Outbound Sales Development Representative

Salary: $50K - $60K Location Type: Remote Employment Type: Full-Time

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Company Overview

Deepgram is the leading voice AI platform for developers building speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and full speech-to-speech (STS) offerings. Over 200,000 developers build with Deepgram’s voice-native foundational models, accessed through APIs or as self-managed software, due to our unmatched accuracy, latency, and pricing. Our customers include software companies building voice products, co-sell partners working with large enterprises, and enterprises solving internal voice AI use cases.

Deepgram ended 2024 cash-flow positive with 400+ enterprise customers, 3.3x annual usage growth over the past 4 years, over 50,000 years of audio processed, and over 1 trillion words transcribed. There is no organization in the world that understands voice better than Deepgram.

Backed by prominent investors including Y Combinator, Madrona, Tiger Global, Wing VC, and NVIDIA, Deepgram has raised over $85 million in total funding. If you're looking to work on cutting-edge technology and make a significant impact in the AI industry, we'd love to hear from you!

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Position Overview

Deepgram is looking for an Outbound Sales Development Representative to drive new customers and revenue to our rapidly growing company. You will create sales opportunities for Deepgram as you share our mission with CTOs, VPs of Product, and CEOs. You are a critical component in Deepgram’s Revenue organization and will play a pivotal role in growing our top-line revenue to new heights!

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Responsibilities

• Work with our Partnerships team, Account Executives, and fellow SDRs to build a strong sales pipeline of new logos, striving to exceed quarterly sales targets.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams (especially Sales Ops and Sales Engineers) to ensure sales effectiveness.
• Develop a deep understanding of customer needs in the ASR space, competition, and Deepgram products to fully articulate our value proposition.
• Research companies to find new speech recognition use cases and opportunities in the market.

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You’ll Love This Role If You

• Value having leadership that has tenure and a track record of success.
• Thrive working with A Players as cross-functional partners across GTM.
• Understand the importance of selling a product that is market-validated and can deliver on its technical promise.
• Are passionate about what Deepgram is building and how we are changing what is possible with speech.
• Are eager to launch your sales career towards enterprise sales.

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Requirements

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Empathy and a unique ability to understand customer needs.
• Strong organizational and exceptional time-management skills due to reaching out to many different companies every day.
• Ability to deliver results to our customers and the Deepgram team.

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Preferred Qualifications

• Prior sales experience, especially selling a technical product to technical decision makers.
• Experience prospecting companies that fit an ideal customer profile and understanding their business.
• Consistently overachieved against sales targets in past experiences.

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Company Culture & Benefits

Deepgram is an equal opportunity employer. We want all voices and perspectives represented in our workforce. We are a curious bunch focused on collaboration and doing the right thing. We put our customers first, grow together, and move quickly. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

We are happy to provide accommodations for applicants who need them.