Business Development Representative (Bay Area, CA)

SV Academy; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free sales training

Paid residency

Health, dental, vision, and retirement

Job summary

SV Academy is hiring Sales Development Representatives in a full-time role. The program starts with free sales training, followed by a 90-day paid Residency embedded at a partner company. You will become part of SV Academy’s network and work toward a long-term sales position at one of 400+ partner companies.

Cohorts start weekly and are limited to 25 Residents. You’ll progress from training to residency and finally alignment with a partner’s payroll, with comprehensive benefits beginning at that

Qualifications

• Full-time availability during the 100-day program.
• Legal authorization to work in the country where this role is posted.
• Strong written and verbal English communication.
• Available for evening training sessions during the first 2 weeks.
• Located in or able to reliably commute to the partner site (Residency portion is hybrid).

Responsibilities

• Prospect via phone, email, and LinkedIn to qualify and schedule discovery meetings.
• Qualify inbound leads and pass qualified prospects to Account Executives.
• Embed at a partner company as a W-2 employee during the Residency period and receive daily coaching.

Skills

Outbound calls

Lead qualification

Coachable

Resilience

English proficiency

Tools

Salesforce

HubSpot

LinkedIn

Job description

You don’t pay us. We pay you.

SV Academy is hiring Sales Development Representatives. This is a full-time job that includes free sales training, a 90-day paid Residency at a partner company, and a clear path to a long-term sales role at one of our 400+ partner companies.

Cohorts beginevery weekand arelimited to 25 Residents.

Compensation

• Days 1–10 — Free sales training.No tuition, no fee, no debt. Live, instructor-led training on Zoom, Monday through Thursday, 6–9 pm (ET or PT).
• Days 11–100 — Paid Residency.$2,500/month base + 100% of the commissions you earn. You’ll be a W-2 employee of SV Academy, embedded at a partner company.
• Day 100 onward — Transfer to the partner’s payroll.$90k - $100kin total annual compensation (base + commission). Full health, dental, vision, and retirement benefits begin the day you transfer to the partner.

No tuition. No loans. No deferred-income agreement.

We’re paid out of the hiring budget the partner was already going to spend — which means our incentive is to make you successful in the role!

How the 100 Days Work

Days 1–10 — Free sales training.Ten days of live, instructor-led training. Monday through Thursday, 6–9 pm (ET or PT), on Zoom. No cost to you. You’ll learn the fundamentals of B2B sales: outbound calls, email and LinkedIn outreach, objection handling, qualification, CRM and sales engagement tools (Salesforce or HubSpot, Outreach or Salesloft, ZoomInfo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator).

Days 11–100 — Paid Residency at a partner company.You’ll work full-time at one of our partner companies as a W-2 employee of SV Academy. Real sales work: outbound prospecting via phone, email, and LinkedIn; qualifying inbound leads; scheduling discovery meetings for Account Executives. You’ll get daily coaching from an SV Academy mentor and from the partner’s sales leadership.

Day 100 — Transfer to the partner.Successful Residents transfer directly onto the partner’s payroll at the compensation above, with full benefits starting that day.

About SV Academy

Since 2017, we’ve placed more than6,000people into full-time tech sales careers and worked with400+ employer partnersacross SaaS, AI, fintech, cybersecurity, and other high-growth verticals.

Led by CEO Michael Colonnese, a 15+ year veteran of workforce development focused on building debt-free pathways into tech careers.

Our partners pay us. You don’t. That’s the entire business model.

Who Tends to Succeed Here

No prior sales experience required. We hire people who are:

• Competitive and motivated by clear goals
• Comfortable on the phone, including cold calls
• Coachable — you take feedback and act on it
• Resilient — sales involves rejection, and you can keep going
• Strong written and spoken communicators

If you’ve worked in retail, hospitality, customer service, fundraising, fitness instruction, teaching, or any role where you spent your day talking to people and meeting goals — you already have the foundation to be excellent at this.

Requirements

• Full-time availability during the 100-day program
• Legal authorization to work in the country where this role is posted
• Strong written and verbal English communication
• Available for evening training sessions during the first 2 weeks
• Located in or able to reliably commute to the partner site (the Residency portion is hybrid)

Required Qualifications:

• Full-time availability during the 100-day program
• Legal authorization to work in the country where this role is posted
• Strong written and verbal English communication
• Available for evening training sessions during the first 2 weeks
• Located in or able to reliably commute to the partner site (the Residency portion is hybrid)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a customer-facing role such as retail, hospitality, support, sales, fundraising, or recruiting
• Experience communicating with prospects or customers via phone and email in a professional context
• Comprehensive 2-week online bootcamp training
• Paid 3-month residency with an employer partner
• Remote work environment
• Exposure to leading technology companies and sales teams
• Professional development and mentorship opportunities
• Supportive community and network of peers