Job description
Company overview
Title: SDR Manager
Industry: AI / B2B SaaS / Innovation & Intellectual Property)
Funding Journey: $24M+
No of Employees: 50–60 (scaling rapidly)
Locations: London
Summary:
A high-growth AI company building an operating system for innovation, helping enterprises and law firms generate and protect intellectual property. The platform replaces manual, time-intensive workflows (e.g. Patent drafting, infringement detection) with AI-driven automation. Already working with global organisations including Fortune 500 companies, the business is now scaling its commercial function following strong early traction.
This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership role within a fast-scaling AI business. You will be responsible for leading and developing a team of SDRs (Commercial Associates), owning outbound pipeline generation, and building a repeatable, scalable prospecting engine.
You’ll operate as a player-coach — spending the majority of your time managing, coaching, and improving team performance, while remaining close to execution through direct involvement in outbound activity.
Key areas of focus include:
- Managing, coaching, and developing a team of high-performing SDRs
- Driving outbound pipeline generation across multiple channels (cold calling, email, LinkedIn)
- Designing and refining outbound strategies to improve conversion rates
- Building and implementing scalable playbooks for prospecting, messaging, and qualification
- Owning tooling and data workflows (e.g. CRM, sequencing, enrichment tools)
- Partnering closely with Sales and Marketing to ensure pipeline quality and alignment
- Tracking and analysing performance metrics to identify bottlenecks and drive improvement
- Hiring and onboarding new SDRs as the team scales
This role offers strong progression into senior GTM leadership or AE as the business grows.
Experienced Required:
- 3+ years’ experience in B2B SaaS or AI sales, with a strong outbound focus
- Experience managing SDRs/BDRs (ideally 2–10 reps)
- Proven track record of generating pipeline through outbound activity
- Hands-on, player-coach mindset with a willingness to stay close to execution
- Strong understanding of modern sales tooling (e.g. HubSpot, Salesforce, Clay, Outreach, Salesloft)
- Data-driven and process-oriented approach to pipeline generation
- Experience in high-growth / VC-backed environments (Series A–C preferred)
- Strong communication and coaching ability
Desirable:
- Experience building outbound functions or teams from an early stage
- Exposure to enterprise sales environments
The Application Process:
- 30-minute introductory call
- 30-minute meeting with a senior leader/founder
- Final stage onsite interview (approx. 60 minutes)
Fast-moving process with flexibility depending on candidate availability.
Extra information
- Status
- Open
- Education Level
- Secondary School
- Location
- London Area
- Type of Contract
- Full-time jobs
- Published at
- 22-05-2026
- Profession type
- ICT
- Full UK/EU driving license preferred
- No
- Car Preferred
- No
- Must be eligible to work in the EU
- No
- Cover Letter Required
- No
- Languages
- English
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