Arius Recruit
Sales Development Representative - AI
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About the company
High-growth AI technology company with an established proprietary AI platform.
- Already generating revenue with strong commercial traction across major enterprise organisations.
- Recently secured its latest funding round to accelerate its next phase of growth.
- Now investing in and building out its commercial team to scale further.
- Opportunity to join at an exciting inflection point - proven platform, customer traction, funding secured and significant growth ahead.
About the role
- Create qualified sales opportunities for the Account Executive and founders.
- Research target companies and identify the most relevant senior decision-makers.
- Generate new opportunities through cold calling, email, LinkedIn and other outbound channels.
- Respond quickly and effectively to inbound enquiries.
- Develop personalised messaging that explains a sophisticated AI proposition clearly.
- Qualify prospects and understand the business problems they are trying to solve.
- Work closely with the Account Executive to develop account strategies and build pipeline.
- Test different messaging, channels and outbound approaches.
- Contribute ideas as the company develops its sales playbook.
- Gain exposure to the complete go-to-market process within an early-stage AI company.
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Your previous experience
- At least one year of B2B SDR or BDR experience, ideally within SaaS or technology.
- Experience generating qualified opportunities through outbound prospecting.
- Confidence making cold calls and engaging senior business stakeholders.
- Strong written communication and the ability to create compelling outreach.
- Curious and capable of learning a technically sophisticated proposition.
- Proactive, resilient and prepared to test new ideas to produce results.
- Commercially aware, organised and reliable with follow-through.
- Ambitious to progress into a full-cycle Account Executive position.
- No AI background or particular educational pedigree is required.
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Package
- £40,000–£45,000 base salary
- Performance-related commission (likely OTE £65,000).
- Leeds-based hybrid role, typically 3–4 days per week in the office.
- Benefits including private health, income protection, life insurance and pension
- Clear opportunity to develop towards a closing Account Executive role.
- Considerably more responsibility and commercial exposure than a typical SDR position within a large sales team.
Arius Recruit
Arius Recruit is exclusively hiring for this role. We connect experienced sales professionals with senior commercial opportunities across the UK. We specialise in Sales, Account Management, Customer Success, and Executive-level hiring for high-growth technology sectors, including SaaS, CyberSecurity, AI, DeepTech, FinTech, RegTech, Data & Analytics and Consulting.
Arius Recruit Ltd is acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy. This is a permanent and full time position.
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