Sales Development Representative

Exa

$80K — $120K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 1+ years of sales experience, preferably in SaaS, AI, or tech sectors
  • Strong interest in AI and technical products
  • Competitive mindset with a drive to succeed
  • Adaptable to fast-paced, high-performance environments
  • Resilient and coachable disposition
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Strong organizational abilities

Responsibilities

  • Generate new business pipeline through targeted outreach via email, phone, and social media
  • Engage with developers and enterprise leaders in meaningful dialogues
  • Craft tailored messaging focused on AI, search, and infrastructure
  • Collaborate with Account Executives and Marketing on outbound initiatives
  • Identify and prioritize high-value accounts for engagement
  • Qualify incoming leads and convert interest into meetings
  • Conduct discussions with technical and executive stakeholders
  • Meet or exceed quotas for meetings and pipeline creation
  • Track performance metrics to enhance outreach effectiveness
  • Contribute to the development of outreach playbooks and messaging processes

Benefits

  • Premium healthcare benefits including medical, dental, and vision
  • Fertility benefits for all employees
  • Monthly wellness stipend
  • Opportunity for variable compensation with uncapped earnings
  • Equity ownership opportunities
Full Job Description
About the Role

As a Sales Development Representative at Exa, you will build high quality pipeline across enterprise and developer segments. You will own outbound prospecting, qualify inbound interest, and partner closely with Account Executives to turn product interest into revenue.

This role is fully in office in San Francisco. We believe working together in person drives speed, accountability, and learning.

We are looking for competitive, curious, high ownership individuals who want to help build a category defining AI company.

What You Will Do
  • Generate pipeline through personalized outbound across email, phone, and social
  • Engage developers, founders, and enterprise leaders in thoughtful conversations
  • Write clear, compelling messaging tailored to AI, search, and infrastructure use cases
  • Partner with AEs, Marketing, and founders on targeted outbound campaigns
  • Build and prioritize account lists within high value segments
  • Qualify inbound leads and convert product interest into meetings
  • Conduct high level conversations with technical and executive stakeholders
  • Hit and exceed monthly quotas for meetings, opportunities, and pipeline generated
  • Track performance metrics and continuously improve outreach strategy
  • Contribute to outbound playbooks and messaging frameworks


What We Are Looking For
  • 1+ years of sales experience, ideally in SaaS, AI, infrastructure, or high growth tech
  • Strong interest in AI, developer tools, or technical products
  • Competitive mindset with a strong internal drive to win
  • Comfortable in a fast moving, high performance environment
  • Resilient and coachable
  • Clear and concise communicator
  • Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize
  • Self starter mentality. When you see an opportunity, you act


Compensation

Exa rewards impact and performance. This role is variable compensation eligible with uncapped upside and meaningful equity ownership. Final compensation will depend on experience, skill set, and demonstrated ability.

If you want kickoff your career in sales for a generational AI search company and grow alongside a world class team, we would love to meet you!

This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco. We are open to sponsoring International candidates (e.g STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3) In addition to premium healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision), we also offer fertility benefits and a monthly wellness stipend to all of our employees.

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