Sales Development Representative

Avian; United States; On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base plus uncapped bonus

Career progression from SDR to closing

Direct access to SVP of Sales

Job summary

Avian is building its founding US sales team. You will be the first voice a prospect hears, starting conversations with plant managers and reliability leaders, and booking meetings to create pipeline for account executives.

You’ll own outbound calls, trade‑show follow‑ups, and qualification to hand off the next steps. You’ll write playbooks, track what works, and help ramp SDRs after you to closing roles.

Qualifications

• You are a hunter who goes after leads and doesn't quit.
• You thrive on phone conversations with plant managers and operations leaders.
• You can map target lists and prioritize who to contact before outreach.
• You're able to draft outreach and follow up with persistence.

Responsibilities

• The phones are your primary tool and you start conversations with people who did not ask to hear from you.
• You book meetings and support outreach with email and LinkedIn.
• You target plant managers, maintenance and reliability leaders, safety and operations buyers.
• You qualify pains quickly and brief the account executive with context for next steps.
• You play a key role at trade shows by line‑up meetings at the booth and following up after.

Skills

Hunter mentality

Phone sales

Prospecting

Communication

Discipline

Tools

HubSpot

ZoomInfo

Claude

Artisan

Job description

Fires and unplanned downtime cost industrial companies millions. We catch both before they happen. AVIAN's Swiss-engineered infrared cameras and AI monitoring detect abnormal heat inside industrial facilities at the point of inception. One signal does two jobs: it flags fire risk before a fire starts, and equipment wear before it becomes an unplanned shutdown.

Our system has already prevented thousands of fire events and saved millions of dollars in downtime prevented in live operations across wood processing, recycling, and paper. We are also driving into new, exciting verticals like data centers and battery storage facilities with our powerful, adaptable solution. Insurers are partnering with us, and the demand is real. What limits us is reach.

Thousands of US facilities carry the exact risk we were built to catch and have never heard our name, and inbound will never get to them.

You are joining our founding sales team in the US, reporting to the SVP of Sales. You are the first voice a prospect hears, and every meeting you book is pipeline our account executives did not have to build themselves.

What you'll own:

• The phones .
• Most of your day goes into starting conversations with people who did not ask to hear from you: plant managers, maintenance and reliability leaders, safety leaders, operations and executive buyers.
• You get them talking, you keep them talking, and you book the meeting. Email and LinkedIn support the calls, and you decide who to target and why before you reach out.
• Trade shows . Before every show, you work the attendee list to line up meetings at our booth. After, you follow up with everyone who stopped by while it is still warm. Trade shows are one of our best sources of pipeline.
• Qualification and handoff . You find out quickly whether the pain is serious, whether there is a reason to move now, and whether the person can make it happen. Then you brief the account executive: what hurts, who is involved, why now.
• Doors into sister sites . Many customers run several facilities. Once one plant is happy, you find the right people at the other sites and book the first conversation.

Your stack .

ZoomInfo to find the right companies and contacts, HubSpot to run outreach and keep the pipeline clean, and AI tools like Claude and Artisan to research an account and draft first-pass outreach in seconds. The tools do the grunt work. The judgment and the conversations are yours.

The playbook .

You write down what works and pass it on: the openers that land, the objections you learned to handle, the target lists that keep producing. The person who picks up the phone is rarely the person who signs, so you map the account and work toward the people who matter. The hook changes with the person, too. Some are terrified of a fire, others are sick of a line that keeps going down.

What success looks like in year one:

The meetings you book become pipeline, not calendar filler. The account executives trust what you hand them, because you qualify honestly instead of padding your numbers. You find a repeatable way to get plant managers on the phone and keep them there. You document what works, so the SDRs after you ramp faster.

Who you are:

• You're a hunter, and you don't quit . You go find leads instead of waiting for them. You hear no all day and dial again, and rejection doesn't stick to you. You're sharp on the phone . You can get a busy plant manager to give you two minutes, think on your feet when they push back, and sound like someone worth talking to.
• The phone is where you do your best work. You're naturally curious . You'll be calling people who run industrial operations. You don't need to know their world yet, but you have to want to understand it.
• You're competitive, coachable, and after the next seat . You keep score, you take feedback fast, and SDR is your way in rather than your ceiling. Do this well, and you will not be an SDR here for long. You're organized . Clean CRM (we run HubSpot), disciplined follow-up, nothing forgotten.
• You use AI as an edge . You already reach for tools like Claude to move faster, and you know when it helps and when to just pick up the phone. You might be coming from another SDR or BDR seat, inside sales, a call-heavy account or support role, recruiting, real estate, or hospitality. Anywhere you won people over by talking to them.

Bonus points if you've prospected into our core verticals (wood processing, recycling, paper) or built relationships with plant operators, safety leaders, or facilities teams that open doors.

What we offer:

• Compensation : competitive base plus uncapped variable tied to the meetings and pipeline you generate
• A path up : SDR is the on-ramp, not the destination, and the people who prove themselves here move into closing roles
• Access : you report to the SVP of Sales and work directly with our leadership team