Sales Development Manager

Lever solves the #1 challenge for every CEO: hiring. Recruiting is a hot market, growing 12-15% y/y on its own, and Applicant Tracking Systems like Lever are in high demand. At the same time, hiring has never been more competitive and costly, making talent solutions that improve a company’s hiring ROI incredibly valuable. We’ve already attracted an elite roster of customers including Box, Quora, Lyft, Coursera, Foursquare, ClearSlide, Slack, Reddit, and GitHub.

Lever is the only hiring application that is mobilizing the entire company to collaborate on hiring. We’re the only solution designed to engage managers, who are incredibly crucial stakeholders, more deeply in the process. By supporting a true partnership between recruiters and managers, we’re able to make hiring faster, higher-quality, and more embedded into a company’s core culture.

We’re looking for an enthusiastic leader to build our Sales Development organization from the ground up. Having previously led an SDR team, you’ll bring to the table the best practices from a healthy, successful, scaled SDR operation; the most modern metrics we should be using to measure our efforts; the best ways to build pipeline; and creative ideas to keep the team motivated and energized. As SDRs level up their skills, you’ll keep in mind the strategic / competitive elements for our unique sales challenges in the enterprise HR/recruiting software space.

Our ideal Sales Development Manager is smart, a natural coach, and obsessed with metrics/efficiency. You’ll maintain consistency of the pipeline in 2 aspects: 1) leads, counted on by the rest of the team, being ready to go and 2) the people – talent is our most important asset. We’ll be aggressive in scaling the team, but won’t be sacrificing professionalism in getting our product and brand out there, nor our culture of a supportive, winning sales team.

WITHIN 1 MONTH, YOU'LL...

  • Dive into building a pipeline of Sales Development Reps: Learn how to recruit the Lever way, hire, train, and manage a team
  • Identify areas of improvement for an efficient lead follow-up process
  • Run weekly/monthly team meetings
  • WITHIN 3 MONTHS, YOU'LL...

  • Develop strong relationships with the SDRs on your team; be a coach and trusted advisor
  • Build up your own hiring pipeline, and implement a training plan
  • Design and implement motivational incentives for keeping the team energy high
  • Work with Marketing to arm your SDRs with killer competitive intelligence by building competitive tier sheet and a lead qualification machine.
  • WITHIN 6 MONTHS, YOU'LL...

  • This is the phase of owning your metrics – it’s your job to get the SDRs to deliver on their numbers: KPIs on call volume, lead follow-up times, lead conversion rates, pipeline sourced, etc.
  • Design and propose an outbound model to our VP Sales, make a case for expanding your team and its responsibilities
  • Cultivate a great SDR culture - lot of fun, social ties, energy
  • Continue to execute on initiatives in partnership with Marketing
  • Explicitly start training up your SDRs to have a strong sales foundation for growth into closing roles
  • WITHIN 12 MONTHS, YOU'LL...

  • Develop SDRs’ skill sets to move them into closing roles
  • Have built the next generation Sales Development organization - a foundation that can be adopted to international expansion
  • Build long lasting relationships with your team, that persists strong long after they’ve been promoted to closing roles.
  • Lever builds software for teams to find, interview, and hire top talent. Our team strives to set a new bar for enterprise software with modern, well-designed, realtime apps. After going through Y-Combinator (Summer 2012) and raising a seed round in 2012, we have the support of many fantastic advisors and investors and are gearing up for an incredible, fast-paced year.

    Lever is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

    A look into life at Lever: https://inside.lever.co/

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