Sales Development Representative

We're looking for an SDR to drive outbound pipeline generation and create qualified opportunities for our sales team. This is a high-ownership role where you'll be responsible for prospecting, engaging decision-makers, understanding their business challenges, and generating qualified meetings for Account Executives. You'll work closely with the Sales and Marketing teams to improve outreach strategies, messaging, and overall pipeline generation.

Responsibilities:

• Own outbound prospecting through cold calls, emails, and LinkedIn.
• Identify and engage potential customers across the US market.
• Qualify prospects and understand their business needs and pain points.
• Book qualified meetings for Account Executives.
• Build and optimize prospecting sequences and messaging.
• Handle objections and effectively communicate ZenTrades AI's value proposition.
• Maintain accurate prospect and activity data in the CRM.
• Track key outbound metrics and consistently work toward pipeline targets.
• Collaborate with Sales and Marketing teams to improve lead generation and conversion.
• Share market feedback and prospect insights to help improve our sales approach.

Requirements:

• 1-2+ years of experiencein SaaS Sales Development, Business Development, Inside Sales, or a similar outbound sales role.
• Experience with cold calling and outbound prospecting.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to handle objections and engage confidently with prospects.
• Comfortable working with US-based customers and in a US shift.
• Experience using CRM and sales engagement tools such as HubSpot, Salesforce, Apollo, Outreach, or Salesloft is a plus.
• Strong ownership, persistence, and a target-oriented mindset.
• Comfortable working in afast-paced startup environment.
• Willingness to work from our Pune office.