Outbound Business Development Representative

Notion Notion · Enterprise · New York, NY · Sales

This role is for an Outbound Business Development Representative at Notion, focusing on generating enterprise sales opportunities for Notion's AI-enhanced product. The role involves identifying target prospects, reaching out via various channels, conducting discovery calls, and qualifying leads. While the product has AI built-in, the core function of this role is sales and business development, not direct AI/ML development or research. The role is considered early-career and involves shaping the outbound sales motion.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work with our early-stage outbound sales team to experiment with pipeline generation tactics and strategic approaches
  2. Identify and analyze target prospects based on market, firmographic, and product signals
  3. Reach out to prospects via email, phone, and LinkedIn to educate them on our products
  4. Experiment with different audiences, messaging, and channels to generate Enterprise opportunities
  5. Conduct high level discovery calls with Executives in target and prospect accounts for the AMER (Canada, USA, and Latin America) territory

Skills

Required

  • at least 6 months of outbound sales development experience, preferably in SaaS tech or a high-growth environment
  • Proficiency in SQL is preferred
  • experience generating and analyzing Salesforce reports
  • active listening skills
  • Demonstrate technical knowledge of coding languages and APIs in the SaaS industry to consult with customers, analyze needs, and recommend IT solutions based on their business requirements.

Nice to have

  • Technical understanding of SaaS products and business workflows
  • Prior experience with Salesforce, Outreach, and other prospecting tools

What the JD emphasized

  • early career sales professional
  • founding San Francisco Outbound Sales Development team
  • instrumental in helping define our outbound sales motion
  • meaningfully shape our future product
  • drive business revenue
  • founding member of our outbound sales team
  • instrumental in helping define our outbound sales motion
  • gain insights to help us serve them better — and work with product to inform what we do next
  • You have at least 6 months of outbound sales development experience, preferably in SaaS tech or a high-growth environment
  • You are energized to be part of the building phase for the revenue team in a hypergrowth company