Sales Development Lead - Apac

ElevenLabs ElevenLabs · AI Frontier · Singapore · Revenue

Sales Development Lead for ElevenLabs, an AI research and product company. This role focuses on building and leading an outbound sales team in the APAC region to generate pipeline for enterprise clients. Responsibilities include developing sales strategies, coaching SDRs, and collaborating with sales leadership.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build, coach, and manage a team of SDRs, setting the bar for outbound execution and pipeline generation.
  2. Design and continuously refine the outbound playbook — research, prospecting, cold calling, emailing, and social outreach — for the APAC market.
  3. Partner closely with Account Executives to align on prospect feedback, objections, and market trends, and translate that insight into sharper outreach.
  4. Own KPI tracking and reporting for the team — conversion rates, lead quality, and outreach effectiveness — and use that data to optimize strategy.
  5. Collaborate with sales leadership to scale process as the team and market mature.

Skills

Required

  • 6-8+ years outbound B2B sales experience
  • experience leading, mentoring, or managing an SDR/BDR team
  • Track record of personally securing new business meetings
  • track record of coaching others to do the same
  • Demonstrated ability to build opportunity-sized lead lists in new markets and categories
  • Experience building and scaling outbound process, tooling, and playbooks from the ground up
  • Fluency with the full suite of prospecting tools (e.g., sales engagement platforms, enrichment tools, CRM)
  • Curiosity
  • Self-motivated and comfortable operating with autonomy
  • Strong time management and prioritization skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

Nice to have

  • Second language (Mandarin) a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • own the outbound sales strategy for the region
  • building and developing a high-performing SDR team
  • turn ElevenLabs' breakthrough voice technology into new pipeline for enterprises across APAC
  • Build, coach, and manage a team of SDRs
  • Design and continuously refine the outbound playbook
  • Experience building and scaling outbound process, tooling, and playbooks from the ground up