Business Development Representative

Zendesk Zendesk · Enterprise · Melbourne, Australia

This role is for a Business Development Representative at Zendesk, focusing on selling their AI-powered customer experience platform. The role involves engaging with executive-level prospects, driving pipeline through outbound prospecting, and partnering with sales and marketing teams. While the company has a significant AI business, the role itself is in sales, not AI development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Engage exec-level prospects to understand where their CX, AI and Service gaps sit
  2. Drive high-value pipeline through targeted outbound prospecting
  3. Partner closely with Account Executives, Product and Marketing to run coordinated plays into priority accounts
  4. Qualify opportunities with a consultative, value-led approach
  5. Own and manage your pipeline with discipline, clarity and a premium customer experience

Skills

Required

  • 2+ years in a sales or business development role (SMB, Commercial or Enterprise)
  • A competitive, resilient, self-starting mindset
  • Clear, confident communication - written and verbal
  • A strong desire to build a long-term career in software sales

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s degree preferred

What the JD emphasized

  • build a career in software sales on the bleeding edge of AI and technology
  • shaping how they adopt AI for customer experience
  • uncovering real pain
  • build a serious career in tech sales
  • Curiosity for AI, SaaS and modern GTM motion
  • sell at the frontier of AI