About the Role
Meadow is seeking a Director of Business Development to build and lead a world-class outbound pipeline generation engine. The mission is to enhance the Business Development Team's capabilities, increasing quotas through data-driven coaching, process examination, and system building to ensure success.
Responsibilities
- Lead and scale the outbound team of 10 BDRs.
- Provide hands-on coaching, including daily call reviews, 1:1s, and role plays.
- Build a high-performance culture with clear expectations and accountability.
- Own outbound playbooks, including segmentation, ICP targeting, outreach strategy, talk tracks, qualification, and handoffs.
- Establish operating rhythms such as campaign reviews and enablement sessions.
- Partner with Marketing to translate campaigns into meetings and with AEs for conversion and feedback loops.
- Define and manage KPI systems from activity to closed-won contribution.
- Build dashboards and reporting in HubSpot to identify and address bottlenecks.
- Forecast pipeline generation and capacity needs, including territory planning and quota modeling.
- Drive adoption of modern tooling and workflows like sequencing, call intelligence, and enrichment.
- Pilot AI-enabled strategies for lead scoring, personalization, and call coaching.
- Continuously test and iterate on messaging, channels, sequences, and enablement content, standardizing successful approaches.
Requirements
- Led 5-10 BDRs at a startup.
- Proven track record of measurably improving per-SDR productivity metrics.
- Analytical approach with experience-based opinions.
- Track record of success coaching and developing SDRs through feedback and mentorship.
- Data-first operator with experience building and iterating on decision-making dashboards and systems.
- Practical AI adopter focused on increasing BDR effectiveness.
Skills
- Outbound pipeline generation
- Team leadership
- Coaching and development
- Performance management
- Sales strategy and process development
- Data analysis and reporting
- HubSpot
- Sales tooling
- AI in sales
- Messaging and channel optimization
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite (1-2 Onsites Per Year)
Experience Level
- Director
Salary/Compensations
- OTE $200,000-$250,000 (70% Base Salary + 30% Variable)
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Competitive Equity
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- HSA & FSA Plans Available
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Paid Company Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- 1-2 Onsites Per Year
- Membership in an Ambitious, Kind, No-Drama Team
About the Company
- Meadow is the modern payments platform for higher education, simplifying the student financial experience.
- Transforming the $600 Billion higher education payments industry in the United States.
- Building for universities what Shopify built for retail businesses.
- Bringing the entire student financial experience online.
- At an exciting inflection point with a growing enterprise sales motion and increasing demand.
- Seeking to scale the top-of-funnel engine to power the next chapter of growth.
- The team consists of 10 talented BDRs ready for dedicated leadership and structure.
- Committed to supporting employee personal and professional development.
Equal Opportunity
- Meadow is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- Celebrates diversity in all its forms.
- Encourages employees to participate as their authentic selves.
- Strives to build a more open, inclusive space.
