Blackbaud
Sales Development Representative
🇨🇦 Remote - ON
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Sales
🗓️ October 17th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Contact and qualify a high volume of leads daily through phone and email for product and solution presentation.
- Research market prospects fitting the ideal customer profile and identify relevant internal contacts.
- Assess prospects' business needs and match them with Blackbaud's digital learning solutions or software.
- Create and adapt targeted email campaigns to generate demand for Blackbaud products.
- Maintain accurate outreach records in Salesforce including contact information and notes.
- Track progress towards monthly and quarterly goals for sales meetings and pipeline development.
- Collaborate regularly with assigned Account Executives to update outreach activities and target prospects.
- Opportunities for professional development through training, shadowing, and certification to progress toward Account Executive or Manager roles.
- Experience with high-volume outbound sales calls and emails; software sales knowledge is a plus.
- Familiarity with sales tools such as LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Gong, Consensus, and Salesforce is preferred.
- Strong communication, time management, and organizational skills with a growth mindset and team-oriented attitude.
- Must be able to work flexible hours aligned with business priorities.
- Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or Marketing.
- This full-time position supports remote or hybrid work with a flexible culture.
Sales Development Representative Full Description
The Sales Development Representative (SDR) helps generate sales for Prospecting Account Executives (AE's). The SDR is responsible for effectively and efficiently researching, engaging, and connecting prospective customers to the sales team to drive "top of the sales funnel" activity and help generate pipeline. In addition to prospecting sales opportunities in the market, the SDR will collaborate with AE's on targeted lists, planning outreach, and building prospect pools. The SDR role is critical in surfacing new opportunities for our sales team. Given this, the SDR role is a quota-bearing role. The SDR's Quotas will include monthly goals for the scheduling of qualified initial sales meetings (Discovery Calls) led by an AE and building pipeline on prospect accounts.
What you'll do:
Contact by phone or email a high volume of prospected leads per day to initiate conversation, present the value of products and solutions, and qualify prospects to move on to a discovery call with an Account Executive
Research to engage market prospects that fit the ideal customer profile based on targeted market, and identify relevant internal company contacts for targeted outreach
Research and identify prospects' business needs and confirm our ability to address them using available digital learning solutions and or software.
Adapt messaging to prospects based on needs and areas of interests, while highlighting relevant industry trends and Blackbaud's diverse business solutions.
Generate demand for Blackbaud products and solutions through the creation and adaption of targeted email campaigns that reach highly relevant audiences
Record and maintain outreach records in Salesforce system up-to-date contact information and notes for all Prospect contacts.
Track and report on individual progress to monthly and quarterly goals for initial sales meetings and pipeline sourced
Meet regularly (weekly or biweekly) with your assigned Account Executives and communicate timely and accurately with the team to provide updates on weekly outreach activity, successes, and additional areas and prospects to target
Additional professional development opportunities including shadowing, training and certification of key activities and skills across the sales process (discovery, demos, relationship engagement calls) to prepare strong performers for next commercial steps as Account Executives or Account Managers
Other job-related duties as assigned
What you'll bring:
Previous experience or knowledge of high-volume outbound contact (email & phone) in a sales environment
Previous experience or knowledge of technical or software product sales is a plus
Familiarity with sales tools such as LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Gong, Consensus, and Salesforce is a plus
Track record of quota and or measurable goal achievement
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Excellent time management and organizational skills
Goal & growth mindset with the ability to seek out and apply coaching feedback regarding sales skills
Desire to grow and continue as a sales professional
Team-oriented attitude.
Able to work flexible hours as required by business priorities
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Blackbaud is a digital-first company which embraces a flexible remote or hybrid work culture. Blackbaud supports hiring and career development for all roles from the location you are in today!
Blackbaud is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining an inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
Stay up to date on everything Blackbaud, follow us on Linkedin, X, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube â
Blackbaud is a digital-first company which embraces a flexible remote or hybrid work culture. Blackbaud supports hiring and career development for all roles from the location you are in today!
Blackbaud is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining an inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
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