Enterprise Sales Development Manager, Writer
+ Stock Options
1-3 days a week in office
AI writing assistant
Open for applications
AI writing assistant
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock Options
1-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring generative AI to the enterprise.
Role
Who you are
- Your positivity, sense of curiosity, and ability to create champions from early adopters in the AI space will help shape our entire culture
- If you have a builder mentality and are ferocisouly ambitious, this is the role for you
- 3+ years leading a high-performing enterprise sales development in at a high-growth SaaS company
- Strong preference to experience building a sales development team from scratch
- Operationally excellent, with demonstrated experiences building and executing a highly prescriptive, value-based sales process
- Proven ability to work across the GTM organization to strategize, plan and execute a cross-functional approach
- Highly tenured at working directly with C-suite stakeholders in large enterprise organizations
- Demonstrated ability to drive efficiency with process improvement and systems
- Hands-on sales leader, energized by the transformative potential of generative AI
- Experience developing a UK book of business for a US company is a huge plus
- Genuinely excellent written communication skills - everyone says that, but we sell to great writers, so we mean it
- Knowledge of editorial processes a huge plus: if you edited your high school newspaper or majored in English Literature, can you pretty please apply?
What the job involves
- As our founding leader of the sales development team, you'll be responsible for building and leading a high-performing team of enterprise SDRs that target CIOs, CTOs and CMOs at Fortune 500/Global 2000 companies and large enterprises in the EMEA region
- You’ll provide guidance, coaching, and support to drive individual and team success
- Your primary focus will be on driving pipeline generation from both new logos and existing accounts, establishing and iterating on repeatable sales processes, and helping Writer continually improve how we serve our enterprise customers
- As a senior leader in the business, you'll be reporting to our GM of International
- Build, manage, and retain our founding sales development team
- Create a fun, high-performing environment where your team feel challenged yet fully supported
- Set innovated outbound, prospecting, and pipeline generation strategies, infused with automation where possible and human-touch where needed
- Be obsessive about coaching and continuously raising the bar for your team
- Own operational metrics such as pipeline growth, and outbounding targets
- Research key accounts' initiatives to help develop a "hypothesis of value"
- Find creative ways to engage prospects and potential buyers that fit our ICP
- Strategize and execute on multi-touch account-based campaigns in partnership with Marketing and Sales
- ...and yes, maintain accurate info in Salesforce to help us scale what works!
Salary benchmarks
Our take
AI-assisted writing tools have taken off over recent years. With the likes of high-exposure company Grammarly accelerating adoption of such tools, a flurry of startups have appeared to offer their own takes. Writer’s angle is to leverage AI as a means of standardizing and scaling both content and communications for business teams. The tool offers autofilling and inline suggestions that keep content aligned with pre-determined company language and style guides.
This branded fine-tuning function distinguishes it from full copy-generation competitors, as well as from Grammarly itself, which is a more generalist copyediting tool. It subsequently caters to major enterprise clients looking to maintain standards across multiple and sprawling teams, and the company has managed to net major clients like Deloitte, Twitter, UiPath, and Accenture.
While AI-related buzz remains solidly around generative AIs like ChatGPT and Bard, Writer's narrow target market - in which it has already found success - supplies plenty of scope to grow, as AI copyediting tools look set to rapidly become content industry standard. With continued new launches and updates to its offerings as well as an impressive $100 million Series B awarded in 2023, the company is well-placed to seek further success into the future.
Steph
Company Specialist
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2023
$100m
SERIES B
Nov 2021
$21m
SERIES A
Total funding: $126m
Company benefits
- Selection of employer-covered medical plans, plus dental, vision, life insurance, and FSA
- Flexible location and schedule options
- Competitive parental leave policy
- Company stock options
- 401k plan with employer contributions
- Learning and development stipend
- Generous PTO
- Distributed from Day 1: Our processes and operating cadence are built around a distributed culture
- SF office space: If you prefer working from an office, we have a beautiful sunny one in Union Square, the heart of San Francisco
Company values
- Connect: Writer’s success depends on the strength of our relationships. We strive to understand and respect each other on a human level.
- Challenge: We don’t shy away from conflicting points of view. The more diverse the perspectives, the better. Each and every Writer contributor is encouraged to question, challenge, and propose ideas across the business.
- Own: Regardless of role, we’re all owners. We strive to create an impactful, enduring company by building processes and owning outcomes.
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
May Habib
(CEO)Harvard economics graduate, who was previously VP of sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Development Company, and a global shaper at the World Economic Forum. Also co-founded Qordoba.
Waseem Alshikh
(CTO)Previously co-founded CloudAppers, then served as CTO at iMENA. Subsequently co-founded AI content editor Qordoba.
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