Avalara

What You'll Do

Job Summary

Want to kick off an exciting career with a fast-growing cloud technology business? We are looking for highly energetic, customer-centric, driven professionals with sound business acumen, strong technical aptitude, and natural sales instincts to join our Sales Development organization as an Inside Sales Representative. You will gain experience interacting with clients of all levels, in a variety of industries and across a broad geographical area. Ideal candidates should be eager to advance through a clearly defined learning and earning path. Avalara offers a fast-paced, innovative environment where you will be provided the tools, resources, and outstanding leadership to sell business solutions and take your career to the next level!

Job Duties

Job Duties

• Respond to and qualify incoming web and phone inquiries regarding Avalara products.
• Create a great first impression to our prospects and customers by providing them with a world class experience.
• Build an excellent knowledge of products and services to be sold.
• Maintain active engagement with new and existing leads through creative follow-up communications designed to increase customer interest in Avalara products.
• Drive customer participation in webinars, certification events, and/or conferences.
• Achieve monthly quotas of qualified and sales accepted opportunities.
• Actively collaborate as a team member within the department and with the organization as a whole
• Curious, ambitious and achievement oriented
• Persistent and positive by nature
• Interested in the pursuit of mastery through practice, commitment, and discipline.
• Strong desire to be in technology sales.
• Self-starter with ability to take initiative.
• Supporting US clientele and will be required to work in Night Shifts.

What You'll Need to be Successful

Qualifications

• Minimum qualification required will be a Graduate.
• Master's Degree is strongly preferred in Sales & Marketing.
• 1-5 Years of corporate experience, outside of undergraduate graduation (Software sales is a plus)

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior inside sales experience
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills
• Experience being held to and motivated by metrics.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and manage time effectively.
• Strong problem-solving skills
• High energy and positive attitude
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

About Avalara

We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech. 

We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year. 

Last year, we became a billion-dollar business, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.

We’re bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.

We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.

EEO Statement

We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.