Business Development Representative

Adobe Adobe · Enterprise · Austin, TX

This role is for a Business Development Representative (BDR) at Adobe, focusing on the Corporate Creativity & Productivity organization. The BDR will be the first point of contact with prospects, responsible for establishing conversations with C-level decision-makers, prospecting, educating, qualifying, and developing target accounts to generate sales-ready meetings and opportunities. The goal is to build a sales pipeline that leads to revenue growth through account-based sales development and personalized prospecting campaigns. The role requires a high-energy, driven, and self-motivated individual with excellent communication and cold-calling skills, and experience with CRM systems like Salesforce. While Adobe mentions AI in its broader company description and hiring guidelines, this specific role is in sales and does not involve building or directly working with AI/ML models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Be a Document Cloud and Creative Cloud ambassador and build a great first impression on our prospects and customers by providing them with a premier experience!
  2. Respond to and qualify incoming web and phone inquiries
  3. Proactively identify, contact, and cultivate new business opportunities using a combination of calling, emailing, and social media
  4. Be accountable to the goals of qualified meetings, opportunities, and revenue.
  5. Perform the level of activities (calls, emails, social media contacts, etc) to hit and exceed performance goals

Skills

Required

  • Excellent communication, including writing, speaking, listening, and cold-calling
  • Phone-first approach; be ready to cold call and book meetings daily
  • A history of exceeding goals
  • Great understanding of social media and vehicles including LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs, and monitoring tools
  • Experience using Salesforce or similar CRM

Nice to have

  • Inside Sales experience is a plus
  • An entrepreneurial spirit, comfortable with ambiguity and change, and a passion for helping build Document Cloud and Creative Cloud
  • Grit and ambition

What the JD emphasized

  • 6+ months of lead generation for a high-growth SaaS business
  • phone-first approach
  • cold call and book meetings daily
  • A history of exceeding goals