Director, Business Development

nightfall-ai; Stati Uniti; Remoto; USD 180.000 - 240.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Nightfall is hiring its founding Director of Business Development to build the SDR function from the ground up. You will design the outbound and inbound motion, hire and lead the SDR team, and define the metrics that show success.

You'll sit between marketing and sales, turning campaigns and inbound interest into meetings and pipelines with Enterprise and Commercial AEs. This builder role requires hands-on leadership, process design, and a focus on data-driven results for a remote US team.

Competenze

• Experience building SDR/BDR teams at B2B SaaS startups.
• Several years leading SDR/BDR teams, including hiring, ramping and coaching.
• Experience selling to security or IT buyers (CISOs and security teams).
• Track record owning meetings, opportunities and pipeline targets.
• Experience running outbound and inbound motions and prioritizing between them.
• Collaboration with marketing on campaigns and messaging.
• Defined SDR-to-AE handoff standards trusted by AEs.
• Fluency in Salesforce and a sequencing tool (Outreach or Salesloft).
• AI-forward mindset using Claude or similar tools.

Mansioni

• Build the SDR team; recruit, onboard and ramp first SDRs.
• Design outbound motion; define target accounts, sequences and cadence.
• Own inbound follow-up with speed-to-lead and routing standards.
• Define success metrics; report on activity, meetings and pipeline.
• Handoff standards between SDRs and AEs; ensure quality meetings.
• Partner with marketing on campaigns, messaging and lead scoring.
• Align SDRs to Enterprise/Commercial AEs and channel partners.
• Coach, 1:1s and career paths from SDR to AE.
• Own SDR tooling, data and Salesforce reporting; contribute to comp plan.
• Work AI-forward; use Claude to speed up research and list-building.

Conoscenze

SDR team leadership

B2B SaaS experience

Outbound & inbound motion

Salesforce proficiency

Outreach / Salesloft

Security/IT buyers experience

Channel partners experience

Data-driven reporting

AI-forward tools

Strumenti

Salesforce

Outreach

Salesloft

Descrizione del lavoro

About Nightfall

Nightfall is the AI-native, unified data loss prevention and insider risk management platform that protects sensitive data across SaaS apps, GenAI tools, email, endpoint devices, and more. Hundreds of customers, spanning AI innovators to top 10 banks, trust Nightfall to detect and stop data exfiltration at scale. Nightfall enables organizations to innovate freely without the risks of losing intellectual property or exposing customer data. Our agentic platform helps security teams regain their time by putting data loss prevention on autopilot. With automatic remediation, security violations can be resolved automatically before they become incidents, and end-users can be automatically trained and coached in the moment to self-heal violations that they introduce.

Nightfall is backed by leading VC firms including Bain Capital Ventures (Enrique Salem - former CEO of Symantec), Venrock (early investors in Cloudflare), WestBridge Capital, Pear VC (early investors in Dropbox and Doordash), and a cadre of cybersecurity leaders including Frederic Kerrest (founder of Okta), Maynard Webb (former COO of eBay), Ryan Carlson (President of Chainguard), Kevin Mandia (founder of Mandiant), and many others.

About the role

We're hiring our founding Director of Business Development to build Nightfall's sales development function from the ground up. You'll design the outbound and inbound motion, hire and lead the SDR team, and define the metrics that tell us whether it's working.

You'll sit between marketing and sales. You'll work with marketing to turn campaigns and inbound interest into meetings, and with our Enterprise and Commercial AEs to put qualified meetings on their calendars that turn into real pipeline.

This is a builder role. There's no playbook to inherit: you'll set the team structure, hiring plan, qualification standards and operating rhythm, and you'll be hands-on while the team gets off the ground.

Team: Sales

Reports to: Chief Revenue Officer

Location: United States (remote)

Travel: [ADD: travel %]

What you'll do

• Build the SDR team. Design the hiring plan, and recruit, onboard and ramp Nightfall's first SDRs.
• Design the outbound motion. Define target accounts and personas with sales leadership, build account tiering, sequences and multi-channel plays, and set the weekly operating rhythm.
• Own inbound follow-up. Set speed-to-lead and routing standards with marketing so every hand-raiser gets a fast, relevant response and the right ones become meetings.
• Define what success looks like. Set the metrics for the function, from activity and meetings held to qualified opportunities, pipeline and conversion, and report on them to sales leadership.
• Set qualification and handoff standards. Agree with AEs on what a qualified meeting is, how it's handed off, and how its quality is scored, so meetings turn into opportunities.
• Partner with marketing. Work with growth and field marketing on campaign follow-up, messaging, lead scoring and event outreach, and feed what you hear from the market back into campaigns.
• Partner with the field. Align SDRs to Enterprise and Commercial AEs and to our channel partners, and work target accounts together.
• Coach and develop. Run call reviews, messaging feedback and 1:1s, and build a career path from SDR to AE.
• Build the operating foundation. Own SDR tooling, data and reporting in Salesforce and our sequencing tools, working with RevOps, and propose the SDR comp plan.
• Work AI-forward. Use tools like Claude to speed up account research, personalization, list building and reporting, and teach the team to do the same.

What you'll bring

• You've built an SDR or BDR team from the ground up, or led one through a major rebuild, at a B2B SaaS startup.
• Several years leading SDR or BDR teams, including hiring, ramping and coaching reps, and promoting them into AE roles.
• Experience selling into security or IT buyers, ideally CISOs and security teams at mid-market and enterprise companies.
• A track record of owning meetings, qualified opportunities and pipeline targets, with numbers you can walk us through.
• You've run both outbound and inbound motions and know how to prioritize between them.
• You've worked closely with marketing on campaigns, messaging and lead conversion.
• You've set qualification standards and SDR-to-AE handoff processes that AEs trusted.
• Fluency in Salesforce and a sequencing tool such as Outreach or Salesloft, and comfort building your own reports.
• You're AI-forward and already use tools like Claude or similar to automate and accelerate your work.

Bonus points

• Experience in data security, DLP or an adjacent security category.
• Experience working with channel partners or resellers on joint pipeline. We're a channel-first company.
• You've built an SDR comp plan or a sales development career ladder.

How success is measured

30 days: Learn our buyers, product and sales motion. Meet the AEs, marketing and channel teams, and audi