About the Role
Zinc is building the infrastructure that makes hiring faster, fairer, and more transparent. This role involves designing, testing, and scaling outbound motions using AI-augmented prospecting, automated signal-driven workflows, and hyper-personalized sequencing.
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.
- Partner with the GTM engineer to design and implement new outbound campaigns and workflows.
- Continuously evaluate new tools and approaches, run experiments, and optimize processes.
- Set the standard for quality over volume, coaching SDRs to prioritize relevance and insight.
- Report on pipeline health, track conversion rates, identify bottlenecks, and present recommendations.
- Collaborate with marketing and product to ensure outbound messaging aligns with company positioning.
Requirements
- Proven SDR management experience, ideally in B2B SaaS or HR-tech, 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 and ability to translate metrics into coaching points and strategic decisions.
- Player-coach mentality with a willingness 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.
- 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
- Communication skills
- Mid-market ICP fluency
- AI prospecting tools
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full Time
- Remote (30 days to Work from anywhere)
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
- 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.
