Sales Development Representative (New Grad)

4 Months ago • Upto 1 Years • Sales • $56,850 PA - $76,125 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Sales Development Representative (SDR), you'll join Salesforce's elite sales team, evangelizing their Customer Success Platform and #1 CRM. You'll research and identify new business opportunities, directly impacting revenue generation. This entry-level role develops core sales skills and business acumen, working alongside industry leaders. Responsibilities include generating new business pipeline, partnering with Account Executives, qualifying leads, discovering business initiatives, building customer relationships, and learning to anticipate objections. The role requires strong problem-solving, initiative, coachability, organizational skills, and attention to detail. Success involves managing a high volume of leads, prioritizing effectively, understanding various business lines and personas, and demonstrating adaptability.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree (recent graduate)
  • Client-facing sales interest
  • Competitive spirit, results-driven
  • Problem-solving, initiative
  • Coachable, fast-paced learning
  • Organizational skills, attention to detail
Good to have:
  • Prior sales internship/experience
  • B2B software sales experience

Job Details

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Job Category

Sales

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About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

START DATE(S)*: May 5, 2025 | June 2, 2025 | July 7, 2025
*Our headcount demand is always changing as we grow; start dates listed here may or may not have an immediate opening at the time of your application.

LOCATION*: San Francisco, CA
*Our headcount demand is always changing as we grow; some of the locations listed here may or may not have an immediate opening at the time of your application. Please note that we do not offer relocation assistance.

ROLE OVERVIEW AND IMPACT:
Are you looking for a fulfilling career empowering companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way? As a Sales Development Representative, you will join our elite sales team and do just that! You will learn how to evangelize Salesforce, the Customer Success Platform and World’s #1 CRM, by researching and identifying net-new business opportunities — you will have a direct impact in our revenue generation goals. This role is an exciting opportunity for you to develop your core sales skills and business acumen as you work alongside industry sales leaders.

We hire driven individuals who thrive in a challenging and ambiguous environment, who know that they can succeed in a fast-paced, client-facing sales career, and are comfortable with achieving/exceeding metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs), and sales quotas.


JOB DESCRIPTION:
The Sales Development Representative (SDR) role serves as the entry-level role into a client-facing sales career at Salesforce and is designed to be your first look into how we sell Salesforce products. Our SDR team supports our sales teams by assisting them through fielding inbound inquiries. Successful SDRs critically think and learn through coaching from their mentors, build upon, and improve their skills throughout their tenure in this role.

The Sales Development Representative will generate new business pipeline and interest through calling on inbound leads.

  • Partnering closely with Account Executives to help move along qualified pipeline through the sales cycle
  • Discovering business initiatives and acting as their internal advocate
  • Building a point of view on how to help qualify customers needs
  • Speaking to value and return on investment vs. technical functionality
  • Building credibility and trust with internal and external stakeholders
  • Learning how to anticipate and prepare for objections
  • Demonstrating adaptability and flexibility as part of an ever-growing sales organization
  • Managing a high volume of inbound leads with a strategy on prioritization of your leads
  • Researching and understanding various lines of business and personas


MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Must be within less than 1-year of having completed a Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Degree from the start date of this role OR graduate/alumni/participant of a workforce development training program (i.e. re:work, Year Up, i.c.stars, etc.)
  • Long-term interest in a client-facing sales career
  • Competitive spirit and the drive for results
  • Exemplary problem-solving skills and the resourceful ability to take initiative
  • Coachable and enjoys learning in a fast-paced sales environment
  • Superior organizational skills and attention to detail


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Previous internship or full-time corporate sales experience
  • B2B software sales experience is a plus


This position is ineligible for visa sponsorship

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Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $56,850 to $76,125.

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.

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