Account Development Representative, Swedish Speaking

🕒 May 29

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Kong Inc.

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

🔌 API

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $100M Series D on 2021-02

API • SaaS • Enterprise

Kong Inc. is a company that provides a comprehensive API platform designed to facilitate API management, AI integration, and developer productivity. It offers solutions like Kong Gateway, Kong Konnect, and a variety of other tools targeted at managing and optimizing the API lifecycle. Kong's platform supports multi-cloud environments and is built to deliver high performance and security. It is notably recognized by Gartner as a leader in API management and supports innovations across industries like financial services, healthcare, and technology. The company emphasizes flexibility, security, and speed, making it a favored choice for enterprises looking to enhance their digital services through APIs. Kong also supports a robust community of developers and provides extensive integrations and plugins to streamline API management and operations.

📋 Description

• Identify and qualify new opportunities for our sales organization. • Work with the Sales team to develop inbound and outbound campaigns from idea generation through to qualified call. • Develop strong sales and product knowledge and interact with IT and business decision-makers via telephone, video, LinkedIn, and email. • Update lead and prospect activity in Salesforce to ensure effective lead management. • Set qualified introductory meetings for the Sales team. • Nurture early phase opportunities for future pipeline potential. • Exceed monthly and quarterly opportunity quota. • Build strong relationships with our marketing team and Account Executives, where we pull together to maximize the win for our business. • Invest in your self-development, focusing on the skills and attributes that will make you successful in your core role and get you set for future success.

🎯 Requirements

• 1-2+ years of strong sales or customer-facing experience. • A self-starter with a track record of hitting and exceeding goals. • A ‘hunter’ mentality - comfortable prospecting, cold-calling, and following up on incoming leads and a strong desire to win. • Ability and willingness to learn, react to and share lessons learned across the organisation. • Open to feedback and can apply to your daily workflow. • Outstanding communication skills including both phone and written communication as well as active listening. • An extraordinary character with an incredible drive for success, high work ethic, curious by nature, and obsessed with smashing sales goals. • Validated time leadership skills and ability to work independently and through coaching. • Desire to work in a driven and fast-paced environment. • Passionate about cutting-edge technology with the aptitude to learn new and exciting IT software products, as well as, understand business critical solutions quickly. • Additional European languages a big plus (French, German or Dutch).

🏖️ Benefits

• Professional development opportunities • Weekly 1-1 mentorship • Global virtual group training