Manager, Business Development

present of AI; Greater London; Remote; GBP 67,000 - 97,000; Full time

Job summary

Encord is hiring a sales team leader in London, San Francisco, and New York. The role blends coaching and hands-on sales leadership to drive AI data platform deals.

You will guide a team of early career sellers, mentor SDRs/BDRs, and manage pipeline metrics and ramp programs. A successful candidate has several years of B2B tech sales experience and a proven track record in hiring, onboarding, and scaling reps toward account executive roles.

Qualifications

• Leads a team of early career sellers.
• Coaches SDRs/BDRs to grow into account executive seats.
• Experience in B2B tech sales and pipeline management.
• Experience with hiring, onboarding, and ramping new reps.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of early career sellers.
• Oversee outbound prospecting at volume across listed cities.
• Drive hiring, onboarding, testing outreach and ramp plans.
• Help reps progress to account executive roles.

Skills

Team leadership

Coaching

B2B tech sales

Outbound prospecting

Job description

Sales · London / San Francisco / New York · Full-time · Mid level

This role leads a team of early career sellers who prospect for AI data platform deals. A strong candidate has several years of B2B tech sales plus a couple of years coaching SDRs or BDRs, and is comfortable in the details of calls, pipeline numbers and ramp plans. The job is part coach, part operator: hiring, onboarding, testing outreach, and helping reps grow into account executive seats.

How it fits the AI era

AI tools speed up prospecting, research and message testing, so the manager's job shifts toward judging quality and coaching judgment rather than volume alone. The human core stays the same: developing people, reading live deals, and building trust with technical buyers. Curiosity about AI and robotics helps because the customers are building physical AI systems.

How it builds AI experience

The role offers hands on exposure to how AI teams buy data infrastructure for robots, vehicles and sensors. A candidate can build AI experience by using AI tools in prospecting and coaching, and by learning the language of machine learning practitioners and data scientists. Understanding the company's data labeling and cleaning platform is the fastest way to speak credibly to those buyers.

Worth showing

• Coaching early career sellers
• Outbound prospecting at volume
• Hiring and ramp plans

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About Encord

A data platform that helps AI teams manage, label and clean the video, sensor and image data that trains robots, self-driving cars and other physical AI systems.