About the Role
Zinc is building the infrastructure that makes hiring faster, fairer, and more transparent. This role involves leading and developing a team of mid-market outbound SDRs, partnering with a GTM engineer to design and scale innovative outbound strategies using AI and automation.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of mid-market outbound SDRs, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career growth.
- Own the outbound engine, setting pipeline targets, refining ICP, and ensuring the team consistently generates quality opportunities for Account Executives.
- Partner with our GTM engineer to design and ship new outbound campaigns and workflows.
- Continuously evaluate new tools and approaches, run experiments, and optimize outbound strategies.
- Coach SDRs to prioritize quality and insight in every touchpoint.
- Report on pipeline health, track conversion rates, identify bottlenecks, and present recommendations to sales leadership.
- Collaborate with marketing and product to ensure outbound messaging aligns with company positioning and market opportunities.
Requirements
- Proven SDR management experience, ideally in a B2B SaaS or HR-tech environment, with experience building and coaching outbound teams.
- Genuine curiosity about AI and automation in sales, with an understanding of possibilities and a drive to push boundaries.
- Strong analytical instincts, with the ability to run teams on data and translate metrics into coaching points and strategic decisions.
- Player-coach mentality, willing to roll up sleeves and assist the team directly when needed.
- Excellent communication skills, including strong writing, direct feedback, and confident presentation of pipeline performance to senior stakeholders.
- Mid-market ICP fluency, understanding the buying process at companies with 200–2,000 employees and ability to teach SDRs to navigate it.
- Experience working alongside or managing a GTM engineering or RevOps function (NICE TO HAVE).
- Hands-on familiarity with AI prospecting tools (e.g. Clay, Apollo, Unify, or similar) (NICE TO HAVE).
- Background in recruitment-tech, HR-tech, or compliance-adjacent SaaS (NICE TO HAVE).
- Experience scaling outbound from a small team to a larger function (NICE TO HAVE).
Skills
- AI and automation in sales
- Analytical skills
- Data analysis
- Coaching
- Communication skills
- Presentation skills
- Mid-market ICP understanding
- AI prospecting tools
Location
- Zinc - London
Work Type
- Full Time
Experience Level
- SDR management experience
- Mid-market ICP fluency
Salary/Compensations
- £62,000 - £76,000 / year
Benefits
- 50% OTE (Uncapped)
- 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off
- £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
- Early finish Fridays (16:00)
- Yearly company retreat abroad
- 30 days to Work from anywhere
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
- Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
- Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
- Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
- Company socials, quarterly team socials
- Free Monday lunches
- Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
- Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
- Celebrated Zinc anniversaries
About the Company
- Zinc offers a chance to work on a product that brings a fresh perspective on data ownership in hiring.
