Fauna is a distributed document-relational database delivered as a cloud API. With Fauna, developers can simplify code, reduce costs, and ship applications faster by replacing their database infrastructure with a highly productive and programmable data API that combines the power of custom business logic with the ease of GraphQL. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute engine is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure. Itself a serverless offering, Fauna is quick to get started with and lets developers experience freedom from database operations at any scale.

We're disrupting a $60B+ operational database market, growing quickly, and looking to hire, develop and empower the best! You’ll be working with a talented team of people who have built highly successful companies and globally-distributed systems at companies such as AWS, Google, Microsoft, Okta, Oracle, Cloudera, MongoDB, NewRelic and Twitter.

As a developer focused solution, Fauna’s business will be driven forward by the powerful relationships we build within our ecosystem and customer base. The SDR role is an important one at the top of our sales funnel, where you will often define a prospect’s first impression of Fauna, as well as become a trusted advisor to our internal teams on what you learn from customers/prospects. Working directly with Sales Leadership, you will grow the sales pipeline by engaging with prospects, partners, and customers. You will also work closely with the broader GTM team (sales, marketing, product) to execute on GTM campaign strategies to increase awareness, engagement, and revenue. This role offers plenty of opportunity for advancement as you will be joining a fast growth startup on the ground floor, and working with an experienced group of operators invested in teaching you the skills to scale your career.

As an ideal candidate, you will have:

1+ years experience working in sales or customer facing roles
Grit and a track record of achievement in competitive/fast-paced environments
Time management skills, and the ability to self start and motivate
Advanced problem solving and critical thinking skills
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Passion for technology and ability to learn new concepts quickly

Nice to have:

Prior Sales/SDR experience at technology company
Previous experience working with technical audiences
Experience using sales productivity tools (e.g. Salesforce, LinkedIn, GoogleSuite)

What you will do at Fauna:

Identify and engage new and existing contacts by phone, email, and social channels to build awareness and interest
Develop strong product, sales, and industry acumen
Outline the value of Fauna to potential customers in the context of their business goals
Research market opportunities, companies, and contacts to build high potential target lists for outreach
Pre-qualify opportunities via inbound/outbound channels to assess mutual fit
Nurture early phase sales opportunities and future pipeline
Collaborate with sales and marketing to identify and execute pipeline building campaigns
Effectively record and distribute key learnings to internal stakeholders
Achieve metric driven goals in support of sales plan

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $65,000 to $70,000 plus a variable component. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training and location. Your talent acquisition contact can speak more specifically about this topic during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity or other benefits.

Fauna is a well-funded, high growth startup with the mission to make working with operational data productive, scalable and secure for every software team. We're backed by Madrona Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Addition Capital, CRV, and many Silicon Valley angel investors.

Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with remote employee presence throughout the Americas and Europe we embrace a remote first culture and offer employees the flexibility of work locations depending on their geography. In exchange for your hard work and contributions, Fauna provides you with an exceptional compensation, equity package, and benefits package.

Building a great company requires talented, passionate, and committed team members. We are relentless in pursuing our mission while working together as one team aligned by our core principles. If you are that type of person who is excited by those pursuits, we want to hear from you!

Fauna is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our company is committed to fair hiring practices, and building a diverse environment for our employees. You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, citizenship, immigration status, or veteran status.

The Talent Acquisition Team at Fauna works primarily on a direct sourcing model; Fauna does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, directly to hiring managers, or any of our employees.

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