Sales Development Manager

Level AI

$110K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years managing SDR or Business Development teams, ideally in a B2B SaaS environment
  • Proven track record of exceeding pipeline and meeting-setting goals
  • Strong coaching, mentorship, and leadership skills
  • Deep understanding of outbound prospecting best practices
  • Expertise in CRM and sales engagement tools (e.g., Salesforce, Apollo)
  • Strong data orientation to drive decisions
  • Excellent communication skills, highly organized, detail-oriented

Responsibilities

  • Hire, onboard, and coach a team of SDRs into consistent pipeline producers
  • Set and ensure KPIs are consistently met
  • Design and refine outbound and inbound sequences based on data analysis
  • Collaborate with Marketing on lead quality and campaign strategy
  • Conduct regular reviews for calls, emails, and live coaching
  • Track and analyze SDR performance, reporting pipeline impact to leadership
  • Build career promotion paths for SDRs to transition to Account Executives
  • Manage the SDR playbook and necessary tooling

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model
  • Health, vision, and dental coverage
  • Flexible PTO
  • Catered lunch twice a week and team events
  • Parental leave
  • 401(k)
Full Job Description
Location: Mountain View, CA Hybrid

Reports to: VP of Marketing

Role Overview: This role builds and runs the engine that feeds our pipeline. You'll hire, coach, and scale a team of SDRs turning cold outbound into qualified meetings with enterprise CX and contact center leaders, at a moment when those buyers are rebuilding their stack around AI.

What you'll do:
  • Hire, onboard, and coach a team of SDRs into consistent pipeline producers
  • Set the KPIs-activity, meetings booked, pipeline sourced; ensure targets are consistently met
  • Design and sharpen outbound and inbound sequences based on what the data says is working
  • Partner with Marketing on lead quality, campaign strategy, and messaging
  • Run regular call reviews, email reviews, and live coaching
  • Track and analyze SDR team performance; report on pipeline impact to Sales leadership
  • Build the promotion path: identify who's ready for AE and get them there
  • Own the SDR playbook and the tooling stack behind it
  • Champion a culture of accountability, learning, and high performance

What we're looking for:
  • 3+ years managing SDR or Business Development teams, ideally in a B2B SaaS environment
  • Proven track record of exceeding pipeline and meeting-setting goals
  • Strong coaching, mentorship, and leadership skills
  • Deep understanding of outbound prospecting best practices (phone, email, LinkedIn, social selling)
  • CRM and sales engagement tool expertise (e.g., Salesforce, Apollo, Gong, ZoomInfo)
  • Strong data orientation - comfortable using metrics to drive decisions
  • Excellent communicator, highly organized, and detail-oriented
  • Thrive in a fast-paced, early-stage environment

Preferred:
  • Experience in Enterprise SaaS or AI-focused companies
  • Background in building SDR-to-AE career paths
  • Familiarity with Account-Based Marketing (ABM) strategies

Perks & benefits:
  • Hybrid
  • Health, vision, and dental coverage
  • Flexible PTO
  • Catered lunch twice a week, plus team dinners and offsites
  • Parental leave
  • 401(k)

Compensation: Market-competitive, based on your experience and skill set.

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