GoCardless is hiring a

Sales Development Representative, ANZ

Melbourne, Australia

About us

Here at GoCardless, we’re building the world’s bank payment network. Bringing simple and secure direct bank payment solutions for people and businesses everywhere, as well as making open banking more accessible. GoCardless is used by 75,000+ organisations and counting, processing more than $30 billion of payments across 30 countries. 

We’re an award-winning London based fintech, with additional offices in Riga, Paris, Melbourne and New York.

The role

Your responsibilities as a Sales Development Representative will be to prospect and qualify opportunities with senior decision makers in mid-market businesses across Australia and New Zealand. You will work highly collaboratively with experienced Sales Account Executives to find new sales opportunities. 

You will be responsible for introducing GoCardless to new prospects, identifying the client's pains, uncovering opportunities, and growing the pipeline through email outreach, LinkedIn messaging, video and phone calls. This will entail researching and identifying relevant stakeholders in the sales decision-making process. 

What excites you

  • Introducing how GoCardless can make a real difference to businesses in the ANZ market
  • Passionately articulating value proposition in new verticals
  • Nurturing prospects through to a fully qualified lead
  • Thinking creatively about how best to engage new customers
  • Developing the skills necessary for promotion to a closing or leadership position

What excites us

  • Experience in an outbound B2B sales role  
  • Highly motivated to overachieve targets
  • Entrepreneurial mind-set with a hunger to succeed
  • Persistence and objection handling skills are critical
  • Experience using Salesforce, working in a start-up or FinTech company are all beneficial but not required 
  • Keen interest in Fintech/ understanding of the payments space 
  • You are good at finding ways to motivate yourself and teammates. We pride ourselves on positivity and camaraderie 
  • You embody the core values of GoCardless (Be Humble, Care Deeply, Act with Integrity, Start with Why)

Our team come from a variety of backgrounds and we welcome diversity – if you're unsure, please apply.

(some of) The good stuff

  • Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
  • Work away scheme - gives you the option to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period
  • Adaptive Working - allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle
  • Equity - all permanently employed GCs get equity to help you make a valuable contribution 
  • Parental leave - to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
  • Learning Budget - lead your own development with an annual learning budget 
  • Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)

Life at GoCardless  

We're an organisation defined by our values; We start with why before we begin any project, to ensure it’s aligned with our mission. We act with integrity, always. We care deeply about what we do and we know it's essential that we be humble whilst we do it. Working this way creates the GC magic- the reason we all love showing up to work. 

Diversity & Inclusion

We’re building the bank payment network of the future and our ambition is to move money anywhere, for anything, for anyone. If we’re going to achieve this goal, we need to build a team of ‘GeeCee’s’ that is as wonderfully diverse as the world we live in - with a multitude of perspectives, experiences & backgrounds.

We’ve got a long way to go, but here’s how we’re doing as of June 2022;

Female Employees - 46%

Ethnic background - 32%

Identify as LGBTQIA - 10%

Neurodivergent - 9%

We’re rooting for you during your application and GoCardless aims to provide reasonable adjustments to make our recruitment process as remarkable and accessible as we can. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you need extra support.

If you want to learn more, you can read about our Employee Resource Groups and objectives here as well as our latest D&I Report 

Sustainability 

We’re committed to reducing our impact on the environment, leaving a more sustainable world for future generations. In 2021 we became co-founders of the Tech Zero coalition, a group of businesses committed to taking climate action as part of the UNFCCC Race to Zero. We aim to reduce our impact and to create positive change on the natural world. Check out our sustainability action plan here. 

Find out more about Life at GoCardless via Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn

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