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 test innovative outbound strategies, and staying ahead of emerging sales technologies.
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 consistent generation of quality opportunities for Account Executives.
- Partner with the GTM engineer to design and implement new outbound campaigns and workflows, utilizing AI-assisted personalization and automated follow-up sequences.
- Continuously evaluate new tools and approaches, run experiments, and optimize outbound strategies.
- Coach SDRs to prioritize quality and relevance in all customer interactions.
- Report on pipeline health, track conversion rates, identify bottlenecks, and present recommendations to sales leadership.
- Collaborate with marketing and product teams to ensure outbound messaging aligns with company positioning and market opportunities.
Requirements
- Proven SDR management experience, ideally in B2B SaaS or HR-tech, with a track record of building and coaching outbound teams.
- Genuine curiosity about AI and automation in sales, with an understanding of their potential and a drive to push boundaries.
- Strong analytical instincts, with the ability to use data for coaching and strategic decision-making.
- Player-coach mentality, willing to perform hands-on tasks when needed.
- Excellent communication skills, including strong writing, direct feedback, and confident presentation of pipeline performance.
- Mid-market ICP fluency, understanding the buying process for companies with 200-2,000 employees and the ability to train SDRs.
- Experience working with or managing GTM engineering or RevOps functions is a plus.
- Hands-on familiarity with AI prospecting tools (e.g., Clay, Apollo, Unify) is a plus.
- Background in recruitment-tech, HR-tech, or compliance-adjacent SaaS is a plus.
- Experience scaling outbound from a small team to a larger function is a plus.
Skills
- SDR Management
- Outbound Sales Strategy
- AI and Automation in Sales
- Data Analysis
- Coaching
- Communication
- Mid-market ICP
- GTM Engineering Collaboration
- RevOps Collaboration
- AI Prospecting Tools
- B2B SaaS
- HR-tech
Location
- Zinc - London
Work Type
- Full Time
Experience Level
- Mid-market ICP fluency
- Proven SDR management experience
Salary/Compensations
- £62,000 - £76,000 / year
Benefits
- 50% OTE (Uncapped)
- 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off
- £1200 annual benefits allowance
- Early finish Fridays (16:00)
- Yearly company retreat abroad
- 30 days to Work from anywhere
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave
- Statutory pension with NEST
- Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
- Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
- Company socials, quarterly team socials
- Free Monday lunches
- Nursery workplace benefit scheme
- 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.
