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Sales Development Representative

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 1 year of experience in sales/business development or equivalent
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Proven track record of achieving and exceeding goals
  • Passion for fintech

Responsibilities

  • Be the face of our company, reaching out to potential customers
  • Conduct research to identify and target potential customers
  • Cold call, social and email prospecting to generate interest
  • Build relationships with prospects to understand their needs

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Sales
  • Communication
  • Teamwork
  • Goal Setting
  • Creativity
  • Tenacity

About the company

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Mercury

  • Fintech & Payments
  • Scaleup
  • 201–500
Mercury is a global life-science logistics partner, trusted for more than 40 years to move the world’s most time- and temperature-critical materials. We design GDP-compliant, end-to-end solutions for: • Cell & gene-therapy materials and clinical-trial drugs • Biological samples, human organs and tissue • Medical devices, diagnostics and research instruments DIFFERENTIATORS ✅ Dedicated 24/7/365 Customer Squads — named logistics experts who know your study or product line and act in minutes, not hours ✅ Mercury Portal — one log-in for real-time GPS & temperature visibility, automated customs paperwork, proactive delay alerts and historical analytics ✅ Next-Flight-Out, On-Board Courier & Direct-to/From-Patient services across 160+ countries ✅ In-house Quality & Regulatory team (GDP, IATA, TSA, DOT) and validated packaging from -196 °C to +25 °C ✅ Flexible pickups, customised invoices and consolidated reporting — a single source for all your shipping needs With Mercury, biotech, diagnostics and medical-device innovators stay focused on breakthroughs — while we deliver every mission-critical shipment safely, on schedule and in full compliance, moving science and health forward.

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Job description

Mercury is building a complete finance stack for startups. Since we launched Mercury in 2019, our customer base has grown to over 200,000 startups and small businesses from all around the world. At our core, we believe that everyone deserves access to the solutions they need to achieve financial freedom. We're a profitable, high-growth startup that's on a mission to empower founders and finance teams with advanced tools to build and scale faster.

*Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.

This might be the right role for you if:

  • You’re the kind of person who thrives on hitting targets & metrics. 
  • Your aspirations are focused on becoming the top-performing salesperson in the industry.
  • Hearing “no” doesn’t scare you, it only fires up your motivation. You remain relentlessly optimistic, always fueled with energy and determination.

You will:

  • Be the face of our company, reaching out to potential customers and introducing them to Mercury.
  • Conduct research to identify and target potential customers while collaborating with the sales team to develop and implement outreach strategies.
  • Cold call, social and email prospecting to generate interest and schedule meetings.
  • Qualify leads to ensure they meet our ideal customer profile.
  • Build relationships with prospects to understand their needs and pain points and schedule meetings with the sales team.
  • Track and report on sales metrics and pipeline activity.

You have:

  • You have 1 year of experience in sales/business development or something you feel is equivalent.
    • Bonus: You have up to 1 year of experience in e-commerce sales/business development
  • You're a people person with excellent communication with the ability to share complicated ideas with clarity and precision.
  • You're a hustler with a proven track record of achieving and exceeding goals.
  • You're creative and tenacious, always looking for new and innovative ways to reach potential customers.
  • You're a team player who wants to level up with your teammates and you are comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • You have a passion for fintech.
  • You enjoy learning about companies with complex technical products.

Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.

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Total Rewards
The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.

Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:

US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area:$70,800—$88,500 USDUS employees outside of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area:$63,700—$79,700 USD

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