Manager, Enterprise Sales Development Team

Axon Axon · Enterprise · AZ · 3004 Sales Enterprise / Commercial

Manager for an Enterprise Sales Development Team responsible for generating qualified pipeline for enterprise sales teams. This role focuses on designing and executing strategies for pipeline creation, partnering with Marketing and Sales leadership, and establishing systems and processes for SDRs. It involves coaching, experimentation, and data-driven management to improve connection rates, qualification quality, and conversion to revenue. The role requires a leader who can build repeatable systems for outsized results.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and manage the SDR team responsible for generating Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs) for enterprise sales.
  2. Own attainment of SDR pipeline targets and establish clear performance metrics across the team.
  3. Partner with Marketing to co-lead top-of-funnel strategy, including campaign planning, messaging alignment, inbound lead SLAs, and feedback loops.
  4. Standardize SDR outreach motions including talk tracks, email sequences, and messaging frameworks by product, persona, vertical, and use case.
  5. Build a scalable SDR playbook that defines ICPs, personas, qualification standards, discovery approaches, and handoff processes to Account Executives.

Skills

Required

  • Experience leading SDR or Business Development teams within an enterprise B2B technology company.
  • Demonstrated success building and scaling top-of-funnel pipeline generation programs.
  • Strong partnership experience with Marketing and Sales leadership to align campaign strategy and lead management.
  • A structured, systems-oriented mindset with experience building playbooks, messaging frameworks, and repeatable outbound processes.
  • Strong coaching ability with a track record of improving SDR call performance, discovery quality, and objection handling.
  • Analytical mindset with experience managing through dashboards, experimentation, and data-driven insights.
  • Familiarity with modern SDR and RevOps tooling such as Salesforce, outbound engagement platforms, and prospecting databases.
  • A bias toward action and operational rigor, with the ability to set a high performance bar while building scalable processes.
  • Strong attention to detail and the ability to operate deeply in both strategy and execution.