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Business Development Representative - Dach

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/16/2026
No salary listed
Junior
Bachelor's
Remote in UK+3 moreMore locations: Remote in Germany | Remote in Spain | Remote in Italy
Remote
Sales & Account ManagementSales Development Representative

About the job

Requirements
  • Proficiency in German at native-speaker level and English is required.
  • At least one year of work experience in a sales role is required.
  • A demonstrated track record of success is required.
  • Excellent phone, writing, and listening skills are required.
  • A willingness to develop a strong understanding of the industry and the product's basic use cases and value propositions is required.
  • A four-year college degree or equivalent experience is preferred.
Responsibilities
  • Use prospecting strategies to reach existing Docker users who show potential to acquire commercial licenses.
  • Identify prospective customers' needs and challenges.
  • Determine prospects' interest in Docker.
  • Schedule discovery meetings between sales representatives and prospects.
  • Achieve targets for qualified prospects and new opportunities.
  • Respond to and qualify incoming inquiries about interest in Docker products.
  • Create a positive first impression and add value during each customer touchpoint.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to share customer feedback.
  • Participate in team development and mentoring.
  • Learn to use Salesforce, ZoomInfo, Common Room, Outreach, Sales Navigator, and Docker.
  • Perform core sales development representative functions, including prospecting, lead qualification, appointment setting, warm handoffs, Salesforce hygiene, and pipeline management.
  • Work with the manager, peers, and Account Executive to develop territory-specific prospecting strategies and campaigns.
  • Research the company, identify target accounts, and develop prospecting strategies for the territory.
  • Build prospecting lists of target accounts and key decision-makers, then reach out through cold calls, email, chat, and social media.
  • Maintain in-depth knowledge of Docker products and develop a sales pitch.
  • Adhere to team key performance indicator metrics and prospecting standards.
  • Improve messaging, processes, and daily activities.
  • Operate independently at full speed after onboarding.
Desired Qualifications
  • French or Spanish is a bonus.

About the company

Docker builds, shares, and runs applications in isolated containers by packaging an application and its dependencies into a container image that runs consistently across different systems. It provides tools like Docker Desktop for local development, Docker Hub as a container image repository, and a command-line interface to build, run, and manage containers. It differentiates itself with a large ecosystem, an official image repository, and integrated tools that support an end-to-end container workflow. The company aims to help developers consistently build, share, and run software across any environment, using a freemium model with subscription tiers and additional services.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$526M

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California

Founded

2013

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What believers are saying

  • Docker added Mat Velloso and Vinh Le on August 18, 2026, sharpening AI execution.
  • Cloud Sandboxes boot in hundreds of milliseconds and scale to 16 vCPUs.
  • Docker is submitting Kits to CNCF, positioning itself as the agent standard.

What critics are saying

  • Podman Desktop and free registries like Harbor undercut Docker Desktop and Hub pricing.
  • Docker Cloud Sandboxes remain experimental in docs, and one-hour expirations disrupt long jobs.
  • If OCI-native Kits standardize without Docker, the company becomes a replaceable runtime wrapper.

What makes Docker unique

  • Docker Cloud Sandboxes launched September 24, 2026, extending agent isolation from laptop to cloud.
  • Docker's Sandbox Kit Spec v3 packages permissions, tools, and volumes into OCI images.
  • Docker unifies Hub, Desktop, and AI governance across one developer workflow.

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Benefits

  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Home Office Stipend
  • Parental Leave
  • Phone/Internet Stipend
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Professional Development Budget
  • Company Equity
  • Health Insurance

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6 month growth

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1 year growth

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2 year growth

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PR Newswire
Sep 24th, 2026
BAND partners with Docker to enable safe sandboxed execution for multi-agent AI teams

BAND has partnered with Docker to integrate sandboxed local execution into its multi-agent collaboration platform. The integration enables developers to run AI agents inside Docker Sandboxes' isolated microVM environments whilst connecting them to larger agent teams through BAND's platform. The BAND Python Kit for Docker Sandboxes allows agents to work with local codebases in isolated environments while communicating with other agents and humans in BAND rooms. BAND provides collaboration infrastructure, including persistent agent identities and shared rooms, whilst Docker Sandboxes offers isolated execution with its own kernel and filesystem. The architecture enables sophisticated workflows where hosted and local agents can collaborate. A BAND room might contain hosted planning and research agents alongside a local coding agent in a Docker Sandbox, with only the local agent accessing the repository. The integration addresses challenges as AI agents evolve from chat interfaces to autonomous systems requiring safe code execution and collaboration capabilities.

Associated Press
Sep 24th, 2026
Docker launches cloud sandboxes for secure AI agent execution beyond local machines

Docker has launched Docker Cloud Sandboxes, enabling AI agents to run in cloud infrastructure rather than on developers' laptops. The solution extends Docker's secure local sandbox isolation to the cloud, allowing agentic workflows to continue running after machines shut down. The service lets developers start work locally and shift to the cloud without switching environments. Cloud Sandboxes boot in hundreds of milliseconds and scale from 1 to 16 vCPUs without requiring infrastructure provisioning. Docker also introduced next-generation Kits, an open specification for packaging agentic sandboxes as standard OCI images. The company plans to submit the Kits specification to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Docker Cloud Sandboxes are available now at docker.com/products/docker-sandboxes.

Associated Press
Aug 18th, 2026
Docker names Mat Velloso CPO and Vinh Le CFO to lead agentic AI expansion

Docker has appointed Mat Velloso as chief product officer and Vinh Le as chief financial officer to strengthen its leadership team as the company expands into agentic workflow management. Velloso brings 15 years of experience from Microsoft, where he advised the CTO and CEO, and later worked with Google AI Studio and Meta on AI strategy. At Docker, he will drive product strategy to help customers secure and manage agentic workflows at enterprise scale. Le joins from PolyAI, bringing experience from Electronic Arts, Tanium, and BetterUp. He will lead Docker's global finance organisation and support the company's growth strategy. Docker positions itself as a trusted platform for building software in what it calls the "agentic era", helping organisations deploy autonomous agents whilst maintaining security and governance.

Wikipedia
May 14th, 2026
Docker, Inc.

Docker, Inc. is an American technology company that develops productivity tools built around Docker, which automates the deployment of code inside software containers via OS-level virtualization.[1][2] Major commercial products of the company are Docker Hub, a central repository of containers, and Docker Desktop, a GUI application for Windows, Linux and macOS to manage containers. The historic offering was Docker Enterprise PaaS business, acquired by Mirantis.[3] The company is also an active contributor to various CNCF projects, such as containerd and runC. The main open source offering of the company are Docker Engine and buildkit which are rebranded under the Moby umbrella project. The core specification, Dockerfile, still includes the company trademark, however.

TechCrunch
Mar 13th, 2026
Docker partners with NanoClaw creator weeks after viral AI agent tool launch

NanoClaw creator Gavriel Cohen has struck a deal with Docker to integrate Docker Sandboxes into his open-source AI agent-building tool, capping a whirlwind six weeks since the project's launch. Cohen built NanoClaw in a weekend as a secure alternative to OpenClaw, using just 500 lines of code compared to OpenClaw's 800,000. The project exploded after AI researcher Andrej Karpathy praised it on X, garnering 22,000 GitHub stars and 4,600 forks. Cohen has since shut down his AI marketing startup, which was on track for $1 million in annual recurring revenue, to launch NanoCo around the project. The company plans to offer commercial services including forward deployed engineers to help companies build secure AI agents, though specific monetisation plans remain under development. VCs are already calling, Cohen says.