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ContainIQ provides Kubernetes native monitoring and tracing.

About the role

Sales - Remote, US

This position is remote and open to those located in the U.S., in EST, MST, and CST time zones.

About ContainIQ:

ContainIQ provides a toolset for Kubernetes monitoring and troubleshooting. We help engineering teams remediate issues quickly and maintain cluster performance.

We are building for the next generation of technology businesses using Kubernetes to scale their infrastructure. Our customers get a comprehensive suite of tools with pre-built dashboards and easy-to-set alerts. Our platform allows customers to leverage metrics, logs, traces, and events alongside profiling.

ContainIQ, a seed stage startup, has raised a $2.5 mm seed round from a leading group of investors, including Y Combinator, Lachy Groom Fund, Taurus Ventures, Pioneer Fund, ACTAI Ventures, and several other incredible investors.

The Opportunity:

We are looking to hire a Founding Business Development Representative with ambition and focus. In this role, you will play a critical and founding role on our sales team. Given that this is our first SDR position and hire, you will play a formative role in the organization and will have an opportunity to shape the sales organization directly.

You will work hard on prospecting, discovering, and expanding business opportunities in your daily role.

By identifying the right prospects and qualifying them, you will help our company initiate long-term relations and accelerate revenue growth. The person hired for this role will have ambitious goals and be ready to shape the trajectory of our company on day 1.

This is an important hire for our company, and we are ready to hire and reward a great candidate.

What you will do:

Collaborate with the company founder to build a pipeline for strategic and mid-market accounts
Identify key contacts for target accounts and firmly build the foundations for sales engagement
Engage prospects across multiple channels, including phone, email, LinkedIn, and more
Add value by providing the right content for each opportunity, ie. case studies, screencasts, presentations, and event invitations.
Manage, track and report sales activities and results using our CRM
Meet daily, weekly, and monthly performance metrics

Who you are:

Can work in an autonomous role and are constantly looking to improve
Take pride in your accomplishments, and are always ready for another challenge
Demonstrable track record of meeting or exceeding quota
Work with the utmost integrity, and are transparent to yourself and company leaders
Have a passion for understanding and explaining technology

What you bring to the table:

2-3+ years experience in lead generation, outbound/inbound prospecting, or sales
A can-do attitude, and comfortable improving and scaling processes
Excellent communication and writing skills
Strong work ethic and focus on prospects/customers
Alignment with company values

Even better if you offer:

Proficient with Streak, Apollo, and Salesloft
Have previously worked in remote environments in a lead generation or sales role
Tech-savvy and/or previous experience with monitoring and observability toolsets
Knowledge of cloud platforms (ex AWS, GCP)
Experience and formal training at a mid-to-late stage SaaS business operating in competitive environments.

Our US benefits include (but are not limited to):

Meaningful equity via a stock option grant
15 days PTO, and 9 paid US company holidays
Company paid 100% for health, dental, and vision
401k with 6% company match
Parental leave
Life and disability insurance

Technology

At ContainIQ you will get the opportunity to solve a number of complex architectural problems and work on the forefront of some exciting new kernel technologies like eBPF.

Our Stack:

React/Typescript frontend
node/express backend
Kubernetes for deployment and orchestration
Clickhouse + Postgres

Our agents:

Golang: kubernetes events and metrics agent
C , eBPF: latency agent

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