Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $275B in annualized spend flows in and out of 85,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books.
The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving.
We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome.
The median Ramp customer saves 7.5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same.
If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it.
About the RoleAs a founding Sales Development Representative in the Public Sector, you will be on our first SDR team focused exclusively on building Ramp’s presence in the Public Sector market. This is an individual contributor role with a clear and primary focus: sourcing high-value deals. Our world-class sales organization is looking for self-motivated teammates with high social intelligence and a natural inclination for selling to accelerate our growth as we scale rapidly! Individuals who are eager to learn, embrace challenges, and passionate about succeeding will thrive at Ramp. Our SDRs act as the initial point of contact and are responsible for hunting and qualifying leads to build sales opportunities for the team while working closely with leadership to refine our approach to this new market. You’ll work closely with C-level executives, finance leaders, and decision-makers to bring Ramp’s value proposition to life, while partnering internally with leadership, product, marketing, and operations to ensure success in the Public Sector.
What You’ll Do
Source new Public Sector opportunities through outbound outreach
Qualify prospects through consultative selling while leveraging BANT criteria
Grow top of sales funnel through warm and cold outbound campaigns
Research companies and add prospects to our outbound list
Maintain accurate client relationship data within Salesforce
What You Need
Experience working directly in the Public Sector/SLED space
Strong written and verbal communication skills; Excellent listening skills and energetic phone presence
High level of comfort with sales, prospecting and marketing tools & processes
Dedication to tracking and improving performance and efficiency on a daily basis
Deep interest in understanding business challenges
Sense of entrepreneurship: a self-starter with a high sense of urgency and ability to work within undefined processes
Nice to Haves
Prior experience with customer-facing and/or sales roles
Prior CRM experience (preferably Salesforce)
Experience with financial services sales
Experience at a high-growth startup
Ability to understand financial services
Bachelor’s degree from a four-year university
For candidates located in NYC or SF, the pay range for this role is $76,000 - $104,500. For candidates located in all other locations, the pay range for this role is $68,000 - $93,500
Benefits available to all full-time Ramp employees (Global)Flexible PTO
Centralized home-office equipment ordering
Health and wellness stipend
Budget for intra-office travel
Weekly coffee stipend
100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you, with partial coverage for dependents
One Medical annual membership
401(k), including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp
Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)
Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay
Pet insurance
In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more
Relocation expense coverage to NYC or SF (if needed)
Group medical, dental, and vision coverage through Sun Life
Life, AD&D, and disability coverage
Fertility drug coverage (up to $4,000 lifetime)
Group Retirement Plan with employer match (RRSP + DPSP)
Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay, with additional time available at reduced pay
Employee Assistance Program and virtual care through Lumino Health
Private medical insurance through Freedom Elite
Virtual GP and at-home care via eMed x Livi
Workplace pension through Penfold, with salary sacrifice option
Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay with additional time available at reduced pay
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Skills Required
- Experience working directly in the public sector or SLED space
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent listening skills and energetic phone presence
- Comfort with sales, prospecting, and marketing tools and processes
- Dedication to tracking and improving performance and efficiency daily
- Strong interest in understanding business challenges
- Entrepreneurial self-starter with urgency and ability to work within undefined processes
- Prior customer-facing or sales experience
- Prior CRM experience, preferably Salesforce
- Experience with financial services sales
- Experience at a high-growth startup
- Ability to understand financial services
- Bachelor's degree from a four-year university
Ramp Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Ramp and has not been reviewed or approved by Ramp.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Fair & Transparent Compensation: Pay is positioned as competitive or top-of-market in core technical roles, with strong base pay and total compensation ranges cited for engineers and product roles. Compensation is also framed as including meaningful equity alongside salary, making offers feel compelling versus many startup benchmarks.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare Strength: Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, often including medical, dental, and vision, with additional primary-care access via a One Medical membership. The package is portrayed as above-average on employer coverage for employees, increasing perceived value of the benefits bundle.
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Retirement Support — Retirement Support: A 401(k) with an employer match is consistently included as a core benefit. Immediate or meaningful matching is presented as a concrete financial benefit that goes beyond a basic plan offering.
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What We Do
Ramp is building the next generation of finance tools—from corporate cards and expense management, to bill payments and accounting integrations—designed to save businesses time and money with every click. More than 10,000 customers cut their expenses by 3.5% per year and closing their books 8x faster by switching to the Ramp platform. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment software in America and enables billions of dollars of purchases each year. Ramp continues to grow at an increasingly large scale, more than doubling its revenue run rate in the first half of 2022. Valued at $8.1 billion, Ramp's investors include Founders Fund, Stripe, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Coatue Management, D1 Capital Partners, Redpoint Ventures, General Catalyst, and Thrive Capital, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart. Ramp was named Fast Company’s most innovative finance company in 2022.
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