Business Development Representative (Austin, TX)

Liquibase is looking for talented, goal-driven professionals to join our team as a Business Development Representative (BDR). The BDR will be responsible for researching prospective customers, creating and utilizing outreach strategies, and identifying potential sales opportunities. 

What you’ll be doing:

• Solving interesting problems, and working cross-functionally to build value for Liquibase and customers
• Collaborate with your sales team to drive pipeline and growth
• Building new customer pipeline and progressing those deals through early stages
• Develop and communicate with qualified leads
• Research targeted accounts, determine key contacts and opportunities
• Effectively articulate Liquibase’s value proposition, platform, and services to prospective clients
• Conduct high volume prospecting to qualify leads through calls, emails, and social media
• Ask discovery questions to properly qualify decision makers for future meetings
• Executing multi-touch lead follow up via email, phone, and LinkedIn
• Partnering with Marketing to develop demand generation strategies
• Conducting and leading calls with prospective customers to identify new Opportunities
• Maintaining CRM (HubSpot) to ensure continuity in context for better customer service  
• Align with tenured Regional Sales Manager to develop and execute territory strategy
• Work in an environment where sales career growth is encouraged, supported, and proven

What we’re looking for:

• Minimum 2 years in business development or insides sales experience
• Ability to take initiative and solve problems; As a startup, you will see unique circumstances where there is no playbook and ability to think outside the box and adapt quickly will be key
• Proven ability to create demand
• Proven ability to develop Opportunities from green field prospects
• Successful track record of sustained achievement of targets
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Ability to multitask, prioritize and manage time effectively
• CRM experience (e.g. Salesforce, Hubspot) strongly desired
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Coachable – you are willing to accept constructive feedback
• Team Oriented – you are willing to lend a hand and celebrate the success of your teammates
• Driven - you are eager to do the “hard” work of calling prospects.  This is not for everyone, so you must have some history of handling adversity
• Strong desire to learn and develop (you must be able to learn from your mistakes)
• Deadline and detail-oriented
• Ability to function both independently and as part of a team
• Previous success working in a fast-paced, dynamic and creative environment

Education

A Bachelor’s degree OR relevant work experience is required

Perks of Life at Liquibase: 

• Remote First culture, potential for company-wide in-person gatherings
• Home office allowance for remote workers
• Meaningful equity (US only)
• Comprehensive health, vision, and dental benefits - country dependent
• Generous paid time off and paid holidays
• 401K matching (US only)
• No punks, no jerks culture
• Growth opportunities and ability to move up within the company

Liquibase is the leader in the database release automation segment of the more broadly defined DevOps market. Our vision is to be the easiest, safest, and most powerful community-led database change management solution. Downloaded more than 75 million times, our software enables DevOps teams around the globe to accelerate the software delivery process by automating database updates. As companies of all sizes continue to adopt an agile methodology and DevOps practices, there is a growing realization that the database needs to be considered as part of this innovation process. 

At Liquibase, we foster a culture rooted in the open-source values of freedom, choice, transparency, and meritocracy. These are not just fashion labels here, but sincere convictions, and you’ll see that reflected in the way we operate daily. We’re caffeinated, collaborative & confident experts, eager to solve the most challenging database CI/CD problems for our customers.

At Liquibase, we value individual freedom and embrace remote work. We hire internationally, based on merit, to create a diverse team of top-performing people no matter where they live. As a global team, we still highly value collaboration and expect everyone to work similar hours (at least 4 hours overlap with the team in US Central Time).

Want to help the software world move faster? You’ve found the right place.