Sales Development Representative (AI First)

Anchor Fintech; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Anchor is hiring an AI-First SDR in Austin, TX. You’ll qualify inbound leads, drive outbound pipeline, and close smaller deals as you grow toward a full-cycle AE role.

You’ll work with AI to automate research, personalization, sequencing, and follow-up, and you’ll rely on CRM and AI analytics to optimize the sales motion. This is an energetic, fast-paced role on our founding sales team.

Qualifications

• 1–2+ years in sales development or SDR/BDR role.
• Proven outbound: cold calls, email, and LinkedIn multi-channel prospecting.
• Quota track record with measurable results.
• AI-first mindset with hands-on tool experience.
• Tech-savvy: configures own tools (CRM, sequencer, AI).
• Strong communicator with decision-makers.
• Education as stated or equivalent accounting/finance experience.
• Location: able to work EST, Central, MST, PST hours.

Responsibilities

• Qualify inbound leads and conduct discovery calls using AI-driven scoring and routing.
• Drive outbound pipeline via cold calls, emails, LinkedIn, and AI-powered sequences.
• Close small deals end-to-end as part of growth toward a full-cycle AE role.
• Run an AI-powered sales motion with AI-generated research, personalized emails, and AI-briefed prep.
• Generate leads at events and conferences.
• Collaborate with Marketing on demand gen and with AEs for handoffs.
• Track, analyze, and optimize using CRM and AI analytics.

Skills

Outbound prospecting

Multi-channel outreach

CRM proficiency

AI tools familiarity

Communication with decision-makers

Education

Bachelor's in Business, Accounting, or Finance

Tools

HubSpot

Avoma

Intercom

Job description

SDR \ BDR - (AI First)

Location: Austin, Texas (US)

Experience Level: Entry-level

Description

Anchor closed $40M in top-tier VC funding and grew 500% last year, transforming the $74B services payments market. Our platform automates billing and collections so businesses can focus on growth.

We're hiring an AI-First SDR as part of Anchor’s sales founding team. You’ll own inbound qualification, drive outbound pipeline, and close smaller deals - with a direct path to grow into a full-cycle AE role. AI isn’t your co-pilot here. It’s how you work. Your research is AI-generated, your outreach is AI-personalized, your prioritization is AI-driven. You orchestrate the motion, not the manual tasks.

Reporting to the Director of Sales. Entrepreneurial mindset. AI hands-on experience. Deeply tech-savvy- you configure and adopt tools yourself; you don’t wait for someone else to set them up. High-energy. Fast-paced. Hungry to grow.

The AI-First Mandate

At Anchor, AI isn’t something you use occasionally - it’s how you run your territory. You are expected to use AI to eliminate every manual, repetitive task in your workflow: research, personalization, sequencing, follow-up, call prep. If you’re still doing those things by hand, you’re doing it wrong. The expectation is that it will multiply the output of a traditional SDR - more prospects touched, better personalization, faster iteration - with the same hours because AI is doing the heavy lifting. The speed of AI adoption is a performance metric in this role.

Responsibility

• Qualify inbound leads. Conduct discovery calls and prioritize prospects using AI-driven scoring and routing.
• Drive outbound pipeline. Engage Anchor's target market through cold calls, emails, LinkedIn, and AI-powered outreach sequences. Hunter mentality.
• Close small deals. Own and close smaller opportunities end-to‑end as part of your development path toward a full-cycle AE role.
• Run an AI-powered sales motion. Your prospect research is AI-generated. Your emails are AI-personalized. Your call prep is AI-briefed. You use AI to do more per hour than a traditional SDR does in a day - and you can name the tools and workflows that make that true.
• Generate leads at events. Engage prospects at conferences and trade shows to convert interest into the pipeline.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing on demand gen and with AEs on smooth handoffs.
• Track, analyze, optimize. Use CRM and AI-driven analytics to manage the pipeline and improve your process continuously.

Requirements

• 1–2+ years in sales development, lead gen, or an SDR/BDR role
• Proven outbound: cold calling, email, and LinkedIn multi-channel prospecting. Not inbound-only.
• Quota track record: consistently meets or exceeds quota, with real numbers (meetings booked, pipeline sourced, percent to goal)
• AI-first, with receipts: can name specific AI tools, the workflows they built or automated, and the impact on their output
• Deeply tech-savvy: configures their own tools (CRM, sequencer, AI tools). Experience with HubSpot, Avoma, Intercom, or similar.
• Strong communicator: clear, confident, and credible with decision-makers such as firm owners, partners, and CFOs
• Education: Bachelor's in Business, Accounting, or Finance, or 2+ years of practical accounting, bookkeeping, or finance experience
• Location: able to work EST, Central, MST, PST hours

Extra

• Experience selling to service providers: accounting, bookkeeping, finance, billing, or payments
• Has closed small deals end-to‑end, or worked as a hybrid SDR/closer
• Has generated leads at conferences or trade shows
• Startup or founding-team experience, comfortable without a playbook
• Has built or shared an AI workflow that teammates adopted