Manager, Sales Development

Harvey Harvey · AI Frontier · New York, NY · Go to Market

Harvey is seeking a Sales Development Manager to lead and scale a team of SDRs in New York, focusing on generating pipeline for their AI platform in the legal and professional services sectors. The role involves hiring, coaching, performance management, and collaborating with Sales, Marketing, and RevOps to refine go-to-market strategies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own pipeline performance: Drive the SDR team's contribution to pipeline generation across inbound and outbound channels, ensuring strong alignment with sales targets.
  2. Build and scale the team: Hire, onboard, and develop a high-performing SDR team, helping establish the structure, operating cadence, and performance standards for the New York market.
  3. Coach and develop SDRs: Deliver hands-on coaching through regular 1:1s, call reviews, and deal strategy sessions to accelerate rep development and performance.
  4. Design onboarding and enablement: Partner with GTM enablement to create onboarding and ongoing training programs that ramp SDRs quickly and build strong product, industry, and prospecting expertise.
  5. Partner cross-functionally: Collaborate closely with Sales, Marketing, and RevOps to improve lead routing, campaign effectiveness, and pipeline conversion.

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of experience in SaaS sales or business development
  • 1–2 years of direct SDR or BDR leadership experience
  • Proven success in building and managing pipeline-generating teams in a high-growth, outbound-focused environment
  • Deep understanding of modern sales development tools (e.g., Salesforce, Salesloft, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Gong)
  • A data-driven mindset with the ability to analyze team performance, uncover insights, and iterate quickly
  • Experience building SDR processes from scratch—comfortable in ambiguity and excited to be the architect of something new
  • A coaching-first leadership style: you invest in people, celebrate wins, and hold high standards with care
  • Excellent communication skills and executive presence—both internally and externally

Nice to have

  • Prior experience selling into legal or professional services firms is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • building teams
  • developing talent
  • driving impact
  • building SDR processes from scratch
  • architect of something new
  • coaching-first leadership style