About the Role
Zip is seeking a motivated and tech-savvy sales representative with strong business acumen to join the Business Development team. This role focuses on generating new business through outbound prospecting and setting high-value meetings, requiring creativity, resilience, and collaboration with Account Executives. It offers an opportunity to fast-track a sales career, learn consultative selling, and contribute to Zip's sales strategy.
Responsibilities
- Generate new business through outbound prospecting and cold outreach.
- Collaborate across the sales organization to set high-value meetings.
- Identify and source meetings that lead to pipeline and closed revenue.
- Prospect across a high volume of accounts, strategically prioritizing time.
- Research and understand target industries and personas.
- Build a point of view on how to help customers and ask qualifying questions.
- Adapt and contribute to shaping the sales process in a hyper-growth environment.
- Identify and contact prospective clients through cold-calling, emailing, social media, and mass email campaigns.
- Create a professional and engaging first impression with prospects and customers.
- Create, maintain, and update the database of prospects with complete information and emails.
- Thoroughly qualify outbound opportunities and collaborate with Account Executives.
- Generate net new business through outbound prospecting.
- Prioritize leads, research prospects, and position relevant product features.
- Manage follow-up with calls-to-action to build a sales pipeline.
- Achieve department standards for activity, including making a minimum number of quality outbound calls per day.
- Schedule a minimum number of new quality discovery calls per week.
- Exceed activity and pipeline goals on a monthly basis.
- Reflect on skill and development gaps with the Director of Business Development.
- Become a mentor to new hires entering the Business Development organization.
Requirements
- 6-12+ months or equivalent sales experience.
- A consistent track record of meeting and exceeding goals.
- Highly strategic thinker and problem solver with a solutions-first and adaptable mindset.
- Ability to work from our downtown office 4-5 days per week.
Skills
- Cold outreach
- Sales prospecting
- Consultative selling
- Outbound sales
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Detail-oriented
Location
- Downtown office
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Entry-level
- Mid-level
Benefits
- Start-up equity
- Health, vision & dental coverage
- Catered lunches & dinners
- Team building events & happy hours
- Flexible PTO
- Apple equipment
About the Company
- Zip is the AI platform for enterprise procurement, designed for collaboration between humans and agents.
- The platform helps companies secure resources to innovate faster by orchestrating procurement across teams, tools, and suppliers.
- Trusted by enterprises like T-Mobile, OpenAI, AMD, Mars, and Dollar Tree, Zip has facilitated over $8 billion in savings and processed over $500 billion in spend.
- The Zip team comprises product leaders from Apple, Airbnb, and Meta, and former procurement leaders from major organizations.
- Zip has raised $371 million, with a recent valuation of $2.2 billion, and has received recognition from Forbes Fintech 50, Fast Company, Inc., and LinkedIn.
- Zip is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workspace.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workspace where everyone (regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and more) feels like they belong.
