Business Development Representative - Southwest (6-month contract)

at  Gigamon

Gigamon, recently certified as a Great Place to Work, helps the world’s leading organizations run fast, stay secure and innovate. We provide the industry’s first elastic visibility and analytics fabric, which closes the cloud visibility gap by enabling cloud tools to see the network and network tools to see the cloud. With visibility across their hybrid cloud network, organizations can improve customer experience, eliminate security blind spots, and reduce cost and complexity. Gigamon has been awarded over 90 technology patents and enjoys world-class customer satisfaction with over 4,000 organizations, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 100 and hundreds of governments and educational organizations worldwide.
Gigamon delivers visibility and analytics on all data-in-motion across the hybrid cloud network to solve critical security, performance, and budget requirements – freeing you to accelerate digital innovation. Gigamon protects the largest, most complex, and most secure networks on the planet. Our products are broadly deployed across the Global 5,000 enterprises, playing a critical role in securing complex hybrid multi-cloud environments.
We are looking for a Business Development Representative to join our Inside Sales team based at . You will partner with our regional sales teams and marketing teams to sell an amazing product that helps protect the world’s largest organizations!

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• You’ll act as a liaison between customers and our marketing & sales teams and you’ll have the responsibility for driving targeted, outbound prospecting activities into a set of assigned accounts. Think of yourself as a key extension of the Sales team with a main focus of identifying, developing and creating new business opportunities for the Regional Sales Directors in the North American Enterprise space.
• You will be responsible for developing leads for marketing campaigns and meeting sales quotas, quarter over quarter, year over year. This will require you to tap into your amazing sales skills as you’ll be generating qualified leads primarily through outbound phone and email efforts. You know it’s a numbers game and this will motivate you.
• In order to be successful, you will know how to prospect, research, qualify and transition new leads to our Sales Team. Being highly motivated with an ambitious, can-do attitude will help you identify and develop new business prospects from prospect lists as well as individual research.

WHAT YOU’VE DONE:

• BA/BS degree preferred.
• 1-3 years experience in a business/sales development role, preferably in a technology company.
• Salesforce.com experience a big plus.