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Are you ready to join the API revolution?

About Kong:

Kong creates software and managed services that connect APIs and microservices natively across and within clouds, Kubernetes, data centers and more using intelligent automation. Built on an open source core, Kong's service connectivity platform enables digital innovation by allowing organizations to reliably and securely manage the full lifecycle of APIs and services for modern architectures, including microservices, serverless and service mesh. By providing developer teams with unprecedented architectural freedom, Kong accelerates innovation cycles, increases productivity, and seamlessly bridges legacy and modern systems and applications. For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.

About the role:

At Kong, our Account Development team works closely with our partners in both Sales and Marketing to build fanatical customer enthusiasm around Kong. Account Development reps are responsible for identifying and qualifying new opportunities for our sales organization. We view our Account Development program as the best way to turbocharge a long and successful career in sales and view our Account Development Representatives (ADRs) as the next wave of Account Executives at Kong.

To aid in this endeavor, we invest heavily in the training and development of our team. This includes a 2-week long sales bootcamp, weekly 1-1 mentorship, and global virtual group trainings. By joining our team, you are making an investment in yourself that will accelerate the rest of your sales career.

Our ADRs gain an understanding of our product, community, who we sell to, why they care, and what makes us relevant. They learn how to generate a pipeline quickly and effectively as well as how to achieve a good discovery and qualification. The team is a crucial resource for sales teams across Kong to get great talent from. This helps us scale our teams, as well as ensure that we have a culture of meritocracy.

Being an ADR, is often a first step to jump-starting a career in sales. At Kong, we have a culture that celebrates diversity, fosters growth and enablement, and ensures that we provide our ADRs with the tools and the confidence that they need to grow their careers.

The ADR leadership team has a true understanding of where each ADR is at in their personal development process, and mentors and enables them to ensure that they have the means and opportunity to be considered for their next role. At Kong, we truly believe that if you want to earn your MBA in sales, this is the place to be. As a leadership team, we spend an exorbitant amount of time working in the trenches with our teams to help them fine hone their business and sales acumen and ramp them to productivity, success, and greater roles.

What you'll be doing: Your First 90 Days

  • By the end of month 1, you will:
  • Have met your new team and had fun playing with some new tools
  • Become a part of the wider Kong family
  • Have had a successful sales bootcamp training
  • Have a good understanding of what makes Kong's product offerings so special
  • Understand how our Account Development, Marketing and Account Executive teams all work together
  • By the end of month 2, you will:
  • Be comfortable talking to clients on the phone about Kong
  • Have worked with our Account Executive team on your first opportunity
  • Have shadowed a ton of calls and practiced several role plays
  • Started delivering your ramp quota
  • By the end of month 3, you will:
  • Know our sales funnel inside and out, and feel confident to add value to our sales org
  • Show clear delivery of our sales methodologies
  • Provide insights to both our Account Development and marketing organizations to help us to continue to iterate and improve
  • Delivered against your ramp quota
  • Role Overview & Key Responsibilities:
  • Work with the Sales team to develop and lead (inbound?) and outbound campaigns from idea-generation through to qualified call
  • Develop strong sales and product knowledgeInteract 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 businessInvest 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

What you'll bring:

  • 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 strong desire to win.
  • Ability and willingness to learn, to react to and share lessons learned across the organization.
  • Open to feedback and can apply to your daily workflow.
  • Outstanding communication skills including both phone and written communication as well as active listening
  • 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, Swedish, Italian)
  • For more information about Kong, please visit https://konghq.com/ or follow @thekonginc on Twitter. 2019 Kong Summit Highlight Video

Kong Core Values:

Global - We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our differences make us stronger. We seek to understand different points of view and their implications on work.

Real - We are genuine, principled and confident without an attitude. We seek to understand our own strengths and vulnerabilities. We understand the effect of external factors on ourselves and we manage our own emotions and understand the effect they have on other people.

Unstoppable - We are biased towards action and decision, we persevere and always go the extra mile. We understand how to prioritize and work with urgency and focus. We are self-motivated and exhibit a high personal drive.

Champion - We listen and speak up for customers, community, partners and each other. We have an ability to provide feedback that is specific, constructive and fact-based. We listen, are able to receive feedback without taking it personally and we look at our own performance in order to improve.

Explorer - We challenge the status quo by discovering, innovating, failing fast and learning. We are self-directing and use creativity when solving problems that may be complex and ambiguous. We are adaptable, able to navigate and solve problems, especially in times of rapid change and high-ambiguity.



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Kong
Account Development Representative (ADR)

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