Business Development Representative

Canva Canva · Enterprise · Sydney, NSW, Australia · Sales

This is a Business Development Representative role at Canva, focused on identifying strategic pipeline opportunities, driving demand generation, and delivering results by collaborating with Sales & Success teams. The role involves proactive pipeline building through cold outreach, social selling, and qualification meetings, becoming a product and market expert, and working cross-functionally with marketing, product, and customer success teams. It requires a strong track record in pipeline generation and revenue growth, confidence in outreach across multiple channels, organizational skills, and experience with CRM and outreach platforms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborating closely with the Sales & Success team to identify strategic pipeline opportunities, drive demand generation, and deliver results.
  2. Proactively building the pipeline through cold outreach, social selling, and qualification meetings.
  3. Becoming a Canva product and market expert, staying across accounts, territories, competitors, and trends.
  4. Working cross-functionally with marketing, product, and customer success teams to align go-to-market efforts.
  5. Using tools like Salesforce, Pocus, Salesloft, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and Gong to manage and maintain pipeline hygiene.

Skills

Required

  • Strong track record of generating pipeline and driving revenue growth
  • Confident in outreach across channels - phone, email, social, direct mail
  • Sharp account planning and objection handling skills
  • Organised, goal-driven, and comfortable managing your own workflow
  • Experience using Salesforce and outreach platforms (Salesloft, ZoomInfo, etc.)

Nice to have

  • Team-first culture and love collaborating to achieve shared goals