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📍 Australia· Full-time· Remote
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About the team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. OpenAI for Government (OAI4G) helps public-sector institutions understand, adopt, and deploy highly capable AI products in support of their missions. The team brings together Sales, Solutions, Partnerships, Technical Success, Legal, Security, Policy, Global Affairs, and other cross-functional partners to help governments use AI responsibly and effectively. As part of OAI4G’s International Public Sector team, you will help public institutions in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) and APAC translate frontier AI into secure, compliant, mission-aligned outcomes. We work across varied procurement, regulatory, security, sovereignty, and commercial environments, while maintaining a consistent commitment to safety, reliability, and public benefit. About the role We are seeking a senior Account Director (AD) to lead OpenAI’s public-sector work across ANZ, with a wider remit to develop selected priority opportunities across APAC. ANZ will be the centre of gravity for the role: you will build trusted relationships with government leaders, develop and execute account strategies, create and close complex opportunities, and help customers move from initial interest to successful adoption. This is a full-cycle, highly cross-functional sales role that combines technical understanding, strategic vision, partnership management, and value-driven execution. You will work with senior government, operational, technical, procurement, policy, and security stakeholders to identify high-impact AI use cases and translate them into credible commercial and deployment pathways across the OpenAI Platform API and Codex and ChatGPT Enterprise. You will also be an accountable customer leader after signature, working alongside specialist delivery and technical teams to keep customer outcomes, milestones, adoption, risks, and executive alignment on track. The role requires excellent judgement, exec

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📍 Sydney, Australia· Full-time
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Fin is the AI Customer Agent company on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences. Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey – from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk for one single system that is designed to meet the needs of modern day support teams. Founded in 2011, Fin became one of the fastest growing companies and remains one of the largest private software companies in the world with nearly 30,000 global businesses using our products to transform their customer support. Driven by our core values, we push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and relentlessly deliver incredible value to our customers. What's the opportunity? We’re seeking a transformational Solutions Engineering leader to lead our Mid-Market and Enterprise SE teams. You’ll be a pivotal figure in helping Intercom scale its AI-driven support platform to some of the world’s most well-known brands. This role will shape how we engage with large, complex organisations, defining our go-to-market, building a world-class team, and delivering tangible customer outcomes through innovation and credibility. This role is both strategic and hands-on. You will lead a Solutions Engineering team focused on winning complex deals, creating vertical-specific solution architectures, and building repeatable playbooks. We believe in leaders who are open to be a player and a coach, regardless of seniority. You’ll collaborate closely with Sales, Success, Product, Engineering, and Services to deliver customer transformation through Intercom’s AI-first platform – be it through strategic guidance as a senior leader on the team, or securing deals w

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📍 Australia· Full-time
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Fin is the AI Customer Agent company on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences. Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey – from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk for one single system that is designed to meet the needs of modern day support teams. Founded in 2011, Fin became one of the fastest growing companies and remains one of the largest private software companies in the world with nearly 30,000 global businesses using our products to transform their customer support. Driven by our core values, we push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and relentlessly deliver incredible value to our customers. What's the opportunity? As a Senior CSM, you’ll partner with our largest and most complex customers to help them succeed in the new era of AI-driven customer service. You’ll work with C-suite leaders and their Support teams to guide them through their AI Agent transformation with Fin — from early project scoping and requirements gathering, to measurable adoption, to industry-best automation rates and business outcomes. This role is an opportunity to shape how the world’s leading companies deploy AI to transform their support operations and achieve strategic outcomes aligned to their business goals. What will I be doing? Develop trusted advisor relationships with customers (from c-suite stakeholders to

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📍 Australia· Full-time
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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We aren’t looking for someone who simply checks boxes; we’re looking for lifelong learners and "owners" who want to build the future of Identity. Join us. Build a world where Identity belongs to you. The Opportunity: Your Career-Defining Moment The Sales Strategy & Operations team is the engine room of Okta’s growth. We don't just report on the business; we architect it. As a Sales Strategy and Operations Manager for the ANZ region , you will act as a strategic co-pilot to Sales Leadership. This role will also give exposure to strategic initiatives across APJ and Global Sales Operations. This isn't a "back-office" role. This is a high-visibility position for a high-potential talent who wants to own the "How" and "Why" behind our go-to-market execution. Joining us in a time of rapid expansion across APJ, you will leverage the next frontier of technology to redefine what "operational excellence" looks like in the SaaS era. How You Will Make an Impact 1. Strategic Partnership & Sales Advocacy Clear the Path: Partner directly with ANZ Sales Le

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📍 Australia· Full-time
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Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: Every day, Airbnb hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. Since our founding, more than 5 million hosts have welcomed over 1.5 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. The Chief Business Officer organization plays a pivotal role in driving the company’s growth and expansion efforts worldwide. Our teammates work on commercializing Airbnb’s new and existing businesses, helping Airbnb expand beyond its core offering as a place to stay. This includes recruiting and developing Airbnb’s global supply of high-quality stays, and executing Airbnb’s global strategy in the market. With a focus on business strategy, quality supply and international expansion, the team is leading the way for Airbnb’s continued growth and success in its next chapter. The Global Markets Team, which sits within CBO, ensures that Airbnb is locally relevant and serves the needs of our global hosts and guests, helping regions more efficiently plan and execute growth strategies across supply, demand, and other surfaces in a way that will resonate with our communities. As we expand our business, we look for the best and brightest to drive strategic business decisions. To this end, the team is looking for a Business Operations and Growth Lead to join our Australia and New Zealand team (ANZ). The Difference You Will Make: You will work closely with the cross-functional leaders and teams, and play a key role in scaling our community growth and optimization-focused programs. The succes

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📍 Australia· Full-time
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Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team Stripe Infrastructure is responsible for the reliability, scale, performance, and cost of Stripe's systems and the productivity and sentiment of Stripe's people. You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas within Core Infrastructure. We're the home for Stripe's critical tier-0 infrastructure systems (Compute, Networking, DocumentDB, Distributed Caching, and High Assurance Engineering). We build the foundational platform for Stripe products and services to allow them to operate at scale. We drive reliability, availability, efficiency, and scalability of these systems. What you'll do As an Engineering Manager for the Core Performance team at Stripe, you'll lead a team responsible for driving improvements in efficiency and latency across Stripe. Responsibilities • Lead and grow an engineering team in Sydney—hire, coach, mentor, and develop engineers at all levels • Partner with engineering teams across Stripe to identify and implement infrastructure solutions that enhance scalability, reliability, and efficiency • Create team vision, define goals, prioritize work, and deliver high-quality outcomes • Cultivate a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement • Collaborate with staff engineers and technical leadership on architecture and strategic technical decisions, translating technical strategy into team-level plans • Work effectively with geographically distributed colleagues and remote workers to ens

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📍 Sydney, AU· Full-time
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For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. The Opportunity Asia-Pacific is one of the fastest-moving enterprise AI markets in the world — and the buyers, competitive dynamics, and adoption patterns in the region are distinct from any other geography Smartsheet serves. Enterprises in APJ are evaluating AI capabilities with urgency, but their buying criteria, integration ecosystems, and trust frameworks differ meaningfully from those in North America or Europe. Smartsheet needs an AI product marketing leader embedded in the region who can translate our global AI narrative into locally resonant positioning that wins. As a Sr Product Marketing Manager on the AI GTM Strategy team, you will be the in-region AI product marketing partner for Smartsheet's APJ sales organization. You will own the regional activation of Smartsheet's AI narrative — including organizational intelligence, agentic workflows, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) positioning — ensuring APJ field teams can lead differentiated AI conversations with enterprise buyers across the region. This is not a generalist PMM role. You will own the intersection of AI product marketing and regional field activation across APJ, working at the pace of a rapidly evolving product surface and a field organization operating in one of the most competitive enterprise software markets globally. This remote eligible role is based in APJ and will report to the VP, AI GTM Strategy. What You Will Own AI Narrative Activation — APJ Execute the regional activation of Smartsheet's global AI narrative across APJ field teams, a

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📍 Australia· Full-time
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About StarRez StarRez is the global leader in student housing software, providing innovative solutions for on and off-campus housing management, resident wellness and experience, and revenue generation. Trusted by 1,400+ clients across 25+ countries, StarRez supports more than 4 million beds annually with its user-friendly, all-in-one platform, delivering seamless experiences for students and administrators. With offices in the United States, Australia, the UK, and India, StarRez blends the robust capabilities of a global organization with the personalized care and service of a trusted partner. The Role: We are looking for a Senior Quality Engineer - AI to help shape how StarRez evaluates, validates, and improves AI-powered product experiences. You will play a pivotal role in elevating our quality practices for AI-powered product experiences and tooling. You will be a product expert within our engineering organization, deeply understanding workflows and customer outcomes. This role will balance hands-on individual contributor responsibilities with leading, influencing, and coaching your peers. You’re someone who is passionate about seeing systems holistically and is eager to drive the highest standards of accuracy, safety, usefulness, and reliability. You will help define what "good" AI output means for StarRez, build repeatable evaluation systems, coach reviewers and subject matter experts, and turn subjective feedback into measurable product improvement. You will work at the intersection of AI engineering, product, and domain knowledge — partnering with engineers, product managers, and SMEs to raise the bar on how StarRez evaluates, monitors, and improves AI tools. Key Responsibilities: Lead or contributed to end-to-end AI quality and evaluation strategy for product experiences involving LLMs, RAG, prompts, tool-use, or agent workflows. Provided quality-focused input during ticket grooming, discovery, and feature discussions, with clear guidance on testability, ob

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📍 Melbourne, Australia· Full-time
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About the Team The Sales Enablement team, under the Sales Strategy & Operations organization, enables the productivity of our sales and go-to-market organizations through alignment with capital OKRs and a 360-degree enablement strategy that encompasses activation across process, product, skill, GTM strategy and tooling. Through partnerships with Sales, Product, Marketing, and Operations, we design and deliver critical enablement programs that activate the business to drive sales performance and contribute to DoorDash’s overall success. About the Role As an Associate Manager of Sales Enablement focused on our Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) markets, you will play a critical role in localizing and executing global enablement initiatives. You will report directly to a Senior Manager on the Global Sales Enablement team and support ANZ leadership through a dotted-line relationship with the local Sales Strategy & Operations team. You’ll be responsible for activating onboarding, training, and go-to-market programs that support the full sales lifecycle for sellers in ANZ. You’ll coordinate closely with Sales, Marketing, Product, and RevOps teams to ensure that enablement strategies are tailored to the regional context and drive measurable outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity to help scale enablement across a high-growth region by aligning global frameworks with local needs and feedback.. This is a hybrid role with three days per week in the office (Melbourne or Sydney) and two days remote. You are excited about this opportunity because... Support the execution of onboarding, ongoing training, and product activation initiatives for DoorDash sales teams across Australia and New Zealand . Serve as a liaison between global enablement strategy and local sales execution, customizing programs for ANZ market needs. Partner cross-functionally with Sales, RevOps, Marketing, and Product teams to ensure readiness for product launches and sales plays. Help maintain an

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📍 Australia· Full-time
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Here’s a summary of the role: Diligent is seeking an experienced Advisory & Consulting Manager (Risk & Audit) to join our growing Professional Services team, driving successful SaaS implementation delivery, client onboarding, and consulting engagements that deliver measurable value for our customers. In this role, you will lead customer adoption and implementation projects for Diligent’s Governance, Risk and Compliance solutions, with a strong focus on driving successful delivery, maintaining operational consistency, and executing implementations in line with Diligent’s established Services Strategy methodology. If you are a highly operational, execution-focused project leader who is passionate about technology and innovation, driven by creating meaningful client impact, building trusted partnerships, and delivering sustainable growth through exceptional consulting services, this is your next move. This role is open to candidates based in Singapore, Australia and New Zealand . Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship, so applicants must already have the legal right to work in their country of residence. Candidates based in one of our office locations within Singapore, Australia or New Zealand are expected to work from the office at least 50% of the time in line with our hybrid working policy. For candidates based elsewhere within these countries, where we do not have an office, remote working arrangements will be considered. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff): Leading multiple end-to-end implementation of Diligent solutions for clients, from project kick-off through to go-live, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within scope. Proactively manage portfolio operations, accurate time and scope capture within project, project financials, team utilization, and time management. Mobilize the right team resources to ensure projects are delivered successfully, delays and overrun

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📍 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia· Full-time
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About the Team DoorDash ANZ is building a best-in-class Brand and Creative function. This team exists to build the vision, story, systems and value of the DoorDash brand across Australia and New Zealand, inspiring creativity and infusing our brand into every touchpoint of the region's marketing, from always-on campaigns to major sport and entertainment partnerships. About the Role Reporting to the ANZ Marketing Director, the ANZ Marketing team is looking for a Senior Manager, Brand and Creative to lead brand strategy and creative development for DoorDash across ANZ. The ideal candidate moves seamlessly between foundational brand strategy and sharp, culturally relevant creative execution. They are as fluent in systems and frameworks as they are in ideas, thrive in a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment, and have a genuine passion for building a challenger brand that competes on experience and cultural relevance rather than budget alone. This is a highly visible, hands-on leadership role in a market where DoorDash operates with strong creative trust and full autonomy to shape how the brand shows up regionally. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Build, own and evolve the vision, story and creative expression of the DoorDash brand across ANZ Lead the region's brand and creative platform that will guide work across all channels Partner closely with internal teams and external agencies to develop remarkable, on-strategy work that builds cultural relevance and earns attention against a well-resourced market leader Shape creative for DoorDash's major ANZ sport and entertainment partnerships, ensuring brand and partnership work reinforce each other Act as the primary advocate for our three audiences, Consumers, Dashers and Merchants, ensuring brand and creative decisions are grounded in real audience insight Own, report on and optimise against ANZ Brand Health goals Build brand architecture, narrative and messaging frameworks that can flex across a fast

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📍 Sydney, Sydney, Australia· Full-time
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At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. We're currently accepting expression of interest for our Sales team in Sydney, Australia with customer-focused Account Executives who will take ownership of their entire sales cycle and distinguish Vanta as best-in-class to prospects in a burgeoning competitive landscape. Vanta is growing quickly, we're profitable, and we're continually outpacing our growth targets while maintaining very strong NPS scores. Our Sales team is leading the charge in exceeding our revenue goals and growing our market share as the industry leader in compliance and security. If this sounds like you, and you're excited at the potential to join a growing sales team, we'd love to hear from you. What you’ll do as an Account Executive at Vanta: Identify high-potential business verticals to develop and execute outbound strategies to engage them with Vanta. Manage the entire sales cycle, from initial contact to contract negotiation and closing, with a focus on expediting deals within a 30-day timeframe. Turn our inbound demand into closed-new business and happy Vanta customers. Manage our sales pipeline, improving and maturing our sales process and playbook. Define and communicate the specific benefits of Vanta appropriate for each customer, including making sales materials and demos. Collect insights from prospects for our product development process. How to be successful in this role: Have had a closing and quota-carrying role 2+ years, while consistently exceeding monthly and quarterly sales targets Be experienced in B2B SaaS Be highly empathetic to customers, with a proven track record of long-term customer retention. Possess the technical competency to

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📍 Australia· Full-time· Remote
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GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role As the Senior Manager, Solutions Architecture - ANZ at GitLab, you'll manage a distributed team of Solutions Architects working with customers across the region. In this player-coach role, you'll guide technical strategy across complex sales motions while also stepping directly into high-impact opportunities to help your team secure technical wins and build customer confidence in GitLab's platform approach. At GitLab, we work at the intersection of technical sales strategy, team development, and operational scale, and you'll help translate customer requirements into clear business outcomes. You'll partner

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📍 Australia· Full-time· Remote
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GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An Overview of this Role As a Customer Success Manager for APJ, you’ll help GitLab customers realize the full value of our intelligent DevSecOps platform by driving adoption, measurable outcomes, and long-term advocacy across the region. You’ll serve as a trusted advisor to a portfolio of customers, guiding them on Git, branching strategies, software development lifecycle practices, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and DevSecOps best practices. In this role, you’ll connect customer goals with GitLab capabilities, lead workshops and Center of Excellence efforts, and turn product usage data into clear, actionable reco

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📍 Australia· Full-time
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We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! Sales Development Representative: We’re New Relic , and we’re not just another SaaS company—we’re the global leader in observability, giving the world’s best tech teams the X-ray vision they need to thrive in an AI-first world. In a time where digital transformation is moving at lightning speed, we are the reason the world's biggest platforms stay online and perform at their peak. We need a driven, resilient, and resourceful sales pro to join our Australia team and fuel the rocket ship. If you view cold calling as a high-stakes sport and pipeline generation as your personal masterpiece, you belong here. Your Opportunity: The Pipeline Catalyst As a Business Development Representative (BDR), you are the face of New Relic in one of the most exciting tech hubs on the planet. You’ll partner directly with our high-performing Account Executives (AEs) to land deals within APJ’s most innovative unicorns, disruptors, and established enterprises. What You’ll Be Doing (Your Superpowers at Work) The Hunt: Master outbound strategy. Generate new business opportunities within the APJ market through tailored cold calls, personalized emails, and savvy social selling. The Qualifier: Be the detective! Quickly understand customer pain points—what's keeping Indian CTOs and DevOps leads up at night?—and articulate exactly how New Relic solves it. The Strategist: Team up with your AEs to map target accounts across various sectors (Fintech, E-commerce, EdTech, and many more!), identify decision-m

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