Sales Development Representative (sdr)

Decagon Decagon · Vertical AI · London, United Kingdom · Sales

Sales Development Representative (SDR) for a conversational AI platform company. The role focuses on identifying and qualifying new sales opportunities within complex enterprise sales cycles, engaging with technical and executive stakeholders, and growing the sales funnel through account-based outreach. This is a customer-facing sales role within a GenAI company.

What you'd actually do

  1. Source new sales opportunities through a combination of inbound qualification and strategic outbound prospecting
  2. Execute thoughtful, multi-threaded outreach across phone, email, and social channels
  3. Grow the top of the sales funnel through targeted account-based campaigns
  4. Research companies, map buying committees, and identify both hands-on-keyboard practitioners and executive stakeholders
  5. Partner closely with Account Executives to develop account strategies and generate high-quality Enterprise pipeline

Skills

Required

  • high level of interest in growing your career in a customer-facing role
  • strong communication skills, both verbal and written
  • genuinely curious about understanding customers’ business challenges
  • dedicated to tracking and improving performance and efficiency on a daily basis
  • sense of entrepreneurship: a self-starter with a high sense of urgency and ability to work within undefined processes

Nice to have

  • 1-2 years of experience in a customer-facing or quota-carrying role
  • prior CRM experience (preferably Salesforce)
  • Find ways to stay up on the latest trends in AI
  • experience with tech
  • fluent in French, German, or Spanish (in addition to English)

What the JD emphasized

  • complex, multi-threaded Enterprise and Strategic sales cycles
  • engaging multiple stakeholders across technical teams, operators, and executive leadership
  • navigate sophisticated buying groups
  • run thoughtful account-based outreach
  • translate AI-driven capabilities into clear business outcomes
  • accelerate a career in sales
  • build deep prospecting fundamentals
  • develop into a world-class seller
  • customer-facing role
  • genuinely curious about understanding customers’ business challenges
  • dedicated to tracking and improving performance and efficiency on a daily basis
  • sense of entrepreneurship: a self-starter with a high sense of urgency and ability to work within undefined processes
  • 1-2 years of experience in a customer-facing or quota-carrying role
  • latest trends in AI