Sales Development Representative

Mentimeter is an engagement company with a simple goal: to make every leader better. Through interaction, insights and recommendations, its platform helps organizations turn participation into better understanding and stronger performance.

Founded in Stockholm in 2012, Mentimeter is used by 20 million people each month across 1.3 million organizations. At Mentimeter, we believe better leadership starts with listening and that the strongest results are achieved together. That’s why we foster a culture built on curiosity, collaboration and shared ownership. By joining us, you’ll help leaders turn participation into deeper understanding and stronger performance, advancing our ambition to help more than one billion people listen, learn and work better together.

As an SDR, you will contribute by generating new business by qualifying leads and driving various outbound campaigns. You will also focus on the development of each qualified lead to pass to your team of Account Executives and Relationship Managers. As an SDR you will learn and understand the key fundamentals of successful SaaS sales.

We are looking for a colleague with high energy, an entrepreneurial tempo, and the ability to work closely with our marketing and product colleagues, with a strong focus on business opportunities and sales. The ideal candidate is someone who can start relationships with some of the largest companies in the world - and move them from being loving Mentimeter users to large Enterprise customers.

We are referencing the Dropbox and Slack journeys when we see the future of Mentimeter. Mentimeter is a service that is loved globally and our growth has been almost 100% organic. Sales are currently growing over 10% per month and you will be a driving force to accelerate that growth even further!

We believe that a brilliant person with the right ambition can really leverage their time at Mentimeter. We are growing fast, and with us, so can you. Most importantly, we are looking for a candidate who is eager to develop Mentimeter as a company to a world-leading position. You will be one of the leading individuals making this happen.

Responsibilities for the role:

• Qualify leads based on our user, presenter and customer databases
• Deal with global organizations in over 220 different countries 
• Present and hand-over qualified leads to Account Executives and Relationship Managers
• Continuously improve the processes, analysis, and tactics used by Mentimeter Sales
• Prospect and qualify new leads
• Cold outreach to various prospects via phone, email, or Linkedin
• Work along side Account Executives to progress leads in the sales cycle and close deals
• Occasionally run meetings and demos for prospective clients

Resources we have to support you:

• Many (200+ million) users, presenters and customers who love Mentimeter 
• Professional CRM and data gathering services (Salesforce & Salesloft) for advanced analytics, segmentation and outreach
• World-class lead-generation from the Marketing and Product teams
• Marketing and Sales teams to support in analysis, tactics strategy 
• Mentimeter principles / ways-of-working

Compensation model:

We strongly believe in the power of together, and we put a lot of effort into collaboration, teamwork and helping each other whenever needed. We believe that every part of Mentimeter, from Sales Development Representatives and Account Executives to Frontend developers and marketing managers contributes equally to our continued success. To foster and emphasize this culture and way of working, we apply a non-commission based salary model in our sales roles, which has proven to be very successful and appreciated across the team.

The salary band for this role ranges from $65,000 CAD - $70,000 CAD annually. Salary will be based on level experience

Read about our benefits & perks here.

Must haves for the role:

• Experience ranging from either prospecting leads, cold-calling, qualifying leads, driving entries sales process, closing new business, researching good fit organizations and/or data driven market research
• Ability and some experience assessing business opportunities using data for informative decision making
• Entrepreneurial mindset 
• Ambitious and result-oriented
• Flexible mindset and open to new ways of working
• Growth mindset
• You are required to have professional-level English - we sell to more than 220 countries globally today
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience working as an SDR or BDR in the SaaS industry is a plus but not needed

The recruitment process consists of:

• Personality test and logical ability test
• Introduction Interview
• Business Case
• Competence Interview
• Culture Interview

Mentimeter follows a Hybrid Working Schedule - you will be required to work out of our Downtown Toronto office 3 days a week (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday)

What Mentimeter can offer
At Mentimeter we can offer a diverse and inclusive work environment supported by smart and driven colleagues. We believe in continuous professional development for all of our colleagues and therefore offer access to a leadership program (including external personal coach) and relevant education to ensure that we continue to be state-of-the-art when it comes to innovating and building Mentimeter. Your place will be in a growing company with lots of career opportunities, working on a beloved product used by more than 300 million people. It’s not all about work though, we also offer a very healthy view on work-life balance.

All of this comes attached with a competitive compensation and benefits package, including pension contributions. Learn more about our benefits by visiting our Benefits & Perks page

Culture at Mentimeter
At Mentimeter we believe in giving everyone a voice - regardless of who you are. So we build a platform that does just that. Our platform is not only our product but also our organization. A platform where people feel safe, where differences are embraced, a place where you can have fun. We strongly encourage applicants who are people of color, LGBTQ+, women, people with disabilities, and/or formerly incarcerated people, and a college degree is not strictly required. In order to give everyone a voice, we need to be as diverse as our users.

Learn more about our culture by visiting our Culture page.
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