Sales Development Representative

Sales Development Representative Job Description 2024

About Sezzle:

Sezzle is a cutting-edge fintech company dedicated to financially empowering the next generation. With only one in three millennials owning a credit card and the majority lacking their desired credit scores, Sezzle addresses these challenges through a payment platform that offers interest-free installment plans at online stores. By increasing consumers' purchasing power, Sezzle drives sales and basket sizes for thousands of eCommerce merchants that it partners with.

About the Role:

Being an SDR at Sezzle is a fast-paced, exciting job for someone looking to accelerate their sales career. As an SDR, you will be at the forefront of an exciting product that helps financially empower our shoppers’ lives, but also helps our merchant partners grow their businesses quickly by attracting a new audience of shoppers to their stores. In this role, you will be accountable for driving conversations with prospective merchants, setting meetings for account executives and sales directors, and hitting the target for amount of outreach on a monthly and yearly basis. We use a variety of different sales tools in our prospecting efforts to help us hit the mark!

What You'll Do:

• Qualify inbound leads and develop relationships
• Generate outbound sales conversations through cold calls & email campaigns
• Coordinate product demonstrations between Sezzle Account Executives/Sales Directors and prospective merchants
• Track communication and engagement via Salesforce and Salesloft
• Close sales and assist merchants with onboarding
  
  

What We Look For:

• Bachelor’s Degree (BA/BS)
• 1+ years of sales experience
  
  

Preferred Knowledge & Skills:

• Experience with Salesforce is a plus
• Cold-calling and high-volume email experience
• Growth-minded and looking to turn challenges into opportunities
• Fun and collaborative and enjoy working with a team
• People-person who derives energy from meeting with others
• Passionate about helping others
• Attentive to detail
• Adept at managing time
  
  

About You:

• You have relentlessly high standards - Many people may think your standards are unreasonably high. You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results. You make sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
• You’re not bound by convention - Your success—and much of the fun—lies in developing new ways to do things
• You need action - Speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk-taking.
• You earn trust - You listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
• You have backbone; disagree, then commit - You can respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. You have conviction and are tenacious. You do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, you commit wholly.
• You deliver results - You focus on the key inputs and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, you rise to the occasion and never settle.
  
  

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome:

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators. We believe in surrounding ourselves with only the best and the brightest individuals. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Generous paid time off, sick time and volunteer hours
• Life, STD/LTD, medical, dental and vision insurance
• Highly discounted LifeTime gym membership
• 401k with match
• Collaborative fun workspace
• The opportunity to join Minneapolis’s fastest growing startup alongside a team of motivated and driven individuals
  
  

Diversity and Inclusion

Sezzle provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, familial status, veteran or military status, status regarding public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Sezzle recognizes and values the importance of diversity and inclusion in enriching the employment experience of its employees and in supporting our mission.

Compensation

The compensation range for the role is $40,000 - $45,000 (inclusive only of base salary, and exclusive of other potential competitive benefits such as on-target commission, bonus payments, and equity). Our ranges are very broad to accommodate all types of candidates and encourage growth. Specific compensation offered to a candidate may be dependent on factors such as education, experience, qualifications, and alignment with market data. Exceptional candidates may receive salaries outside of the posted ranges.