About Drift  

Drift is the Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue and increase customer lifetime value, faster. More than 50,000 businesses use Drift to align sales and marketing on a single platform to deliver a unified customer experience where people are free to have a conversation with a business at any time, on their terms. Our mission is to use conversations to make business buying frictionless, more enjoyable, and more human.

Drift has been recognized by LinkedIn as one of the Top 50 Startups to work for in 2018, 2019, and 2020!

About Digital First

Drift is a Digital First company, which means Remote is the primary experience for all employees. For the majority of our positions, your location is flexible! If “Remote” is stated in the job location, that role can be located anywhere Drift is authorized to do business in the United States.

What you’ll be doing on the team:

• Drive revenue by meeting and/or exceeding sales quota on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis
• Develop and execute sales strategy with equal emphasis on net-new accounts and expansion of existing accounts
• Represent Conversational Marketing and Sales Software relative to the competition
• Forecast and report sales activity and metrics
• Develop comprehensive understanding of clients’ key business drivers
• Partner with Solution Architect team to deliver solutions for our clients and close new business
• Create high impact presentations designed to highlight additional value to clients
• Manage multiple buying contacts within prospective clients and formulation highly impactful organization-wide recommendations
• Formulate and present formal proposals
• Negotiate sound financial agreements which are solid business solutions for Drift and our clients
• Track sales activity in Salesforce.com and report information to management
• Collaborate cross-departmentally to ensure superlative customer experience
• Work closely with Product Management and Product Marketing to help develop product requirements and the product roadmap in line with market requirements

About you and what type of skills you’ll need:

• Bachelor's degree or higher
• 7+ years of enterprise B2B SaaS sales, ideally to leaders within the marketing and sales
• Demonstrable track record of above target performance, especially in a startup environment
• Excellent forecasting, reporting, and communication skills
• Extraordinary presentation and interpersonal skills, and an ability to interface to senior levels of an organization and develop productive C-level relationships
• Proven ability to lead an effective sales process and close new business
• Proactive territory management, prospecting, and ‘trailblazing’
• Smart, organized, self-motivated, flexible and team player
• Intellectual curiosity and a desire to grow a business
• Experience selling a product for a category creator; products not budgeted for already
• Experience with working in a growing company vs. an established, known Enterprise brand
• Trained on MEDDIC and/or other Enterprise sales methodology  
• Experience with Salesforce.com and other virtual selling tools such as Zoom, Webex and other comparable tool

Drift is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. 

We know that applying for a new job can be intimidating. But guess what? At Drift, there is no such thing as a “ideal candidate.” We believe in the power of teamwork -- and in the desire to learn something new every day. We believe in hiring people, not just skills. Take it from our CEO. 

If this sounds like a company you would like to join and a role you would thrive in, please don’t hold back from applying! Whatever skills you bring to the table or background you’re coming from, we welcome you to start a conversation with us. We need your unique perspective for our continued innovation and success. We’re looking forward to learning more about you!

Drift is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at disabilities@drift.com #LI-Remote #LI-BK