BDR Manager

Runpod

1d • $115,000 - $175,000 • Remote

About The Position

Runpod is the AI Developer Cloud, serving over one million developers from individual researchers to large teams. The platform handles AI experimentation, training, fine-tuning, deployment, and scaling, having processed more than 20 billion inference requests. Following a $100M Series A in June 2026, Runpod is at a pivotal moment in AI infrastructure development. The company is a remote-first team that values ownership, speed, and impactful work. They are seeking individuals who are passionate, driven by urgency, and aim to make a significant impact at scale.

Demand Generation is responsible for pipeline creation through various channels including paid, events, outbound, and marketing operations. The outsourced BDR team functions as an extension of Runpod’s go-to-market strategy, collaborating closely with Demand Generation, Sales, Revenue Operations, Product Marketing, and Growth to engage technical buyers and generate qualified conversations. This role is crucial for managing the operational framework that ensures the BDR program is productive, accountable, and scalable.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in B2B SaaS or technology sales development, including at least 2 years leading BDR or SDR teams or programs.
• Direct experience managing an outsourced, contracted, or distributed BDR team and holding a vendor accountable to business outcomes.
• A track record of building outbound motions that produce qualified opportunities and pipeline, beyond activity or meeting volume alone.
• Strong coaching skills, including call review, written outreach QA, performance diagnosis, and rep development.
• Fluency with CRM, sequencing, enrichment, intent, and reporting workflows. Experience with Salesforce, HubSpot, or equivalent systems is expected.
• Strong analytical judgment across conversion, capacity, cost, and pipeline metrics.
• Ability to learn a technical platform and enable reps to speak credibly with developers, engineering leaders, and AI infrastructure buyers.
• Clear cross-functional communication and comfort operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
• Successful completion of a background check.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in cloud infrastructure, developer tools, AI/ML platforms, or another technical product-led business.
• Experience connecting self-serve product signals, ABM, events, or partner signals to outbound plays.
• Experience managing global vendors, multiple regions, or a hybrid in-house and outsourced sales development model.
• Experience with vendor selection, statements of work, budget management, or renewal decisions.
• A builder mindset, including the ability to improve workflows with automation and AI-assisted tools.

Responsibilities

• Program ownership: Own the outsourced BDR program end to end, including vendor governance, staffing plans, onboarding, operating cadence, service-level expectations, escalation paths, and quarterly business reviews.
• Strategy and segmentation: Translate Runpod’s ICP, product priorities, account tiers, and market signals into clear territories, target lists, personas, and outbound plays.
• Messaging and enablement: Partner with Product Marketing, Demand Generation, and Sales to build messaging, call guides, objection handling, qualification criteria, competitive context, and launch-specific enablement.
• Coaching and quality assurance: Review calls, emails, and account research; coach the agency manager and reps; certify readiness; and address performance or quality gaps quickly.
• Funnel management: Define and enforce handoff standards with Account Executives, including routing, meeting context, acceptance criteria, follow-up SLAs, and closed-loop disposition.
• Performance management: Forecast and report on held meetings, accepted opportunities, conversion rates, sourced pipeline, pipeline velocity, cost per outcome, rep productivity, and ramp time.
• Experimentation: Run disciplined tests across segments, signals, channels, offers, sequences, and messaging, then scale winners and stop weak plays.
• Data and process integrity: Ensure activity, contacts, account context, and opportunity attribution are captured correctly in Runpod’s systems and comply with outreach and data-use policies.
• Cross-functional feedback: Convert frontline objections and account insights into useful feedback for Sales, Marketing, Product, and Partnerships.
• Success measures: Build consistent vendor governance and enablement, improve held-to-accepted and accepted-to-opportunity conversion, generate measurable priority-segment pipeline, and establish repeatable playbooks Sales trusts.

Benefits

• Competitive base pay for this position ranges from $115,000 - $175,000.
• Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company — everyone on the team receives stock options.
• Generous medical, dental & vision plans — we cover 100% for all employees and partial for dependents.
• Flexible PTO — take the time you need to recharge.
• Remote work first with an inclusive, collaborative teams utilizing slack as the main form of internal communication.
• $1,200 Home Office & Equipment Stipend.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed