Sales Development Representative, Persona
San Francisco
$50-65k
+ Equity
Identity verification infrastructure solution
Open for applications
Identity verification infrastructure solution
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$50-65k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create the ideal identity verification experience for your business and customers.
Role
Who you are
- 1-3 years of work experience (sales and/or technology experience is a +), with a track record of top performance
- Drive and grit — a strong desire to compete and win, while being a highly collaborative team player
- Openness to internalize feedback, build on prior experience, and demonstrate improvement
- Superior verbal and written communication skills
- Comfort working in ambiguity and adaptable
What the job involves
- This is not your typical Sales Development Representative role: we are looking for someone who is excited to both prospect and help build our overarching sales demand strategy
- As an SDR here at Persona, you'll drive our sales growth engine by creating our pipeline generation mechanisms through developing and executing outbound strategies while partnering with Account Executives
- The ideal candidate wants to actively participate in the development of the sales process and the articulation of Persona’s value proposition
- Identify high-potential businesses, verticals, and markets, and conduct outbound prospecting activities to generate leads for Persona
- Qualify prospects by understanding their needs, challenges, and fit with Persona’s products
- Engage with prospects through effective communication, delivering exceptional service, and build relationships to create interest and generate sales opportunities
- Collaborate with Account Executives to schedule meetings and hand off qualified leads for further sales engagement
- Research and stay up-to-date with industry trends, market conditions, and competitive landscape to effectively position our offerings
- Maintain accurate and detailed records of prospect interactions and update Salesforce
- Continuously improve product knowledge and sales skills through ongoing training and professional development
Our take
Persona enables businesses to verify customer identities, fostering trust in online interactions and aiding in age verification, fraud prevention, and account recovery. It offers a comprehensive suite of automated identity verification components with worldwide coverage that can be configured, branded, and themed to create custom-tailored flows for any use case
Businesses and governmental organizations can access Persona’s platform via an API, which supports various documents from government-issued IDs to biometrics, ensuring customers are who they claim to be. Persona’s platform also collects passive signals such as a user’s device, location, and behavioral patterns to provide a more holistic risk profile, beneficial in financial and insurance contexts
Recently, Persona partnered with Member Driven Technologies (MDT) to enhance identity verification for credit unions. This partnership enables credit unions to adjust their identity verification flows in real-time based on risk signals, improving user conversion and fraud deterrence. The collaboration aims to streamline operations and strengthen fraud prevention, both digitally and in branches. Since founding, Persona has been scaling its offerings and now boasts a worldwide presence, serving clients in nearly every country and supporting 20 languages.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Nice people
"Everyone who I have met and worked with so far have been intelligent and welcoming, and I feel like I can dive in and ask for help from anyone at..."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2021
$150m
SERIES C
May 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $217.6m
Company benefits
- Professional Development
- Catered meals
- Wellness benefit
- 401(k)
- Unlimited time off
- Parental benefits
- Mental health
- Health and wellness
- Bevsday (free drink on Wednesday)
- Family planning
Company values
- People first. We will not make decisions that are good for the business but are not good for people — whether those people are our customers, their customers, or our team.
- Pursue relentlessly high standards. We hold ourselves to a high bar today and a higher one tomorrow. While we celebrate our wins, we constantly strive to raise the bar.
- Lead by serving. We share early and often to push our work forward, creating a space where it’s ok to ask questions and show unpolished demos instead of waiting for a perfect spec.
- Work in public. We encourage collaboration and transparency, sharing early and often to push our work forward. We create a space that makes others comfortable to ask questions, share unfinished thoughts, and show unpolished demos instead of waiting for a perfect spec.
- Start small, think big. Starting small allows us to provide value while learning lessons without losing sight of our vision.
- Speed is not a tradeoff. Speed is important, but so is quality. We strive to find ways to optimize and increase both. Going fast does not imply that our quality will suffer. Instead, it means we focus on being more efficient while continuing to operate at a high level.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Rick Song
(CEO)Bachelor's in Computer Science, Maths, Economics at Rice University. KPCB Engineering Fellow, then Engineer at Square.
Charles Yeh
(CTO)Studied Computer Science at Brown. Software Engineer at Zynga, and Technical Lead at Dropbox.
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