Sales Development Representative (Spanish Speaker)

Cape Town March 7, 2026 Greenhouse

Who we are

DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at www.digicert.com

Job summary

The Sales Development Representative – Existing Accounts plays a critical role in growing revenue within our installed customer base. This role is dedicated to identifying cross-sell, upsell, and expansion opportunities across existing accounts by proactively engaging customers, understanding their evolving needs, and positioning additional DigiCert (with a focus on Valimail/DMARC and VMC) solutions that drive value.

This role partners closely with Account Managers and Customer Success to execute a coordinated expansion strategy, ensuring we deepen relationships, increase product adoption, and maximize customer lifetime value.

This is a fixed-term contract position.

 

What you will do

Cross-Sell & Expansion Pipeline Generation

  • Proactively engage existing customers to identify cross-sell and upsell opportunities
  • Conduct discovery calls to understand customer challenges, product usage, and unmet needs
  • Map customer needs to DigiCert solutions to generate high-quality expansion opportunities
  • Build and maintain a strong pipeline focused on incremental ACV

Customer Relationship Development

  • Serve as an early touchpoint to strengthen engagement within assigned accounts
  • Educate customers on additional products, capabilities, and best practices
  • Maintain regular, value-added communication to increase awareness and adoption

Collaboration with Account Managers & Customer Success

  • Work closely with AMs to coordinate account strategy and prioritize high-value accounts
  • Share insights, usage trends, and opportunity signals to support account planning
  • Assist in prequalification and handoff of opportunities to ensure smooth transitions

Operational Excellence

  • Maintain accurate logging of activities, discovery notes, and opportunity creation in CRM.
  • Deliver weekly reporting on pipeline creation, SAOs, and outreach performance.
  • Follow established sales playbooks and contribute to improving cross-sell motion effectiveness.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

  • Monthly SAOs created: Target aligned to expansion objectives
  • Qualified Meetings (QMs): Volume and conversion from outreach
  • Account penetration: Increase in product usage namely Valimail DMARC products +VMC
  • Contribution to retention and growth metrics (in partnership with AMs)

 

What you will have

  • Fluent in Spanish (written and verbal) and professional working proficiency in English (essential)
  • 1+ years of SDR, BDR, inside sales, or customer-facing experience preferred
  • Strong communication and discovery skills
  • Ability to build rapport quickly with existing customers
  • Curious, proactive, and comfortable conducting needs-based conversations
  • Ability to manage high activity levels in a structured, organized way
  • Familiarity with CRM systems (Salesforce preferred)
  • Experience in cybersecurity or SaaS is an advantage, but not required

Key Attributes

  • Customer-centric mindset
  • Strong listening and problem-identification skills
  • Ability to simplify complex concepts and articulate value
  • Persistent, resilient, and motivated by targets
  • High coachability and eagerness to learn
  • Team-first mindset in partnering with AMs and CSMs

 

Benefits

  • Uncapped Commission
  • Provident Fund
  • Medical Aid + Gap Cover
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Education Support Program
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance

 

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