Sales Development Representative
Required skills
- outbound engine
- outbound
- sales
- founders
- ICP patterns
- playbooks
- channels
- Attio
- self-directed learning
- rapid skill acquisition
Nice to have
- startup
- tech community
- Lemlist
- Atto
Role summary
Warp is seeking driven Sales Development Representatives (SDRs) to build its outbound engine and fuel growth from $XM to $XXM+ ARR. This role is ideal for individuals with a strong drive for sales, regardless of traditional sales background, coming from fields like investment banking, teaching, consulting, customer success, or entrepreneurship. The SDR will generate qualified meetings through strategic outbound efforts, iterate on outreach sequences, identify ICP patterns, experiment with new channels, and maintain sales logs in Attio. The ideal candidate possesses a 'figure-it-out factor,' competitive drive, coachability, and thrives in a fast-paced startup environment. Experience in a startup and with sales tools like Lemlist or Attio is a plus. This is an onsite role in New York City.
About Warp
Warp is the AI-native Employee Management Platform for ambitious companies. HRIS, payroll, benefits, IT, tax compliance, and more, all built from scratch on one AI-native platform.
Every company runs on its people, and the software that manages them is some of the oldest in the enterprise. Incumbents like ADP and Workday built their businesses on complexity and large ops teams. Warp is built for AI to be the primary operator. Every advance in LLM capability widens our lead.
We process $X billion in annual payments for high-growth companies across all 50 US states + globally.
We've raised $85M from Battery Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Peak XV, Sound Ventures (Ashton Kutcher), and Y Combinator, alongside operators including Tobi Lütke (Shopify), Claire Hughes Johnson (Stripe), and the founders of Dropbox and Replit. Our team comes from MIT, Ramp, Brex, Google, Gusto, Rippling, and more.
We hire people who ship constantly, own outcomes, and care about craft. If you want to automate an entire category of work that every company depends on, this is the place.
About The Role
We are hiring a SDR team with clear paths to AE, sales leadership, or other growth areas based on performance and interest. You'll join our SDR team, building the outbound engine that will fuel Warp's growth from $XM to $XXM+ ARR.
We're hiring exceptional humans who happen to be interested in sales, not traditional salespeople. Our best performers come from investment banking, teaching, consulting, top-tier customer success, or have been founders who've done their own sales - anywhere excellence and grit intersect.
What You'll Do
Generate qualified meetings per month through strategic outbound
Build and iterate on outreach sequences that convert founders
Identify ICP patterns and document winning playbooks
Experiment with new channels (complete freedom to innovate)
Maintain and log all sales touch points within Attio
Build repeatable systems that can scale to 10+ SDRs
What You Need
We don’t care what school you went and what you majored in. What we care about is how driven you are to succeed in this role.
1+ year of excellence in any demanding role (sales, banking, consulting, teaching, etc.)
Track record of self-directed learning and rapid skill acquisition
Clear communicator - written, verbal, and over video
Ability to speak credibly to technical founders
Thrives in a startup setting: resourceful, adaptable, and self-directed
High sense of urgency and ability to work within undefined processes
Who Thrives Here:
Former athletes who miss competing
People who've built something from nothing
Self-taught experts in any domain
Those who see rejection as data, not defeat
Willingness and openness to learn new things on a daily basis
Most Important Qualities:
Figure-it-out factor: You see ambiguity as opportunity, not obstacle
Competitive drive: You keep score and hate losing more than you love winning
Coachability: You seek feedback actively and implement it immediately
Nice To Haves
Experience at a startup
Network within the startup/tech community
Hands-on experience with sales tools (Lemlist, Atto, or similar)
Benefits at Warp:
100% Health Coverage: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents.
401(k) Matching: Start investing in your future from day one.
Flexible PTO: We offer uncapped flexible PTO, meaning you’re trusted to take the time you need to recharge while balancing your responsibilities and team commitments.
Commuter Benefits: Pre-tax commuter benefits for your daily trip to our NYC office.
Catered Lunch Daily: Great food, every day, on us. No meal prep, no decision fatigue.
Quarterly Offsites: Beautiful locations to connect as a team. Past locations include Spain, Catskills, and San Francisco.
Warp is based in New York City, and most of our team works together in-office 5x per week. Please refer to the top of this page for this position's hiring location and working model.
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