Business Development Executive

-Summary:

-- We are looking for a 'passionate sales enthusiast’ and a skillful business development executive (BDE) to contribute to achieving our marketing and sales goals.

-- The BDE will primarily work as the front face of Emipro to the prospect who will be a spokesperson or decision-maker for small and medium enterprises.

-- You will have to understand their requirements, coordinate and discuss with your superior direct the process further in alignment with Emipro’s business vision, and ensure your interactions with our customers reflect positively on the company and its growth.

-Highlights about your Role:

-- Manage initial discovery calls with customer leads.

-- Understands Customer’s Business and keeps an empathetic approach toward customers.

-- Building Trust and Transparency with Customers.

-- Go-getter attitude to close the lead.

-- Creating and delivering impressive presentations/demos to the customer

-- Managing follow-up activities to ensure customer engagement.

-- Negotiating contracts.

-- Working on guidelines by senior-level peers.

-- Gaining know-how expertise in ERP Business Applications.

-- Preparing RFP/RFI as per the customers’ needs.

-- Continuous efforts to achieve sales quotas.

-- Self upgradation through industry study and research.

About us

We are building new-age billing and pricing infrastructure for SaaS companies. As SaaS pricing evolves from vanilla subscription-based models to more granular usage-based models, billing and pricing infrastructure needs to be completely reimagined.

Founders who sold their previous startups to Snapdeal and Gaana respectively. They have experience at organizations such as Google, Basepair, Elevation Capital, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi and Harvard Business School. We are funded by marquee global investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners.

We are building our founding team, and are looking for:

1. engineers who can optimize for quick iteration, fast deployment and having a great developer experience.
2. sales, marketing and growth folks who are excited to push the envelope on GTM (go-to-market) innovation

You should be excited about learning and meaningfully shaping the trajectory of an early-stage startup from Day 0 in its journey.

What you can expect

• Ownership and autonomy: As a founding team member, you have immense responsibility. You own and drive the execution.
• Learning: You will work on challenging problems and engage in some of the most meaningful work of your life.
• You will have to figure out our Go-To-Market playbook from scratch - channels, messaging, discovery, demos, sales cycle, personas, nurturing, partnerships etc. Expect a whole lot of iteration and first principles thinking.
• Culture:
• We don’t take ourselves too seriously, and know how to have fun
• The health of our team is most important to us. Balance work with life - be productive, not busy.
• Being remote first, we thrive via async communication.
• Flexibility: Remote - work from wherever you are in the world; If you prefer coming to the office in person, we have a physical space in Indiranagar, Bangalore 
• Compensation: We offer competitive salaries with generous ESOPs
• Benefits (for full-time roles):
• Health insurance
• Generous vacation policy
• Learning and development budget
• Team events and company offsites
• Maternity and Paternity benefits
• Company laptop

About this role

We are building our founding team and are looking for folks who are excited to get their hands dirty in a 0 to 1 journey. If you are expecting a working playbook that you can execute, we are probably not the right fit for you at this point. However, if you are excited about creating the playbook from scratch, we would love to hear from you 

You will directly work with the founders.

Outbound sales are critical to generating meetings with qualified prospects. You will lay the foundation for and execute our outbound sales strategy.

The primary objective is to generate meetings with qualified prospects by optimizing our outbound sales machinery - iterating on channels, messaging, ICP (ideal customer profile), tooling etc.

• Outbound prospecting
• Find leads from databases (Apollo, ZoomInfo, etc.)
• Reach out to them (manual + automated) via different channels (email, LinkedIn, cold calling, etc.) to generate new sales opportunities
• Identify the needs of prospects, and build long-term, trusting relationships with to qualify leads as sales opportunities
• Iterate to maximize qualified meetings set up
• Experiment with different databases
• Experiment with messaging, level of personalization, length of sequences etc.
• Experiment with channels (email, LinkedIn, cold calls etc.)
• Experiment with different types of collateral
• Experiment with the recipient being targeted - industry, persona, intent signals etc.
• Loop in feedback from prospect responses to emails and cold calls to refine messaging further
• Inbound follow-ups - Respond to inbound leads and automate follow-up communication; iterate on messaging/channels to maximize conversion rate
• Run custom campaigns e.g., writing to VCs for intros to their portfolio companies, writing to conference attendees, scraping forums and job descriptions for relevant leads etc.
• Set up in-house tooling to ensure email deliverability, monitor open rate/reply rate, track domain reputation etc.
• Owning the CRM: Create and update leads, set up pipelines, email templates, and automation. Fully utilize CRM capabilities to nurture leads and deliver timely and relevant content

Key Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience working as a sales development representative at a B2B SaaS company
• The solid hustle and entrepreneurial mindset; Thrive under the uncertainty that comes with an early-stage setup
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience working with lead databases, sales engagement tools etc
• Familiarity with CRM systems and proficiency in managing leads, pipelines, and automation
• Willingness to get your hands dirty and do the grunt work in the early days
• Strong first principles understanding of business fundamentals; Ability to empathize with the end user, and understand their pain points; Ability to understand the product at a granular level
• Adaptable to work across time zones to cater to a global customer base
• Self-driven individual with high ownership and a strong work ethic
• Ability to build, manage and motivate a team
• Previous entrepreneurial experience is a huge plus
• Experience catering to the CFO persona is a plus
• Familiarity with billing systems, CPQ and accounting systems is a plus
• Not taking yourself too seriously :)

How do we do it?

The first step to changing the world is changing hearts and minds. The stories of people who lead, for example, move millions to action. We started to give a voice to millions of change-makers and innovators in the country, using the power of storytelling to

inspire change. With over 200 million readers and participants, we are today the world’s largest solution-focused platform.

As a Content Sales/ Branded Content Sales Head, with us, you will:

1. Drive sales and profitability from a dedicated set of industry verticals on a national level

2. Build solid relationships with corporate cause marketing functions, and large CSR teams and

foundations to attain large-scale campaigns for us.

3. Build and develop commercial and strategic relationships with brands and agency partners.

4. Negotiate partnership deals and encourage and supervise any collaborations with partner brands.

5. Establish TBI as a thought leader in the CSR / Development / Sustainability ecosystem

by developing IPs and campaigns with the marketing and editorial teams, participating in relevant events, applying for awards, and more.

6. Manage a multi-functional team and help sensitize & educate them on various social sector issues. 

7. Conceptualize digital led strategies and solutions to address client/brand requirements

8. Regularly contact, prospect for, and develop new advertising opportunities with key clients

and agency stakeholders.

9. Manage clients from initial engagement to campaign completion to re-engagement

10. Develop clear and consistent strategies to achieve the company stated business goals and revenue targets, while ensuring a healthy funnel of opportunities at all times.

Our ideal colleague:

1. A professional with 2-5 years of experience, in corporate/B2B sales in the Digital Media industry or having experience of working in the space of impact consulting, impact investing or CSR projects. 

2. An exceptional communicator with superlative written and oral communications skills, creativity, and attention to detail.

3. Possessing an ability to conceptualize branding and marketing opportunities and designing media-led CSR solutions.

4. Experience in forging partnerships with central & state level government agencies.

5. A pro at concept selling and should have a good CSR, agency and client connect.

6. Having a deep understanding of how to create business driven creative solutions.

7. Experienced in developing brand and marketing strategies as well as providing recommendations to the team.

8. A problem solver delivering creative content solutions to help brands with maximum outreach against their investment.

9. Able to work with cross-functional teams. Effectively meet client commitments by working with

teams across the organization – editorial, multimedia, social media, legal & finance. Manage client expectations while adhering to the company ethos and values.

10. A pro at managing relationships – Ability to plan, schedule & effectively deliver as per commitments to each client. Ability to scale brand/agency partnerships year on year.

11. Self-motivated – Ability to work under high-pressure environments and maturity to understand the business needs at all points.

12. A great negotiator, quick learner, thinker, and doer.

13. Have developed and executed end-to-end impact projects in the space of social change, sustainability and more.

1. Connecting with minimum 80 to 100 working professionals (prospective students) each day from the leads/database present on leadsquared CRM
2. Generating a pool of prospects by identifying the need of upskilling depending on the student’s area of interest
3. Helping prospective students with the detailed information about the programs offered through phone or video counselling & create a strong pipeline
4. Ensure to meet daily deliverables & achieve weekly/monthly enrolment target

The ideal candidate for this position will be responsible for lead generation and building a pipeline of top quality prospects. As a manager, the candidate will also be responsible for overseeing personnel in the company's inside sales team. Moreover, the candidate will act as a strategic partner with an eye towards long term sales strategy. 

Key Responsibilities:

1. Lead prospecting. Research on the leads generated and nurture them
2. Follow up, set up calls and demos
3. Understand customer needs and create proposals
4. Conduct competitive research

What we look for?

1. Great communication skills
2. Understanding of tech products and good analytical skills
3. Familiar with email marketing, CRM, and social media tools.
4. Experience in selling Saas products for 1-3 years (must)

Sal range: 3 to 6 LPA