Outbound Sales Development Representative - DACH (Future Talent Opportunity)

Remote is solving modern organisations' biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future-focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

This is not an active job opening, but a way for us to connect with talent as we plan for future opportunities. If you’re not interested in interviewing for a role that isn’t currently open, we kindly ask that you wait until an active position aligns with your career goals.

We’re always looking for exceptional talent to join us in our mission to make work accessible for everyone, everywhere. While this specific role isn’t currently open, we’re planning for strategic growth in 2025 and beyond. This posting is part of our Future Opening pipeline initiative, which helps us connect with outstanding professionals early on.

By expressing your interest in this role, you’ll have the opportunity to start a conversation with us about your expertise and learn more about Remote’s vision and goals. Being part of our Evergreen Pipeline means staying top of mind for future roles that align with your skills and experience. It’s also a chance to explore how your career goals might fit into Remote’s exciting journey of global growth.

We’ll keep your information on file for 1 year and be in touch if we see a match in that time.

What this job can offer:

Sales helps our prospective customers and active customers to fully experience our Global HR Platform. Sales is the team responding to incoming queries and helping customers understand how to maximise Remote’s full suite of products to meet their employment needs. To enable them to embody our value of Transparency, we have a fair price guarantee.

What you bring:

• Fluent level of German and English
• Proven business development success through effective use of core sales tools (Knowledge of SalesForce, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Outreach, Lusha)
• Previous experience working as an SDR in a B2B SaaS Tech company
• Able to negotiate skillfully, promote/sell ideas persuasively
• Exceptional communication skills, both oral and written, coupled with excellent listening skills and a positive and energetic phone presence
• Able to think strategically and tactically. Able to maintain a positive attitude in the face of criticism, rejection, or failure
• Promotes a strong sense of urgency for reaching goals and key deliverables. Self-starter, proactive and brings new ideas to the team
• Extremely self-motivated with a diligent work ethic
• Demonstrated success in the below areas listed in key responsibilities
• It’s not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus

Key responsibilities:

• Respond, engage and qualify outbound leads and inquiries
• Sourcing new sales prospects and reaching out to them to book appointments for Account Executives
• Clearly communicating Remote’s value propositions to prospects and learning about their needs to see if there’s a good fit
• Providing support to Account Executive team as needed
• Be responsible for educating and developing prospects leading to hand-off to sales teams
• Create target prospects lists and penetrate key accounts
• Cold call into prospects generated by a variety of outside sources
• Identify key players, researching and obtaining business requirements, and presenting solutions to begin sales cycle

Practicals:

You’ll report to: Manager, Sales Development

Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritise applications from the following locations as we encourage our teams to diversify; DACH Region

Remote Compensation Philosophy:

Remote’s Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labour practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while hiring globally.

The On-Target Earnings for this position is between $31,500 USD to $70,950 USD. The base salary is 70%. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case-by-case basis.

Application process:

• Interview with recruiter
• Interview with future manager
• Feedback

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters: budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces.

How you’ll plan your day (and life):

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async. You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply:

Please fill out the form below and upload your CV in PDF format. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote. If you don’t have an up-to-date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at the interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you choose to.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritising human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience.

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.