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Manager, Sales Development

Brex · Vancouver, BC, Canada

Base
Not disclosed
OTE
C$120K–C$150K
Posted
7mo ago

Still open · checked 2h agoon Brex's careers page

What Brex sells

Company cards and expenses tracked automatically

A finance team spends hours chasing receipts and checking every card charge by hand. Brex gives companies corporate cards, bank accounts, bill pay, and travel tools in one place. Its automation handles much of the expense and bookkeeping work, so the team can see spending as it happens and focus on what matters most.

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The Braun Read

Ask hard questions

Too much is left unsaid. Make them answer before you invest.

Pay
OTE is listed. Ask what the base is.
Transparency
Says nothing about quota, attainment, deal size, territory or sales cycle.
Pipeline
Mostly self-sourced. Great if you like outbound, rough if you don't.
Time on market
Open 212 days. Ask why it's been hard to fill.
Company hiring
32 sales roles open, hiring at a steady pace. Ask how many reps they hired last year and how many are still there.

Red flags

None spotted.

Worth asking about

  • Open 90+ days. This role has been posted for three months or more. Ask why it's been hard to fill, and whether anyone left it.

Green flags

  • Publishes OTE. It tells you the on-target earnings up front. Most postings don't.

Based only on what the posting says. Flags are a starting point for your first call, not a final judgment.

Questions to ask on the first call

Built from what this posting leaves out. How they answer tells you as much as what they say.

  1. 1.

    This role has been open a while. What's made it hard to fill?

    The answer tells you what candidates saw that made them walk.

  2. 2.

    What percentage of fully ramped reps hit quota last year?

    OTE is what you could earn. This is how likely you are to earn it.

  3. 3.

    What's the base, and how is the rest paid out?

    OTE without a base doesn't tell you what you can count on.

  4. 4.

    What's the annual quota, and how was it set?

    A quota built from real data is a target. Otherwise it's a hope.

  5. 5.

    What share of last year's closed deals did reps source themselves?

    Shows how much pipeline you'll have to build on your own.

  6. 6.

    Why is this role open? Did someone leave, or is it new?

    New headcount is growth. A replacement means someone left. Ask why.

When the offer comes

Save these for later. They land better once they've said yes to you.

  1. 1.

    Can I see the full comp plan in writing, including clawbacks and accelerators?

    What's in writing is what gets paid. Read it before you sign.

  2. 2.

    Can I see the actual comp distribution for the team last year, not just the OTE?

    The spread shows what most reps really take home. OTE is just the target.

  3. 3.

    I'd be walking away from earned commission to join. Is there room for a sign-on bonus to help cover that?

    Leaving money behind is a fair reason to ask. The worst answer is no.

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The role

Leads and coaches an SDR team doing outbound prospecting by email, phone and social to generate pipeline for Brex's finance platform. Also hires, ramps and reports on SDR performance.

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Selling motion

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Who you're selling to

Buyer:
Founders and finance teamsIn their words: “enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly”

Pipeline expectations

Mostly self-sourced. Expect a lot of outbound.

Compensation

C$120K–C$150K OTE

What is not disclosed

This posting doesn't tell you:

  • Base salary
  • Quota size
  • Quota attainment
  • Average deal size
  • Territory
  • Sales cycle length

The questions above cover the big ones.

Full posting
Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career. Sales at Brex The Sales team is the driving factor behind revenue for Brex. Every member of our team directly affects our bottom line. We focus on generating new opportunities, acquiring new customers, and building even stronger relationships with our current customers. We have a unified culture recognizing big wins daily and celebrating individual accomplishments weekly and monthly. We make sure that top performers are recognized and have built a competitive environment to keep the team motivated and unified. What you’ll do As a Manager, Sales Development, you will build, lead and mentor a high performing Sales Development team who are responsible for outbound prospecting and pipeline generation. Strong candidates will be data-driven and focused on improving and optimizing individual and team results. Success in the role requires excellent interpersonal and communication skills, cross-functional alignment and a focus on innovation and testing. You will be working directly with Sales leaders, marketing, and executives to help evolve this key motion of the business. Responsibilities - Lead and mentor an SDR team to achieve monthly and quarterly quota - Recruit, hire, onboard and ramp SDRs effectively to drive early success in role - Provide regular coaching, feedback and professional development while prioritizing and maintaining an inclusive, engaged team environment - Report on individual and team-level performance to senior leadership, identifying strengths and opportunities for improvement - Maintain daily activity goals and weekly, monthly, quarterly reporting for various business stakeholders; drive adherence to SDR Playbook and enforce rules of engagement - Partner with marketing to improve lead scoring and SDR/demand generation processes by providing regular, actionable feedback - Partner with sales training to improve team prospecting skills, objection handling and product knowledge; establish individual and team-level training cadences to improve effectiveness - Partner with Sales to improve AE:SDR partnership and prospecting plans Requirements - 1+ years SDR management experience with a consistent record of quota attainment - 1+ years of quota-carrying sales experience (ie. SDR or full-cycle) - Strong expertise in outbound sales, primarily through email, phone, and social selling - You have full ability to operate at all levels, and you love to get in the trenches with your team, do cold calling and write email copy - You are an expert at partnering with marketing and your AE counterparts to plan and execute multi-touch, multi-channel campaigns - Expert at using LinkedIn, Outreach, SalesNav, ZoomInfo, SFDC Compensation The expected OTE range for this role is CA$120,000 - $150,000. The starting wage will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. The OTE figure listed here includes base salary and commissions, which may or may not be earned depending on performance. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package. Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.
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