Business Development Representative - French Speaking

1 Month ago • All levels • Business Development

Job Summary

Job Description

GitLab is seeking an enthusiastic and strategic Business Development Representative (BDR) to join its Sales Development team. The BDR will lead initial outreach to target Enterprise and Mid Market accounts, collaborating with marketing, sales, and customer success teams. Responsibilities include prospecting, engaging multiple buyer personas, generating qualified meetings, and driving pipeline for the sales organization. The role involves executing outbound prospecting initiatives, conducting discovery calls, meeting sales targets, developing call strategies, researching accounts, and managing activities in Salesforce. The position also requires participation in documenting processes, collaborating with marketing for event attendance, and mentoring new BDRs. Previous tech industry or sales development experience is a plus. The company emphasizes AI adoption for productivity and offers comprehensive onboarding and training.
Must have:
  • Experience prospecting new logo accounts
  • Fluent in French
  • Positive phone skills
  • Strong writing skills
  • Meet daily, weekly, monthly KPIs
  • Self-starter with achievements
  • Knowledge of business processes
  • Determined personality
  • Passionate about GitLab's journey
  • Proficient in Salesforce and LinkedIn Sales Navigator
  • Excellent written and spoken English
Good to have:
  • Previous tech industry experience
  • Experience in sales development or marketing
Perks:
  • Benefits for health, finances, well-being
  • All remote work environment
  • Asynchronous work environment
  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Team Member Resource Groups
  • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Growth and development budget
  • Parental leave
  • Home office support

Job Details

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise, and Duo Workflow, customers get the benefit of AI at every stage of the SDLC. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier. All team members are encouraged and expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact across our global organization.

This position is 100% remote and will be based in the UK, Ireland, Germany or Netherlands.

An overview of this role

GitLab is looking for an enthusiastic and strategic Business Development Representative (BDR), to join our growing Sales Development team. As a BDR at GitLab, you get the opportunity to lead the initial outreach to targeted New Logo Enterprise and Mid Market accounts working in conjunction with the Field and Digital Marketing teams as well as the Sales and Customer Success teams. In this role you will leverage creative marketing and sales tactics to prospect and engage with multiple buyer personas and roles to introduce GitLab’s value. You will be responsible for generating qualified meetings and pipeline for the GitLab’s Sales organization. Our BDRs come from a diverse background many have worked closing roles previously or managed teams.

We have an extensive onboarding and training program at GitLab and you will be provided with necessary DevOps and GitLab knowledge to fulfill your role.

What you'll do in this role

  • Effectively execute outbound prospecting initiatives to new logo (or greenfield) accounts
  • Conduct high-level discovery conversations in target accounts
  • Meet or exceed BDR sourced Sales Accepted Opportunity (SAO) volume targets
  • Collaborate with and leverage teammates to develop targeted lists, call strategies, and messaging to drive opportunities
  • Utilize business and industry knowledge to research accounts, identify key players, generate interest, create/identify compelling events, and develop accounts
  • Work to have a variety of touches (call, email, social, etc.) on all prospects in your assigned territory using Groove
  • Manage, track, and report on all activities and results using Salesforce
  • Participate in documenting all processes in the GitLab handbook and update as needed with your Business Development Manager
  • Work in collaboration with Field and Corporate Marketing to drive attendance at regional marketing events
  • Attend field marketing events to engage with participants identify opportunities, and to schedule meetings
  • Act as a mentor for new BDR hires in helping them navigate their key accounts
  • Work in collaboration with Digital Marketing to develop targeted marketing tactics against your assigned target accounts
  • Actively partners with the Sales Team to strategically prospect in their respective territories.

We're looking for

  • Experience prospecting new logos (or greenfield) accounts
  • Fluent in French
  • Positive and energetic phone skills, excellent listening skills, strong writing skills
  • Meet or exceed daily, weekly and monthly KPIs
  • A self-starter with a track record of successful, credible achievements
  • You share our values, and work in accordance with those values
  • Knowledge of business process, roles, and organizational structure
  • Determined personality with a desire to grow and win
  • Passionate about being a part of GitLab’s journey
  • Proficient in using Salesforce and LinkedIn Sales Navigator
  • Previous tech industry experience or experience in sales development, marketing and/or sales is a plus
  • Globally we require excellent written and spoken English which is our company language

How GitLab will support you




Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.  

Privacy Policy: Please review our Recruitment Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us.

GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.

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