Intercom is on a mission to help our customers provide incredible customer experiences online. We enable businesses to provide instant and exceptional service to their customers while maximizing the productivity, efficiency and performance of their support teams—all through our single seamless platform.
Intercom is leading the market in AI customer service with Fin by Intercom, the most powerful AI customer service agent available, and Helpdesk by Intercom, a fully featured AI enhanced helpdesk for human support.
Today, more than 25,000 businesses use Intercom’s platform to send millions of messages to millions of customers each month. Driven by our core values, we push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and consistently deliver incredible value to our customers.
Join us to help define and lead the AI revolution for customer service.
What's the opportunity?
As a Business Development Representative, you will play a critical role in driving revenue growth for the Intercom Sales organization through effective pipeline generation. Our role is to lay the foundation for Intercom Sales by engaging with prospects and customers, helping them understand the value of Intercom through creative & engaging prospecting.
We invest in our BDRs. We strongly believe in giving our team the opportunities to grow & develop at Intercom, to push themselves outside of their comfort zones to achieve goals they never thought possible. In joining the Business Development team at Intercom, you join a community that believes in development and promotion from within. We’re looking for people who are excited to work in a fast-moving company, make an impact, and rapidly develop their career in sales.
As a BDR team, we empower one another to achieve our goals, exceed expectations and continue to deliver real business impact. We’re looking for a teammate to do the same!
What will I be doing?
Creating and prioritizing strategic target account lists with Account Executives
Generating new business pipeline for Account Executives through cold calling, email, social etc.
Providing a great experience for Intercom’s prospective customers
Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of our product and its value to customers
Demonstrating an ability to attract new customers
Working with other functions to improve business processes
Engaging in team development and mentoring
What skills do I need?
Strong desire to build a career in Sales, you want to be an Account Executive or a closing based role in the future
1+ year of customer-facing work experience (Sales and/or SaaS experience is a +)
Operational Excellence:
You can use your time in an effective and efficient manner to complete revenue driving activities, you can quickly identify where to focus your efforts to drive more pipeline.
Competitive Landscape & Industry Knowledge is crucial.
You’ll bring an understanding of the SaaS landscape and our target verticals. You always want to stay on top of the latest news & industry trends.
Prospecting skills (cold calling, email, social)
You know how to leverage modern sales engagement tools to deliver prospect engagement across multiple channels (phone, email, LinkedIn)
Communication
You can articulate your thoughts and express ideas effectively using verbal, written and non-verbal communication skills (to inform, instruct, and persuade), to different audiences.
You listen effectively and love to partner and collaborate with your peers
Growth Mindset
You’re self-aware and understand both your strengths and weaknesses. You understand every day is an opportunity to be 1% better than the day before. You proactively seek feedback.
Results Oriented
You bring a never settle approach to quota, progression and team development. Results oriented SDRs are hungry to succeed and raise the bar.
Business-level fluency in French (written and verbal) is required
Bonus skills & attributes
Bachelor's Degree preferred
Familiarity with these systems and tools: (SFDC, Outreach, Cognism, Zoominfo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator)
Benefits
We are a well treated bunch, with awesome benefits! If there’s something important to you that’s not on this list, talk to us!
Competitive salary and equity in a fast-growing start-up
We serve lunch every weekday, plus a variety of snack foods and a fully stocked kitchen
Regular compensation reviews - we reward great work!
Pension scheme & match up to 4%
Peace of mind with life assurance, as well as comprehensive health and dental insurance for you and your dependents
Flexible paid time off policy
Paid maternity leave, as well as 6 weeks paternity leave for fathers, to let you spend valuable time with your loved ones
If you’re cycling, we’ve got you covered on the Cycle-to-Work Scheme. With secure bike storage too
MacBooks are our standard, but we also offer Windows for certain roles when needed.
Policies
Intercom has a hybrid working policy. We believe that working in person helps us stay connected, collaborate easier and create a great culture while still providing flexibility to work from home. We expect employees to be in the office at least two days per week.
We have a radically open and accepting culture at Intercom. We avoid spending time on divisive subjects to foster a safe and cohesive work environment for everyone. As an organization, our policy is to not advocate on behalf of the company or our employees on any social or political topics out of our internal or external communications. We respect personal opinion and expression on these topics on personal social platforms on personal time, and do not challenge or confront anyone for their views on non-work related topics. Our goal is to focus on doing incredible work to achieve our goals and unite the company through our core values.
Intercom values diversity and is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity. Intercom will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.
Is this role not quite what you're looking for? Join our Talent Community to stay connected with us.