Sales Development Representative

Wisq Inc; Redwood City (CA); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Wisq Inc. in Redwood City, CA is seeking a Sales Development Representative to own the top of our pipeline. You'll qualify inbound interest, run structured outbound into high-fit accounts, and set up meetings for Account Executives.

This full-cycle role partners with Marketing and Sales, uses AI tooling to research accounts and draft outreach, and emphasizes quality conversations over volume.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years SDR/BDR or similar customer-facing experience; new grads welcome.
• Sharp written and verbal communication skills.
• Resilience and competitive drive.
• Ownership mentality: own pipeline and results.
• Curiosity about AI and HR tech space.
• Comfort with CRM tools and AI research/drafting tools.
• Autonomy and self-motivation in a Series A environment.

Responsibilities

• Outbound prospecting: multi-channel outreach to core ICP.
• Inbound qualification: quick response, discovery, booking qualified meetings.
• Prioritize meeting quality and protect AE's time.
• CRM hygiene: keep HubSpot accurate and current.
• AI-assisted workflow: research accounts and personalize outreach at scale.
• Coaching and iteration: learn from Gong calls and market feedback.
• Cross-functional partnership with GTM Engineer, product marketing, and demand gen.
• Represent Wisq at industry events and conferences.

Skills

Outbound prospecting

CRM familiarity

Written communication

Verbal communication

Ownership mentality

Autonomy

Curiosity about AI/HR tech

Tools

HubSpot

AI drafting tools

Job description

About this position

About Wisq Inc

People are the most important part of any company. But HR, the function responsible for supporting them, is often buried in cases, conversations, and coordination work that never ends. We're changing that.

Wisq is the AI platform for HR. We built Harper, the world's first AI HR teammate, designed to handle the time-consuming, complex work that has historically consumed HR teams: job changes, performance concerns, leaves of absence, onboarding, and employee relations issues. Harper handles full cases end-to-end, giving HR the capacity and strategic bandwidth to focus on the work that develops their people and moves the business forward.

We're not a first-time team. Our founders previously built and led Glint, the leader in employee engagement software, through its acquisition by LinkedIn and Microsoft in 2018. We've done this before, and we're doing it again in a category that’s bigger, earlier, and more ready for disruption.

Wisq has raised $55M from Norwest Venture Partners, True Ventures, and Shasta Ventures. We're Series A, growing fast, and building the kind of team where the work you do now will be visible for years.

About the role

Location: Redwood City, CA (Hybrid)

Team: Marketing, reporting to VP of Marketing, in close partnership with Sales

We're looking for a Sales Development Representative to own the top of our pipeline. You'll be the first conversation most prospects have with Wisq — qualifying inbound interest, running structured outbound into our highest-fit accounts, and setting up meetings that our Account Executives are excited to take.

This is a full-cycle, pipeline-generating seat. You'll partner closely with the Marketing team to understand what's driving demand and with Sales to understand what makes a meeting worth having, and you'll use both to get better results every week. You'll also have real AI tooling at your fingertips, from account research to sequence drafting to outreach, so your time goes toward judgment and conversations, not busywork.

What you'll do

• Outbound prospecting. Build and run multi-channel outbound (email, phone, LinkedIn, etc.) into our core ICP
• Inbound qualification. Respond quickly to inbound leads, run effective discovery, and convert genuine interest into qualified meetings for the AE team.
• Meeting quality, not just meeting volume. Own your qualification criteria and hold the line on it. A great SDR will protect the AE team's time as much as they fill their calendar.
• CRM hygiene. Keep HubSpot accurate and current — activity, notes, qualification detail — so Marketing and Sales can trust the pipeline data downstream.
• AI-assisted workflow. Use our prospecting and enrichment tooling to research accounts, personalize outreach at scale, and create a feedback loop that helps us keep getting better.
• Coaching and iteration. Review your own calls in Gong, take coaching seriously, and bring back what you're hearing from the market — objections, language, competitive mentions — to Marketing and Sales.
• Cross-functional partnership. Work directly with our GTM Engineer, product marketing, and demand gen team on account lists, targeting criteria, and campaign follow-up, and with AEs on handoff quality and continuous improvement.
• Event and conference presence. Represent Wisq at industry conferences and field events, working the floor, working the room, and engaging senior HR executives face to face.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of SDR, BDR, or other customer-facing experience. New grads with strong internship or sales experience are welcome to apply.
• Sharp written and verbal communication skills, and comfort picking up the phone.
• Resilience and a competitive drive to win. You treat a "no" as a data point, not a setback.
• An ownership mentality. You treat your pipeline and your number as yours to run, and you hold yourself accountable for the results, not just the activity.
• Curiosity about the AI and HR tech space and discipline to learn the product deeply.
• Comfort working with CRM tools (HubSpot experience a plus) and AI tools for research and drafting.
• An ownership mentality. You see AEs and Marketing as partners, not just people you hand things off to.
• High autonomy and self-motivation. You experiment, test new angles without being told to, notice what's not working, and fix it or flag it rather than waiting for direction.
• Comfort working fast in a Series A environment where process is still being built, not inherited.