About hoop.dev

Come help fix the broken tech from the 80s that protect our data today.

Data privacy is so broken because systems to protect data are terrible. Companies are using technologies from the 80s (RBAC/VPNs) to protect our data. A company with 100 engineers has 50,000 RBAC policies to manage only for AWS EC2 service.

hoop.dev is a client to databases, AWS, Kubernetes, and others. Users access hoop.dev from Slack, CLIs, Web, IDEs, and others. We make accessing cloud resources easier than installing multiple clients and using VPNs. We leverage APIs and contextual data to make authorization decisions. By making security easy we fix data privacy.

The worst thing that can happen to an engineer is to get paged out-of-hours only to realize they can't fix the problem on their own. They did all the hard work of waking up, debugging the problem, and finding a solution. But when it's time to apply the fix, they don't have access. Time to call a DevOps engineer to get permission or have them run the patch.

DevOps means developers run their own code, but how can a developer operate a piece of software if she can't access the database, the cloud provider, or the Kubernetes cluster? Only a handful of people has access to these resources at most companies today.

This problem is not just bad on out-of-hour pages. DevOps teams centralizing raw access to production are bottlenecks to the whole engineering team. A simple query in the database to troubleshoot a problem can take hours for the busy and sad DevOps team to process the request in their queue.

It's not ok to keep making direct updates to the database or change things in the AWS console all the time. CI/CD and infrastructure as code are great tools. But direct access will happen no matter how much automation a company has. Restricting raw access to a few engineers results in bad culture incentives and an environment with low trust and autonomy.

hoop.dev democratize access to production to enable DevOps. We fix this problem by adding security and compliance into easy-to-use clients. hoop.dev enable any engineer to make production access with security and reliability.

How we work

Our team is fully distributed
We use async-first written communication
We assume you are not at your computer
We invest time on design to make sure the user experience is great
We opt for simplicity for users at the cost of engineering complexity
We reduce the number of decisions a user makes no matter how complex the system will end up
We open-source the pieces of our system that could be useful to the community or bring transparency to how we do things

About the role

Join as the first Sales Development Representative who finds and connects with leads to move them through the pipeline. We hire remote 🌐

At Runops, we are part of the wave of companies growing with the increasing demand for security and compliance as companies have to shift software operations ownership to the developers.

We're hiring our first Sales Development Representative. This is an opportunity to join an early-stage team that's backed by stellar investors, going after a big market. We care deeply about what we build and believe diversity and kindness are part of excellence.

If you share these values and thrive on delivering results and growth, please read on!

The role

Your goal, as Sales Development Representative, is to drive our demand engine. You'll get excited understanding our customer profile, engaging leads, and moving them through the funnel.

Our team culture is anchored in the product, so we're looking for someone fired up about sales and appreciates a thoughtful culture. Finally, early-stage DNA is key. You're the first sales hire. You have to figure things out and develop processes that make sense to our stage and trajectory. We are not a fit if you need things set up for you or, on the other hand, dislike a collaborative culture.

As an SDR, you will drive the pipeline by identifying, engaging, and qualifying leads looking for help managing access to different Cloud technologies. You will also prospect into a list of strategic accounts. You will be asked to think creatively about finding potential leads and leverage traditional lead generation techniques to build the top of the sales funnel.

If you’re looking for an opportunity to gain expertise in a sector that has experienced explosive growth in the last decade, have fun, and use this experience to springboard you into your next role, this may be the right opportunity.

You will

Design cold outreach strategies
Provide feedback on messaging
Research potential customers and accounts
Contact potential customers through cold-calling
Work with founders to establish leads list and report on them weekly
Understand our account target profile and further develop this insight
Understand a lead's needs, and convey product information and value to them
Figure out what you and we need to do to deliver leads, document them clearly, and deliver
Develop relationships with prospects to understand their needs, qualify them, and hand-off
Follow-up with leads who didn't convert despite interest, learn why, and share that information
Design, implement and manage touchpoints (cold-calls, emails, social, etc.) in the demand gen lifecycle
Move all leads through the funnel, and figure out what that funnel looks like for an early-stage team like ours

We need someone who

Has a technical background or experience selling technical products and interacting with Ops, SRE / DevOps, and security professionals. Our champions are Engineering, IT, and InfoSec professionals, so you need to be on their level.
Doesn’t mind helping across various go-to-market activities, including marketing collateral, product positioning, customer interviews, sales cycle optimizations, brand evangelism, attending meetups, etc., when needed.
Is ready to roll up their sleeves. We need people ready to hustle, work with the founders to develop lead sources, and learn to sell our products.
Identify trends from prospective customers to share with the product, marketing, and customer success teams.
Experiment with different sales channels and can leverage the most effective ones.
Enjoys working closely with the founders to refine call and messaging strategies.
Has strong listening and storytelling skills

What we look for

Clear writing
Enthusiasm for technology
Excitement for hyper-growth
Self-starter who embraces a collaborative environment
Early-stage DNA. Bonus points if you were an SDR at a seed- or Series A company

Technology

hoop.dev is not a traditional SaaS app where everything happens through a web app. One of our main user interfaces are a CLI and a Slack app; and our main backed service is a self-hosted agent. We love Lisp. We believe it's a speed and quality hack. We use Lisp everywhere. The flavor we choose was Clojure(script).

Using Clojure for everything - from CLIs to Linux daemons - has drawbacks, and we are aware of them. One of the big benefits of this property is that anyone in the team can contribute to any piece of the system. However, we don't believe in full-stack engineers, our focus is to team up with great engineers with deep knowledge in one area, and that are open to learn other parts of the stack at hoop.dev. We understand that you won't get as deep as your main area, and this is fine.

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