Sales Development Representative, Japan

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies,from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups,use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.

As a Sales Development Representative (SDR) at Stripe, you will drive Stripe’s future growth engine by working with Demand Gen and the Account Executive team to qualify leads and collaboratively build Stripe’s sales pipeline.

Responsibilities

• Research and create outreach materials for high value prospects, in partnership with SDRs and AEs
• Follow up with Marketing generated leads to qualify as sales opportunities. Move solid leads through the funnel connecting them to a salesperson, and arranging meetings
• Execute outbound sales plays created by marketing
• Initiate contact with potential customers through cold-calling or responding to inquiries generated from Marketing
• Develop relationships with prospects to uncover needs through effective questioning to qualify interest and viability to prepare hand-off to sales
• Follow-up with potential customers who expressed interest but did not initially result in a sales opportunity
• Effectively work through lead list meeting/exceeding SLAs, consistently update activity and contact information within the CRM system and support weekly reporting efforts
• Collaborate and provide feedback and insights to Marketing to help improve targeting and messaging

Requirements

• A track record of top performance or prior success
• Superior verbal and written communication skills
• Self starter who is able to operate in a hyper growth environment
• This role requires in-office participation three (3) days per week in our Tokyo office