Sales Development Representative - London (German-Speaking)

AppZen is the leader in autonomous spend-to-pay software. Its patented artificial intelligence accurately and efficiently processes information from thousands of data sources so that organizations can better understand enterprise spend at scale to make smarter business decisions. It seamlessly integrates with existing accounts payable, expense, and card workflows to read, understand, and make real-time decisions based on your unique spend profile, leading to faster processing times and fewer instances of fraud or wasteful spend. Global enterprises, including one-third of the Fortune 500, use AppZen’s invoice, expense, and card transaction solutions to replace manual finance processes and accelerate the speed and agility of their businesses.   At AppZen, we value candidates who are actively using AI tools to enhance productivity, automate repetitive tasks, and solve problems more efficiently. Across all roles, we are looking for team members who leverage AI in meaningful ways to drive impact in their work.   To learn more, visit us at www.appzen.com.
As a Sales Development Representative at AppZen, you will be responsible for identifying, researching, and engaging with businesses and typically their finance decision-makers.   Through intelligent identification and discovery, you will need to understand prospect business challenges and identify alignment in how AppZen's AI solutions can be of benefit. You will be responsible for booking meetings, which will be jointly held with Account Executives to dive deeper into AppZen, enabling further qualification to build pipeline.    We are looking for someone hungry to succeed, with a strong work ethic, resilience and boundless energy. You’ll be highly coachable and able to apply learnings from daily coaching in your role, developing new skills and improving every day as a sales professional.   This role will involve cold calling, mass and personalised emails, voice notes, videos, and LinkedIn outreach. Frequent rejection is inevitable, and we need someone who never lets a no affect them negatively, and will always dust themselves off and keep going.    You’ll be someone who sees everything as a learning opportunity. Naturally, you’ll be a highly motivated self-starter, a brilliant communicator and highly organised in the role.

Coachable, highly motivated and competitive self-starter

1-2 years of previous experience in sales (SaaS, recruitment, client facing)

Professional fluency in German and English required

Track record of hitting and exceeding goals

Proficiency with cold calling, LinkedIn, personalized emails, and other sales development techniques

Ability to work in a demanding, time-sensitive, fast-paced and evolving environment

Excellent communication skills and a positive outlook to rejection

Passionate about AI, technology, finance, and driving results

Month 1: 4-week structured onboarding that helps you learn the market, the personas, the tools, and the problems that AppZen helps solve; start reaching out to prospects if ready by the end of the month

Month 2: On a half quota (2 demo meetings), put your training into practice to figure out how to break into your accounts

Month 3: On a full quota (4 demo meetings), your process is up and you are generating pipeline and booking meetings

Flexible working - 4 days per week in our high energy Farringdon office (Friday’s are remote) 

Opportunity to work with world-class leadership in a fast-growing, successful AI scale-up

Day to day, structured sales coaching - a great opportunity to build the foundations for a successful career in tech sales 

Superb compensation package consisting of salary and variable bonus

28 days of annual leave + Bank Holidays (including Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve)

Free private medical / dental care

Travelling to our HQ USA Silicon Valley for annual events 1-2 times a year

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