Founding BDR — AI-Powered Outbound Pro (SF)

Hobbes

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 90,000 - 160,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Job summary

Hobbes in San Francisco is seeking its first in-house Founding BDR to drive outbound opportunities. You will pick up the phone, speak with prospects, and turn conversations into qualified pipeline using a power dialer and pre-built context.

The role is highly proactive and customer-facing, with a clear path to influence our early GTM strategy. You’ll work directly with our Founding GTM Lead,-starting around 7:30 a.m.

Qualifications

  • Previous SDR / BDR experience is a plus, but it isn’t the thing we’re optimizing for.
  • You want to become exceptional at outbound sales and help build an AI-first revenue organization from the beginning, we'd love to meet you.
  • We start calling around 7:30 a.m. Pacific so we can reach East Coast accounts during their morning.
  • This is a high-activity role. We'll give you a power dialer, great accounts to call, context on why you're calling them, and messaging to start with.

Responsibilities

  • Cold call prospects
  • Start conversations with executives and GTM leaders at B2B software companies
  • Turn cold calls into curiosity, meetings, and qualified sales opportunities
  • Own outbound prospects until they show up for their first sales conversation
  • Learn our buyers, their problems, and the Hobbes story incredibly well
  • Test different talk tracks, objections, hooks, and positioning
  • Give fast feedback on what's working and what isn't
  • Work directly with our Founding GTM Lead on new campaigns, target segments, and flagship accounts. If there's a campaign you're excited about, we'll use agents to build it out.

Job description

Hobbes in San Francisco is seeking its first in-house Founding BDR to drive outbound opportunities. You will pick up the phone, speak with prospects, and turn conversations into qualified pipeline using a power dialer and pre-built context.

The role is highly proactive and customer-facing, with a clear path to influence our early GTM strategy. You’ll work directly with our Founding GTM Lead,-starting around 7:30 a.m.

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