Sales Development Representative (SDR)

Grounded RV; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Grounded, a Detroit-based startup, is hiring an SDR to build the top of our sales funnel for modular electric vehicle platforms across diverse verticals. This early role involves creating the playbook, identifying target personas, and turning cold outreach into qualified opportunities for account managers.

You will own outbound prospecting, multi-channel outreach, qualify inbound interest, book meetings, and keep HubSpot CRM clean while learning the product and buyers to speak credibly to

Qualifications

• 1–3 years in an SDR/BDR or similar outbound sales role, ideally B2B.
• Comfortable with cold outreach and rejection; persistent and resilient.
• Strong written and verbal communication; tailored pitching to varied buyers.
• Organized and self-directed; capable of building process where none exists.
• Interested in growing into a closing role; startup experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own outbound prospecting: research, identify, and reach out to potential customers.
• Run multi-channel outreach (email, calls, LinkedIn) and qualify inbound interest.
• Book qualified meetings and hand them off to account managers.
• Learn the product and verticals to credibly engage diverse buyers.
• Build and refine the outbound playbook and track what works.
• Keep CRM data clean and report on pipeline (HubSpot).

Skills

Outbound prospecting

Multi-channel outreach

CRM (HubSpot)

Communication

B2B sales

Tools

HubSpot CRM

Job description

Sales Development Representative (SDR) — Grounded

Detroit, MI (in-person)

About Grounded

Grounded is a 25-person Detroit-based startup building modular electric platforms for specialty vehicles. We take cab chassis from OEMs like Ford and Harbinger and build configurable vehicle systems on top, serving mobile healthcare, RVs, command centers, food and beverage, pet care, and more. Our customers include Colgate, Nokia, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, and Portland PD. We’ve raised ~$5M in VC funding and are shipping vehicles in market today.

We also build our own software: a mobile app, fleet dashboard, and onboard computer system that lets customers monitor and control vehicle systems remotely. We design, fabricate, and assemble everything in-house at our facility in Corktown.

The Role

We’re hiring our SDR to build the top of Grounded’s sales funnel. We sell modular electric vehicles across wildly different verticals — mobile healthcare, RVs, command centers, food and beverage, pet care, and more — to customers ranging from startups to enterprises like Colgate and Nokia. Your job is to find and start conversations with the next wave of them.

This is an early, build-it-from-scratch role. You won’t inherit a polished playbook — you’ll help create it: figuring out which verticals and personas to target, what messaging lands, and how to turn cold outreach into qualified opportunities for our account managers.

What you’d actually do

• Own outbound prospecting: research, identify, and reach out to potential customers across our verticals

• Run multi-channel outreach (email, calls, LinkedIn) and qualify inbound interest

• Book qualified meetings and hand them off cleanly to account managers

• Learn the product and the verticals well enough to speak credibly to very different buyers

• Build and refine the outbound playbook — messaging, sequences, target lists — and track what works

• Keep CRM data clean and report on pipeline (we use HubSpot)

What we’re looking for

• 1–3 years in an SDR/BDR or similar outbound sales role, ideally B2B

• Genuinely comfortable with cold outreach and hearing “no” — persistent and resilient

• Strong written and verbal communication; you can tailor a pitch to a hospital, a police department, and a coffee brand

• Organized and self-directed; you can build process where none exists

• Hungry to grow into a closing role

• Startup experience a plus

Nice-to-haves

• Experience selling a physical or technical product, or selling into fleets

• Familiarity with HubSpot or similar CRM and outbound tooling

• Interest in EVs, vehicles, or hardware

Compensation

• Competitive base salary + meaningful equity in Grounded + comprehensive health insurance

Why this role is different

Most SDR roles have you reading a script someone else wrote, selling one thing to one type of buyer. Here you’ll prospect across a dozen industries for a product people actually get excited about, help build the sales motion from the ground up, and have a clear path to grow as the team scales — working directly with leadership in the room where the playbook gets made.