Sales Development Manager - East

Cresta Cresta · Vertical AI · New York, NY · Hybrid · Marketing

This is a Sales Development Manager role at Cresta, a company that provides an AI platform for customer experience. The role focuses on hiring, developing, and managing a team of Sales Development Representatives (SDRs) to drive revenue and efficiency. It requires sales leadership experience, understanding of SDR processes and tools, and experience with outbound strategies. The company itself is AI-focused, but this specific role is not directly involved in building or researching AI/ML models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Hire, onboard, and develop exceptional SDR talent
  2. Build & iterate on a data-driven Outbound & Inbound strategy
  3. Foster a winning culture of high accountability and performance
  4. Motivate the team through lucrative incentives and contests
  5. Uplevel SDRs and help them grow into our future AEs and managers

Skills

Required

  • 2+ years of sales / SDR leadership experience in a high-growth technology company
  • Located in the NYC Area and willing to commute to the office up to 3x per week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday)
  • Deep understanding of modern SDR processes and tools such as Gong, LinkedIn Sales Nav, 6sense, Zoominfo, etc.
  • Experience executing an outbound multichannel strategy and optimizing playbooks
  • Consistent track record of exceeding quota while both leading a team and as an individual contributor
  • Strong analytical experience with experience managing pipeline goals and forecasting
  • Experience partnering with AEs, Marketing, and RevOps to align on ICP, messaging, internal processes, etc.