Founding Sales Development Manager (SDR Manager)
Revenue
New York, New York
Full Time
Why Peerbound
Every B2B buyer wants to hear from a company's current customers before making a buying decision. As AI makes every market 10x more competitive, a company's ability to unlock and activate the voices of its happy customers isn't just a nice-to-have; it's the only moat. Peerbound makes this possible at scale.
Today, we do this for leading B2B SaaS companies like AlphaSense, Braze, Canva, Databricks, G2, Gong, and more. We have the rare opportunity to disrupt not just multiple old-school software vendors, but entire categories of software, services, and labor.
Our core values are Dazzle Customers, Deliver Results, and Demand Excellence. We recruit people with a demonstrated track record of excellence and give them the room to do the best work of their lives. If this sounds like the environment where you do your best work, we invite you to build with us.
We are proud to be an NYC company, working hard in-person at our office near Penn Station. Our founders helped build Braze and Datadog, two of the city's biggest IPOs, and we're backed by the venture investors behind Square, Instacart, Airtable, and Webflow.
Why Now
We spent two years earning product-market fit the hard way: 35+ enterprise customers who pay us real money and keep doubling down. We have 4+ years of runway, and we are stepping on the gas.
The product wows on the first demo, the ICP is clear, and every GTM leader we talk to feels the pain we solve. We now need to take more shots that are on goal. We are looking for a leader who can build a disciplined outbound engine, develop a high-performing SDR team, and consistently turn targeted conversations into a real pipeline.
Our sales function is up and running, and we are ready to build the outbound capabilities around them. This is a founding role: the playbook is still being written, the territory is wide open, and you'll have a direct hand in shaping how Peerbound generates pipeline.
What You'll Do
You'll build and lead the outbound SDR function from the ground up, reporting directly to our CEO and working closely with our founding AEs and our Head of Marketing. This is not a role where you inherit a mature team and a finished process. This is a role where you build both from scratch, with qualified meetings booked as your north star metric. The right person is both a thoughtful people manager and a hard-nosed business leader.
Scale the outbound engine. Drive the prospecting strategy and daily execution that generates a qualified pipeline for our AEs. Build and continuously improve sequences, cadences, targeting, and qualification framework that power the function. Partner closely with Marketing and AEs to sharpen messaging, improve campaigns, and turn buyer feedback into a stronger GTM strategy.
Build and lead the SDR team. Hire, onboard, and develop a team of SDRs. Coach through outreach reviews, live feedback, and incentives. Run the 1:1s and the ramp plans that turn ambitious early-career reps into disciplined, high-performing sellers.
Own performance and forecasting. Track, analyze, and report on team and individual performance against goals. Manage the leading indicators: activity, connects, show rates, pipeline quality, and intervene early when the numbers move the wrong way. You'll own the numbers and know exactly what's driving them.
Who You Are
Required: 4+ years of SDR experience and 1+ years leading SDR teams in B2B SaaS. You've carried a team pipeline number and hit it, and you know the difference between managing activity and driving real, qualified opportunities.
We believe the best managers love the work, which means you can still write a killer cold email that books the meeting, and you can show a brand-new SDR how to do it. You know how to hire for potential, coach for output, and manage for accountability. You've built the sequences, the cadences, and the process where none existed, and you get energy from ambiguity.
You're obsessed with developing people. You take pride in turning green reps into closers, and you are passionate about developing Peerbound's future AEs and sales leaders.
Beyond the resume: you're high-output, low-ego, and competitive in the way that makes everyone around you better.
You are excited to work in person in our Midtown Manhattan office five days per week.
Compensation
$180K to $210K OTE ($120K to 140K base plus 50% variable bonus).
Meaningful equity and benefits (medical + vision + dental, and 401K). In-person 5 days a week in our NYC office near Penn Station.
Note from the CEO
This company represents my life's work. I've been part of two IPOs, and I want to build the kind of company at Peerbound where working here marks an inflection point in everyone's career, and leads to the kind of bonds that last a lifetime.
The person who takes this role will build the outbound machine that drives our growth. I'll work closely with you. I'll teach you everything I know about how we sell, and you’ll have the resources and freedom to build the team the right way.
If you’re excited about building a team, if you get energy from ambiguity, and if you want to get in on the ground floor of a company where your work matters deeply, let's talk.
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