Company
Hellyeah AI
Annual salary
$78k – $130k/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Listed
17d ago
- Experience:
- 1 to 2 years
- Workplace:
- 5 days in-office in California Street (near Chinatown), San Francisco
- Equity:
- Competitive equity
On-site in San Francisco, CA.
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About this Role
Hellyeah is hiring its first SDR. You'll own the top of the funnel: picking the right accounts, opening the conversation, and putting qualified meetings on the calendar for a four-person sales team that sells performance marketing to venture-backed AI and consumer app companies.This is a build role. You'll run the first real version of our outbound motion, then document it so the people we hire after you ramp in weeks.
What you'll do
- Own outbound (70% of your week). Build the target account list, map the buying committee (usually a growth lead, a head of UA, or a founder who still runs ads themselves), and run multichannel sequences across email, LinkedIn, and phone. Target: [X] qualified meetings per week.
- Qualify inbound (20%). Leads come in from our own paid media and B2B campaigns. You respond inside 24 hours, score them against real spend and fit criteria, and route them to the right AE or to nurture.
- Work the room (10%). SF is the densest market for our buyers. Tech Week, Disrupt, and smaller AI meetups are on your calendar. You leave with named prospects and booked follow-ups.
- Run the tooling. AI research, enrichment, and outreach tools are part of the daily motion, and you'll be one of the first internal users of the automation our product team builds. What breaks in your workflow goes straight back to them.
- Write the playbook. Sequences, objections, and the signals that predict a good account get documented as you find them. The playbook is a deliverable of this role, not a side effect.
What you need
- 1-2 years as an SDR or BDR, or a year of cold outreach somewhere else where you can show the numbers
- Comfortable cold calling, and you'd rather pick up the phone than wait on a reply
- You can already explain CPA, ROAS, and a conversion event, or you can learn it inside two weeks and show us
- You write short, specific emails in your own voice
- Based in the Bay Area, in office 5 days a week
- You treat a "no" as data and keep the volume up the next morning
Nice to have
- Sold into growth, marketing, or user-acquisition teams
- Agency or adtech background
Your first 90 days
Day 30 - ICP and messaging tested across your first 100 accounts. First meetings booked.
Day 60 - Hitting the weekly meeting target consistently. Owning your own list build end to end.
Day 90 - A documented sequence library and a defensible point of view on which segments convert.
How you're measured
Qualified meetings booked and held, pipeline generated, inbound response time, and how fast the playbook gets usable for the next hire. Promotion to a team lead seat is tied to those numbers plus a hire you've helped ramp.
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