Pear Vc

Founding Sales Development Representative

1mo ago
USAJunior
Pear Vc

Founding Sales Development Representative

1mo ago
USAJuniorapollolinkedincrmcold callingsalesforce

High-volume outbound sales role targeting SMB and mid-market accounts, responsible for prospecting, cold calling, and booking meetings.

Responsibilities

  • You will be responsible for identifying, researching, and booking meetings with qualified prospects. This is a high-volume outbound role for someone who already has some BDR experience and wants to level up quickly in a fast-moving startup.
  • You should be comfortable cold emailing, calling, testing messaging, handling rejection, and working closely with sales leadership to figure out what works.

Nice to have

  • Experience selling SaaS, AI, telecom, CRM, customer support, or SMB software
  • Experience using Apollo, HubSpot, Salesforce, Instantly, Smartlead, Clay, or similar tools
  • Prior success booking meetings through cold email and cold calling
  • Experience prospecting into industries like property management, healthcare-adjacent businesses, home services, retail, or local services

Conditions

  • In person in NYC (5 days a week) office required
  • Join an early-stage startup growing quickly
  • Work directly with founders and senior sales leaders
  • Sell a product that is easy for SMBs to understand and care about
  • Learn how to build outbound from the ground up
  • Strong path to Account Executive for top performers
  • Excited to work in person with a fast-growing team

Other

  • Location: New York City, in person 5 days a week Experience: 9 to 15 months of BDR experience, ideally selling into SMBs Compensation: Competitive base plus commission
  • Frontdesk builds AI workers for customer-facing businesses. We help SMBs and mid-market companies answer calls, qualify leads, follow up with customers, manage tickets, and automate customer operations across voice, SMS, chat, email, and CRM.
  • We are growing quickly and looking for a hungry Cold BDR who can help us build a repeatable outbound engine.
  • Prospect into SMB and lower mid-market accounts across target verticals
  • Build lead lists using tools like Apollo, LinkedIn, and company websites
  • Write and send personalized cold emails
  • Make daily cold calls to decision-makers
  • Book qualified meetings for Account Executives or founders
  • Track activity, responses, and learnings in the CRM
  • Test messaging across different industries and buyer personas
  • Learn the product deeply enough to explain the value clearly
  • Give feedback on what prospects are saying in the market
  • 9+ months of BDR, SDR, or outbound sales experience
  • Experience selling to SMBs is strongly preferred
  • Strong written communication skills
  • Comfortable making cold calls every day
  • High ownership, high energy, and strong follow-through
  • Competitive and resilient, without needing a lot of hand-holding
  • Curious about AI, startups, and sales
  • Organized enough to manage a high-volume outbound process
  • Excited to work in person with a fast-growing team
  • In your first 30 days, you will learn the product, understand our target customers, shadow sales calls, and start booking meetings.
  • By 60 days, you will be running your own outbound sequences, calling prospects daily, and consistently generating qualified meetings.
  • By 90 days, you will be one of the core drivers of our outbound pipeline and helping us identify which verticals, messages, and campaigns are working best.