Inside Sales Representative - SLED | Remote Central/East US or Remote MN
CohesityAbout the role
Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale.
We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design.
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Inside Sales Representative - SLED
Location(s): Remote (Central / East US) or Remote MN
About this Role:
Cohesity is seeking an Inside Sales Representative (ISR) to help us drive the adoption of our industry leading solutions as we rapidly scale up our team covering the State & Local Government and Education (SLED) sectors in the Americas.
As a Inside Sales Representative, you’ll play a key role in identifying and generating new business opportunities for Cohesity and be a part of building a world-class inside sales organization within a hyper-growth tech company. You will be on the frontline of growth in the Americas with tremendous upside to progress into a closing sales role in the future.
HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE
- Build targeted outbound prospecting lists, both independently and in partnership with key stakeholders.
- Identify relevant decision makers for our solutions within target organizations.
- Prospect into organizations by cold calling, emailing and social selling while leveraging tools like Salesforce, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Outreach and ZoomInfo.
- Hold discovery calls with prospects to qualify their needs while successfully positioning Cohesity and how our solutions can address their needs / pain points.
- Manage all inbound leads for your territory by qualifying them shortly after routing.
- Set meetings for Account Executives that convert into qualified sales opportunities.
- Meet or exceed your qualified sales opportunity targets & other objectives each quarter.
- Identify cross-sell and upsell opportunities within your assigned book of business.
- As needed, partner with Account Executives to conduct discovery calls, build & present proposals, and close small deals within your assigned territory.
- Collaborate closely with Marketing, Channel and Sales stakeholders to define and execute upon the overall go to market strategy for your territory.
- Understand Cohesity’s solutions and competitive positioning so you can effectively communicate our value proposition and relate it back to a prospect’s needs.
WE’D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING
- Passion for sales, ideally with 1+ years of experience in ISR or Sales roles covering the government or education sector within SaaS, IaaS or PaaS companies.
- Experience prospecting, including researching companies, conducting cold calls and email campaigns, navigating org charts and finding creative ways to reach prospects.
- Professional written and verbal communication skills and no fear of talking to prospective customers on the phone.
- Extremely coachable with a desire to learn - you are willing to receive and implement feedback.
- High degree of grit & resilience - you can bounce back quickly from setbacks.
- Unmatched work ethic - you strive to continuously improve, overachieve versus targets and beat the competition.
- Team player - willingness to share best practices and collaborate with your peers.
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Disclosure Pursuant to Applicable State Equal Pay Transparency Laws - This position has a starting pay range as listed below. Actual salary depends upon many factors, including a candidate’s skills, qualifications and experience, location, and salary expectations, and therefore a starting salary at the low end, high end, or even above the stated range may be offered. This position may also be eligible for bonus compensation, commission (if in a sales function), and/or equity grants. Additionally, full-time employees are eligible to participate in ourApply for this role
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