differentiate Appknox.This position provides the opportunity to tame different use cases across multiple industries and interact with some of the smartest individuals from other fast-growing companies that are our customers. We see this role requiring an intersection of three key skills – Business Acumen & Problem solving, Product Perspective, and People Skills.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a portfolio of current customers. 
• Understand the customer’s goals, establish a trusted relationship and ensure that they are successful in achieving their business goals using Appknox. 
• Own the customer lifecycle journey from onboarding to adoption, renewal, and growth.
• Organize, analyze, prioritize, and share customer feedback with concerned stakeholders to ensure we always consider the voice of the customer.
• Drive live demos and product implementation for your customers when onboarding and support existing clients on issues and tickets.
• Prepare and collate all materials and participate with customers on QBR exercises to address existing gaps and identify new opportunities/use cases.

What An Ideal Candidate Would Look Like:

• 2+ years of working experience in a customer-facing role such as Customer Success, Technical Account Management, Customer Onboarding roles at SaaS companies.
• Good communication skills especially with Enterprise customers from around the globe are necessary.
• Must have experience in upselling, cross selling and gauge customer requirements.
• Must have good presentation skills and hold of understanding customer’s business requirements.
• Will have worked on KPIs - customer retention, upsell revenue, cross sell revenue, QBR(Quarterly Business Reviews), referrals.
• Knows how to be the customer's voice in the company to ensure they get maximum value from upcoming product features.
• Must have experience of tracking product usage and instrumentation for Customer Success Management.
• May have experience driving customer advocacy programs along with Sales and Marketing teams to build customer referral, customer case studies and testimonials.

Work Expectations:

Within 1 month

• You should have a complete hold of the product and value customers are getting from it.
• Interact with at least 5 enterprise customers and receive feedback that we should be focusing on.
• Drive at least 1 QBR from existing customers.

Within 3 months

• You need to have a clear understanding of onboarding customers. 
• Suggest CR(Customer Requests) for the Product team to evaluate and consider in the product roadmap.
• Complete atleast 5 QBRs and also engage with 15+ customers from your book of business to ensure they get value++.
• Understand how to build the engagement pipeline for each of the customers you are owning and document all engagements.
• At least 1 referral from existing customers.

Within 6 months

• You should have discipline and document all of the ongoing discussions. 
• Own CS for your accounts and set up a process that needs to be implemented for better customer experience.
• We need an owner for this position who can in future build the CSM team below to drive overall customer success.

Personality traits we really admire:

• Confident and dynamic working persona, which can bring fun to the team, and sense of humor, is an added advantage.
• Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
• Has attention to details and helps identify edge cases.
• Highly motivated and coming up with fresh ideas and perspectives to help us move towards our goals faster.
• Follows timelines and absolute commitment to deadlines.

Interview Process: 

• Round 1 - Profile Evaluation
• Round 2 - Assignment
• Round 3 - Assignment discussion with the CSMs
• Round 4- Hiring Manager
• Round 5 - HR Discussion 

Compensation:

• As per Industry Standards

We prefer that every employee also holds equity in the company. In this role, you will be awarded equity after 12 months, based on the impact you have created.

Please be aware that all your customers will include Enterprises and Fortune 500 companies.

Why Join Us:

• Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who enjoys challenging work & pushing your boundaries, then this is the right place for you. We appreciate new ideas & ownership as well as flexibility with working hours.
• Great Salary & Equity: We keep up with the market standards & provide pay packages considering updated standards. Also as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also provide equity options for our top performers.
• Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to training and developing our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
• Transparency: Being a part of a start-up is an amazing experience, one of the reasons being the open communication & transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will give you the opportunity to experience it all first hand.
• Health insurance: We offer health insurance coverage upto 5 Lacs for you and your family including parents.
• Work Schedule: Flexible working environment with remote work if required.