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# Director of Sales Development (R-20038) at Dun & Bradstreet

- **Company:** Dun & Bradstreet
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/dnb/79e5cc5c-2497-4d7f-b2e5-f362bc6b9f19

## Job description

Shape the Future with Dun & Bradstreet At Dun & Bradstreet, we believe data has the power to create a better tomorrow. As a global leader in business decisioning data and analytics, we help companies worldwide grow, manage risk, and innovate. Since 1841, businesses have trusted us to turn uncertainty into opportunity. We’re a diverse, global team that values creativity, collaboration, and bold ideas. Are you ready to make an impact and help shape what’s next? Join us! Explore opportunities at dnb.com/careers.

The Director, Sales Development leads a multi-team Business Development Representatives (BDR) organization across outbound-focused teams and the Enterprise Sales Development Program. This role is accountable for building both a high-performing pipeline-generation engine and a differentiated sales talent development program that prepares early-career and high-potential talent for future sales roles.

This position balances near-term business outcomes with long-term talent development by driving qualified pipeline through new-logo acquisition and cross-sell/upsell motions, while attracting, hiring, onboarding, coaching, retaining, and advancing BDRs, BDR leaders, and Enterprise Sales Development Program participants through structured development experiences.

Essential Key Responsibilities

- Lead and develop BDR leaders across outbound-focused teams, ensuring consistent standards for pipeline execution, leadership effectiveness, coaching discipline, talent development, and performance management across managers and representatives.
- Scale the global BDR organization by establishing repeatable recruiting, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and talent-development practices across all hubs.
- Own team pipeline-creation goals while building a repeatable talent-development system that improves BDR productivity, readiness, promotion paths, retention, and leadership bench strength.
- Own the Enterprise Sales Development Program as a strategic talent pipeline, including program structure, rotation design, performance standards, coaching model, field exposure, and career-pathing for college graduates rotating through multiple sales roles over a 12+ month development experience.
- Partner with Account Executives, Area Vice Presidents, Customer Success, Marketing, Demand Generation and Sales Leaders to align territory and segment coverage, account priorities, campaign plays, lead quality, and meeting-to-opportunity conversion across teams.
- Hold BDR leaders accountable for attainment against qualified pipeline, opportunity creation, accepted and held meetings, conversion rates, activity quality, SLA adherence, productivity, and CRM hygiene; conduct forecast and performance reviews and address performance gaps.
- Use SFDC, sales-engagement platforms, and performance dashboards to maintain CRM hygiene, inspect outbound execution, improve rep and manager productivity, identify coaching opportunities, and deliver accurate performance reporting.
- Partner with Marketing, Demand Generation, Sales Enablement, Talent Acquisition, Revenue Operations, Business Intelligence, and CRM partners to coordinate outbound campaigns, workforce planning, leadership development, reporting, territory design, and process improvements.
- Build succession plans for BDR leaders and career pathways for high-potential BDRs and Enterprise Sales Development Program participants into Account Executive, Customer Success, Sales Operations, and leadership roles. Present regular business reviews that balance pipeline contribution, talent development, operating health, promotion readiness, and program outcomes.
- Additional duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

- Bachelor's Degree Required
- 7 to 10 years of experience
- Master's Degree Preferred

Essential Skills and/or Certifications

- Bachelor’s degree is required.
- 10+ years of progressive B2B sales experience, including substantial outbound prospecting, new- logo acquisition, and pipeline-creation experience.
- 5+ years of people-leadership experience, including experience managing managers, leading multi-team Sales Development organizations, and developing early-career sales talent.
- Experience leading outbound motions across both new-logo acquisition and cross-sell/upsell motions within existing customer accounts.
- Experience designing or leading early-career sales development, graduate rotation, or sales talent accelerator programs is preferred.
- Proven record of meeting or exceeding pipeline or revenue targets and managing conversion, activity, and productivity KPIs.
- Strong recruiting, coaching, communication, analytical, change-leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Proficiency with SFDC and outbound sales-engagement platforms, with the ability to use data to improve execution and CRM hygiene.
- SaaS, technology, data, or information-services experience is preferred
- MEDDPICC or a similar sales methodology is an advantage.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suites Skills
- Show an ownership mindset in everything you do; be a problem solver, be curious and be inspired to take action, be proactive, seek ways to collaborate and connect with people and teams in support of driving success
- Continuous growth mindset, keep learning through social experiences and relationships with stakeholder, experts, colleagues and mentors as well as widen and broaden your competencies through structural courses and programs

## Benefits We Offer

- Generous paid time off in your first year, increasing with tenure.
- Up to 16 weeks 100% paid parental leave after one year of employment.
- Paid sick time to care for yourself or family members.
- Education assistance and extensive training resources.
- Do Good Program: Paid volunteer days & donation matching.
- Competitive 401k with company matching.
- Health & wellness benefits, including discounted Wellhub membership rates.
- Medical, dental & vision insurance for you, spouse/partner & dependents.

All Dun & Bradstreet job postings can be found at https://jobs.lever.co/dnb. Official communication from Dun & Bradstreet will come from an email address ending in @dnb.com.

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Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO): Dun & Bradstreet provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, genetic information, protected military and veteran status, ancestry, marital status, medical condition (cancer and genetic characteristics) or any other characteristic protected by law. Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal - The current poster can be found here. We participate in E-Verify - The current poster can be found here.

Accommodations information for applicants with disabilities: Dun & Bradstreet is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to, among others, individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to search and apply for a career opportunity with Dun & Bradstreet, please send an e-mail to AcquisitionT@dnb.com to let us know the nature of your accommodation request and your contact information.

## About Dun & Bradstreet

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Dun & Bradstreet provides business decisioning data, analytics, and a global identity layer (the D-U-N‑S Number) to help companies manage risk, accelerate growth, and operationalize trusted context across sales, finance, compliance, and supply chains.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: DNB)
- **Headquarters**: Jacksonville, Florida, USA
- **Founded**: 1841
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (historical formation through mergers of Lewis Tappan’s Mercantile Agency and R.G. Dun & Co.)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Information Services, Business Data & Analytics, Credit Risk, Compliance, Supply Chain Management
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises, SMBs, financial institutions, government agencies, procurement and risk teams
- **Mission / purpose**: “Since 1841, companies of every size have relied on Dun & Bradstreet to help them manage risk and reveal opportunity.” [dnb.com](https://www.dnb.com/en-us/?cachebust=0.17253344090823353)

## Products & Services
- **D&B Data Cloud**: A governed foundation of verified business identity and continuously updated context, used to enrich CRM, ERP, and AI workflows.
- **D-U-N-S® Number**: A free, globally recognized unique business identifier that establishes a credit profile and unlocks access to suppliers, lenders, and government contracts.
- **D&B Commercial Graph**: A governed data layer delivering traceable, auditable business context for analytics and AI.
- **D&B AI Connectors**: Pre-built integrations that deliver decision-ready business insight into Salesforce, SAP, and other enterprise tools.
- **D&B MCP Server**: Enables AI agents to connect directly to governed business insight for auditability and reliable execution.
- **Risk & Compliance Solutions**: Third-party onboarding, monitoring, and enhanced due diligence.
- **Sales & Marketing Solutions**: Account-based data, lead scoring, and territory insights.
- **Finance Solutions**: Credit risk assessment, cash flow optimization, and financial signals.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed in search results (publicly traded on NYSE; market cap can be looked up but not provided in the retrieved data).
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of **$2.4B** (latest full fiscal year). Q2 FY2025 (ended June 30, 2025) revenue was **$585.2M** with a net loss of **$33.7M**. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dun-&-bradstreet)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Parent company **Clearlake Capital Group, L.P.** (majority shareholder). Other institutional investors not listed in the search results.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: **4,130 employees** (monthly growth +0.2%)
  - Active job postings: **87** (monthly growth +20.8%, quarterly growth +67.3%)
  - Operating in 28 countries, with data covering many more.
  - Recent emphasis on AI connectors and the MCP server to embed verified business context into agentic workflows.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Persistent Identity (D-U-N-S Number)**: A unique, globally recognized business identifier that provides a single source of truth across systems and use cases, creating a strong switching cost.
- **Longevity & Breadth**: Founded in 1841, the company has accumulated decades of business data and relationships, making it one of the most comprehensive business intelligence providers.
- **Governance & Traceability**: Unlike generic data lakes, the D&B Commercial Graph is designed for auditability, compliance, and AI readiness – a differentiator in regulated industries.
- **Wide Ecosystem Integration**: Native connectors to major platforms (Salesforce, SAP, Tableau, etc.) reduce friction for enterprise adoption.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI as a Context Layer**: Position “verified business context” as the missing link for enterprise AI success, emphasizing governed, traceable data over fragmented inputs.
- **Product Innovation**: Continued development of the MCP Server and AI connectors to enable agentic workflows in procurement, compliance, and sales.
- **Risk & Compliance Expansion**: Deepening capabilities in third-party risk management and enhanced due diligence to meet rising regulatory demands.
- **Data Modernization**: Investing in cloud-native infrastructure and real-time data updates to stay ahead of competitors like Experian and Moody’s.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Rating**: Employer rating of **3.8/5** (2,861 reviews on LinkedIn) with strong marks for work-life balance (4.0) and culture (3.7). Compensation scores 3.6 and career development 3.6. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dun-&-bradstreet)
- **Work Model**: **Hybrid** – employees typically work on-site **2 days a week** at their Jacksonville HQ or one of 32 global offices. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/dun-bradstreet)
- **Notable Perks**:
  - Performance bonuses and employee discounts
  - Adoption assistance, generous parental leave, and family medical leave
  - Dental, health, and FSA benefits
  - Job training, conferences, and customized development tracks
  - Diverse workforce: talent sourced from top companies (IBM, Oracle, Cognizant, Deloitte, etc.)
- **Technical Environment**: Engineering teams work on large-scale data platforms, AI/ML models, and data pipelines. Open roles include Data Scientists, AI Security Engineers, and Principal Systems Engineers.

## Sources
1. [dnb.com – Company Overview](https://www.dnb.com/en-us/?cachebust=0.17253344090823353)
2. [dnb.com – Careers](https://www.dnb.com/en-us/about/careers.html)
3. [jobs.lever.co – Open Positions](https://jobs.lever.co/dnb)
4. [linkedin.com – Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dun-&-bradstreet)
5. [builtin.com – Culture & Perks](https://builtin.com/company/dun-bradstreet)

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