This is an entry-level Sales Development role in our NYC office (on-site 5 days a week), designed to give you a full understanding of the business from the ground up. You’ll start in a client-facing position, helping scale Traba and unlock new revenue opportunities, with the goal of promoting into a leadership role or moving cross-functionally over time. You don’t need to be passionate about a long-term career in sales — but you do need to be excited about Traba’s mission, embrace spending at least a year in sales, and be deeply curious about understanding our customers.
More About Us:
Traba is building a world where the global supply chain operates at peak efficiency. We are a technology company that enhances the productivity and potential of the industrial supply chain by connecting businesses with reliable workers. We leverage location monitoring, predictive algorithms, machine learning, AI, computer vision, and other advanced technologies to drive an unparalleled customer experience. Our mission is to empower both businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential. We’re proud to be backed by some of the world’s best investors, including Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst.
About You:
First and foremost we are seeking someone who is enthusiastic, excited about start-ups, and eager for a chance to grow. We are looking for people who want to help us build something special
Entrepreneurial – You have a bias towards action, an ownership mentality and are able to thrive in a fast-paced, constantly changing work environment.
Ambitious - You are always pushing yourself to be the best that you can be. You want to work at a company that will be bigger than Uber/Doordash/Airbnb.
Gritty - Willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever it takes to hit your goals; you persevere when others fall away. Like all Traba employees, you are willing to make sacrifices and go the extra mile every day in order to build something great.
A Relationship-builder – You can make friends with a brick wall and know how to develop long term partnerships. You represent Traba’s brand externally with clients and the community.
A reader - you love a good job description and have even read this bullet point and laughed a little - but also have done your research into who Traba is.
New grad up to 2 years of experience
Key Responsibilities:
Research and identify potential clients, understanding their business needs.
Engage with prospects via cold calling, emails, and social media, introducing them to Traba’s innovative solutions.
Qualify leads and coordinate with the sales team to schedule meetings or presentations.
Work closely with the sales and marketing teams to develop and refine lead generation strategies.
Keep accurate records of customer interactions and transactions, recording details of inquiries, comments, and complaints.
Benefits:
💸 Uncapped commissions and ability to far exceed OTE
📈 Start-up equity
💰 Competitive Salary
🩺 100% Paid health, dental & vision coverage
🍽️ Dinner Provided via DoorDash, free DashPass & stocked kitchen for NY employees
🚍 Commuter benefit
🏋🏽 Gympass Benefit
✚✚ Additional: One Medical Membership, Gympass, HSA via Optum, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teledoc Health
Compensation: $85,000 OTE ($65,000 base + $20,000 uncapped variable at 100% quota) + equity
Equal Opportunity EmployerTraba is dedicated to promoting Equal Opportunity employment practices. We evaluate all applicants without discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristics that are legally protected by local, state, or federal regulations. We encourage applicants from a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skill sets.
Our ValuesDream Big - We are on a path to change the world for the better. We create and communicate a bold direction that inspires a life-changing vision. We don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results.
Olympian’s Work Ethic - Changing the world never comes easy. We work harder, longer, and smarter, not just two out of three. We put everything we have on the field.
Growth Mindset - We confront the toughest challenges head-on and persevere. Sometimes we fail, but we brush ourselves off, adapt, learn, and push forward with resilience.
Customer Obsession - We go the extra mile for our workers and businesses. We remain focused on delivering high-quality products and services that solve this massive and overlooked industries’ problems
What is light industrial labor?Light industrial flexible staffing is a $50B labor market that encompasses entry-level jobs in warehouses & distribution centers. These workers pack boxes, load trucks, and manage warehouse operations to keep supply chains running at peak efficiency.
Skills Required
- New graduate up to 2 years of experience
- Enthusiasm for startups and Traba's mission
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment
- Ownership mentality and bias toward action
- Ambition and strong work ethic
- Persistence and willingness to achieve goals
- Strong relationship-building and communication skills
- Curiosity about customers and their business needs
Traba Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Traba and has not been reviewed or approved by Traba.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered clearly listed upfront on the platform, allowing workers to assess shift value before committing. Access to fast payouts is available on eligible shifts once conditions are met.
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Healthcare Strength — Corporate roles are described as offering comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with an HSA. Access to One Medical and mental-health options strengthens the health offering.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Corporate employees are provided lifestyle perks such as gym access, stocked kitchens, dinners for late work, commuter benefits, and company outings. Flexible PTO, paid sick days, and development tracks further round out the package.
Traba Insights
What We Do
Traba is the AI operating layer for the industrial supply chain. We started in workforce—temp staffing, the biggest operational pain point for the manufacturing and logistics customers we serve—and used it to embed ourselves inside their daily operations and create a far better customer experience through technology. Now those same customers are pulling us beyond staffing into the broader operational workflows that run their facilities. That foundation gave us proprietary data from millions of shifts and deep enterprise relationships. But our edge is more than data: by connecting to the systems running across every facility and activating the workers already on our platform to execute against them, we are building applied AI that drives real productivity gains and transforms how the global supply chain operates at scale. We are backed by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst.
Why Work With Us
Physical work spaces are decades behind software. We have a trillion dollar opportunity to introduce orchestrated agents within the industrial supply chain which will bring software advances into an antiquated, inefficient defensible physical space. Technical talent is top tier and we're working on frontier applied AI.
