Sales Development Manager, San Francisco

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
Artificial Intelligence • Other • Sales • Software
The Role
Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage by unlocking the true potential of the contact center. Our platform combines the best of AI and human intelligence to help contact centers discover customer insights and behavioral best practices, automate conversations and inefficient processes, and empower every team member to work smarter and faster. Born from the prestigious Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun, the genius behind Google X, Waymo, Udacity, and more. Our leadership also includes CEO, Ping Wu, the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platform, and CTO & co-founder, Tim Shi, an early member of Open AI.
 
We’ve assembled a world-class team of AI and ML experts, go-to-market leaders, and top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Sequoia, and former AT&T CEO John Donovan. Our valued customers include brands like Intuit, Cox Communications, Hilton, and Carmax and we’ve been recognized by Forbes and Bain Consulting as one of the top private AI companies in the world.
 
Join us on this thrilling journey to revolutionize the workforce with AI. The future of work is here, and it's at Cresta.

About the role:

As Cresta’s newest Sales Development Manager, your focus is on building, coaching, and inspiring a world-class team of 6+ SDRs tasked to creatively prospect into key accounts. 
You will strategically implement repeatable processes, evolve the SDR playbook, and take full ownership of pipeline targets while cultivating a team culture of creativity, growth, and accountability. 
 
You’ll form deep partnerships with Marketing, Sales, and RevOps to accelerate growth across inbound and outbound channels, taking the SDR program to new heights.
 
This hybrid role is based in San Francisco, requiring two days per week in our office.
Address: 332 Pine floor 6 San Francisco, 94104
 
Responsibilities: 
  • Hire, onboard, and develop exceptional SDR talent 
  • Build & iterate on a data-driven Outbound & Inbound strategy
  • Foster a winning culture of high accountability and performance
  • Motivate the team through lucrative incentives and contests
  • Uplevel SDRs and help them grow into our future AEs and managers
  • Report on SDR KPIs to ensure that KPIs and SLAs are hit daily
  • Partner cross-functionally with Marketing, Revenue Operations, and Sales on key initiatives

Qualifications We Value:

  • 2+ years of sales / SDR leadership experience in a high-growth technology company
  • Located in the San Francisco Bay Area and willing to commute to the office 2-3x per week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday)
  • Deep understanding of modern SDR processes and tools such as Outreach, Gong, LinkedIn Sales Nav, 6sense, and Zoominfo
  • Experience executing an outbound multichannel strategy
  • Consistent track record of exceeding quota while both leading a team and as an individual contributor
  • Strong analytical experience with experience managing pipeline goals and forecasting

Perks & Benefits: 

  • We offer Cresta employees a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs
  • Flexible vacation time to promote a healthy work-life blend
  • Paid parental leave to support you and your family
  • Monthly Gym & Phone allowance
  • Work from home office stipend to help you succeed in a remote environment
  • Lunches and dinners included for in-office employees via Grubhub

Compensation at Cresta:

Cresta’s approach to compensation is simple: recognize impact, reward excellence, and invest in our people. We offer competitive, location-based pay that reflects the market and what each individual brings to the table.

The posted salary range represents what we expect to pay for this role in a given location. Final offers are shaped by factors like experience, skills, education, and geography. In addition to base pay, total compensation includes equity and a comprehensive benefits package for you and your family.

This role is variable target compensation eligible. There is potential to exceed target earnings when goals are surpassed.  

OTE Range: $157,000- $185,000 + Offers Equity

We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored.  If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to [email protected] 

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
112 Employees
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Cresta is for sales and customer service teams who need to close the performance gap between their top performers and the rest. Our real-time expertise AI helps contact center agents unlock their full potential by uncovering expert behaviors from every customer conversation and amplifies them with real-time assistance and coaching. By nudging best practices around objection responses, expectation setting, troubleshooting, and more: Cresta supercharges agents to focus on what really matters; their customer interactions. Cresta brings together industry-leading AI experts, proven leadership, and top-tier investors including Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Andy Bechtolsheim, Mark Leslie and Vivi Nevo.

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