Cohere
Business Development Representative
Toronto · Mid · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$140k-$170kDetected 44 days ago
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About the role
- You'll act as the first point of contact for prospects, understanding their business needs and aligning them with Cohere's products to solve complex challenges like natural language processing, AI integration, and scalable language models.
Responsibilities
- Conduct 40+ outbound calls and personalised emails daily to engage decision-makers (e.g., CTOs, CIOs, and Business Unit leads), focusing on understanding their pain points and demonstrating how Cohere's AI solutions can address them.
- Qualify leads using the BANT framework (Budget, Authority, Need, Timeline) and document interactions in Salesforce, ensuring a clean and actionable pipeline for the sales team.
- Collaborate with marketing to refine messaging and campaigns based on prospect feedback, contributing to a 15%+ improvement in campaign response rates.
- We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems.
- We're training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems.
- We obsess over what we build.
- We strive to create an inclusive work environment for all; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience in business development, sales, or a related role, with a proven track record of exceeding lead generation targets in a SaaS or tech environment.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and build rapport quickly over phone and email.
- Familiarity with CRM tools (e.g., Salesforce, HubSpot) and sales enablement platforms, with the ability to analyse data to optimize outreach strategies.
- Experience in AI, machine learning, or enterprise software sales, with a basic understanding of natural language processing (NLP) concepts.
- Closing experience is seen as an advantage.
- A builder mindset is necessary to succeed here, the challenges will be unique based on the team you'll be working with, and the role will evolve over time.
- A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.
- Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
- RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.
- 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.
- Annual enrichment benefits:
Compensation
- Annual enrichment
Benefits
- 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!)
- Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.
- For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.
Company info
- We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that.
- We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul.
- Beware of Scams: Cohere will never ask for payment or third-party services (e.g., CV writing) as part of our hiring process.
- Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers.
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