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Sales Development Manager
Location
California + 2 moreAll locations: California | New York | Oregon
Posted
67 days ago
Salary
$123.5K - $154.4K / year
Seniority
Mid Level
Job Description
Sales Development Manager
Mercury
• Provide high-impact 1:1 coaching to a group of SDRs focused on driving pipeline generation in new verticals. Guide them through LinkedIn, email, and cold call strategies that drive high quality meetings for our AE teams. • Oversee pipeline health and lead distribution across the team to ensure consistent, qualified opportunity generation. • Help build and refine outbound messaging that resonates with our ICP. • Identify patterns in high-performing outreach and scale winning tactics to drive better conversion rates across the team. • Build and lead training sessions on prospecting best practices, objection handling, and effective channel usage. • Be a source of energy and accountability. Create a culture of excellence and continuous improvement on your pod. • Work closely with Sales, Marketing, and GTM Strategy to align on ICPs, lead prioritization, and campaign execution.
Job Requirements
- 2–3+ years of experience in a Sales Development role within a B2B SaaS environment, with at least 18+ months in a leadership role managing teams of 7+ sales reps
- Proven track record of coaching SDRs 1:1 and leading training across cold calls, email, and LinkedIn outreach.
- Experience managing a large pipeline across multiple reps, able to analyze metrics, prioritize high-value opportunities, and course-correct quickly.
- Deep understanding of outbound sales strategies and how to drive consistent conversion from prospecting to qualified opportunity.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, can articulate value propositions and give actionable feedback to SDRs.
- A motivating presence: you uplift those around you, create accountability, and lead by example.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment where experimentation and adaptability are key.
- Familiarity with tools like Salesforce, Salesloft, Apollo, Gong, and LinkedIn Sales Navigator plus awareness of new tools/ integrations/ AI use cases to improve SDR efficiency.
- Having a curious mindset and the ability to quickly ramp up on a new vertical is essential.
Benefits
- base salary
- equity (stock options/RSUs)
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