Sales Development Representative I

Summary

Join Wisetack's merchant sales team as a Sales Development Representative (SDR) and contribute to the company's exponential growth. You will identify and engage potential home services contractors and merchants, negotiating agreements and driving loan issuance. Reporting to the Enterprise Sales Director, you will develop creative outreach campaigns, generate high-quality leads, and manage prospects through the initial sales lifecycle. This high-leverage role requires strong communication, critical reasoning, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Wisetack offers a competitive base salary, bonus potential, equity, and benefits. The company values customer focus, speed, leadership, ownership, and integrity.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Sales, Communications, or related field
• 2+ years in Sales, Business Development, or Partnerships with a track record of exceeding targets and experience working in a incentive-driven compensation model
• Hunter mentality, with a high degree of comfort executing all stages of the BD lifecycle, from initial outreach (via email, LinkedIn, cold calling, or in person) through to sales closing, onboarding, and initial activation
• Ability to work closely with cross-functional internal teams (e.g., Partnerships, Merchant Growth, Marketing, etc.)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interface and influence at the senior levels
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and with strong time management skills
• Creativity and strong critical reasoning skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment
• Strong passion for Wisetack’s mission, and for the businesses that comprise our partners and customers
• The qualities of being intellectually curious, hardworking, self-starting, customer-oriented, and of prioritizing integrity over short term results
• Ability to work effectively in an exclusively remote work environment
• Knowledge of Home Services

Responsibilities

• Identify and initiate pipeline discussions with potential Wisetack merchants, while handing off qualified prospects to the AE team
• Develop creative outreach campaigns to initiate discussions with target merchants to populate the upper sales funnel.  Where appropriate, collaborate with Account Executives and other Growth team managers to inform outreach strategies and prioritize based on impact
• Generate new, high-quality leads that are aligned with Wisetack’s goals.  Manage target prospects through the initial stages of the BD lifecycle
• Develop a detailed understanding of Wisetack’s value proposition (to borrowers and merchants) and product features in order to articulate the benefits to prospects
• Engage in comprehensive sales discussions with prospects to assess their business needs and communicate how Wisetack financing addresses those needs
• Develop insights about your target group and communicate product and marketing needs back through the Wisetack organization
• Where necessary, attend industry conferences to meet with prospects and generate new leads

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a startup / growth-stage environment, ideally a venture-backed tech or FinTech company
• Familiarity with CRM and prospecting tools such as Salesforce and Apollo

Benefits

• Base salary of $75,000
• Bonus potential
• Equity
• Benefits