Sales Development Representative (amer)

Notion Notion · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Sales

This role is for a Sales Development Representative at Notion, an AI-powered collaborative workspace. The role involves handling inbound leads, prospecting new accounts, educating potential customers about Notion's capabilities, and generating enterprise opportunities. The SDR will experiment with messaging and channels, conduct meetings, help build sales playbooks, and collaborate with marketing and GTM teams to drive pipeline and revenue. The role emphasizes a "builder's mentality" and customer empathy, with a willingness to adopt AI tools to enhance productivity.

What you'd actually do

  1. Handle inbound requests from prospective customers interested in buying Notion
  2. Organize and take thorough notes on prospects
  3. Qualify those prospects to determine whether or not they’re a good fit for Notion
  4. Prospect and develop new potential accounts by educating contacts about how they can increase their team's collaboration, transparency, and productivity with Notion
  5. Experiment with different audiences, messaging, and channels to generate Enterprise opportunities

Skills

Required

  • 1 yr+ of experience in sales or sales development in saas tech or a high-growth environment
  • Engaging and compelling customer skills - high cognitive empathy and ability to craft stories tailored to the customer
  • Experience making cold calls to decision makers
  • A track record of high achievement in current and previous roles hitting or exceeding quotas
  • A builders mentality who thrives in collaborative environments
  • A tireless positive attitude with strong grit, especially when navigating unchartered territories
  • A passion for customers and a natural empathy for their needs
  • A love for getting to know new people and helping them solve their business problems
  • You are energized to be part of the building phase for the revenue team in a hypergrowth company
  • You can put yourself in others’ shoes and see situations from perspectives other than your own

Nice to have

  • You have strong technical chops — comfort with speaking about technical implementations
  • A growth mindset, positive attitude and ability to view challenges as learning opportunities, not failures

What the JD emphasized

  • founding sales team
  • early team member
  • define our sales motion
  • shape our future product
  • builders mentality
  • building phase for the revenue team