Sales Development Representative

Take your Tech Sales Career to the next level with a Financial Technology Leader

SV Academy has partnered with an exciting Financial Technology company that offers SaaS companies a completely different approach to their payments infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, our partner is a Merchant of Record for their customers that takes away 100% of the pain of payments fragmentation.

They’re backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North and serve over 3000 software sellers in 245 territories globally.

About SV Academy

This opportunity includes:

• Two weeks of immersive sales training

• 12-week, full-time, paid SDR Residency with a high-growth employer partner

• Real-world sales experience, mentorship, and coaching

• Fully-remote work schedule, with occasional travel to the company’s Austin HQ for team meetings

About The Role :

Our partner is looking for a smart, ambitious, and autonomous Business Development Representative to help fuel their next stage of hyper-growth.

As a BDR in their Business Development team, you will be the first point of contact for all of the company’s sales efforts. You’ll create demand, spark meaningful conversations, and build early relationships that turn into qualified pipeline to arm your counterparts on the Account Executive team. Your core tasks will involve researching, prospecting, prioritizing accounts, educating prospects, and converting interest into high-quality meetings..

What You'll Do:

• Quickly develop a deep understanding of our partner’s Ideal Customer Profile, core use cases, and value propositions to target the best-fit companies.

• Own and properly manage a healthy territory of high-fit accounts.

• Proactively generate conversations and effectively showcase their products across all channels: LinkedIn, cold calling, email, video, and region-specific channels (WhatsApp, WeChat, etc.).

• Convert these meaningful engagements into qualified opportunities for their Account Executive team.

• Partner with the marketing department to collaborate on in-person and virtual events to generate demand.

• Use modern tools, including AI-powered workflows, to work smarter, personalise outreach, and improve performance.

• Manage and prioritise your time to consistently meet and exceed your targets.

• Bring a winner’s mindset and high-performance attitude to the team every day.

Our partner would love to meet candidates who have/are:

• Experience in a previous Sales / Business Development role as part of a SaaS or B2B company, and are always happy to proactively engage new customers through email and phone.

• Coachability, accountability, and consistency in your efforts to develop knowledge and results.

• A consultative and human sales approach that acknowledges that every conversation is different.

• Performance-driven, competitive, and energised by hitting and surpassing targets.